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SUMMARY:Five Points Gallery Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:April 18\n6 – 8 PM\nDetails to be announced
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/five-points-gallery-opening-reception-2/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening
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SUMMARY:Five Points Annex Gallery - John Simboli Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:There will be an in-person artist talk this Sunday\, October 22nd\, at 2:00 PM for John Simboli in the Five Points Annex Gallery. \nThis talk will feature photographer John Simboli as he tells the stories of his current work\, and work from the past. Make sure to visit the Five Points Annex Gallery Sunday\, October 22nd\, at 2:00 PM. \nThe Five Points Annex Gallery is located at 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT 06790. \nFor more information call: (860) 618-7222
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/five-points-annex-gallery-john-simboli-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Champagne Closing Reception - Photography Degree Zero: The Black Swans Of Ellen Carey
DESCRIPTION:There will be a Champagne Closing Reception for “Photography Degree Zero: The Black Swans Of Ellen Carey” at the Five Points Annex Gallery on Saturday\, August 26\, 1-5 PM. Visit for the last chance to meet the artist and see this work in person. \n\n\n\n\nEllen Carey (b.1952 USA) is an educator\, independent scholar\, guest curator\, photographer and lens-based artist\, whose unique experimental work (1974-2018) spans several decades.\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Carey’s work has been the subject of 55 one-person exhibitions in museums\, alternative spaces\, university\, college and commercial galleries (1978-2018) – highlights: Dings\, Shadows and Pulls\, Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA); Photography Degree Zero Matrix#153 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Mourning Wall Real Art Ways; femme brut(e) Lyman Allyn Art Museum; Struck by Light Saint Joseph University; Ellen Carey: Survey ICP/NY; upcoming retrospective titled Struck by Light: The Experimental Photography of Ellen Carey\, Burchfield – Penney Art Center (BPAC)\, received funding (30K) from Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NY\, NY) for 2020. \nHer work seen in hundreds of group exhibitions (1974-2020) in museums\, alternative spaces\, university and college galleries\, non-profits and commercial venues; highlighted in permanent collections of over 60 photography and art museums: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (AKAG)\, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA)\, George Eastman Museum (GEM)\, Museum at the Chicago Art Institute\, Fogg Museum at Harvard University\, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA)\, Norton Museum of Art\, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art\, Yale University Art Gallery while corporate collections include: Banana Republic and JP Morgan Chase Collection; noted private include: The LeWitt Foundation and Sir Elton John Collection. Exhibitions\, solo and group\, include: books\, catalogues\, brochures\, artist talks\, reviews\, lectures etc: http://www.ellencareyphotography.com. \n\nThe Five Points Annex Gallery is located at 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790 \nPhotography Degree Zero: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey \n \n 
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/champagne-closing-reception-photography-degree-zero-the-black-swans-of-ellen-carey/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Photography Degree Zero: The Black Swans of Ellen Carey
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, August 4 from 4-6 PM\, in the Five Points Annex Gallery.\nFive Points Gallery\,  presents a special new exhibition featuring Ellen Carey\, (who was the winner of the 2022 Five Points Small Works Juried Exhibition\, curated by Douglas Hyland). The exhibition will be featured in the Five Points Annex from August 4 through August 26\, 2023. The artist chose this location to cut down on the light exposure on her unique positive and negative exposure photographs. Carey will be exhibiting a variety of works from multiple series including: Photography Degree Zero\, Struck by Light\, & Zerograms. \n  \nEllen Carey – Statement \n“How is this picture made?” followed by “What is this picture of?” are questions asked about my work.  The first addresses process and it is the very process which becomes the subject.  The second finds an image without a subject\, neither portrait\, still life\, or landscape.  My photography purposely challenges our culturally and historically prescribed expectations around the photograph and its picture signs.  The ‘what’ is in front of the lens as its “camera vision” is reversed.  I use only light\, wherever and whatever it strikes.  My work intentionally upends traditional methods of “rendering” a photographic image with unusual approaches and combinations.  This forces a break from the past\, freeing a picture from a hierarchy of things to be captured to a picture that is made. \nIn this context\, abstraction in photography and lens-based art presents a contradiction in terms\, and minimalism presents a further oxymoron.  Well developed in the 20th century in other areas – Abstract Expressionism\, Minimal and Conceptual Art – these tenets are incorporated into my art practice.  The American invention of Polaroid 20 x 24 (circa 1980) complements these breakthroughs in visual thinking with my discovery of the Pull in 1996\, producing a black conical loop\, a parabola\, seen in nature as the tip of a comet. \nA different kind of document\, it is abstract and minimal\, Polaroid instant technology and Polaroid color\, both a new kind of photograph and 20th-century process; it fits under my umbrella concept Photography Degree Zero (1996-2023).  Polaroid is used by many artists and photographers\, such as Ansel Adams\, Marie Cosindas\, Andy Warhol\, Chuck Close\, William Wegman\, and Mary Ellen Mark\, and widely recognized for expanding our picture culture.  I am also a “Polaroid artist” keeping the instant\, peel-apart\, one-of-a-kind negatives\, often exhibiting them with their positives.  