Art Show at Eclectic

Public Art is hosting a free student art show at Eclectic on Sunday, March 1st, including the work by Claire Staples which was mentioned earlier:

A reception for the show will be from 2-5PM with delicious snacks at 4PM, followed by a few musical guests. We are accepting all submissions until February 25th; please submit any 2-D or 3-D artwork (installations, sculptures, drawings, paintings, multimedia, etc.). Email publicart.wes(at)gmail(dot)com to put a piece in the show. See you there!

Date: Sunday, March 1
Time: 2-5 pm
Place: Eclectic

Art show Sunday at Eclectic

Elizabeth McClellan '09 informs us of an art show at Eclectic tomorrow (Sunday):

Please come see awesome art from the Wesleyan community. Featuring a range of media including installations, sculpture, pictures, music, film, and more. Take a break, you'll enjoy it!

Opening and snacks at 4:00. Performances and films starting at 4:30. Bands at 8:00 (The Shade, Silvie and Dana, & Grandma's).

Date: Sunday, Dec. 7
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Eclectic (2oo High St.)

Zilkha Photo Exhibition Reviewed by NY Times

The current exhibition in Wesleyan's own Zilkha Gallery, "Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography", got a great review in the New York Times today:

Despite its title — “Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography” — the exhibition at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University contains many artworks that are not, strictly speaking, documentary photographs...

But this in no way negates the show’s powerful premise, which is to encourage viewers to think about the ways in which artists and photographers use and abuse documentary principles. Nina Felshin, the gallery’s curator, has done a terrific job assembling interesting and provocative work in this vein, the best of which invite viewers to consider issues of agency, context and interpretation in documentary-based art.

Not bad! The exhibition includes works by contemporary artists/photographers including Wendy Ewald, Eric Gottesman, Emily Jacir, Matthew Buckingham, An-My Le, and Kota Ezawa.

The exhibition will be on display through December 7, which gives you a good two months to wander into the CFA sometime and check it out.

NY Times: Art Review: Not Quite Documentary Art

Wesleyan Crossing the Delaware, Art Show

Ok really short notice for this, but the University of New Haven is holding an opening reception this afternoon for "Where Heaven Made Fun", an exhibition by artist Nathan Lewis which features a number of paintings with Wes students in them - including "Till We Find the Blessed Isles Where Our Friends Are Dwelling" (the Washington Crossing the Delaware remake).

Among those depicted in the painting are Wesleying's own Xue Sun '08 and Xiaoxi Tu '09, as well as Karimah Nichols '09, Priya Ghosh '09, Greg Silver '09, and Jason Bigman '10. Xue and Jason Bigman also appear in two other paintings in the show. And there's an installation with a 17-foot-long sailboat.

If you missed the painting at Wes, you can head over to UNH until September 26th to check it and the rest of the show out.

Opening Reception:
Date: Thursday, September 4th
Time: 4:30-7:30 pm
Place: Seton Gallery, on the University of New Haven campus

Exhibition Hours:
Date: Through September 26th, 2008
Time: Tuesday-Thursday 1-5 pm, Friday 1-7 pm, Saturday-Sunday 12-3 pm

- UNH site: Works by Nathan Lewis at Seton Gallery
- Driving Directions from Wesleyan

Blessed Isles

Remember the open call for New Haven artist, ex Wes prof and all-around badass Nathan Lewis's remake of Washington Crossing the Delaware? It's here and it's freaking huge. Peep the Wes cameos, including Karimah Nichols '09, Priya Ghosh '09, Greg Silver '09, Jason Bigman '10 and Xiaoxi Tu '09 (twice)!:
"Till We Find the Blessed Isles Where Our Friends Are Dwelling"
6'x10'
Acrylic on Canvas
2008

It's showing at the John Slade Ely House in New Haven, and the opening reception is this Saturday from 6-9pm.