Exhibitions & Events

Please join us for a Closing Party, Sunday March 7, from 2-5pm to celebrate the careers of one of New Haven’s most respected artist couple, Joan and Frank Gardner. Continuously producing the highest quality artwork for over thirty five years the Ely House is proud to present the Gardner’s individual and collaborative accomplishments. A recent highlight of the Gardner’s was the screening of their 16mm Film, “The Robot” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in November of 2009 as part of the film series “Machine Made Man” along with Woody Allen’s “Sleeper”. “The Robot” as well as over sixty, watercolors, paintings, drawings, and prints will be on display through March 7, 2010.

Read Hank Hoffman's review in the February 23, 2010 issue of the New Haven Advocate: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16872

Reception: Sunday, October 25, 2-5pm, accompanying performance during the reception.

Linda Arredondo, Arthur Menezes Brum, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Abigail Deville, Manuela Gonzalez, Cheon Pyo Lee, Clynton Lowry, Troy Michie, Robert Nava, Ileana Ortega, Abel Rodriguez, and Edgar Serrano

Featuring works from 12 Yale MFA artists, A proposito: Pan-Latino Dialogues questions the boundaries and assumptions between identity and art. The exhibition showcases a range of artistic approaches featuring paintings, sculptures, printmaking, installations and performances. Utilizing the architectural space of the John Slade Ely House Gallery, the artists have assembled their works into a specially considered exhibition space to create an investigative dialogue between the nature of a prescriptive identity and a "latino style" or convention. Each work invents an aesthetic which is fruitful and pragmatic for dealing with contemporary issues. The works within the show are not expected to rest on prior definitions but hopes to expand our idea of what constitutes the art from a demographic. Instead, it is the desire of these artists that viewers come to the work with fresh eyes and a curiosity.

The ethnonym Latino has been both useful and uncomfortable for a group of people unbound by race whose political histories, traditions, religions and poetics overlap and depart. It is an identity, whose foundation is hybridity, whose most profound characteristics have developed though syncretism and heterogeneity. Suspicion and doubt accompany this definition as there are many, who with good reason bristle at its convenience, inaccuracy and generic proximity. The ethnonym serves as an orientation for dialogues which are individual and collective from varying commonalities and confluences of experience. As challengers, investigators, and negotiators of analogue and uncertainty, artists in this exhibition embrace qualities of both the provincial and the cosmopolitan by seeking a route between these tensions.

Abel Rodriguez, The Space Between Both of Us, Aluminum Foil on Paper; Paperboard on Floor

Cheon Pyo Lee, Operacion, Silkscreen on Paper, Wood, Cardboard, Plastic Tarp

Arthur Menenzes Brum with Mary Carroll Coelho and George Prinos, Accompanied Waltz, Second Arrangement, Mixed Media, Performance



		Joan & Frank Gardner: A Life’s Work, Thru March 7, 2010 Closing Party: Sunday, March 7, 2-5pm Please join us for a Closing Party, Sunday March 7, from 2-5pm to celebrate the careers of one of New Haven’s most respected artist couple, Joan and Frank Gardner. Continuously producing the highest quality artwork for over thirty five years the Ely House is proud to present the Gardner’s individual and collaborative accomplishments. A recent highlight of the Gardner’s was the screening of their 16mm Film, “The Robot” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in November of 2009 as part of the film series “Machine Made Man” along with Woody Allen’s “Sleeper”. “The Robot” as well as over sixty, watercolors, paintings, drawings, and prints will be on display through March 7, 2010. Read Hank Hoffman's review in the February 23, 2010 issue of the New Haven Advocate: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=16872 October 25- November 22, 2009 A proposito: Pan Latino Dialoques Reception: Sunday, October 25, 2-5pm, accompanying performance during the reception. Linda Arredondo, Arthur Menezes Brum, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Abigail Deville, Manuela Gonzalez, Cheon Pyo Lee, Clynton Lowry, Troy Michie, Robert Nava, Ileana Ortega, Abel Rodriguez, and Edgar Serrano Featuring works from 12 Yale MFA artists, A proposito: Pan-Latino Dialogues questions the boundaries and assumptions between identity and art. The exhibition showcases a range of artistic approaches featuring paintings, sculptures, printmaking, installations and performances. Utilizing the architectural space of the John Slade Ely House Gallery, the artists have assembled their works into a specially considered exhibition space to create an investigative dialogue between the nature of a prescriptive identity and a "latino style" or convention. Each work invents an aesthetic which is fruitful and pragmatic for dealing with contemporary issues. The works within the show are not expected to rest on prior definitions but hopes to expand our idea of what constitutes the art from a demographic. Instead, it is the desire of these artists that viewers come to the work with fresh eyes and a curiosity. The ethnonym Latino has been both useful and uncomfortable for a group of people unbound by race whose political histories, traditions, religions and poetics overlap and depart. It is an identity, whose foundation is hybridity, whose most profound characteristics have developed though syncretism and heterogeneity. Suspicion and doubt accompany this definition as there are many, who with good reason bristle at its convenience, inaccuracy and generic proximity. The ethnonym serves as an orientation for dialogues which are individual and collective from varying commonalities and confluences of experience. As challengers, investigators, and negotiators of analogue and uncertainty, artists in this exhibition embrace qualities of both the provincial and the cosmopolitan by seeking a route between these tensions. Abel Rodriguez, The Space Between Both of Us, Aluminum Foil on Paper; Paperboard on Floor Cheon Pyo Lee, Operacion, Silkscreen on Paper, Wood, Cardboard, Plastic Tarp Arthur Menenzes Brum with Mary Carroll Coelho and George Prinos, Accompanied Waltz, Second Arrangement, Mixed Media, Performance Abigail DeVille, O.G. Remixed, Installation
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