Struck by Light (1988-2023) parallels my Polaroid work by investigating experiments that create abstract and minimal photograms\, a 19th-century cameraless method\, also unique. \nBriefly stated\, my work under these twin artistic practices often overlaps in a variety of ways with light and color\, highlighting experimental combinations.  The Polaroid Pulls are dramatic\, high-impact pictures of my inventive techniques and innovative methods.  Struck by Light uses the photogram\, made without a camera\, it is created in the darkroom; in color\, no light (zero again) is allowed to except upon exposure.  An emphatic and evolving commitment to experiments in color unifies both practices\, serving as a conceptual point of departure and leitmotif.  In my Dings & Shadows and the Caesura series\, the referent/object\, seen in traditional photograms\, is removed.  My newer work\, named Zerogram\, links to my Polaroid practice\, highlighting that nothing\, zero\, is between the paper and light.  Light is the indexical in all photography\, light is color\, seen in nature’s rainbow.  Color is an artist’s universe\, color theory — RGBYMC — photography’s planet\, a contextual reference in palette\, underscoring my concepts. \nThe end results include abstract and minimal work as Photography Degree Zero and Struck by Light\, freely interchanging concepts with the other\, from Polaroid and/or photogram\, with a wide variety in palette and form.  My work involves the discourse around contemporary photo-based artwork\, it stands as a testimony to minimalism and abstraction; process within photography; color as subject; forms\, and feelings. \n 
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LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception - Matin Malikazada - Five Points Annex
DESCRIPTION:Five Points Annex Gallery presents Matin Malikzada Pottery!\nThis show will be up from December 9 to 18\, 2022\nOpen hours are Saturdays 12-4 PM and by appointment.\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n MALIKZADA POTTERY\n\n\nMalikzada Pottery is informed and inspired by the ancient techniques handed down through the centuries and now expertly and lovingly realized by seventh-generation Afghan master potter\, Matin Malikzada\, a humanitarian refugee recently resettled in the US.  This work is functional as well as decorative\, simple yet elegant\, and glazed in hues that reflect the earth’s rich\, natural palette.  Each piece\, hand-crafted and signed by the artist (washing by hand recommended)\, is food and water safe.\nMatin Malikzada is internationally recognized for his technical skill and elegant designs. A native of Istalif\, Afghanistan\, once a vibrant center of ceramic art and commerce\, Matin was forced to flee Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover. Along with his family\, he is now resettled in Northwest Connecticut where he continues his journey as an artist.\n\nIn Kabul\, Matin served as head of the Ceramics department at the Turquoise Mountain Institute\, an NGO founded by King Charles III\, where in his youth he studied and honed the skills inherited from his father. Upon graduating\, he was hired as a Master of Ceramics\, and ultimately rose to lead the department.Matin revitalized a nearly lost art of symmetrical design and turquoise glaze derived from natural pigments unique to Istalifi pottery and has trained over one hundred artisans in these ancient techniques.\nIn addition to holding a bachelor’s degree in Law from Tabesh University in Kabul\, he has earned Certificates in Design and Crafts from the City and Guilds Institute of London\, been a visiting artist at the Institute of Ceramic Studies at Shigaraki\, Japan\, and authored books on Istalifi Pottery.\nAs a practicing artist for nearly twenty years\, Matin has exhibited his work and demonstrated his skill to heads of state\, dignitaries\, artists\, educators\, as well as museum- and gallery-goers around the world.
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/opening-reception-matin-malikazada-five-points-annex/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
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SUMMARY:Launchpad Holiday Show
DESCRIPTION:December 12-30th\, 2021\nFriday – Sunday\, 1:00-5:00PM & by appointment. \nOpening Reception December 17th\, 6:00-8:00PM\nFeaturing all of the Five Points Launchpad Artists! \n\nMorgan Bayona\nEthan Brewerton\nErin Cunliffe\nChristian Crowley\nSalvatore Devito\nJessica Fallis\nAaron Flynn\nKarl Goulet\nAmy Ozga\nSydney Samele\nSarah Sparkowski\nEmilia Stronk
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/launchpad-holiday-show/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Explore the QUIET PLACES at Five Points Annex
DESCRIPTION:Featuring work by photographers Joy Bush and Tom Peterson \nPhotographers Joy Bush and Tom Peterson explore the QUIET PLACES in a new pop-up show at Five Points Annex in Torrington\, on view from July 22 – August 1\, Thursday – Sunday\, Noon – 4PM. Together in this intimate gallery setting\, the works of these two artists create a space for silent reflection and wonder. You can meet both artists on the weekends of the show\, and there will be a Closing Reception on Sunday\, August 1 from noon to 4PM. QUIET PLACES is free and open to the public. The Five Points Annex is located at 17 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT 06790\, just two doors up from Five Points Gallery. The Annex\, a community pop-up gallery\, is managed by the Launchpad artists under the direction of the Five Points professional staff. \nFor more information\, visit fivepointsarts.org/five-points-annex.
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/explore-the-quiet-places-at-five-points-annex/2021-07-22/
LOCATION:Five Points Annex Gallery\, 15 Water Street\, Torrington\, CT\, 06790\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Rent The Annex - Photograph Artwork
DESCRIPTION:Keep your website updated with beautiful photos of your portfolio. From March 2 through April 10\, 2021 you can schedule a time to shoot your portfolio by yourself or with a professional photographer. \nPrices: \n$50 – Rent the Annex for two days to photograph \n$125 – Rent the Annex for two days with a professional photographer \nClick here to see available slots \nAny questions? E-mail here.
URL:https://fivepointsarts.org/event/rent-the-annex-photograph-artwork/
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