25 Year Retrospective of Clinton Deckert

Opening This Saturday

We hope to see you!

More information HERE

G@mrz Film Screening - Tomorrow Nite

Paris In Plantsville is proud to continue with hosting the Ten Year Celebration of Elmwood Productions with a screening of their new web-series  "G@mrz"  Tomorrow night! Doors open at 7:00 PM and the screening begins at 8:00. "G@mrz" is rated PG-13 "G@mrz" is a series that chronicles the weekly attempts of four friends to sit down and run a role-playing game, often with disastrous results.  As with all our screenings it's free! But we do appreciate donations to Paris in Plantsville. Your donations help events like this keep happening!@ And before the screening From 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM Elmwood Productions and Jim Williams are hosting a day of gaming! Board Games, Card Games, and more will be available, and we invite you to bring a game of your own. Scheduled Games include: Talisman Apples to Apples Munchkin The Jim Williams Star Wars Trivial Pursuit Challenge Magic the Gathering Hide and Seek and many more... There will be raffles, refreshments, and a lot of general frivolity involved. Bring a friend! for more information on the gaming please use this link -  http://www.facebook.com/events/343693829050403/ We hope to see you tomorrow!

Film Screening: G@mrz 9/29 at 8PM

Paris In Plantsville is proud to continue with hosting the Ten Year Celebration of Elmwood Productions with a screening of the web-series "G@mrz" on September 29th 2012!

Doors open at 7:00 PM and the screening begins at 8:00.

"G@mrz" is a series that chronicles the weekly attempts of four friends to sit down and run a role-playing game, often with disastrous results. 

As with all our screenings it's free! But we do appreciate donations to Paris in Plantsville. Your donations help events like this keep happening!

"G@mrz" is rate PG-13

And before the screening From 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM Elmwood Productions and Jim Williams are hosting a day of gaming! Board Games, Card Games, and more will be available, and we invite you to bring a game of your own.

Scheduled Games include:

Talisman

Apples to Apples

Munchkin

The Jim Williams Star Wars Trivial Pursuit Challenge

Magic the Gathering

and many more...

There will be raffles, refreshments, and a lot of general frivolity involved. Bring a friend!

for more information on the gaming please use this link - 

http://www.facebook.com/events/343693829050403/

We hope to see you 9/29!

Clinton Deckert - 25 Year Retrospective

Paris in Plantsville is proud to bring back a fantastic artist and friend of the gallery, Clinton Deckert- and we have the honor to host his 25 Year Retrospective. We will be holding an Opening Reception for this exhibit on October 6, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, and we invite you to join us in the celebration! About Mr. Deckert: Award winning contemporary artist, Clinton Deckert is renowned for his paintings where abstract thoughts and surreal imagery collide. Deckert has multiple works represented in t he Jack and Susan Austin Warner Collection in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has twice been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Conncecticut. Recently Deckert served at Curator and participating artist in the celebrated "Beyond The Gate" invitational exhibition at Artspace Hartford, CT. Clinton exhibited as featured artist at White Space Gallery in New Haven, CT where he set their record for their most successful solo exhibition. Deckert is past president of the Artworks Gallery in Hartford Connecticut and served on their Board of Directors for fourteen years. He created an assemblage for the Gala Salvador Dali event at the Wadsworth Atheneum. He has also exhibited at the Senator’s Connecticut Office of the U.S. Senate and at the Steven's Gallery at the University of Connecticut. He has painted a fourteen-foot long wall mural for the UConn Tri-Campus Psychology Department in West Hartford. Deckert painted works for the "CowParade New York" and "CowParade West Hartford" events and Oil Drum Art at ArtSpace, Hartford where his work received Aesthetic First Prize. In New York Deckert has shown in the famous but now defunct Monique Goldstrom Gallery and exhibited in the "Brave Destiny" International Surrealist Exhibition at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn. His work has been featured on the cover of Art Calendar/Professional Artist Magazine, Hartford Magazine and he has achieved inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in American Art. Clint’s paintings have been represented in ten juried shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art and once at Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, CT. Clinton Deckert has been interviewed on the television show "Beyond the Headlines" on Fox WB-20, also had work featured WVIT-30, appeared on talk radio station WTIC, Hartford, Connecticut and "Live the Journey" on WNHU at University of New Haven. He has conducted numerous Artist presentation lectures throughout Connecticut including Connecticut Art Education Association and The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. He has also served as Judge/Juror for several regional exhibitions. Deckert’s work has been favorably reviewed numerous times in Art New England, The Hartford Courant and The Journal Inquirer twice appeared in The New York Times. Deckert‘s work is in numerous collections throughout the U.S.A. and he continuously exhibits throughout the Northeast, USA. Clint's work is represented by Lotus Fine Art, Woodstock, NY and by Sam Heller Fine Art Chicago. Please visit: http://www.clintondeckert.com/

ALLUSIONS OF HOME

Paris In Plantsville is proud to host Stanwyck Cromwell's impressive solo show Sept 8th-29th. 

