Month: March 2016

Artist Talk – Glen Baldridge on 4/1/16

Artist Glen Baldridge will be visiting UConn on April 1st, 2016 to give a talk at the School of Fine Arts in Art Building Room 109 at 1pm

A native of Montana, Baldridge lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work often satires the mainstreaming of countercultures and the glorification of escapist entertainment. Printmaking and photography dominate Baldridge’s work methods where process often acts as a foil within the narrative.

For more information on Baldridge and his work click here

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SNEAK PEAK: Upcoming Exhibition in the Contemporary Art Galleries by Jong Oh

Artist, Jong Oh prepares for the opening of his show in the Contemporary Art GalleriesSotto Voce. Oh identifies his primary medium as space. His sparse constructions sculpt their environments by employing negative spaces, lighting effects and cast shadows to alter viewers’ perceptions of their surroundings

Oh states about his work:

“Responding to a site’s nuanced configuration, I build spatial structures by suspending Plexiglas and painted strings in the air. These elements connect or intersect with one another, depending on the viewers’ perspectives. Viewers walk in and around these paradoxical boundaries constituted by three-dimensionality and flatness, completion and destruction. The viewers’ experience becomes a meditation on perception’s whim.”

 

 

 

 

 

Sotto Voce opens on March 26th, 2016 with an Artist Talk at 5pm and the Reception will follow from 6pm-7pm

The show will be open from March 26th – May 6th

BFA Student, Raeanne Nuzzo Receives IDEA Grant

Junior BFA student concentrating in Graphic Design, Raeanne Nuzzo of New Haven, CT has received an IDEA Grant for a project that she is working on along side Professor Mary Banas, entitled Fear.  The project is set to be shown in the Fall in the Visual Art Installation Space at the School of Fine Arts.

This is what Raeanne has to say about her project:

Fear: The Culture is an interactive poster design project, featuring the phrase “Something really dangerous is going on,” a quote from Donald Trump, paired with the hashtag “#FearTheCulture” printed over a variety of images from sensationalized media as a method to critique the American culture of fear. The posters will be hung publicly over the summer, and reactions will be documented and catalogued along with the original source materials, culminating in a complete documentation and exhibition of the work in VAIS Gallery in Fall 2016.

2016 Spring Semester MFA Open Studios – 3/10/16

The MFA Students of UConn proudly invite you to the 2016 Spring Semester Open Studios Event! There will be food, music, art and a chance to learn more about each MFA student’s work.
Thursday March 10th from 7-9PM at the Visual Arts Research Center (VARC) located on UConn’s Depot Campus in the Lebanon and Colchester buildings.

DIRECTIONS:Open Studios Poster

The VARC is located on the UConn Depot Campus, just off Rt. 44.

*BY BUS: From the UConn main campus, take the Purple Line and get off at the Lebanon Cottage stop

*BY CAR: From 195, take Rt 44 West.

At the stoplight next to the former prison, make a left onto Walters Avenue. Stay right at the fork to merge onto Ahern Lane.

Just past the abandoned buildings, you should see Lebanon Cottage and a blue sign that says “Visual Arts Research Center.” Parking is FREE.

See the Facebook Event Page for more information