Gordon Skinner and EleMar Gallery: Brought Together by Project Storefronts

 Bread and Circuses

After a successful stint at Project Storefronts Popup55, longtime collaborator Gordon Skinner was introduced to EleMar Stone Distributer owner Mark Krueger. For over the past year Krueger has been carving out a piece of his storefront for an art gallery of the same name. After their first meeting a partnership was born and Skinner’s show, Bread and Circuses: Portraits and Collages by Gordon Skinner will open on September 20^th.

"The artists I seek to work with” says Kruegar, “at my gallery are all committed to advancing their enterprises as businesses.  Intelligent partnership increases the possibility and probability of success."

In addition to being a gallerist and a businessperson, Mark Krueger is also an artist in his own right. "For me, its immediate application is inside people’s houses where I install decorative stone interiors.  In the last three or four years I’ve started to use stone to create artwork."

Site Projects Public Art | Whispering Galleries, an interactive digital artwork

Whispering Galleries comes alive with each new visitor.  

MEET THE ARTISTS! Saturday, April 26, 3-5pm @ NHFPL, 133 Elm St.

Based on the diaries of an anonymous New Haven county shopkeeper from the 1850s, this viewer-activated digital artwork is accessed on a computer screen through a gestural interface – the LEAP motion controller – and experienced in augmented reality.  

Presented in honor of New Haven’s anniversary, and part of Connecticut at Work, a year-long conversation about the past, present and future of work life in Connecticut created by Connecticut Humanities, the artwork will shed light on the history of work environments in New Haven.  

The artists explain: “the voice of the diary sends whispers to the present through a series of erasure poems” and describe “the keeper of the diary” as someone who “worked with his hands: as a woodworker making handles for tools, sawing lumber, and sweeping out the shop; as a violinist making music at intimate gatherings and church occasions; and as a composer, writing pieces for performance at the local school. In daily entries, the author's week is measured out by hand-work.” 

Whispering Galleries will be on view in the branches of the New Haven Free Public Libraries, opening April 26^th, 2014, 3-5pm, at Ives Main, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT.

Amaranth Borsuk Ph.D. is a scholar and published poet, whose work focuses on textual materiality -- from the surface of the page to the surface of language.  Brad Bouse is a developer interested in the creative applications of code (www.bradbouse.com).   Together, the artist team created,Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012), a digital pop-up book in augmented reality which has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

Site Projects Inc. has been presenting world-class award-winning artworks in New Haven’s public spaces since 2004.  Our exhibitions are free, open and physically accessible to all.  Recent artworks include: Night Rainbow, by Yvette Mattern (2013) & Square with four circles, by Felice Varini (2010).  This is Site Projects second collaboration with the New Haven Free Public Library.  For more information, visit: www.siteprojects.org.

Connecticut at Work is traveling across the state through December 2014 and features the Smithsonian Institution’s The Way We Worked exhibition, with stops in seven communities, which add local focus with community history exhibits, book and film discussions, author talks, performances and more.  Connecticut at Work is an initiative of Connecticut Humanities, a non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In the New Haven region, Connecticut at Work is a partnership with New Haven Free Public Library and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.  The Connecticut tour of the The Way We Worked is made possible by Connecticut Humanities and Historic New England.  For a calendar of events and more information, visitcthumanities.org/ctatwork.

Art Shows Tonight: Katro Storm, ArtSpace.

Check out some art tonight. 7pm - ??

Tonight's a good night to tour the local arts scene, with two shows taking place within walking distance; we hope you'll see both. Katro Storm, the talented painter who created the outdoor murals for NHFPL's Stetson Branch is having his first solo show, at a gallery space carved out of the YMCA on Howe Street. Here's the event page.

Art Shows Tonight

• Katro Storm at 52 Howe St. 
• ArtSpace "Smart Painting" at 50 Orange Street

Another event tonight is ArtSpace is "Smart Painting." Like SmartCars and SmartWater, this exhibit exemplifies doing something, like painting, cars, and water, but more intelligently.

From ArtSpaceNH.org:

Smart Painting is an activity.  Through this activity, the ten artists in this show pose a range of questions.  At their most basic level these include: what does a painting look like? How was it painted? And what was it painted on?

A "smart painting."  

The works answer these questions in three ways, identified in the wall texts and subsections of the exhibition. First by referencing the limitations of their structures (“the frame”), second by exploiting the physicality of their surfaces (“the canvas”) and third by employing painterly strategies that enter the arena of the aesthetic realm (“the concept or idea”).   Breaking down a painting into its anatomical parts—“bones,” “flesh” and “brain,” the exhibition recasts these concrete terms more playfully.

The stake of this show is to recognize a painting that might appear lazy, hip or naïve as a measured strategy or intelligent vehicle for challenging the tradition of what it means to be a painting.  These artists trouble the notion that a painting must be a stoic representation of reality.  Rather, they pursue casual abstraction as a method for depicting “reality” by questioning recognizable material, concepts and everyday forms. The show features works by:

Blake Shirley, Sharon Butler, Deborah Dancy, Zachary Keeting, Ben Piwowar, Jenn Dierdorf, Rob D. Campbell, Derek Leka, Clare Grill, and Tatiana Berg.

