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We made our goal! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Fall Fundraiser. And thank you to the Richard P. Garmany Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, for their matching gift. If you would still like to contribute it is not too late. Together, we make Real Art Ways possible. Thank you, & […]
Homebound is presented in memory of Edd Russo by Connecticut Children’s PICU Physicians. Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition by 2019 Real Art Awards recipient Shannon VanGyzen. Figurative forms are created through distorting furniture, decorative fabrics, and other found objects. Each sculpture becomes a familial trope, like The Caregiver, The Teenager, or The Mess […]
Curated by David Borawski, Real Art Ways presents paintings and sculptures by Morgan Bulkeley. From the Artist’s Statement: “I try to make paintings that are beautiful, frightening and funny all at once, similar to The Theater of the Absurd, which assumes things are so bad that you can only laugh. I see in nature […]
Curated by David Borawski, Real Art Ways presents mixed media work by Geoffrey Detrani. Real Art Ways presents a solo exhibition of works by New Haven-based artist Geoffrey Detrani. Utilizing mixed media on paper, Detrani’s paintings and drawings create abstract semblances of chaotic landscapes. The resulting compositions offer emotive textures of conflict between organic […]
FREE ADMISSION All are invited to attend an artist conversation and reception. Reception will begin at 2:30 PM with light refreshments and mingling before the conversation begins at 3 PM. Real Art Ways presents Somewhere in the Sequence, a group exhibition curated by David Borawski. Funded in part by a grant from the Artist’s […]
FREE ADMISSION All are invited to attend an artist conversation and reception with Jeanne Jalandoni, one of six 2019 Real Art Awards recipients. Reception will begin at 2:30 PM with light refreshments and mingling before the conversation begins at 3 PM. Joining her in conversation is Dr Jason Chang, Director of the Asian and Asian […]
Real Art Ways presents new work by 2019 Real Art Awards recipient Jeanne Jalandoni. Exhibition extended to February 14, 2020. Artist Talk: Saturday, November 9 | 2:30 PM Rooted in her experience as a second-generation New Yorker, Jeanne Jalandoni creates paintings and installations that investigate the complicated ideas surrounding Fillipino American identity. Jalandoni uses a […]
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 23 | 2:30 PM Real Art Ways presents Somewhere in the Sequence, a group exhibition curated by David Borawski. Funded in part by a grant from Artist’s Resource Trust (A.R.T.) Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Somewhere in the Sequence brings together artists from across New England to […]
Real Art Ways presents Standing Room, a series of large scale paintings by Brooklyn based artist, Kyle Andrew Phillips. Utilizing the trompe l’oeil technique and inspired by artists such as Peter Doig, Andy Kaufman and Marc Sijan, Kyle Andrew Phillips explores the concept of time spent with art in the gallery setting. He invites the […]
Real Art Ways welcomes the return of New York Times bestselling author and long-time friend, Steve Almond (Candyfreak, Against Football) for an evening of film, reading and discussion, exploring the ways that novels impact our lives. The evening will begin with a screening of The Act of Becoming, a documentary about the 1965 novel Stoner by American writer John Williams. […]
From July 18 – September 29 in our Video Room, Real Art Ways is screening 3 of Mike Estabrook’s videos: Staircase, 4 min. 5 sec., The Good, Etc., 5 min. 10 sec., B-Potemk, 6 min. 51 sec. These works explore Estabrook’s experiments in video, including appropriating from video and film, hand drawn animation, projection, […]
Real Art Ways presents new works by 2018 Real Art Awards recipient Mateo Nava. In Mateo Nava’s exhibition Encuentro, the viewer encounters bodega forms that feel simultaneously alien yet familiar. Utilizing the languages of painting outside the standard canvas on stretcher bars format, Nava creates an alternative to image making. His mixed-media works challenge […]
Real Art Ways presents new large scale paintings by Gil Scullion. Artist Talk – Saturday, April 27 | 2:30 PM Using hand-cut stencils on cardboard, Empty Spaces utilizes imagery culled from uninhabited hallways, kitchens, and other domestic scenes. The resulting paintings contain an eerie sense of familiarity, upended by the lack of bodies these […]
One Week Only – Through Thursday 2/14 Every year Real Art Ways brings the Oscar Nominated Short Films to its cinema so you can enjoy some of the finest film making of the year. All three categories are offered – Animation, Live Action and Documentary (Programs A & B). This is your annual chance to see […]
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 9 | 2:30 PM 2018 Real Art Award recipient Niki Kriese presents new works in her solo exhibition Chewing the Scenery. In her paintings, Kriese utilizes vernacular locations like gardens or skateparks to craft complex figure ground studies. The resulting images contain a strong sense of nuance while delving into […]
Utilizing the camera as a mark making tool, Keri Halloran creates images that exploit the painterly possibilities of photography. In this body of work, I bet burning alive would be beautiful., Halloran captures ambiguous images that exist in a liminal space between reality and fiction, literally blurring the lines between what is and is […]
Presented in conjunction with CONCORA’S Friends of Bach Committee. A brief reception will follow the film. Perhaps Europe’s most popular pilgrimage, the Camino de Santiago attracts wayfarers of all stripes to walk its ancient paths in search of meaning. One such pilgrim is Dane Johansen, an American cellist who in 2014 ventured to walk the […]
In her Plate to Platelet series of paintings, Mia Brownell combines diagrammatic space with a stark black/white/gray palette that graphically delineates the ambiguous and contradictory spaces she is constructing. Occupying positions within these spaces are collections of fruit painted in a meticulous, illusionistic style. Sometimes the still life elements rest upon the fragments of […]
A one-of-a-kind musical experience will materialize as thirteen exceptional musicians gather in groupings from solo to large ensemble, creating fully improvised music on the spot. The musicians range from local to internationally known, young to not-so-young, all sharing a love and mastery of their craft as well as an affinity for collaboration. Jerome Deupree […]
Shields explores ideas about vulnerability, protection, blindness or obscured vision, and non-verbal/pictorial signification. The imagery stems from ancient Middle Eastern and African shields and armor (for humans as well as for animals in battle), but the work reflects a broad imagining of what shields might be, what they accomplish, and when and why they […]
