Announcing the opening of the 2013 Hartford Art School Illustration Senior Exhibition featuring the work of Hartford Art School’s senior Illustration class with an opening reception on April 20, 2013.

We are proud to announce the opening of the 2013 Hartford Art School Illustration Senior Exhibition. This exhibition features works by the 24 talented members of the 2013 Illustration senior class.  The exhibition will open with a public reception on Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 5-7 p.m., and will run through April 24, 2013.

The year 2012 was the end of an era; come see that the apocalypse is now upon us, and the senior illustrators’ take on what it would look like. The show is called Epilogue and showcases the best work from the class.

Participating artists include:

Sam Aguirre
Rachel Cohen
Jen Edwards
Katie Jennings
Nikolai Brzezinski
Emily Cole
Michele Epstein
Sarah Jennings
Jordan Bright
Rachel Cutler
Mo Grogan
Jackie Knapp
Erica Lee
David Padilla
Rachel Smith
Christina Weaver
Julia Love Miller
Aidi Parker
Lindsey Sniffin
Landon Wilson
Hunter Neal
Ben Plant
Joshua Vieira
Amanda Zenobio

Gallery hours will be Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Admission is free and free parking is available in the K-visitor lot located in front of the Hartford Art School.

Imminent Friction

Sculpture Department
Silpe Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 21-24, 2013
Opening Reception: April 20, 2013, 5-7 p.m.

Epilogue

Illustration Department
Joseloff Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 21-24, 2013
Opening Reception: April 20, 2013, 5-7 p.m.

It Is What It Is

Painting Department
Silpe Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 28-May 1, 2013
Opening Reception: April 27, 2013, 5-7 p.m.

A Certain Predisposition

Printmaking Department

Glazed and Confused

Ceramics Department

Joseloff Gallery

Exhibition Dates: April 28-May 1, 2013
Opening Reception: April 27, 2013, 6-8 p.m.

VCD 2013

VCD Department
Silpe Gallery (south)

Media Arts

Media Arts Department
Silpe Gallery (north)

Exhibition Dates: May 5-8, 2013
Opening Reception: May 4, 2013, 5-8 p.m.
Professional Preview (VCD only): Friday, May 4, 2013, 5-7 p.m.

Instance of Illumination

Photography Department
Joseloff Gallery

Exhibition Dates: May 4-8, 2013
(The gallery will be open to the public on Saturday, May 4, from 12-4 p.m.)
Opening Reception: May 4, 2013, 4-6 p.m.

All openings and events are free and open to the public.  Please come out and join us in celebrating the accomplishments of the Hartford Art School class of 2013!

CONGRATULATIONS! The following pieces have been accepted into the 2013 Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition.

(List sorted by last name)

