Join us incelebrating the work of these students at an opening reception on Saturday, October 23,2010 from 5:00 to 7:00. This event is free and open to the public.

The Silpe Gallery at the Hartford Art School will host The Hartford Art School in Sicily. This group exhibition features the photography and paintings of students who participated in the Spring 2010 special topics study abroad courses offered by the Hartford Art School. These courses require spring semester break travel to Sicily, Italy. Students then complete a series of works based on the travel period research.

The exhibition will run from Saturday, October 23rd to Thursday, November 4th

Silpe Gallery
Hartford Art School
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

Gallery Hours –
Monday - Friday 9am-4pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm

Announcing the September CATALOGUE: Adam MacHose, Superorganism

Saturday, September 18 at 8:00pm
56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT
Suite 302

Adam does identity. He deals in the things that visually make us up, and distinguish us from one another. We can see we're unique, yet we're also pieces of information. Adam paints people, both digitally and analogue(ly), graphs them, flattens them and makes them new. There's something thing-ish, un-reproducible about his work, but ones and zeros are still its foundation. His work is like fractals. It's portraits. Both discrete and continuous, and very colorful.

CATALOGUE is a monthly event that showcases artists, musicians and other creative endeavors, and is hosted by Joe Saphire, Nick Rice, and Joel VanderKamp (our newly-wed!, ever-absent advisor). The event is a collaboration between artist, curator, community and space.

Contact us for directions or questions at CATA.info.LOGUE@gmail.com, and please pass this invitation along to those we might have missed.

The Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery presents new works by Cat Balco (paintings) and Matt Towers (Ceramics) on September 9th at 6:00 PM. The show will run until October 15th. Both are professors at the Hartford Art School!

College of Arts and Sciences and Technology Center
Manchester Community College
Gallery Hours – Monday through Friday, 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Saturday 12:00 to 5:00 PM, and closed on Sunday

The Painting Department presents William Bailey as part of the Auerbach Lecutre Series at the Hartford Art School.
Please join us on Thursday, April 15th at 2:30 PM in Wilde Auditorium.

The Young Barbarians is the BFA Painting Exhibit at the Hartford Art School in the Silpe Gallery. The opening reception is Saturday, April 10th at the Silpe Gallery from 4:00 to 6:00 and then at the Design Center from 6:00 to 9:00.

The Silpe Gallery is open Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 4:00 and on Sunday from 11:00 to 3:00.
The Design Center is located at 1429 Park Street in Hartford, Connecticut.

Kees Goudzwaard is a painter who was educated and currently lives and works in The Netherlands.
He uses the concept of shape and space throughout his paintings.

La Bella Sicilia, an exhibit in the Silpe Gallery at the Hartford Art School, consisted of paintings and photographs from 17 students. The work represents the students experiences on a trip to Sicily in March 2009. The exhibit told the story of their journey not only through their artwork but through candid photos of food, strangers, and themselves alongside sketches from their travels.

Carol Padberg, an assistant professor with the Painting and Drawing department has had her work printed and made available through 20x200. It is a project of Jen Bekman where they introduce limited editions of two new pieces of art each week. The whole concept revolves around the internet and making art affordable. Prensa 1 and Verlag 3 by Carol Padberg were selected last Marh and are seen above and available online. Carol shared some thoughts on her website about here work which can be read below.

During the last five years I have made work based on modernist fonts. Using the "modernist DNA" of typography fonts such as Bauhaus, Futura, and Helvetica, I create visual improvisations. I use fragments of found typography to take apart and put back together language. I have explored this subject in a variety of materials, including traditional painting media (encaustic and more recently polymer resins) as well as materials that extend the medium of painting (adhesive vinyl, flocking and metallic films in collage and large installations). Often I choose materials with which I can create a tension between the flat graphic voice of type and the fluidity of paint and handwriting.

Julia Rothman is an illustrator and painter from Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and she publishes a really nice blog called Book By Its Cover which you should check out.

Ross Racine draws aerial views of neighborhoods and communities. His work is done freehand directly on the computer and printed, they include no photographs or scanned elements.

Maria Kalman is an illustrator, artist, author, and designer in New York City. She is responsible for The Principles of Uncertainty, a great book that I recieved as a gift, and the illustrated version of The Elements of Style. Her current blog is part of the Opnion section of the New York Times website and his entitled And the Pursuit of Happiness. The above images are from that blog.

The Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford recently opened Nancy Graves, Insipired Visions. The show includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures and will be on view until the 28th of June. Here is an excerpt about the show from the gallery.

Paralleling her development as a sculptor are paintings, watercolors, and drawings that possess their own unique language while reflecting her constantly evolving preoccupation with various forms and subjects that resurface in her sculpture.