John O'Donnell lives and works in Connecticut.  He is a multidisciplinary artist and has created performance pieces for the Museum of New Art in Detroit, MI, Proof Gallery in Boston, MA, Flux Space in Philadelphia, PA and SOHO20 Gallery in New York, NY.  His videos have been exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York and at film festivals in Boston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. O'Donnell is an adjunct professor of studio and digital arts at University of Connecticut, Gateway Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University. 

Katro Storm is an artist living in New Haven. He's been around for a while. 
Tonight is his first solo art exhibit. 
Get to know Katro Storm from Boo Slick Show on Vimeo.

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Handful of Art at Slade Ely House Reception Today

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52 Artists.  52 Images. 

The very best New Haven artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, printmaking and photography have made for one remarkable deck of playing cards.  Please join us in celebrating the cumlination of a Partnership for CT Cities project over a year in the making. 

51 Trumbull St.

New Haven, CT

Sunday June 23, 2013 2-5pm.

This show's opening has passed, but you can still check out some of the awesome work on display in the slideshow below, simply by visiting the gallery during their normal business hours.

There are decks of cards also available, one with each of a collectable amazing local New Haven artist.  You could purchase these at the show for the amazing price of $20, and provided that these are still available, you can also obtain them in the future, at the same gallery, after browsing and enjoying some of the marvelous works on the wall.

For more info contact: Barbara Hawes, 203.645.1039, hawesandart@gmail.com

Participating Artists:
Michael Angelis   John Arabolos   Amy Arledge   Cat Balco   Ethan Boisvert
Riley Brewster   Frank Bruckmann   Susan Clinard   Megan Craig
Jan Cunningham   Leila Daw   Steven DiGiovanni   Karen Dow   Eileen Eder
Silas Finch   Dean Fisher   Amanda Fornal   Josh Gaetjen   Michael Galvin
Elizabeth Gourlay   Rachel Hellerich   Cham Hendon   Lisa Hess
Danny Huff   Clint Jukkala   John Keefer   Zachary Keeting   Janet Lage
Martha Lewis   Nathan Lewis   Linda Lindroth   Will Lustenader
Barbara Marks    Christopher Mir   Adam Niklewicz   Jason Noushin
John O’Donnell   Perry Obee   David Ottenstein   Hank Paper
J.D. Richey   Lyn Bell Rose   Joseph Saccio   Charles Santarpia
Martha Savage   K Levni Sinanoglu   Joseph Smolinski   Kevin Van Aelst
Thuan Vu   Jonathan Waters   Marjorie Wolfe   Aicha Woods

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Episode 5: Introducing Katro Storm from BooSlick Show on Vimeo.

You can actually learn about African American history during any month of the year.  But since this is a special year (New Haven's 375th), we thought we'd take you to the studio of Katro Storm, a local artist who also curates shows at the gallery inside of  the Arts Council on Audubon Street.

Stay up to date on the latest works of Katro by viewing the Artists' Page he updates regularly.

Learn more about Jahmal Henderson by staying tuned to the Boo Slick Show, where he introduces the audience to various members of the African American community and talks about folk lore and personal history: Emphasizm is complicated (@1:45).

Art by Renaldo Davidson

There is always the possibility that you could also view the gallery of artwork in tribute to poet Langston Hughes, which is available at the Sumner Gallery, which is located in the Arts Council, at 70 Audubon St. on the 2nd floor.  It will be on display until the 22nd of March.

Don't forget to also watch the video!  Katro speaks to Jahmal Henderson (Boo Slick) about personal stories including ones about Gil Scott Heron, as well as pitchers like Satchel Paige, a MLB Pitcher who also played in the Negro Leagues.

There will also be a bonus video to be released by the end of the month about Katro's experience witnessing the growth in success of Harold Hunter at the time of his peak, which will air on Townie Music Scene, which is a sub-part of the Nhv.Org local network.

Oscars Tie-In
It should also be noted that Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin's folks are folklore archivists who started the organization City Lore in New York City.  Does this qualify as folk lore?

Here's a link to the story that Katro is referring to @1:28 in the video.

Fueling the Arts at a Local Coffeeshop.

Coffeeshops are known for their product, which is coffee.  It should also be noted that some coffeeshops also feature art.

This month at Fuel, check out the artwork on display.  It's actually pretty good.  They're painted window panes and snare drums.  Original ideas from one of the kids that work there.

He might even make you a latte.  Or watch your response as you examine each one above the people sitting at the tables below.  It's kind of a classic scene, when you think about it.  The fellow who made the paintings said that music is his main form of expression, and that painting was a second thought.  Not a bad second thought.   This is his first art showing.
Not bad, for a first show.

The artist's name is Alexander Burnet and he's a member of the band The Proud Flesh.  He's part of the Local Music Scene, as well as evidently the Art Scene.  He's also a Barista who reminds me of Rinsey.