Sara Adams
Red Coat
Oil on Canvas

Jacquelyn Andrews
Cyanotype Wallpaper
Hand drawn Cyanotype

Dan Army
Permanence/ Abhorrence (dyptich)
inkjet print on canvas

Alecks Babey
Forest for the Trees
Etching

Melissa Babina
By The Falls
book

Carole Bascetta
Dot
Ceramic/Glaze/Acrylic

Jessica Battista
Untitled
lithograph

Nick Benson
Exploring Place
photography

Michaela Boscoe
Bonsai
Cyanotype

Michaela Boscoe
Birch
Cyanotype

Mary Bramble-Scott
Teapot Set with Two Mugs
Stoneware Cone 10

Leigh Carmignani
Rhapsody in Blue
luster fired red earthenware

Samantha Compasso
Esoteric decorative plate
slip cast, glaze

Allie Corriveau
Norte Dame
Raku fired clay

Allie Corriveau
Socialite
slipcast lace

Nicole Coumes
A Manner of Perception
Charcoal

Jacob Culler
Untitled
house paint, enamel, acrylic

Meg Danisi
Fragility
Monoprint Etching

Rachael Dioses
Untitled (Series: Solace)
4×5 view camera inkjet print

Jessica Emonds
Untitled 1
Photograph 4×5 Negative, Digital Print

Jessica Emonds
Untitled 2
Photograph 4×5 Negative, Digital Print

Gaylen Ferstand
Three Dialogues
SD Video Loop

Toni Figueredo
Chair
Found object, fabric, sand

Lindsay Gagnon
Self Portrait
oil paint

Meghan Garrity
Mercy Bun
graphite

Sylvie Grenier Glickstein
Out of Milk
Ceramic

Sylvie Grenier Glickstein
Heads or Tails
Ceramic

Angela Godoy
PA
video

Moiray Grogan
Michele
Oil on Canvas

Nina Gurwitz
Splotch Splatter Smudge
Unique Book

John Habersang
Collinsville Axe Factory
4×5 Color Film, Inkjet Print

Lyn Harper
Worry Pot: Bee Colony Collapse
ceramic

Rondasia Headley
Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012
4×5 view camera

Jacob Heitsman
Germinating Life
clay

Kevin Hernandez
1.21324E+15
mixed media on paper

Lydia Johnson
Jar
Porcelain A10 Oxidation

Lydia Johnson
Jar
Porcelain A10 Oxidation

Kristina Karlson
Rephotography
Photography

Raza Kazmi
Untitled (Book Intervention)
Video and Sound

Jacob Kohlberg
Untitled
cardboard

Rebecca Lee
Sudden Death
charcoal, colored pencil

Kaitlin Lennon
Untitled
lithography

Taylor Lodespoto
Untitled (skulls)
micron pens

Brigid Loftus
Can You See Me?
Steel, Glass, Meat

Katharine Manning
Tree of Life
photography

Megan McNeill
Untitled Dreams
4×5 black and white

Kelly Meeker
Untitled
oil

Cassandra Mendoza
Barnum Series: Laundromat 1
4×5 view camera inkjet print

Joe Messineo
Proclamations
relief

Erin Miles
Untitled
scratchboard

Julia Love Miller
Away Up There
scratchboard

Sam Miller
Untitled Anvil
cast iron, pine, paint

Lexi Musinski
Untitled
Charcoal

tatyaua nadgor
Chernobyl legacy
oil

Krista Narciso
Proficiscor
Handmade book, drawing

Chelsea Norwich
Domentio
oil paint

Aidi Parker
Untitled
photograph

Aidi Parker
Untitled
photography

Andrew Reardon
Near Death Experience
Sculpture/Projection Mapping

Andrew Reardon
Light on the Hill
Film

Kyle Rodgers
The Death of Alice Young at the Old State House
Soundscape (.mov file) (Quicktime)

Chris Roque
Age of the Virgo
Oil

Audrey Ryan
Layers
medium?

Luis Jean-Pierre Sanchez
SP Code
video

Jessie Sattler
Dinner and Dancing on the Farm
Inkjet poster

Jessica Schmelcher
Strong and Brave
color pencil

Max A. Seinfeld
Horn of Plenty
ceramic

Marieke Spresser
A Night in Paris
etching

Graham Steen
A Consequence of Loyalty
cast iron/aluminum

Jesse Sullivan
Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas

Briana Swota
Experience the World
Wood

Elizabeth Synalovski
Self Portrait
China marker, colored pencil, ink

Natalie Titone
Untitled
ceramic, soda fired

Natalie Titone
Untitled
Cyanotype

Erin Toller
What a Boar!
cardboard and hot glue

Lauren Trager
Infinity
oil

Kate Tritsch
Circuits
photgraphy (4×5 view camera)

Kate Tritsch
Palermo Hotel
photography (digital)

Anthony Videira
Ode to Mondrian
digital photography

Anthony Videira
Hunger Games
digital photography

Devon Whitehead
Our Back, Our Bones
Ceramic, wax

Amber Fae Wilcox
Waiting
Sculpey, Cloth, Wood, Metal, Other

Becca Zablocki
Windows
olivewood, book

Becca Zablocki
Rome, Dome, Roam
woodcut

Amanda Zenobio
Sorrow
Oil on Canvas

PLEASE check over the spelling of your name and the name of your piece.  This is how your piece will be listed on the wall label.  Email Gaumond@hartford.edu with any changes or corrections.

