Hartford Seeing a Shadow of Humanity Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of The West Real Art Ways Hartford Sept. 10, 2024 Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo’s work is described as existing “at the intersection of assemblage, painting, and Jamil Ragland 11 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven One 13-Foot Slice Please The subject of pizza is always on the minds of New Haveners, whether it’s deciding what kind to order and where to order it from or what makes the Karen Ponzio 9 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Trashes Never Ending Books That’s the point of a new exhibit. Brian Slattery 6 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland What’s In A Name? San Enrique Makes Art For All Painted on a cinderblock enclosure for Two Star’s Dumpsters, it caught my eye with its somber yet gentle rendering of a pair of cupped hands with a diamond floating above them against a stark black background, framed by the words “Dimond District” and “Oakland.” Agustín Maes 5 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Hearing the Planet’s Cry, Through Art The Space Between Clare Gallery St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church Hartford Aug. 5, 2024 As the terrible flooding of western Connecticut just a few weeks ago demonstrates, climate change is not Jamil Ragland 5 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Our Lady Of The Snacks It’s a famous picture, of a girl peeking into a window, and seems almost like a happy accident, a case of the photographer being in the right place at Brian Slattery 5 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
LA Outside The Lucky Few A Painting Retrospective by Kevin Bouton-Scott Towne Square Los Angeles June 23, 2024 On Fourth Street in Los Angeles where it becomes Skid Row, east of San Pedro Street, there’ Eli Diner 4 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Uplifting Art Leaves Its Mark The Power of Uplifting Each Other The 224 EcoSpace Hartford August 28, 2024 One question that has stayed with me as I’ve explored visual art around the city is Jamil Ragland 30 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Paint An Ailing Planet In Vivid Color They’re eyes, but they’re taking in a universe of shifting shapes and colors. The piercing structures of the irises only accentuate how the rest of the eyes are Brian Slattery 28 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland A Sophisticated Forest I certainly didn’t expect Ross-esque paintings, and the works on exhibit are definitely not “happy little trees.”…This is a decidedly more sophisticated forest than those broadcast on PBS years ago. Agustín Maes 27 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Makes The Mythology Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Philadelphia Brick Art Builds Up Lego Legend Art Of The Brick The Franklin Institute 222 N 20th St. Philadelphia Aug. 12, 2024 I’m not sure quite what I expected as we walked into the Franklin Institute’ Emily Cohen 16 Aug 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Photographers Make Life Into Art John T. Deneka’s Lifeguards tells an entire story by itself. The photo is one of 88 photographs selected to appear in “IMAGES 2024,” an exhibition running now at Kehler Eleanor Polak 16 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Artwork Offers Different Take on Drag Free to Be Theaterworks Hartford August 13, 2024 The celebration of drag culture continues at Theaterworks with the opening of the exhibit Free to Be in the gallery space on Jamil Ragland 14 Aug 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Get Constructive Ariel Bintang’s pieces can be understood as abstractions of figurative landscapes. The color choices, of vivid greens, blues, and oranges, don’t happen much in the real world, and Brian Slattery 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Everything Is Political In America,” Including The Art Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph Eleanor Polak 9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
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