Community Corner
"Two Heads Are Better Than One" an exhibit at UCONN Stamford's Art Gallery
The UCONN Stamford Art Gallery is pleased to
announce a forthcoming exhibition by Elizabeth Nagle and Mary Elizabeth
Peterson: “Two Heads Are Better Than One.” The show will be held from August 19th
– October 1st, 2013 in the Art Gallery located on the first
floor of UCONN’s downtown campus. A free artist reception will be held on
Thursday, August 22nd, in the Gallery.
The exhibit ranges from the intricately finished large canvases back to the irreverent “sketch” paintings and collages where their ideas are born. It features all manner of hybrid materials such as woven plastic grass seed bags, millinery ribbons and flattened, rusty bottle caps. It includes art works that typically start with one object or idea and then evolve in all directions and sometimes back upon themselves.
The sketch pieces are hung in the gallery where the viewer can watch as
the ideas start to take shape. These starter pieces gain one level more of
elaboration in the nearly wall-sized works on canvas where the artists go back
and forth adding weird tidbits until the upset is complete.
The work in this exhibit stands out also from what is trending in galleries, from what their contemporaries are making, from what people expect them to make. It shows Nagle and Peterson pursuing their own interests without the pressures of committing to a particular style, without the demands of making “concept” work. And while the overall mood of the show is fun, these artists always manage to rein in the insanity and conceptually push things just far enough. There are no extraneous elements in the works, everything is as it should be!
About the Gallery: The UCONN Stamford Art Gallery is located off the
Main Concourse. Free visitor parking is
available in the UCONN garage on the 2nd level, located just off the
intersection of Broad Street and Washington Boulevard.
