The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Essex Art Association presents Spring 2017 juried show, ‘Anything You Want’
ESSEX >> The Essex Art Association opens its 2017 exhibit season with a juried show “Anything You Want.”
This exhibition encourages artists to display works that show what they’re passionate about: art that speaks to their creativity and that inspires their voice!
The exhibit’s opening reception is Friday, May 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show runs from through May 27. The EAA Gallery is at 10 North Main Street, Essex. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. daily, and closed Tuesdays.
For more information visit essexartassociation.com or call 860767-8996. The exhibition juror, Leila Daw, is an independent artist with a studio in New Haven and is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
Her art practice is rooted in concepts and processes of cartography, archaeology, geology and the exploration of communities interacting with the natural world.
Daw has permanent public installations at Bradley International Airport, the Wilson Branch
of the New Haven Public Library, Northwestern CT Community College, and the St. Louis light rail system. Her work is also in many private collections nationwide. See more at www.LeilaDaw.com
$1,800 will be awarded to exhibiting artists for their work in various media, plus one EAA artist will be given a solo exhibit in our Exit Gallery during our 2018 gallery season.
The Exit Gallery show, “Sharing a View,” showcases paintings by Diana Roberts-Paschall. In Diana’s bio she describes her art practice: “I blame how I got here on coloring books. I pressed especially hard to first trace the black lines before filling the spaces with color. When given oil paints in high school I produced an angular, abstract painting with black lines and color filled spaces reminiscent of those coloring book pages. After college I signed up for my first drawing class. That led to a figure painting MFA. I had a natural interest in paradoxical themes and their juxtaposition (such as bitter/sweet). After moving to Connecticut I took classes at Lyme Art Academy and explored plein air painting at Lyme Art Association, experiences that softened and blended with my earlier Expressionistic painting tendencies. Even so, I still see the coloring book lines.”