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SUMMARY:The Botanical Tyranny Dollhouse- Jane Rainwater
DESCRIPTION:Jane Rainwater Artist’s statement: \nMy work is beautiful and ugly. People are often attracted to the aesthetics of an image or object that stimulates desire. Decorative objects are collected and exhibited in the home as status symbols of affluence and refinement. My work engages the viewer with its seemingly innocent decorative delight; yet upon closer examination the work challenges and questions our attraction by revealing darker truths. I explore the hidden cost inherent in most of what we find seductively attractive with my drawings\, installations\, sculptures and videos. \n  \nJane Rainwater Short Bio: \nJane Rainwater grew up in Westport\, CT and currently lives in Andover\, CT.  She teaches art and design at several colleges and universities in Connecticut. She is also the owner of Rainwater Design. She holds a MFA from The Art Institute of Boston\, and a BFA from The Hartford Art School. Jane Rainwater received a Radius Emerging Artist Fellowship from The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield\, CT. Jane has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country. \n  \nwww.rainwaterdesign.com \nwww.botanicaltyranny.blogspot.com \nwww.goldmastersthesis.blogspot.com \nrainwaterdesign@comcast.net \n860-331-7842 \n  \nThe Botanical Tyranny Dollhouse \n \n 
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/the-botanical-tyranny-dollhouse/
LOCATION:Five Points Gallery\, 33 Main Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:GLASSHOUSE OF IMMIGRANTS - Jill Enfield
DESCRIPTION:“…this ever-evolving diversity challenges the idea of a single dominant vision of the American identity\, encouraging Americans to embrace inclusion and pluralism.” – Ellis Island Museum. \n  \n  \n“The New Americans” is a physical display of heritage\, genealogy\, and homeland. My paternal relatives fled to America in the 1930s from Frankfurt\, Germany. I was brought up by immigrants and wanted to create a project that honored immigrants’ integral role in our society while simultaneously representing the hardships they still experience to this day. \n  \nI am intrigued by how both traditional and digital photographic practices make their mark on the creative process. I combined 19th-century wet collodion ambrotypes with digital scanning and 21st-century printing. Collodion\, and the distressed exterior window frames that hold the glass photographs and make up the glasshouse. The windows were found on abandoned side roads\, flea markets\, and construction sites. \n  \nThe collodion references the same technique used to record immigrants who traveled through Ellis Island in the 1800s. By fusing the elements of old and new\, I created portraits that reflect both historic technique and the reality of contemporary existence\, which unfortunately parallels that of some of the first immigrants. A glasshouse was made from antique windows and portraits. The distressed exterior echoes current adversity and is a ghostly homage to past immigrants. My goal was to communicate concepts of heritage and immigrant hardship in tangible form by utilizing the original process in which immigrants were photographically documented. \n  \nPhotography relies on the balance of time and light to bring visual elements to the surface. The wet collodion process requires long exposures\, so each subject must sit still for 45 to 60 seconds. The viewer should experience what I heard and saw during that time-lapse.  It is in that stillness that the narrative journey begins for the photographer\, and ultimately the viewer. It is in that silence\, that the viewer becomes the listener. Within my sitter’s face\, I saw the generations that have gone before and those yet to come and want the viewer to be moved by the same emotions that I am moved by as I am taking the portrait. These photos seek to capture the far-reaching heritage and stories encoded in the eyes of each of my subjects. \n  \nOnce the final 7’ x 7’ x 7’ glasshouse is assembled\, visitors can walk through and around it to experience the transparent portraits from different angles. Shadows of people walking around the house are visible in the interior and exterior so it becomes a moving experience for immigrants past and present.  The glasshouse is an interactive piece in that people can walk around and through it\, creating different shadows for the viewers’ experience. In addition\, they can take their time and look at each glass window on an individual level to understand the diversity that makes up the house and our country. If you removed one panel the house would fall. \n  \nThe old adage; “Those in glass houses should not throw stones” resonates as one looks into the eyes of the New Americans to realize that we are all immigrants; it is this understanding and awareness of heritage and history that is key to a more empathetic and compassionate future. \n  \n  \n  \nJILL ENFIELD \nJILL@JILLENFIELD.COM \nWWW.JILLENFIELD.COM \n917-518-7043 \n  \n3-minute video on installation of glasshouse: \nwww.youtube.com/watch?v=3Afr1qnxDLA
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/glasshouse-of-immigrants-jill-enfield/
LOCATION:Five Points Gallery\, 33 Main Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:SIX PAINTINGS - John Keefer
DESCRIPTION:John Keefer’s paintings are large\, dramatic\, and beautifully rendered metaphoric representations of the artist’s inner turmoil with the current social and political affairs from around the world.  Keefer pessimistically states\, “My paintings are me being dragged kicking and screaming into a meaningless present.” The paintings depict overwhelming distress\, as ships on open seas erupt in flames as muddled\, muted pallets of smoke become the focal point. The viewer begins to wonder who or what are on these ships? Is it a battle or an accident? \nJohn Keefer does not maintain a CV or record of exhibitions\, though he has exhibited his work widely\, and is also part of many private and public collections including the Five Points Arts Center. \nSix Paintings \n \n 
