Beyond the Rolling Fire: Paintings by Robyn W. Fairclough
September 22-December 4, 2011
The psychology of the human figure, as well its gestural language, remains critical to the artist's journey, engaging the viewer in a complex dialogue with the process of painting. While Fairclough painted the figure in an interior space for many years, a studio fire in 2010 shifted her focus to painting the figure in the landscape using a new set of tools and applications - thus loosening her dialogue with the process of painting and creating a more abstract frame.
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Sylvia Wald: Seven Decades
January 19-March 18, 2012
Sylvia Wald's artistic career spans seven decades and covers a vast range of media, techniques and imagery. While her earliest significant works can be related to the Depression-era style of social realist painting, Wald became known for her innovative printmaking in the 1940s and 1950s. Later, Wald turned to sculpture, constructing imaginative assemblages from unlikely materials - industrial wire and metal mesh to bamboo and driftwood.
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SoloCollective: Junior/Senior Seminar Exhibition
April 12-May 19, 2012
Features the works of Fairfield University studio art majors in their capstone course. Each student will have a section of the gallery to exhibit their pieces, a kind of mini solo exhibition. Each exhibition will make up the larger group exhibition - the SoloCollective - which will include projects developed during the course of the spring semester that articulate the artists' concept, process and form.
Robert Perillat: Long Distance Runner
June 3-July 29, 2012
After teaching philosophy for over a quarter of a century, painter Robert Perillat "came out of the shoot at full gallop," creating a stream of well-calibrated paintings for the next thirty years that celebrated the in-betweens of the Expressionists - from 1950s Abstract Expressionists Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock to 1980s Neo-Expressionists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel.
Director's Choice
Works by five local Connecticut artists
June 19-July 16, 2011
In his portraits of animals and humans, Dr. Anthony Santomauro explores the variety and intensity of the human emotional experience. John J. Rosito's drawings and paintings are inspired by the beauty of Italy's picturesque towns and countryside. Stefan Buda's recent prints, paintings and sculpture represent his new found freedom to explore creativity, philosophy and the human condition. Robert Buda, a self-taught artist, paints small scale Impressionist landscapes and seascapes. Duane Corey commemorates - through his landscape and portrait paintings - the Bicentennial of the War of 1812.
The Flowering of Punk Rock
Photographs by Tom Hearn
April 14-May 27, 2011
This exhibition featured the black and white photographs documenting the punk rock scene from 1976-1979 taken by Tom Hearn.
Photos were taken at legendary venues like Willimantic's Shaboo Inn, New Haven's Toad's Place, the Arcadia Ballroom as well as CBGB and Max's Kansas City in New York City. Regularly featured in magazines such as Punk, Rolling Stone and Shindig, Hearn's photographs truly capture a scene at the very peak of its power and energy.
Norman Gorbaty
To Honor My People
January 27-March 27, 2011
Throughout his 50 years as a graphic artist Norman Gorbaty produced sculptures, paintings and works on paper. "In using the forms, shapes and symbolism of Judaism," says Gorbaty,"I honor my people." This exhibition showcased a dynamic and vital selection of Gorbaty's work never seen before and represents Gorbaty's first comprehensive gallery exhibition of his Judaic works. To Honor My People will run in tandem with Gorbaty's exhibit, Works in Dialogue at the Bellarmine Museum of Art.
Norman Gorbaty will deliver the Carl & Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies lecture entitled, "To Honor My People: Reflections of a Jewish Artist" at Fairfield University, on February 9, 2011.
Read Norman Gorbaty's statement On Jewish Themes.
Seeing Things
September 23-December 5, 2010
This solo exhibition included Joel Carreiro's close reading and transformation of cultural objects from the past; Renaissance paintings, European drawings and decorative objects and Medieval manuscripts. The alternate image that emerges adopts a new identity - one that is the result of his collaboration with the original artist.
From the 4 Train to Fenders - A Retrospective: John "Crash" Matos
January 28-February 28, 2010
Fairfield University was honored to pay tribute to one of graffiti's All Stars - the Bronx Bomber of the art world: CRASH. John "Crash" Matos is a world-famous artist whose career began surreptitiously in the mid 1970s at the age of 13 in the train yards of the South Bronx.
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