Happy Halloween from Paris In Plantsville!

Our friends at Elmwood Productions have a new short film up starring "Steve the Vampire"!
We hope you have a great Halloween!

Abandoned and Restored: New Photographic Work by Jacquelyn Etling

Paris In Plantsville is proud to host 

"Abandoned and Restored: New Photographic Work by Jacquelyn Etling" 

Opening November 10, 2012 at 7:00 PM.

Jacquelyn Etling is an award winning photographer who has traveled extensively in both Europe and the United States photographing the natural and man made worlds. She is a member of the Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea N, New York and numerous arts organizations including the Salmagundi Club. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US including in the New Britian Museum of Art in CT, the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY, and the New York Hall of Science.

The show will be on view from November 10th through November 30. We will be having an opening reception November 10th from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. 

We hope you will join us then!

For more info please visit the Facebook Event Page HERE

Closing Event 10/27 - 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 Closing Reception for this exhibit on October 27, 2012 from 7:00 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 country and he continuously exhibits throughout the Northeast, USA. Clint's work is represented by Lotus Fine Art, Woodstock, NY, Sam Heller Fine Art Chicago and Paris in Plantsville, CT.

Please visit:

http://www.clintondeckert.com/

The Oracles: Tonight at ArtSpace

As part of a culminating project for a Master's Degree in Integrative Health and Healing with The Graduate Institute, Dawn Manogue created this project to illuminate the healing power of symbols.

22 local artists re-create the Major Arcana of the Tarot including Paris In Plantsville Resident Artist Eric Stegmaier who contributed The Chariot  

Opening: Saturday, October 20th 6-9pm $5 suggested donation 

~ Tarot readings available for a small fee 

~ Parking available at the train station, vouchers at reception 

~ Gallery hours available by arrangement. Contact: Dawn Manogue 860.490.2830

For all the info on the event please visit the Facebook Event Page by using this LINK

EVIL DEAD TRILOGY - Film Screening

It's October!  The perfect time for HORROR!!!

Continuing in the tradition of our Halloween themed film screenings (last year we screened "Rocky Horror"!) this year...  

THE EVIL DEAD

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!

Doors open at 7:00 PM, and the movie starts at 8:00!

Oh... But there is more... Following The Evil Dead will be 

EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN!  

And that's not all! Following Evil Dead 2... 

ARMY OF DARKNESS

  

We hope you join us and Ash as we fight off the Deadites and Primitive Screwheads! 

 GROOVY

More info HERE

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!