Exhibition Highlights

Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon

March 22, 2021

THIS EARTH-What She Is to Me, is a new (mid-covid) collaboration by ANDREA BOWERS AND SUZANNE LACY honoring the work of eco-feminist poet Susan Griffin in a collective reading from the 1978 book, Woman and Nature, The Roaring Inside Her.

Katya Grokhovsky

January 25, 2021

Katya Grokhovsky was born in Ukraine, raised in Australia and is based in NYC. She is an artist, independent curator, educator and a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB). Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University, Australia and a BA (Honors) in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

Laura Elkins

January 25, 2021

Laura Elkins graduated from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1974 (the first UVa class to admit women), where she also studied figure painting and drawing. Having had her fill of the institutional sexism that dominated UVa at the time, Elkins opted out of attending graduate school in art and, instead, returned to Oxford, Mississippi, her hometown, to develop her painting practice.

Speak up Speak out, Drawing installation of 33 works, Ink on vintage paper, 2020-2021

Karen Finley

January 25, 2021

Born in Chicago, Karen Finley received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, she has presented her work worldwide in various venues such as The Bobino in Paris, The ICA in London and Lincoln Center in NYC.

Martha Wilson

January 25, 2021

Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director, who over the past four decades created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformations, and “invasions” of other people’s personae.

Cindy Sherman

January 25, 2021

Cindy Sherman is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history.

Shellyne Rodriguez

October 14, 2020

Ramiro Gomez

October 14, 2020

Natalia Nakazawa

October 14, 2020

Christine Garcia

October 14, 2020

Vick Quezada

October 14, 2020

Tanya Aguiñiga

October 14, 2020

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

October 14, 2020

Lionel Cruet

October 14, 2020

Lina Puerta

October 14, 2020

Glendalys Medina

October 14, 2020

Esteban Ramón Pérez

October 14, 2020

David Antonio Cruz

October 14, 2020

Dante Migone-Ojeda

October 14, 2020

Blanka Amezkua, Pedro de La Rosa

October 14, 2020

Felipe Baeza

October 14, 2020

Alicia Grullón

October 14, 2020

Gail Gelburd

July 20, 2020

Felandus Thames

July 17, 2020

Helina Metaferia

July 15, 2020

Drawing and writings by inmates from Garner Correctional Institution, CT

July 15, 2020

Edra Soto

July 15, 2020

Beatrice Coron

July 15, 2020

Suzanne Broughel

July 15, 2020

Viviane Rombaldi Seppey

July 14, 2020

Roderrick Davis

July 14, 2020

Dane Adrian Smith

July 14, 2020

Dominique Roberts

July 14, 2020

Angela Siao

July 14, 2020

Juanita Lanzo

July 13, 2020

Phoebe Godfrey

July 13, 2020

Josh Weber

July 13, 2020

Patrick Martinez

July 13, 2020

Stanwyck Cromwell

July 13, 2020

Nicole Royer

July 13, 2020

Nick Cave, Bob Faust

July 13, 2020

Cecile Chong

July 13, 2020

Courtney Ahn

July 13, 2020

Emmalene Blake

July 13, 2020

Shirien Damra

July 13, 2020

Ruben Natal-San Miguel

July 13, 2020

Ruhee Maknojia

July 13, 2020

Vincent Valdez

July 13, 2020

Nate Lewis

July 13, 2020

Marvin Toure

July 13, 2020

Aisha Tandiwe Bell

July 13, 2020

Dread Scott

July 13, 2020

Nicky Enright

July 13, 2020

Joyce Kozloff

July 13, 2020

Blake Shirley

June 05, 2020

Blake Shirley lives and works in CT. His works had been exhibited nationally and internationally. Most recently at CICA Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea, Art Space in Hartford, CT, and Eli Center for contemporary art in New Haven, CT.

Brad Guarino

June 05, 2020

Brad Guarino has been an actively exhibiting artist for the past 20 years. He received a BFA from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, an MFA from the University of Connecticut, and did postgraduate study at Bulgaria’s National Academy of Art on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Afarin Rahmanifar

June 05, 2020

Iranian American Artist, and an Associate Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, Art & Art History Department.

Neal Parks

June 05, 2020

Neal Parks is an artist, designer and teacher. Parks specializes in client collaborations creating site-specific work, both as an artist and design/build carpenter.

Rebecca Moran

June 05, 2020

Rebecca Moran is a professor of Digital Art and Design and Fine Art at Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of Connecticut, respectively.

