Go Out…See Art!: Springin' it up!

March 26, 2013

Springin' it up!

Hygienic Art Galleries

The Ant1-Her0 Project, Vol 1: Duality

Opening this Saturday night:
Join us March 23 from 7-10pm

The Ant1-Her0 Project is a conceptual character study Hygienic Resident Artist Travis Gibbs created to explore his interest in the human condition. Comprising of Illustration, Graphic Art, and Performance Art, Gibbs wanted to create a continuous character similar to that of a comic book, without the anchors and limitations of a continuing story line. Ant1-Her0 is a character loosely based on the artist, and the project deals with the gritty challenges of internal struggle, political and spiritual ideology, and social issues. Also, showing works inspired by this theme will be Mattias Lundblad and fellow Hygienic Resident Kim Abraham.

Dana-Naumann, The Narrator

"Ten Narratives"
10 artists Helene Burke                              Claudine Burns-Smith
Bob Cuneo                                  Moira Fain
Nick Grossmann                         Maurice Hansen (1941-2000)
Dana Naumann                           Gordon Skinner
Cherie Tredanari                         Elisa Vegliante

Artists' Reception: Saturday March 23rd, 2 to 4 PM.
The New Haven Free Public Library Gallery (in the Lower Level)

133 Elm Street New Haven, CT (across from the New HavenGreen)

On-line CATALOG“Ten Narratives” is a substantial group show of Connecticut, New York, and California artists first shown in January in the small East Village Gallery called Umbrella Arts, at 317 East 9^th Street. The exhibition explores the art of the narrative through a broad scope of styles, ranging from expressionist to surrealist to abstract to primitive, with influences ranging from Eduard Munch to Joan Miro to Australian Aboriginal art to Jean Dubuffet and Outsider Art. The ten artists comprise an interesting cross section. Half are self-taught. Ages stretch from mid-30s to mid-90s. Media include paintings, drawings, etchings, collage, assemblage, mixed media and sculpture. Some of their accomplishments include NEA fellowships, public sculpture and mural installations, and publishing children’s picture books. All of these elements combine to make an exciting visual smorgasbord held together by the narrative art form.

In visual narrative stories emerge from constellations of dots and strokes of paint, points of reference, shadows and overlays, forms and images, figures and objects. -- It often requires a new vocabulary to describe patterns, motifs, moods, and emotions. Carl Jung's so-called “archetypes” lay out patterns of personalities, symbols, and myths to explain recurring principles in living reality. The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss wrote that the vast number of mythic stories in the world can be distilled into certain structures that are constant and universal. A.J. Greimas points out contrasting polarities in stories, such as subject/object, sender/ receiver, helper/opponent -- the individual terms of which are characteristic representations.

Curated by Chris Butler - Butler Exhibition Design &
Johnes Ruta, AzothGallery.com, Art Director New Haven Free Public Library