EXHIBITIONS


JUNE

Artspace. 50 Orange St., New Haven. Tuesday-Wednesday, 12-6 pm; Thursday-Saturday, 12-8 pm. (203) 772-2709. www.artspacenh.org.
Five Solo Shows in June. Artspace presents five solo exhibitions in Galleries 2–7: Laura Moriarty, sculptural installation; Carolyn Monastra, photography; Steve Novick, sculptural installation; Zachary Keeting, paintings; and Alison Owen, site-specific installation. Through June 20. Free.
City-Wide Open Studios Members Exhibition 1. An unjuried exhibition showcasing work by registered members of the 2009 City-Wide Open Studios, in Galleries 1–7. June 25-July 25. Reception Thursday, June 25, 6-8 pm. Free.

Beverly Kaye Gallery. 15 Lorraine Drive, Woodbridge. 9 am-6 pm. (203) 387-5700. BeverlyKayeGallery.blogspot.com.
Sculpture in the Garden Show. Sunflowers made from John Deere tractor parts, dancers and birds made from recycled metal, stone garden heads on spikes, robots, life-size horses, moose, African art, whirligigs, fabric art, birdhouses, and more decorate the garden during this popular yearly event. June 6 & 7. Free. The indoor gallery will be closed during this event and will reopen on Wednesday, June 10.

City Gallery. 994 State St., New Haven. Thursday-Sunday, 12-4 pm. (203) 782-2489. city-gallery.org.
No Rocks, No Scissors, Just ... Works by Jennifer Davies. June 5-28. Reception Saturday, June 6, 2-5 pm. Free. For more information e-mail info@city-gallery.org.

Creative Arts Workshop. 80 Audubon St., New Haven. Monday-Friday, 9:30 am-5:30 pm; Saturdays, 9 am-12 pm. (203) 562-4927. www.creativeartsworkshop.org.
CAW Faculty Show. An exhibition of new work by Creative Arts Workshop faculty in various media including drawing, painting, fibers, book arts, pottery, photography, jewelry, printmaking, and sculpture. Through June 26. Free.

Guilford Art Center. 411 Church St., Guilford. Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm; Saturday, 12-4 pm. (203) 453-5947. www.guilfordartcenter.org.
Built: Architects Taking Pictures. The second in a series of exhibitions concerned with art and the environment, Built features photographs made by contemporary architects, posing questions as to how they, as practitioners creating structures that alter the land and affect the way we live, comment through their art. Through July 24. Free.

John Slade Ely House. 51 Trumbull St., New Haven. Wednesday-Friday, 11 am-4 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 2-5 pm. (203) 624-8055. www.elyhouse.org.
Connecticut Watercolor Society. Recent works by Connecticut water-media artists, selected by Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, are showcased in the Connecticut Watercolor Society’s 69th annual exhibition. June 6-July 5. Reception Sunday, June 7, 2-5 pm. Most works are available for purchase.

Kehler Liddell Gallery. 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Thursday-Sunday, 11 am–4 pm; also by appointment. (203) 389-9555. www.kehlerliddel.com.
No Constraints: Emilia Dubicki, painting; Edith Borax Morrison, pen and ink drawing, looks at the inspiration found in both the physical world and the artists’ interior landscapes. No Constraints defines an attitude, a self motivating creative directive and its results. Dubicki and Borax Morrison revel in a certain freedom. Unstressed discipline, intellectual curiosity, and a joyful compulsion to work are evident in this exhibition of abstract art. June 4 -July 5. Reception Sunday, June 7, 3-6 pm. Artists’ talk Thursday, June 18, 7 pm. Both events and gallery admission are free.

Sterling Memorial Library. 120 High St., New Haven. Monday-Wednesday, 8:30 am.-4:45 pm; Thursday, 8:30 am-9:45 pm; Friday, 8:30 am-4:45 pm; Saturday, 10 am-4:45 pm. (203) 432-8061. www.library.yale.edu.
The Art of the Ketubah: A Study in Jewish Diversity celebrates the ketubah, the marriage contract that Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day. The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s financial obligations to her in case of divorce, as well as provisions for shelter, clothing, and food. Signed by two witnesses and read aloud during the marriage ceremony, the ketubah is an important public and cultural document. The ketubot on display in the exhibit are from the Yale University Library’s Sholem Asch Collection and span from four centuries and many countries. Through June 30. Free.

Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery. Fairfield University, 1073 N. Benson Road, Fairfield. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am-5 pm; Sunday, 12-4 pm. (203) 254-4000.
Wetlands: A Spiritual Refrain. Always exploring new material within the wetlands series since initiating his focus there in the 1980s, Ernest Garthwaite creates close-up compositions of these grassy areas for his latest environmental homily. These Asian-influenced landscape paintings and gestural abstractions of documented New England wetlands are large-scale works that project a vision of beauty and truth. Through July 12. Free.

West Cove Studio & Gallery. 30 Elm St., 2nd floor, West Haven. By appointment or by chance.
Surface Explorations. Monotypes by Mell Boesch. June 6-July 11. Reception Saturday, June 20, 2-8 pm with a print demonstration at 4 pm. Parking and entrance are behind the building off Water Street. For information call (203) 400-2720 or e-mail mellboesch@yahoo.com.

White Space Gallery. 1020 Chapel St., 2nd Floor, New Haven. Monday through Saturday, 10 am-6 pm; Thursday, 10 am-7pm. (203) 495-1200.
Dali Would. This exhibit will spotlight the final editions of hand-signed, limited-edition lithographs by Salvador Dali that are exclusive to the gallery. The exhibit will also feature rare exceptional Dali hand-signed lithographs and sculpture from the Clot Collection of Dali Sculpture. The defaced lithograph plates will also be on display. Through June 6. Free.

Yale Center for British Art. 1080 Chapel St., New Haven. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm; Sunday, 12-5 pm. Thursday, June 4, open until 8 pm; Monday, June 15, and Monday June 22, open 10 am-5 pm for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. (203) 432-2800. www.yale.edu/ycba.
Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871–1879. In 1871, French sculptor Jules Dalou (1838–1902) was exiled from France for his left-wing connections. He lived in London for nine years, creating portrait sculptures and scenes of domesticity seemingly at odds with his politically progressive reputation. Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood, 1871–1879 examines this influential period of the artist’s life. In addition to Dalou’s sculptures, works from Yale collections by French artists active in London before and during the same period will be on view. June 11–August 23. Free.
Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: the Royal Holloway Collection, London.Thomas Holloway (1800–1883), a self-made multimillionaire, purchased a group of “modern” paintings during the last years of his life that became the crowning gift to his generous endowment of a college for women (now known as Royal Holloway, University of London), opened by Queen Victoria in 1886. Paintings from the Reign of Victoria will showcase 60 extraordinary paintings, including seminal works by artists such as Sir Edwin Landseer, William Powell Frith, Sir John Everett Millais, and David Roberts. Through July 26. Free.
Seascapes: Marine Paintings and Watercolors from the U Collection. The Center presents a small but stunning exhibition of marine paintings and watercolors from the glorious Dutch “Golden Age” and by noted British artists. The exhibition features approximately 20 works from a recent major gift to the Center that span the 17th to the 19th centuries and attest to the visual and cultural significance of the sea in Britain and the Netherlands. Through August 23. Free.

Yale University Art Gallery. 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-5 pm; Sunday, 1-6 pm. (203) 432-0600. artgallery.yale.edu.
Time Will Tell: Ethics and Choices in Conservation. Time Will Tell offers a rare opportunity to explore the process of fine arts conservation, uncovering the relationship between curators and conservators and the objects entrusted to their care. Each of the works in the exhibition, which includes Asian ceramics, African ritual objects, ancient statues and mosaics, and American and European paintings and decorative arts from the gallery’s collection, illustrates a different conservation dilemma. What does cleaning a painting’s surface reveal? Should fragmented objects be displayed as pieces or reassembled into a convincing pastiche? Should damaged objects be repaired for aesthetic reasons? The passage of time impacts not only the physical state of an object but also the techniques used to preserve it. Time Will Tell examines the evolving science of conservation and the questions that arise in preserving works of art while staying faithful to the artists’ intentions. Through September 6. Free.



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