I have been exploring Hartford’s offerings and was excited to visit:
The Emerging Artists Opening @ Real Art Ways – High Energy – A service to the arts and community.
I loved the opening in the refurbished typewriter factory in the Parkville part of Hartford. It was buzzing even at the early hour of my arrival 5:00. The crowd was friendly, mixed and engaged. Will Wilkins and his staff put together a diverse group of young artists whose intellectual rigor and fine craft were exciting. Corinne Beardsley’s “Lovely” explored a seductivity and sensuality of women’s bodies in relations to other women, themselves and men. Their sensitive vulnerability displayed in public was disarming and invited the viewer into a relation with the object, a ceramic sculpture. In a strange way, I found myself being embarrassed and intrigued and wanting somehow to enter the fantasy. Her craft was strong, textural and inviting.
The other artists of equal strength were Sam McKinniss and David Politzer.
http://www.realartways.org/
