Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade

Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade
October 27–December 10, 2022

Around the globe in recent years, the Japanese photographer Komatsu Hiroko has become known for her experimental installations that transform traditional gallery spaces into worlds of monochrome. Building on recent iterations of this work at dieFirma in New York City and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the exhibition Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade combines the artist’s immersive photographic environments with work in a variety of other media, including handmade artist books, drawings and photograms, and 8-mm film. Everything on view was made since the year 2020, the start of Komatsu’s second decade as a committed photographer. In all cases, Komatsu pushes the materials that she is working with to their limits, asking important questions about how we produce, consume, and share knowledge—and what might be taken for granted in the process.

Komatsu Hiroko (b. 1969 Kangawa, Japan) is an award-winning artist who has held exhibitions in Japan, Germany, Italy, and the U.S. Her work has been published in Aperture, Asahi Camera, Artforum, and PHaT Photo, among other journals, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. In 2018, she was the recipient of the 43rd Kimura Ihei Award for new photographers in Japan. Her work is held in the collections of The MAST Foundation in Bologna, Tate Modern in London, the Kawasaki City Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York Public Library.

Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade will be on view at Joseloff Gallery from October 27–December 10, 2022...
HARTFORD ART SCHOOL GALLERIES

Quintet at Gallery on the Green

5 Artist/Professors:
Matthew Best, Terry Donsen Feder, Susan Bogle Finnegan, Val Lyons, Mark Snyder

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 2022 from 6:00-8:00 pm.

The gallery is located near the intersection of Dowd Avenue and Route 44 at 5 Canton Green Road in Canton.
Gallery Hours F-S 1-5pm

More at link: Gallery on the Green.

A. Walter Kendra: A Life in Art

Gallery on the Green presents “A. Walter Kendra: A Life in Art” plus a Group Show, “Down to Earth”
Canton, CT - Friday, April 22 to Saturday, May 21, 2022

The Gallery on the Green (Canton CT) presents a retrospective of prints, paintings, and drawings by Connecticut artist A. Walter Kendra, who has devoted more than 60 years to creating work that speaks to his passion for architecture, landscape, and nature, especially nature. The exhibition displays the evolution of his studio practice over the years, revealing startling differences as well as continuity as Kendra transforms his direct observations of the world around him into abstractions. “All of my work is abstracted from nature, and there’s an echo of representation in them, yet they transcend that. I always like my work to transcend, not mimic color or form.”

On April 23 from 6:00-8:00 pm there will be an opening reception for the Kendra exhibit. The reception including refreshments is free, and the public is warmly invited.

Gallery on the Green link

Michelle Cotugno and Poetry Broadsides

Artist Talk and Printers Panel: Sat. March 26, 2PM.

Michelle Cotugno will speak about her artwork, followed by brief presentations by letterpress printers, including: Gary Metras (Adastra Press); Barry Sternlieb (Mad River Press) with collaborating artist Julio Grande; Greg Joly (Bull Thistle Press); Ed Rayher (Swamp Press); Robin Price (Robin Price Printer); Jenni Friedman (Stone Dragon Press); John O’Donnell (Counterproof Press). Event hosted by Jim Finnegan.

ArtWalk, Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06105

Part of the exhibition…

WORDS in CLAY, WORDS on PAPER
March 11 to April 24, 2022
ArtWalk, Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06105
https://www.hplct.org/classes-seminars-exhibits/artwalk

This exhibit honors the written word, highlighting the dynamic collaboration between writers and artists. Sculptural clay works by Michelle Cotugno are displayed along with a selection of fine letterpress poetry broadsides selected by James Finnegan.

Words in Clay: Michelle Cotugno’s objects are made from clay, these “leaves” are hand-printed by the artist. Featuring the words of Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Cobain, H.D., among others. Cotugno reverses the notion of ‘ekphrasis’ (writers speaking to/about art); here the artist creates the physical object from clay on which she prints, letter by letter, words of important poets and writers that speak to her.

Words on Paper: James Finnegan has selected the broadsides that will accompany Cotugno’s artwork. He called upon many letterpress printers throughout New England to contribute their broadsides, with attention to works by Connecticut poets. Most of the broadsides involve a collaboration between an artist and a poet and are printed on fine paper by a letterpress printer. Wallace Stevens, Susan Howe, Marilyn Nelson, Clare Rossini, Ada Limón, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cortney Davis, and many other poets are included in the broadsides presented.

Upcoming Event—
Poetry Reading: Sat. April 9, 2PM
Featuring various poets whose work is included in the exhibit.

Olu Oguibe interview

In 2018, a 52-foot-high concrete obelisk standing in a town square in Kassel, Germany, was quietly dismantled and removed by right-wing anti-immigration activists. The piece called “Monument to Strangers and Refugees” bears the words, “I was a stranger and you took me in.”

Nigerian-born artist Olu Oguibe was commissioned to create the installation as part of an international art event called “documenta 14.” In 2019, the monument was returned to the city and now stands in a different location.

Oguibe is a multimedia artist and writer who lives and works in Vernon, Connecticut. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and outdoor spaces around the world. [continues]

Olu Oguibe website

Prison Arts Program thru Feb. 28

Prison Arts! An exhibit of works from the Community Partners in Action Prison Arts Program Permanent Collection, on display through Feb. 28, 2022 Please feel free to stop by the gallery to experience this exhibit in-person. If you're not able to make it in-person your welcome to scroll down to see the exhibit virtually.

The Prison Arts Program, initiated in 1978, works inside Connecticut prisons to positively and constructively change the lives of the incarcerated and the prison environment by encouraging unique, personal, and evolving artistic pursuits. These pursuits can engender hope in a hopeless place. Participants develop purpose, creativity, self-discipline, work ethic, self-esteem, technical and communication skill development, thoughtfulness, introspection, critical thinking, and calm.

For further information or to support the CPA Prison Arts Program please contact: Jeffrey Greene, Program Manager / 860.722.9450 / cpaprisonarts@gmail.com

The Monastery Gallery of Art