We'll be hosting an opening reception September 8th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

About the artist:

Stanwyck E. Cromwell was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and is a second-generation artist. He inherited his artistic gift from both of his parents. In addition, Cromwell credits much of his growth to his cousin and mentor, Maurice C. Jacobs, a noted Guyanese artist, who nurtured him, and was resourceful in laying the foundation for his artistic development. Cromwell graduated from the former British Guiana Educational Trust High School, with high honors in art and other foreign languages, and was employed at Guyana Lithographic Company, as a graphic artist. During his time of employment at that company, he met and worked alongside well-known Guyanese artist Angold Thompson.

In 1970, he migrated to the United States of America, in pursuit of an art career, and has lived and worked in Bloomfield, Connecticut, for the past thirty-seven years. Cromwell earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in Applied Arts, from Charter Oak State College and also a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Hartford. His memories of Guyana are rich and abundant, but the most striking are the physical and aesthetic differences between the Caribbean and the United States of America as they pertain to art. Such artists as Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, African American artist, Loïs Mailou Jones and Surrealist painter, Salvador Dali, influenced some of his earlier works. His current work is two-fold in composition and is a fusion of his earlier and new works. Cromwell refers to his current works as his Transitional Series, because they are hybrids of both old and new ideas, intersecting at cultural crossroads. 

Saturated colors, patterns and textures show themselves in his collages, sculptures, paintings, and drawings. The movement and vibrancy of his colors are like an aesthetic chess game, where one movement affects the other. Cromwell uses a combination of figurative, abstract, and surrealistic art forms, in addition with symbols and metaphors. The most frequently used, is the black-eye-pea, which he associates with his culinary Guyanese heritage. In other cases, Cromwell associates the black-eyed pea with the racial make up of the United States, as it pertains to majority and minority. Other symbols include seashells, fish-like faces and rippled water-like patterns, which are symbolic of the ocean. In addition he uses multiple overlays, to created depth and imaginary mindscapes. His work is very energetic and commands the attention of the viewer.

Stanyck Cromwell - Allusions of Home

Paris In Plantsville is proud to host 

Stanwyck Cromwell's 

impressive solo show Sept 8th-29th. 

We'll be hosting an opening reception September 8th, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  

We hope you join us!

 

FOCUS - Opens Tomorrow

FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - OPEN CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS

Paris In Plantsville is proud to announce our first open call for photography work!

The Opening Reception is going to be held on Saturday August 18, 2012 starting at 7:00 PM! We hope you join us! The show will run from 8/11 through 8/29, so if you're unable to attend the opening you'll still have plenty of opportunity to see the show.

Artist Profile - Josh Blumenthal - My Glass heART opens tomorrow!

Come and view new and recent works of Joshua Blumenthal. Experience the beauty and expression that mosaic has to offer. You will see how craft can be as expressive as other forms. 

"My works are often connected to music and own personal experiences that are often universal. I hope you enjoy what I've worked so hard one for the past 5 years. See you there." - Josh

My solo Exhibition: My glass heART is sponsored by:

Community Central,

Elmwood Productions,
http://

www.elmwoodproductions.com/

Sixpence Pie Company
http://

www.sixpencepiecompany.com/

** Visit these websites to learn more about my sponsors **

Focus - Drop off for works starts today!

FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - OPEN CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS

Paris In Plantsville is proud to announce our first open call for photography work! This is open to any and all photo artists, we hope you participate!

Drops off dates for work are August 7-9, 2012 from 12PM to 8 PM. Work must be ready to hang.

The Opening Reception is going to be held on Saturday August 18, 2012 starting at 7:00 PM! We hope you join us! The show will run from 8/11 through 8/29, so if you're unable to attend the opening you'll still have plenty of opportunity to see the show.