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/six-paintings-john-keefer/
LOCATION:Five Points Gallery\, 33 Main Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Nature Triumphs - Five Points Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Nature Triumphs is a group exhibition that features a range of styles and mediums and is based on human interactions within the environment and how people interact with and ultimately manipulate\, interfere with\, or alter nature. Featuring artists Leora Armstrong\, Aaron Borkowski\, Loren Eiferman\, Lisa Kellner & Scott Schuldt. \n  \nLeora Armstrong is an interdisciplinary artist whose mixed media works depict ice erasure\, a consequence of human interactions on the environment. This multi-paneled installation of cyanotype on silk creates a sensorial experience of place. Armstrong navigates this fragility of place embracing the erasures\, marks\, rhythms\, and movement in both the physical experience as well as the sounds and solitude of the place. \n  \nAaron Borkowski\, although new to artmaking\, Borkowski has been surrounded by the arts his entire life. His abstract photography uses digital manipulations to duplicate and manipulate or alter the viewer’s perception of the natural world – creating repeated kaleidoscope-like patterns. The viewer begins to analyze the images dissecting the familiarity of the animate and inanimate objects he photographs. \n  \nLoren Eiferman’s sculptures portray the impact humans have had on the ecosystem. Building sculptures made from manipulated wood scraps and branches\, Eiferman constructs whimsical botanical forms that would appear to have been naturally grown. Her work also speaks to the primal desire to touch nature. In her series Nature Will Heal\, Eiferman collects detritus found in the environment to create “seeds” of a yet-to-exist plant form; repurposing and transforming what was once waste into a new flowering structure. \n  \nLisa Kellner explores the reluctant yet habitual collaboration of humans and nature. Her large oil paintings reflect on perceptions of space\, not only its physical attributes but also its memories. Paired with small sculptures created out of paint and collected detritus\, the work references nature in its current state: bold\, untamed\, and embedded with human interactions and interventions. \n  \nScott Schuldt is a multidisciplinary artist working with a wide variety of themes including the environment and natural sciences. Intricately hand-beaded and hand-sewn\, the works in this exhibition document the environment and intellectually and emotionally explore the idea of wilderness and mankind’s often counter-productive relationship with nature.
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/nature-triumphs-five-points-gallery/2022-09-16/
LOCATION:Five Points Gallery\, 33 Main Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Exhibition Opening
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SUMMARY:Victor Leger - Skyscapes - Five Points Gallery
DESCRIPTION:East Gallery – Solo Exhibition \nVictor Leger is a realist painter whose Plein-air paintings capture the contrast between deep space and the high detail of the environment. His intention is to express with obsessive accuracy the natural beauty of our surroundings. Leger states “through my work I hope to capture and convey the sense of overwhelming enchantment that these moments produce\, sometimes with philosophical ruminations.” \n  \nArtist Statement: \nAs a painter\, I am intuitively interested in the interaction of light with the environment. It is my intention to express with obsessive accuracy the natural beauty found\, at times only for a fleeting moment\, in our surroundings. Through my work\, I hope to capture and convey the sense of overwhelming enchantment that these moments produce\, sometimes with philosophical ruminations. If the viewer can sense the quality of natural beauty that enhances our lives then I will have succeeded in my efforts as an artist. Peace.
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/victor-leger-skyscapes-five-points-gallery/2022-09-16/
LOCATION:Five Points Gallery\, 33 Main Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Exhibition Opening
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SUMMARY:MATTE ALBUMEN
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Jessica Somers \nDate(s): September 17th and 18th \nTime(s): 10:00 – 4:00 \nIn this workshop\, we will explore a modern variation of the original Albumen process to create photographs that have a vintage appearance. During the workshop\, participants will be guided through the basics of coating paper with an egg white solution\, preparing digital negatives\, and the printing and processing of Albumen photographs. At the conclusion of this workshop\, students will come away with a selection of their own Albumen prints and will also be provided with written instructions\, an Albumen supply list\, and a digital curve file for printing Albumen negatives. \nClick Here to register: https://fivepointsarts.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/fivepointsarts/event.jsp?event=425&
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/matte-albumen/2022-09-17/
LOCATION:Five Points Arts Center\, 855 University Drive\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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