Announcing Sculpture Club! Please join us This Friday at 1:30 PM in the Sculpture Building. All are welcome!

Anthony Caro has played a major role in contemporary sculpture. I discovered his work through an hour long television program on his sculpture and came to like his work very much. Caro took part in a workshop, symposium and exhibition at the Hartford Art School in 1994.

Caro often works in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood and paper. Major exhibitions include retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Trajan Markets, Rome (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain, London (2005), and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Bourbourg. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He holds many honorary degrees from universities in the UK, USA and Europe. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit in May 2000.

Michael Johansson is a sculptor and artist from Sweden.

James Langdon is a graphic designer, the above work is a catalog for an art show focused around scultpure.

Koopman Distinguished Chair Ernesto Pujol gave a lecture on November 24th. The lecture took place in Wilde Auditorium and was sponsored by the Sculpture Department. Ernesto Pujol is a New York-based conceptual artist and educator with a multimedia and interdisciplinary art practice.

Photos from Roger Castonguay of The Defining Photo, '07

Daniel Bozhkov gave a presentation on November 5th as part of the Auerbach Visiting Artists Lecture Series. Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born artist based in New York City. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate the public space. Bozhkov enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor
who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Photos from Roger Castonguay of The Defining Photo, '07

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.