'Forms of connection'
“Women in Design: The Next Decade” (Diazo lithograph on paper), by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, in her show “Community, Activism and Design,’’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
— Courtesy Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
She says:
“From the start, I saw that the direct expression of a plurality of voices within each community could carry the immediacy of conversations, and that content and site combine to inform my choice of materials and processes. Over time open-ended forms, processes and materials offered me different ways to extend to others an invitation to participate in the meaning of each work. Through listening I have been able to reflect local populations and translate that connection first in ephemera and then in site specific, permanent installations integrated into specific places here in the states and abroad. The vivid forms of connection to people and place has become recognizable as my work…’’
Anxiety in New Haven
“Toward the Forest “ (colored woodcut), by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), in the show “Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression,’’ at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Feb. 16-June 23, 2024.
“Head of Dr. Frédéric Bauer’’ (colored woodcut), by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938).
The gallery says:
“Featuring more than 60 works on paper, this exhibition is the first to examine the prints of Edvard Munch alongside those of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, elucidating the fascinating overlaps in their creative output and personal biographies and demonstrating how these artists suffered from—and attempted to cope with—the anxieties of their age.’’
Louvre sends Leonardo to New Haven
"The Annunciation'' (oil on panel, detail), circa 1475-79, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the show "Discoveries at Verrocchio's Studio,'' to run through Oct. 7 at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. The painting is on loan from the Louvre. The exhibition looks at the work known to have been created in the teaching studio of the sculptor, painter, and goldsmith Andrea del Verrocchio during da Vinci's early apprentice years.
New Haven has great cultural riches, in visual, musical and literary art, most of them associated with Yale in varying degrees. It also has some of America's finest pizza, and a serious drug-overdose problem.
The creativity of exile
Gelatin silver print by Iranian artist Shirlin Neshat in her series "Rapture,'' in the show "Artists in Exile,'' at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, through Dec. 31. The gallery says the exhibition addresses exile, featuring the work of artists who have left their home country or adopted home. It explores the physical, mental and emotional effects of exile on people and the creativity that a severance with the familiar and journey into the unknown can cause.
But beware of circles
"Homage to the Square: Festive,'' by Josef Albers, in the show "Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Abers in the Americas,'' at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., through June 18.