The Evident and The Essence - Opens Tonight

The Evident & the Essence
a visual collaboration featuring works by 

Eric Stegmaier & Sean Michanczyk

A collection of Oil paintings that will be showing in the Fisher Gallery at the Farmington Valley Arts Center. Please Join us for the opening reception August 4th from 6-8 p.m. The show will be on display Aug 1st-Sept 1 2012

The Evident and the Essence

The Evident & the Essence
a visual collaboration featuring works 

by 

Eric Stegmaier & Sean Michanczyk

A collection of Oil paintings that will be showing in the Fisher Gallery at the Farmington Valley Arts Center. Please Join us for the opening reception August 4th from 6-8 p.m. 

The show will be on display Aug 1st-Sept 1 2012

FOCUS

FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - OPEN CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS

Paris In Plantsville is proud to announce our first open call for photography work! This is open to any and all photo artists, we hope you participate!
Drops off dates for work are August 7-9, 2012 from 12PM to 8 PM. Work must be ready to hang.

The Opening Reception is going to be held on Saturday August 18, 2012 starting at 7:00 PM! We hope you join us! The show will run from 8/11 through 8/29, so if you're unable to attend the opening you'll still have plenty of opportunity to see the show.

My Glass heART - New Works by Josh Blumenthal

Opening August 11, 2012

My Glass heART: 

New Works by Josh Blumenthal

Come and view new and recent works of Paris In Plantsville Resident Artist Joshua Blumenthal. Experience the beauty and expression that mosaic has to offer. You will see how craft can be as expressive as other forms. My works are often connected to music and own personal experiences that are often universal. I hope you enjoy what I've worked so hard one for the past 5 years. See you there. - Josh

My solo Exhibition: My glass heART is sponsored by:
Community Central & Elmwood Productions

We The People - Opens Tomorrow!

How It Works:
Every Man, Woman & Child entering the Gallery on July 7th will be handed a voting ballot. Voting will take place all day or their favorite work of art. The vote's will be tallied and the winner will be announced at 10 p.m. July 7th as the Presidential winner, and take home a prize!

We hope you join us tomorrow and vote!

We The People: Drops off starts today!

We The People: People's Choice Juried Show
How It Works:
Every Man, Woman & Child entering the Gallery on July 7th will be handed a voting ballot. Voting will take place all day or their favorite work of art. The vote's will be tallied and the winner will be announced at 10 p.m. July 7th as the Presidential winner, and take home a prize!

Submission Info:
-$10 per entry
-As many entries as you want!
-Work will be submitted June 28,29,30 during regular gallery hours 12-8 p.m.
-At the closing of the show, work must be picked up Aug 1,2,3

Celebrate Democracy at it's finest! Every vote matters! and everyone has a chance to have a voice! Hope you can join us!

More info HERE!

We The People: People's Choice Juried Show

We The People: People's Choice Juried Show

How It Works:

Every Man, Woman & Child entering the Gallery on July 7th will be handed a voting ballot. Voting will take place all day or their favorite work of art. The vote's will be tallied and the winner will be announced at 10 p.m. July 7th as the Presidential winner, and take home a cash prize.

Submission Info:

-$10 per entry

-As many entries as you want! 

-Work will be submitted June 28,29,30 during regular gallery hours 12-8 p.m.

-At the closing of the show, work must be picked up Aug 1,2,3

Celebrate Democracy at it's finest! Every vote matters! and everyone has a chance to have a voice! Hope you can join us!   

More Info HERE

...  And now a word from President of Art: Barry O'Bama

We The People: People's Choice Juried Show Open Call!

We The People: People's Choice Juried Show

How It Works:
Every Man, Woman & Child entering the Gallery on July 7th will be handed a voting ballot. Voting will take place all day or their favorite work of art. The vote's will be tallied and the winner will be announced at 10 p.m. July 7th as the Presidential winner, and take home a cash prize.

Submission Info:
-$10 per entry
-As many entries as you want!
-Work will be submitted June 28,29,30 during regular gallery hours 12-8 p.m.
-At the closing of the show, work must be picked up Aug 1,2,3

Celebrate Democracy at it's finest! Every vote matters! and everyone has a chance to have a voice! Hope you can join us!

Put That Record On! - David Bowie's "Outside"

Every other Sunday, resident artist Josh Blumenthal and music guru Nick Foreman will be hosting music listening parties in the 'Elmwood Room' at Paris In Plantsville Art Gallery.

The Concept:

We'll put on a record (CD, Tape, Vinyl, 8-Track, etc.), listen to it in it's entirety and then discuss both the record and the artist. There will be refreshments, further discussion, and music from the featured artist's catalog.

[There will be alcoholic beverages and food available, however we will NOT serve them until after the listening/discussion. And please no outside alcohol.]

