More information can be found on our On View page, as well as updates and photos on our Facebook page.  We hope to see you this Saturday for these three exciting openings!

Congratulations to our two talented 2012 Goldfarb Purchase Prize winners Sam Miller and Sarah Mitrani.  Sam (above) is a junor, sculpture major from Elliot, ME. He won for his mixed media sculpture titled Human Landscape.

Sarah (pictured above with professor Marion Belanger) is a senior, photo major from Hillsborough, NJ. She won for her archival inkjet print, Untitled (Hospital).

We are honored to accept these two amazing pieces of art into the Goldfarb Memorial Collection at the Hartford Art School.  Once again, congratulations to Sam and Sarah!

Student Exhibition at U of H’s Joseloff Gallery

*Editor’s Note: one of the student’s names in the article was misspelled. The piece titled “Bite Me” was created by Jasmine Gonzalez.

The entire Hartford Art School is abuzz with excitement about the upcoming, first annual Open Studio day on April 1.  Stop by the Hartford Art School on that day between noon and 5pm to see our art-packed studios, watch the students work, have a chance to purchase work from the students, and even make some art yourself.  Free parking is available on campus, and the art school and studio spaces will be open to the public.  You can even have a chance to meet our new Hartford Art School dean, Nancy Stuart at a reception in the art school from 1-3pm.  The Joseloff Gallery will be open extended hours to coincide with Open Studio, from noon-5pm on April 1.  Visit the Hartford Art School website for more information, we hope to see you at Open Studio!

Sara Adams
Tania
oil on canvas

Dan Army
Tania
oil of canvas

Beena Azeem
The Girl in the Blue Bra
oil on canvas

Beena Azeem
Failed Promises
oil on canvas

Andrew Bates
Bent of Will
pen and ink

Jessica Battista
Abandoned Workshop
graphite

Nick Benson
Vaulted Memories
film photography-mounted on 3/4″ stand out

Ethan Bodnar
Shots
packaging rebrand

Jessica Carter
Jane and Noah
book, cloth, cut paper, board

Jessica Carter and Dorothy Classen
Tall Grass
salt print

Sandra Chase
Broken System
pen, ink, watercolor, acrylic

Sandra Chase
Summe Guy
charcoal pencil

Rebekah Chozick
Stream of Consciousness
intaglio with aquatint and accordion binding

Dorothy Classen
Etherial Embodyment
silver gelatin prints

Jenna Collins
Untitled
charcoal

Noel Croce
Branches
acrylic, ink and resin

Jordan Crockett
Devotion
Mixed media

Tess Dudek
Portrait of Derek
oil on canvas

Dana Eckstein
trash bash
film (stop motion animation)

