Central Connecticut State University began hosting another art gallery at the Chen Art Gallery in Maloney Hall on Thursday, Oct. 17.
A few days after the previous exhibition, Transformed By Fire: Feats of Clay, concluded, it was announced on Oct. 11 that a second exhibition, Proximity & Distance, would be displayed on campus. Artists Namwon Choi, Bill Conger, Carrie Gundersdorf, Jin Lee, Young Min Moon and Pete Schulte all contributed pieces to the exhibition.
The featured artists were invited by guest curator Professor Shona Macdonald of the Department of Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, according to a CCSU press release on the gallery. The displayed artworks all utilize how closely inspected images open to suggest larger spaces and work with the re-emphasis of place and the displacement of objects, according to the press release.
The gallery was much smaller than the previous one with only 19 pieces on display. They included acrylic and oil paintings, archival pigment print photos, watercolors, graphite drawings and found images pasted on paper. The art depicted subjects like still life, naturalistic images and abstract work.
In a binder in the front of the gallery, all of the featured artists contributed insights into their artworks and explained their inspirations and origins. They also detailed how the selected pieces demonstrate the idea of space and how it can be created through the artworks’ ideas, visuals and creation techniques.
The art gallery will be open to the public from Oct. 17 to Nov. 15.
