WHAT IT IS NOW: A collaborative work in progress by Joey Sage Jablonski, Bernard Re, Jr., Diane Schapira, and Joel Schapira
First Iteration: David M. Hunt Library, 63 Main Street, Falls Village, CT 06031, 860-824-7424
Date: October 11 through November 15, 2013
Reception: Friday, October 11, 6-8pm Free
About our project:
The "WHAT IT IS NOW." exhibit is a collaborative work in progress created by four local artists: Joey Jablonski, Bernard Re, Jr., Diane Schapira, and Joel Schapira.
During a series of sessions stretching over almost six months the four local artists who are also close friends and couples, have collaborated to create, assemble, and amend a composition of art using found and fabricated materials that will cover a 12-ft expanse of the library’s main art wall. Adjacent to the main work will be an individual work by each artist. A third area will contain an active art space for the public to collaborate on using supplied materials. The public collaboration element of this project is in keeping with the concept of the art project as an ongoing dialogue that will continue to be built upon and exhibited in other locations.
The four artists’ work represent various streams of art making. Joey Jablonski and Diane Schapira are both potters. Ms. Jablonski recently opened a workshop space, Funkware Pottery, in North Canaan. Bernard Re, Jr. works in many media including sgrafitto, enamel paint, gathered pigments, ceramic glazes, collage, and in the digital realm as well. Joel Schapira’s work features text-centered assemblage often employing cardboard as a major structural element. All four artists are well-known throughout the Northwest Corner of Connecticut.
Joel Schapira said the following when asked to describe the project, “As the date for the show was getting close and then closer, we made an interesting discovery-- we discovered that we would be untrue to ourselves, to you and to art, if we got tense and worried and hurried, if we gave up being imaginative and exploratory (creative) and, instead, focused on making everything shipshape and presentable. We could continue to behave artistically only by just keeping on keeping on. So we did, and now here we are. Our show is called, "WHAT IT IS NOW." and we're all in it together. And who knows what it will become tomorrow, for we have no intention of stopping now...”
This Hunt Art Wall exhibit is made possible through the support of Bob Riva Realty Executives Northwest.
About our project:
The "WHAT IT IS NOW." exhibit is a collaborative work in progress created by four local artists: Joey Jablonski, Bernard Re, Jr., Diane Schapira, and Joel Schapira.
During a series of sessions stretching over almost six months the four local artists who are also close friends and couples, have collaborated to create, assemble, and amend a composition of art using found and fabricated materials that will cover a 12-ft expanse of the library’s main art wall. Adjacent to the main work will be an individual work by each artist. A third area will contain an active art space for the public to collaborate on using supplied materials. The public collaboration element of this project is in keeping with the concept of the art project as an ongoing dialogue that will continue to be built upon and exhibited in other locations.
The four artists’ work represent various streams of art making. Joey Jablonski and Diane Schapira are both potters. Ms. Jablonski recently opened a workshop space, Funkware Pottery, in North Canaan. Bernard Re, Jr. works in many media including sgrafitto, enamel paint, gathered pigments, ceramic glazes, collage, and in the digital realm as well. Joel Schapira’s work features text-centered assemblage often employing cardboard as a major structural element. All four artists are well-known throughout the Northwest Corner of Connecticut.
Joel Schapira said the following when asked to describe the project, “As the date for the show was getting close and then closer, we made an interesting discovery-- we discovered that we would be untrue to ourselves, to you and to art, if we got tense and worried and hurried, if we gave up being imaginative and exploratory (creative) and, instead, focused on making everything shipshape and presentable. We could continue to behave artistically only by just keeping on keeping on. So we did, and now here we are. Our show is called, "WHAT IT IS NOW." and we're all in it together. And who knows what it will become tomorrow, for we have no intention of stopping now...”
This Hunt Art Wall exhibit is made possible through the support of Bob Riva Realty Executives Northwest.
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