Few could pick a better spot to drink their coffee than here on Wooster Street.  It's walking distance from the Saturday Farmers' Market, and it's a relatively quiet place to sit, drink coffee, have a conversation with an old friend, or make a new one.

Check out the local scene page for more information about the local music scene.

Multimedia Art: AreaBridges

Recent Video of New Haven in Supersymmetry (Stereoscopic!) by AreaBridges, a multimedia artist.

Above:  Instagram AreaBridges.  Below:  Soundcloud AreaBridges.


AreaBridges is Sean O'Brien.  He is a talented multimedia artist from Greater New Haven.  He got his name from listening on the radio to the news and traffic reports.  They used to talk about area bridges.

His wife is an award winning midwife from Yale School of Nursing, who has a new book out about Optimal Care in Childbirth.  They compose a fairly talented family.

Love / Abundance: Art Exhibition

Art Scene Calendar

Line Drawings by Daniel Eugene at Cave à Vin on State St.

If you wanted to find something interesting to do on a Sunday afternoon, one place you could find yourself is at the Cave à Vin wine bar on State Street in New Haven.  On this particular afternoon, Daniel Eugene presented an exhibit of his fascinatingly detailed illustrations.  These will be on display for a few of the upcoming weeks, and make for an excellent addition to the walls of State Street's latest inclusion to the local scene, providing a venue for both music and art, which is something we all appreciate.

Each of the drawings are like meditations, as Daniel expressed in a reading of some of his recent writings this afternoon.  He believes that we all find the same source of inspiration from within, and that by sharing it's our way of being more connected with the world around us.  How very true that is.

You can continue to see his works on display on State Street.  A map to the location has been embedded below for your convenience.



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Cave A Vin is located at 975 State Street, across from J.P. Dempsey's.

Arts Organizer Katro Storm Representing

Katro Storm is a local artist with tons of background, experience, and connections within the underground artist community, and has been here for quite some time.  Recently he pieced together a show at Gallery 305k with a group of talented artists, whose work is on display in the video.  Much of it would be considered "Street Art" when in fact many of these artists have already made the transition from street to gallery, with places like Gallery 305K opening their doors to the great talent that exists, which would otherwise go perhaps more unnoticed.  The events page for the show, called Street Dreams, is here.

Official text from the show:
Gallery 305K is pleased to welcome independent Curators Katro Storm and Jahmane. Their show "Street Dreams" looks at the way we each interpret the iconic phrase. A street dream looks very different based on the street you are looking at. Works from artist such as Ellen Volpe, Paul Duda, Kristen Thomas,Michael Johnston and more will give us there unique view on the subject.

Hey, I know it's not New Haven, and this site is supposed to be all about your #1 Hometown, but I say stuff about NYC enough so there's no sense in ignoring Bridgeport.  Hey, Americorps pays attention to BPT!

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Aside from being a talented artist himself, Katro has taken it to the next level by facilitating other artists to have shows.  We will definitely get to learn more about him as I incessantly try to convince him (and everyone else I know) to join in a game of spontaneous role playing, described by some as "Townie Larping" where we form scripts based loosely on ourselves and our reality, and play it off on video to appear as nothing like how we actually are.  Why?  To confuse people!  Well, sort of.  Partially that.  And then partially just to make life a little more interesting.

Arts Council Reception this Evening: Sound Influence 2

At the Arts Council, 70 Audubon St. from 5-7pm this evening, an art show about musical influence in visual art.

Participating Artists:

Aoke, Michael Angelis, Ian Appelgate, Jahmane Arts, Lee Adam Beard, Dooley-O, DS7, Renaldo Davidson, Orlando Dome, Paula Duda, Krsin Lee Thomas, Eros 165, Hayward Gatling, Rob Greenberg, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Aniko Horvath, Marta Machabli, Conrad Mecheski, Destiny S. Palmer, Paul Panamerenko, John Rodrigues Brewer, Steve Ross, Reo Russo, Mr. William T. Saunders, Craig Streater Smith, Rob Stull, Kristin Thomas, Alison K. Walsh, Janet Warner, Charlie Win.

That's a lot of participating artists!  It's going to be a great show

Curated by Katro Storm.

Saint Paddys Parade is Sunday

You will not be seeing this art piece at this year's parade.

Talk about tough luck!  This amazing Leprochaun from 2011 was produced in spraypaint by one of Connecticut's most talented Street artists, REO, who gets absolutely no recognition for anything.

First, he painted it in the middle of the parade.  During the parade.  He said that the only interruption was when some woman puked next to where he was painting.  No one bothered him the whole time, and in spite of the fact that he had no permission, he was able to concentrate on the piece.

The owner of the building apparently has no understanding or recognition for the value of the piece, because since it was painted, it's been removed.  The artist was never contacted or reached to be congratulated for his masterpiece.

Only In New Haven:  The owner of the building is museum director at the Yale Art Gallery.  Clearly he knows talent when he sees it!