The Album:

David Bowie - 1. Outside 1995 (Arista/BMG)

From Wiki -

Outside is a concept album first released 26 September 1995 by David Bowie on Virgin Records, and this "risky" but successful album was Bowie's "highly anticipated" reunion with Brian Eno, whom Bowie had worked with most famously on his Berlin Trilogy. Subtitled "the Ritual Art-Murder of Baby Grace Blue: A non-linear Gothic Drama Hyper-Cycle," Outside centers around the characters of a dystopian world on the eve of the 21st century. The album put Bowie back into the mainstream scene of rock music with its singles "The Hearts Filthy Lesson", "Strangers When We Meet", and "Hallo Spaceboy" (notably remixed by the Pet Shop Boys).

The liner notes feature a short story by Bowie, the Diary of Nathan Adler, which outlines a somewhat dystopian version of the year 1999 in which the government, through its arts commission, had created a new bureau to investigate the phenomenon of Art Crime. In this future, murder and mutilation of bodies had become a new underground art craze. The main character, Nathan Adler, was in the business of deciding what of this was legally acceptable as art and what was, in a word, trash. The album is filled with references to characters and their lives as he investigates the complicated events leading up to the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. One is meant to assume that Bowie's character, Nathan Adler, works for the British government due to several references to the cities of London and Oxford, but in the liner notes these are revealed to be, at least in some cases, London, Ontario and Oxford, New Jersey, indicating that the entire story may take place in North America—or, indeed, that the distinction between the two places has become blurred and indistinguishable.

 

For more info please see the Facebook Event Page for Put That Record On!

Film Screening - THE CHOICE

Continuing our film series is "The Choice".
Each month in 2012 Paris In Plantsville will be showcasing an independently made film (or film shorts) with a connection to the local film community. This month's film stars West Hartford native Tim Burke. Mr. Burke will also be joining us for the screening and a Q&A session to follow.

Doors open at 7:00 PM, with the film starting at 8:00 PM. As with all our screenings it is a free event, but donations to the gallery are appreciated. The donations keep events like this happening! We hope you join us 5/18/12!

Synopsis:
Vera is a proprietor of a trendy French restaurant and Jazz club in Chicago. Late one evening, just before closing, Vera confronts a customer who refuses to pay the bill. He claims his name is Paul and that her husband, Tim, owes him a large sum of money. After Vera explains that Tim died a year ago in a car accident, Paul, seemingly crushed, drinks heavily and then abruptly leaves. After closing the restaurant Vera drives by a bus stop when she sees the police lifting drunken Paul from a bench. Feeling sorry and guilty at the same time, Vera rescues Paul from the police. After unsuccessfully trying to find him a motel, Vera is forced to take unconscious Paul to her own house where, in the garage, she leaves him sleeping in the car. The next morning, hung-over Paul and Vera find themselves in an awkward situation attempting to better know each other. Vera questions him about her late husband Tim’s past, but Paul’s answers are vague and cryptic. Following an uneasy breakfast, Paul asks Vera to take him to the cemetery to visit his friend’s grave. At the cemetery, their conflict sharpens and a game of cat and mouse ensues culminating in a physical fight, and then reconciliation. Back at her house, Vera discovers a certain attraction to Paul and invites him for dinner at her restaurant. At the restaurant Paul leads Vera back in time where she confronts the mystery of her husband’s death. But, for Vera, a suspicion lurks: is Paul’s story true or is it just a great performance by a sinister con-artist?

Awards Critic's Choice Best Film, Leskovac Interenational Film Festival
Starring Irena Micijevic, Stephen Angus, Timothy Burke
Directed By I. Michael Toth
Screenplay By I. Michael Toth
Produced By Christopher Gentry

For more info visit the official website
http://www.graywhiteblackfilm.com/
And follow the film on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/TheChoiceFilm

Following the Q&A we will also be presenting the film's "Sisiter" entitled "The Dream Play"
More info on "The Dream Play" and "The Choice" at the Official Website:
http://www.lifeisadreamprod.com/html/films.html

FUSED - Opens this Saturday - May 5th

Paris In Plantsville is honored to be hosting

FUSED

Featuring the Art of Rebecca Shemms, Allison Chatelle, and David Hubbard.
This exhibition is in partial fulfillment of the Master of Science Degree in Art at Central Connecticut State University.

Opening Reception is Saturday May 5, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, and the exhibition runs 5/5 through 5/31 during normal gallery hours

 

We hope you join us for this great event!