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.