All work not currently in the gallery should be delivered Tuesday and Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

All unaccepted entries should be picked up from the gallery Tuesday and Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Thank you to all who entered—we had record-breaking numbers this year—and congratulations to those whose works were accepted into the exhibition.

The opening reception and awards presentation will take place next week on Thursday, March 14 from 4-6:30 p.m.

Please join us tomorrow night for the McCarty & Payne lecture and artists’ reception celebrating renowned illustrators Peter McCarty and C.F. Payne.

The festivities will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a lecture by both artists in the Wilde Auditorium.  After that, we will all meet in the Joseloff Gallery to view the amazing illustration work and celebrate the exhibition with a public reception from 6-8 p.m.

We hope to see you there!

We’ve had to shift the time of the postponed events, the new times are as follows:

Lecture: Wilde Auditorium, Friday, February 15, 2013, 4:30-6 p.m.
Reception: Joseloff Gallery, Friday, February 15, 2013, 6-8 p.m.

THANK YOU!  We apologize for any inconvenience, stay safe everyone.

Coming next month, the Joseloff Gallery is proud to announce announce the 24^th annual Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition, beginning on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, and officially opening with a public reception and awards presentation on Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 4-6 p.m. in the Joseloff Gallery.  The exhibition will continue through April 14, 2013.

The Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition and Awards Presentation is held each year in the Joseloff Gallery. All students of the University of Hartford are invited to submit up to two works of art to be considered for the exhibition. Of the works chosen for the show, two undergraduate students are chosen to receive purchase prizes in the amount of $1,000 each.  The winning students’ artwork becomes a part of the Goldfarb Memorial Collection, to be owned by the Hartford Art School and proudly displayed throughout the University, in offices and public spaces.

Alexander A. Goldfarb, a Hartford attorney and art aficionado, is remembered by many in the Hartford Art School community not just for his excitement and interest in the arts, but also for his generosity.  Goldfarb generously endowed a fund at the Hartford Art School to support this annual exhibition and provide prize money for the students.  It was his intention that the older students use the money to travel or go on to advanced training after graduation, and that the younger students might use the prize money to offset the expenses of schooling.

The first Juried Student Exhibition—as it was then called– opened in May of 1989 and featured a panel of guest jurors including Humphrey Tonkin, then president of the University of Hartford; Stuart Schar, dean of the Hartford Art School; and the two trustees of the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust: Dr. Carter Pottash and Judge James Kinsella.

As the years have passed, some details of the exhibition have changed.  The name changed from the Juried Student Exhibition to The Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Exhibition, and the jury process is now presided over by a single guest juror, a representative of the arts community, e.g., an artist, critic, or curator.  Past jurors have included artists Cleve Gray (1992), Judy Moonelis (1998), Zoe Beloff (2002), and Clint Jukkala (2010), as well as curators Andrea Miller-Keller (1991), and Richard Klein (2009).

This year’s invited guest juror is painter and educational curator of ArtSpace New Haven, Martha Lewis. Primarily a painter and draftsperson, Lewis has been involved in a variety of projects including editing and printing her own fictional newspaper in Oxford, UK, leading groups of school children in making 6-foot totem poles on wheels from recycled materials, creating sets and costumes for a production of The Magic Flute and a producing a virtual book Glossary & Index from an outdated computer manual into which she inserted the history of the book and the history of the computer.

Lewis earned a BFA at Cooper Union in New York, and received her MFA from Yale University.  Subsequently she has taught drawing through the college seminar program at Yale University, and at Columbia University.

In April, 2009 Lewis curated the exhibition Yarn Theory at PS122 Gallery in New York, which featured knitted and crocheted models, structures and objects created by artists, mathematicians and scientists. Martha’s work is in the collection of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Chapman University, Orange, CA, as well as in private collections in the US and Europe.

