Go Out…See Art!: Autumn art at its best!

September 20, 2013

Autumn art at its best!

These beauties will be making a 'guest appearance' at my PARK(ing) Day park!

Did you know PARK(ing) Day is today? Ck out this global event that brings awareness to our green spaces at: www.parkingday.org

find my pop-up park in front of the Hartford Public Library 11-3, courtesy of the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Knox Park Foundation!

You can also find me at REAP Streets arts festival

Sat 9/21 Windsor Center 3-7 pm.

The POD makes a morphed reappearance in a storefront!

Work in Progress: installing "Self Storage" for REAP Streets

Currently in the Donaldson Gallery in the Olin Arts and Science Center from September 16 to October 20 is an exhibition of eleven works by Stanley Lewis, our fall semester Prescott Visiting Artist. The show includes mostly landscapes, some painted in oil and others in acrylic, and one sculpture. Two large invented scenes add to the show an aspect rarely seen in his oeuvre. Special thanks to the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection in Mount Kisco, NY for loaning four paintings for this exhibition. The deeply perceptive works in heavy impasto and lovely textural surfaces present earthy harmonics in a rigorous spacial construct. The paintings are built through relentless sessions of painting scenes of the places where he lives. A member since 1986 of the Bowery Gallery in NYC where he had seven one-person shows, Stanley Lewis was also a member of the Oxbow Gallery in Northampton, MA., and of Lohin Geduld Gallery in NYC. He also exhibited at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. He earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1967 and went on to teach at the American University in DC, at Kansas City Art Institute, at Parsons School of Design in New York, at Smith College, at the New York Studio School, and was a visiting artist at Yale. He has for many summers taught at the Chatauqua Institution, NY and often has been a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center. A long-time hero of an undercurrent of painterly figurative painters especially in New York and in the midwest, he has recently been recognized at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in a select group show that opens next week at the National Academy. He is represented by Betty Cunningham Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. His many awards include a Danforth Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Stanley will give a slide lecture at the Hacker Theater at Porters on October 2 at noon and the talk will be followed by a reception.

ArtAround the West End, Hartford, CT

Self-guided neighborhood art walk

Saturday, September 21, 2013

11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Maps available day of walk

The West End Civic Association is sponsoring its 2^nd annual ArtAround the West End on Saturday, September 21. There will be a reception to meet artists the night before.

One of the threads in the rich fabric of the City of Hartford is its arts and culture, and one of the City’s most vibrant artistic communities is the West End, a neighborhood with both a strong sense of place and pride of place.

Join art lovers and collectors for ArtAround the West End, a self-guided walk to visit with and see the works of West End visual artists, including painters, photographers, sculptors, potters, jewelers and others in various locations around Hartford’s historic West End.

22 Featured Artists:

Linn Bae – oil painting

Carole Bascetta – ceramic sculpture

JoAnne Bauer – assemblages, encaustics, manipulated photography, poetry

Noel G. Coonce-Ewing - assemblage art, oil paintings

Steve Fournier – watercolor

Georges S. Annan-Kingsley – painting, sculpture

Mo Myra Grogan - watercolor

Bill Healy – oil painting

Roxann Poppe Leibenhaut – oil, Representational

Chris London – sculpture, masks

Thomas McCabe - paintings, cartoons

John Murphy – oil painting

Lisa Pressamarita – eclectic mix of works based on the landscape, two and three-dimensional

Elizabeth (Betsy) Raphael – stone sculpture

Alexis Rathbun – jewelry

Nan Runde – paintings (oil and egg tempera) and drawings

Laura Spero – photography, writing

Cara Stimmel-Agins - Steampunk vibe jewelry/accessories, limited edition vintage assemblage

Peter Upton – oil painting, abstract

Elizabeth Vitale - mixed media, including photography, pen & ink, collage & fabric arts, also poetry & inspirational writing

Carolyn West – jewelry design

Robert Louis Wilgoski – oil painting

Meet the Artists Reception
Silent Auction to support arts and cultural events in the West End
Friday, September 20, 2013
6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

*** RSVP no later than September 16^th to lakisherhurst@hotmail.com at WECA to receive details for the reception, including the location.

For more information about ArtAround the West End, and the artists and their work, go tohttp://www.westend.org/ or by phone JoAnne Bauer, 860-233-7852

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About WECA – the West End Civic Association (WECA) is a non-profit, nonreligious, nonpartisan neighborhood organization founded more than thirty years ago to promote the welfare and best interests of the West End and the City of Hartford. A substantial force in strengthening community, WECA strives to create diversity, community cultural events, safe and beautiful streets, desirable housing, good schools and a thriving business corridor. Located 1.5 miles from Hartford’s central business district, most of the West End is listed as an historic district in the National Register of Historic Places.