Jessica Fallis
Shadow and Substance
oil

Patrick Fernald
Activated Complication (Experience #2)
oil

Patrick Fernald
Activated Complication (Experience #4)
oil

Chaz Fernandes
Banana Boat
sculpture

Chaz Fernandes
Rubix cube
digitap print

Gaylen Ferstand
May I Have the Definition?
Quicktime HD

Tori Figuerdo
Family Ties
wood, rubber, rope

Kelsey Flynn
Cafeteria Combat
mixed media game design

Akino Fukawa
Hair Monster North by NorthWest
graphite

Akino Fukawa
Hair Monster by Feet
charcoal

Nicole Gionet
Inked
print

Mirra Goldfrad
After Christian Boltanski
relief print

Jasmine Gonzalez
Bite Me
chocolate

Casey Hanrahan
Venus of Hartford
earthenware

Casey Hanrahan
Teleportation Mind-Control
porcelain

Lyn Harper
Family Portrait
terra cotta

Lyn Harper
Porcelain Doll
porcelain

Rondasia Headley
Untitled
metal

Shannon Hogan
Temporal Things
platinum/palladium photography

Shannon Hogan
Comfort in Abstractions
platinum/palladium photography

Catherine Johnson
Because of George and Elsie
found object, dirt, glue

Megan Johnson
Slide
pen and ink

Jessica Karp
Seated Figure
conte

Raza Kazmi
In or At or To Some Place
HD video

Amanda Keating
Doors
printmaking and mixed media

Bayla Laks
What is Home?
watercolor

Kaitlin Lennon
Untitled
monotype

Katie Linke
Tree Mug
slip-cast porcelain

Valerie Lyons
Absit Invidia
papiere-maiche, paint, fabric, wood, glass

Bridget Marien
Human touch
lithography, letterpress

Bridget Marien
Lost, But Not Wanting to be Found
lithography, letterpress

Ashley Maurer
Something Ventured, Something Gained
oil paint on canvas

Sam Miller
Human Landscape
glass, concrete, oak, pine, limestsone

Sarah Mitrani
Untitled (Hospital)
archival inkjet print

Lauren Moran
A Tale of Acquiescence
book-relief and letter press

Lauren Moran
A Case study of Ideas Resulting in Physical Ailments
monotype

Michelle Nofs
Untitled
cyanotype

Jillian Norton
Red Smoothie
ink wash on watercolor board

Ashley Piepul
Invisible
wire

Alex Psillos
Four Mugs
ceramics

Kyle Rodgers
I AM AN AMERICAN
16mm film print

Teagan Rosendahl
Hold and Touch
photography

Teagan Rosendahl
Untitled
photography

Jessie Sattler
A B Sea
collage book

Hailey Schumacher
Old Munny
ceramic, gold luster

Mary Bramble Scott
Passion Cup
soda fired ceramics

Mary Bramble Scott
Lustered Jar
ceramic

Max Seinfeld
Winter Tea Bowl
ceramic

Stass Shpanin
Untitled
oil on canvas

Stass Shpanin
A Trialectic Hour
oil on canvas

Lindsey Sniffin
Past Projected Through the Present
wood, gold paint

Lindsey Sniffin
New Ideals
cast iron

Megan Spaniol
Atlas
paper, wax, monofilament, wood

Partrick St. Pierre
rusty cardboard
cast iron

Anna Webersen
Untitled
monotype

Amber Fae Wilcox
My Father’s Old Boot
wire and sticks

Please check over your listing carefully and notify someone in the gallery if you notice an error in the spelling or listing of your name or the title of your work.

If your work was accepted and it is currently installed outside of the gallery, please deliver it to the Joseloff by 5pm on Thursday, March 8.

All unaccepted entries can be picked up from the gallery Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 6, 7, and 8 between 9am and 5pm.

Purchase prizes will be awarded at the public reception on Thursday, March 29 from 4-6pm.  Good luck!

We had a wonderful day of art and books last Thursday and I hope you were able to join us.

Here are a few peeks from the panel discussion held in the Wilde Auditorium, and the reception afterwards at the gallery.

It was a stellar day. More photos from our favorite photographers, The Defining Photo coming soon.

Don’t forget: this Friday, from 2-4pm, we will be holding a special hands-on event in the gallery.  Come visit the books and enjoy a chance to touch them and turn their pages. Experience them as they were meant to be seen. No reservations necessary.

To kick off what is sure to be a lively conversation, Ms. Rogers will begin with the following question to all of the artists:

From your artists’ statements, I know that the six of you come from diverse educational backgrounds.  The track you started on, whether it was painting, printmaking, bookbinding, photography, or poetry, is not where you necessarily are now.  What led you to make books? What is it in the form that attracts you, and where do you see it taking you in your future creative work?

The discussion will have questions of inspiration, form, the use of text, and the reason for creating the marvelous works of art that you will see in this exhibition.  The panel will run from 3:30-5pm and will take place in the Wilde Auditorium, across the lawn from the Joseloff Gallery.

Following the panel discussion, an artists’ reception will take place in the Joseloff Gallery from 5-7pm. Both events are free and open to the public. We hope to see you next week for an exciting day of book arts.

The Joseloff Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Rare Beauty: Contemporary Visions in Book Arts, a group exhibition featuring the work of six distinguished printmakers and book artists, in the gallery from January 17 through February 19, 2012.

Rare Beauty will showcase the work of the 2011/2012 Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chairs in the printmaking department at the Hartford Art School: Steven Daiber, Pati Scobey, and Barb Tetenbaum, as well as three invited guest artists: Julie Chen, Kathy Kuehn, and Wilber H. Schilling.

The exhibition comprises a diverse sampling of handmade books in all forms, demonstrating the incredible scope of the craft.  From traditional, recognizable book forms to interactive boxes, text-wrapped jawbones, embroidered scrolls, and installations; the books in this exhibition stretch all familiar boundaries of what defines a “book”.

The title of the exhibition, Rare Beauty, was inspired by a quote from one of the artists included in the exhibition, Wilber H. Schilling, who said, “In this increasingly digital age, a carefully handmade, inspiringly clever and tactile book is a rare beauty.”

In addition to the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion held on Thursday, February 9, 2012 from 3:30-5:00pm in the Wilde Auditorium, directly followed by a public reception in the Joseloff gallery from 5-7pm.  The panel will include all six artists in the exhibition and will be moderated by Ruth Rogers, curator of special collections at Wellesley College.

Rare Beauty was organized by Lisa Gaumond, managing director of the Joseloff Gallery, with the help of the faculty of the Hartford Art School printmaking department: Jim Lee, Jenni Freidman, and John Willis.

Ruth Rogers, who has also written the introductory essay for the Rare Beauty exhibition catalog, says of the handmade artist’s book,

“To fully appreciate the range of form and content in the artist’s book, there is one requirement of the viewer: you must suspend your expectation that a book is a narrative text with a beginning and end, bound securely between two covers.

Artists’ books can range from the recognizable codex form with letterpress printing, handmade paper, photographs, and other printmaking techniques to unconventional formats such as a box, scroll, or accordion. They may be editioned or unique.  Text may be present, but it is not required to tell a story.

In the hands of artists, a familiar form takes on new dimensions and defies any attempt to classify it as either book or art.”

An exquisite, full-color exhibition catalog will be available to purchase.  Please email or call the gallery for more details.

The long-overdue photos from the 2011 Hartford Art School Faculty Exhibition are finally up! Click here to see the full album.