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PARACHUTE FACTORY
Erector Square, 319 Peck St.,
Building 1, New Haven
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Cindy Tower |
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Through September 18
White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents White Collar.
Blue Collar. Pink Slip., an exhibition, curated by Debbie
Hesse and Joy Pepe, that explores the uncertainties, anxieties,
and rewards of the workplaces that shape our identities. The
exhibition will be on display at The Parachute Factory, Erector
Square, 319 Peck St., Bldg. 1, New Haven, from Wednesday,
June 24 through Tuesday, September 18. An artists’
reception is scheduled for Tuesday, June 30, from 5-7pm.
The public is invited to attend.
Recently, we’ve been deluged with a seemingly endless
amount of information about the adverse effects of the down
economy. Banks and corporations are in trouble, and people
are losing their jobs. It is, unquestionably, an anxious time
for many.
White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip. examines the
impacts of the current economic crisis through works that
confront us with symbols of debt and unemployment, and takes
us into abandoned, often deteriorating factories whose empty
silences scream of crippled industries and decimated workforces.
The exhibition also puts us face to face with the socioeconomic
ladder, introducing us, through paintings and photographs,
to the white-collar professionals near the top, and the blue-collar
workers and manual laborers closer to the bottom. We are introduced
to the dignity of those who work in the retail and service
industries in New Haven and their counterparts across the
United States and in Europe. And we experience the daily struggle
for survival of those living “off the grid” in
the southeastern United States.
White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip. forces us to
look at the process of starting over through the work of the
exhibition’s artist-in-residence, Moussa Gueye, a political
asylee from Mauritania who has begun his artistic career anew
here, in his adopted country.
Other featured artists include Roland Becerra, Frank Bruckmann,
Lucas Foglia, Douglas McGoldrick, David Ottenstein, Hank Paper,
Jean Perkins, Cindy Tower, and Rita Valley.
White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip. is the first of
a two-part exhibition called Work/Place, which examines
the environments on which our survival depends. The second
part of the exhibition, Out of House and Home, opens
in October.
The Parachute Factory is a collaboration of the Arts Council
of Greater New Haven, Yale Program for Recovery and Community
Health, and Community Services Network of Greater New Haven.
White Collar. Blue Collar. Pink Slip. is presented
by The Parachute Factory, in collaboration with Integrated
Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS).
For more information about White Collar. Blue Collar.
Pink Slip., please call the Arts Council at (203) 772-2788.
Past Exhibits
Family Business
Technical support provided by Odonnell Company.
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