City Lights: ‘Converging Paths,’ filled with color
Men hailing from Algeria, Nigeria, New York City and New Haven are featured in ”Converging Paths” at City Lights Gallery‘s next show. Fethi Menghelli, Tunde Odunlade, Robert Leung and Gordon Skinner are the artists, and you, the viewer, are encouraged to find the differences and similarities in the works and contemplate the expressions and creations of [...]
Bellarmine: From Italy to America
After an extended exhibit from James Prosek, the Bellarmine presents a collection of touching candid photographs in a show called “From Italy to America: Photographs of Anthony Riccio.” A full slate of activities complements the show, on view Feb. 1 to March 30. This exhibition documents “il senso di quotidianità,” or the sense of timeless [...]
Walsh Gallery: Sylvia Wald’s 7 decades
The Walsh Art Gallery exhibit, “Sylvia Wald: Seven Decades,” opens with a reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, and remains on view through Sunday, March 18. This is a comprehensive survey of an accomplished artist (1915-2011) who spend a lifetime experimenting and innovating with silk screening. Over time, she “developed a highly personal approach in her [...]
Paul Mellon Art Center: Christina Justiz
Christina Justiz’s first solo exhibition, “Cut a Tree, Start a Fire, Melt the Ice, Start a Flood,” opens Feb. 7 at the Paul Mellon Art Center in Wallingford. An opening reception is Friday, Feb. 10. and the show runs until March 3. The art center describes her work better than I can: Translating and transposing [...]
University of Bridgeport: Graphite artist Barbara Morse
The Shintaro Akatsu School of Design hosts the University of Bridgeport’s first art show of the season on Thursday, Jan. 19 with a public reception from 5-7 p.m. The artist, Barbara Morse, will display her graphite works in a show called “Life, Examined: Drawing now, then, and again.” Morse calls herself a New Hampshire transplant, [...]
Nylen Gallery: ‘Happy Chinese New Year’ and the art of Peter Landa
The Nylen Galley at Picture This presents Peter Landa’s stylized take on the art of the Far East. “Happy Chinese New Year” opens with a reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 and will remain on view through Feb. 29. In paintings and pen and ink drawings, Landa captures the rural motifs and signature characters of traditional Chinese [...]
FTS Gallery: Monotony and desire in a “Lucid Dream”
Christopher and Lara Scalzi bring their “adaptations of life’s monotony contrasted by our innermost desires” to FTS Gallery. The show is produced in a “pseudo comic narrative style mixed with fine art sensibilities, the images create a vision of each person’s secret inner subconscious depicting everything from terrifying nightmares to absurd scenarios. Accompanying the dreams [...]
HCC: Mapping the Senses
“Ground Truth: Mapping the Senses/Charting Experience,” a new exhibit curated by Robbin Zell and Susan Sharp and organized by the Housatonic Museum of Art, opens with a reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 and continues through Feb. 10, 2012. The artists included here take the term “ground truth” as their point of departure referring to the use of [...]
