the Informer

The Aperture Foundation has no problem creating new ideas which becomes apparent in their traveling exhibit featuring photography by Chuck Close and poems by Bob Holman.

The book, “A Couple of Ways of Doing Something,” now turned into an exhibit, has joined the University of Hartford as of Wednesday, Apr. 14. The opening to this exhibit was from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. with an introduction for what it entails.

This opening reception was free to the public and located in the Joseloff Gallery associated with the Hartford Art School. The exhibit will run from April 14 to July 27, during which time, the public, as well as students will get a feel for extraordinary pieces of art.

The focus on this exhibit will help advance and develop the ideas for this gallery. All the exhibits shown at the Joseloff Gallery are funded through the Kohn/Joseloff Foundation, and exponential amounts of individual contribution.

With the help from Aperture, a not-for-profit organization, Chuck Close and Bob Holman now share their work with the university, expanding their act while enhancing the university.

Chuck Close, American painter, printmaker and photographer, was born in 1940 and is widely recognized throughout the world. After his first 20 years, he started to use his photography as a foundation for his painting.

“A Couple Ways of Doing Something” focuses on his journeys since 2001, allowing his reflections to come to life with the use of different techniques and formats. Some ideas sprang up through inspiration drawn from his colleagues, which can be seen when looking through his art. Colleagues such as Laurie Anderson, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewsdon, Ellen Gallagher, Phillip Glass and of course Chuck Close are only a few of his subjects.

Some of his creations involve daguerreotypes, a process involving iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor, digital pigment prints, tapestries, textile fabric formed by weaving colored thread and photogravures, an image produced from a photographic negative transferred to a metal plate and etched in. All of these ideas formed together to get the traveling exhibit in motion.

Widely recognized and highly accomplished poet, Bob Holman, is also featured alongside Close in the exhibit. Holman composed an original poem to accompany each of Close’s paintings.

Holman originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican New York Poets Café and runs the Bowery Poetry Club. Together these portraits and poems collectively describe “A Couple of Ways of Doing Something,” while intriguing the minds of students.

For more information regarding the gallery and exhibit go to www.josselofgallery.org or contact Lisa Gaumond, gallery manager, at gaumond@hartford.edu.