Mark McKee

June 05, 2020

Mark Gerard McKee is originally a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his works focus upon perception as well as those experiences that define us as thinking, feeling entities.

Qimin Liu

June 05, 2020

Professor Qimin Liu, born in Heilongjiang Province, China, received a Teaching Certificate from Haerbin Normal University (1985), Bachelor of Fine Arts from Institute of Chinese Traditional Drama (1991), major in stage design.

Andy Jones

June 05, 2020

Andy Jones was born near Raleigh, N.C. and spent 20 years teaching painting and drawing in the Art & Art History department at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Tom Hébert

June 05, 2020

Tom Hébert earned his BFA at the University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts and his MS in Art Education from Central Connecticut State University.

Cynthia Guild

June 05, 2020

Cynthia Guild grew up in western Massachusetts and received her MFA from UMass, Amherst in Printmaking, focusing on lithography and monotype.

James Gabianelli

June 05, 2020

James Gabianelli is a Connecticut based artist/illustrator who has been focused on motorcycles, cars, trucks and heavy equipment his entire life.

Karen Bartone

June 05, 2020

Painter Karen Bartone earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Connecticut State University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Northern Vermont University.

Interview with Tom Hebert

June 03, 2020

by Ethan Bruso, Graphic Design History class, Spring 2020

Big Blue Bellflowers Reinterpretation

June 01, 2020

Amanda Ouk reinterprets the painting Big Blue Bellflowers by Alexandra Ovchinikova from Eastern’s Permanent Collection.

Self-Portrait, Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser by Frida Kahlo, (1940) re-staged by Amanda Ouk

May 20, 2020

It’s interesting that many people imagine that Eastern holds works by Frida Kahlo. When I made the original pitch for Be The ArtWork or Do it Yourself, I did not expect an incredible surprise that Amanda has created. I am happy to share it with you….

Be the Artwork or Make it Yourself

May 18, 2020

Be the Artwork or Make it Yourself is an invitation to create a new work of art inspired by Eastern’s permanent collection. Amanda Ouk, 21 made Queen of the Rose Gardens. Portrait of Grandma inspired by the tondo forms of Karen Bartone’s works.

Student Response to COVID-19

April 22, 2020

Eastern Connecticut State University students in the Graphic Design History class have created digital artwork to spread awareness about how to stay safe during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Sharing the Power of Art to Inspire and Console

April 06, 2020

Interview with Guest Artist Jeffrey Greene

April 06, 2020

2 0:02 / 8:55 Interview with Guest Artists Jennifer Bill and Linnea Maas

March 05, 2020

Creating Dangerously Lectures and Talks

February 21, 2020

A list of lectures from the artists that will be presented during this exhibition.

Eastern's Art Gallery is excited to announce our next exhibition

February 14, 2020

Eastern's Art Gallery is excited to announce our next exhibition: New Explorations in Mediascapes and Memoryscapes, March 26 and April 15, 2020.

ECSU Art Gallery a celebration of the senses

February 05, 2020

CLAIRE GALVINCHRONICLE STAFF WRITERWINDHAM/WILLIMAN-TIC — A small, but powerful, art gallery on Eastern Connecticut State University’s campus allows students, faculty and the public to enjoy a rotating collection of local and international art-work. The ECSU Art Gallery is located in Room 112 of the Fine Arts Instructional Center.

Interview with Guest Artist, Vladimir Cybil Charlier

February 05, 2020

video of exhibition creating dangerously

Video Tour of Creating Dangerously Exhibition

January 13, 2020

Creating Dangerously Program

January 06, 2020

Program listing during the Creating Dangerously: Art and Revolution Exhibition January 17 — March 12

Reynold Clerisier

December 24, 2019

Reynold Clérisier is a Haitian artist who learned sequin art from the masters and then departed to represent broader themes of Haitian culture. A main theme of his work tends to be animal interactions as seen through artistic eyes. Clérisier’s work is a dazzling application of the sequined art medium to universal themes."

Vladimir Cybil Charlier

December 24, 2019

After a process of joint ideation for a new piece, Clyatt sculpts a streamlined head-and-shoulders bust following traditional European forms. Drawing on one of her signature series, the "Pantéon," Cybil then contextualizes the piece with cultural markers, ornamentation, hair and more, drawing on diverse influences. The resulting piece retraces some of the transformations in venerated archetypes of the Haitian pantheon, such as Erzulie, the goddess of Love. The process provides the artists a sort of laboratory, a place for palpating historical narratives, producing cultural mashups, practicing living with how that feels