For more information, please visit Martha Lewis’s website at www.marthalewis.com

Still have questions about the Goldfarb exhibition?

Check out this link for just about all you’ll need to know: http://www.joseloffgallery.org/goldfarb/

Submission dates are February 28 through March 2, 2013 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

We apologize for being so late to officially announce our upcoming exhibition, but hopefully you’ve been to our home page and seen some of the amazing illustration that will be on view in the gallery beginning next week.

The exhibition will open on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 11 a.m. and the artists’ reception and public lecture will take place on Friday, February 8, 2013.  The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. in Wilde Auditorium and the reception will start at 5 p.m. in the gallery.  Read on for the full details in the official announcement.

We are proud to present the exhibition McCarty & Payne, featuring the work of the 2012/2013 Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chairs in illustration, Peter McCarty and C. F. Payne, in the gallery from January 22 through February 24, 2013.

The Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts was established at the Hartford Art School in 1988 for the purpose of bringing in artists of international reputation as faculty of the art school. The chair is rotated among departments, with individuals teaching either a semester or academic year.  One of the few endowed chairs in the visual arts, it has become an important part of the school. Students have the opportunity to learn directly from artists whose work is chronicled in contemporary art history.

Upon entering the gallery, you will see an assortment of C. F. Payne’s bright, playful portraits of well-known stars, political and sports figures.  48 of Payne’s illustrations will be on view including portraits of President Obama, Jack Nicholson, and Derek Jeter, which have appeared in TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, and others.  Continuing into the back section of the gallery, you will find the sweet, subtle, book illustration of Peter McCarty.  35 of McCarty’s illustrations will be on display, including work from Caldecott Honor Book Hondo and Fabian, and New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Henry in Love (both books written and illustrated by McCarty).  In-process work by both artists will also be on display showing the behind-the-scenes steps taken while creating these delightful works of art.

In addition to the exhibition, there will be a public lecture, including both of the artists in the show, held on Friday, February 8, 2013 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Wilde Auditorium, directly followed by a public reception in the Joseloff Gallery from 5-7 p.m.

McCarty & Payne was organized and curated by Lisa Gaumond, managing director of the Joseloff Gallery.  This exhibition was made possible, in part, through the Georgette and Richard Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts endowment at the Hartford Art School.

About the artists:

C. F. Payne is an artist-illustrator whose artwork has graced the covers of Time Magazine, Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine, MAD Magazine, der Spiegel, U.S. News and World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Boys Life and more. He has been commissioned to paint countless politicians, authors and entertainers. He has illustrated ten children’s picture books, including The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Micawber, written by John Lithgow.

His artwork has been exhibited at The Cincinnati Art Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The Norman Rockwell Museum, The Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration, The Selby Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design and numerous college and university galleries.

Visit his website at http://www.cfpayne.com

Peter McCarty’s own experience as the middle child growing up in a large family inspired Chloe. He has written and illustrated several books for children, including Henry in Love, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, in which Chloe makes her debut. He is also the author and illustrator of Hondo & Fabian, a Caldecott Honor Book and New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and its sequel, Fabian Escapes; T is for Terrible; Little Bunny on the Move; and Moon Plane, a Charlotte Zolotow Award winner. Peter lives with his wife and children in Clinton Corners, New York.

Visit his website at http://www.petermccarty.net/

Join Mohawk, AIGA CT, CADC and the Hartford Art School to kick off the holidays with friends, food, drinks and a dose of inspiration at the Mohawk Show 12.

The work showcased in Mohawk Show 12 is a result of what happens when the brightest creative minds submit to their love of Mohawk paper. The show will be on display in CT for one special night only at The Hartford Art School, This exclusive showing features the best print work from top designers worldwide, including Connecticut’s own Chris Piascik, who is a finalist in the exhibit.

Thursday, December 6th, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Koopman Commons
Hartford Art School
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117

Hors d’oeuvres & Cash Bar