SUMMER 2024 EXHIBITIONS

Exhibition Dates: June 16 - August 4, 2024

Opening Reception: June 23, 3-5 pm

12:30 pm screening of the film “America Unfiltered” @ Yale Art Gallery

1-4pm Stump in Situ live printmaking on Trumbull Street

4 pm performance by Línda Perla-Giron

International Festival of Arts and Ideas: June 26, 3 pm special tour of ECOCA

Closing Reception: August 4, 1-3 pm, rain date for Stump-in-Situ

Join us as we celebrate the opening of our Summer 2024 exhibitions — hope to see you soon at one of our events!

Horacio Marquínez: America Unfiltered

In collaboration with the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, ECOCA is pleased to show Marquínez's photographs created during the pandemic’s peak. Marquínez and his fellow filmmaker traveled the U.S. to capture America’s essence. Their project, “America Unfiltered,” explores whether empathy and listening can bridge national divides. Through candid conversations on politics, race, love, and immigration, the film and photo exhibit aim to foster understanding and optimism for America’s future. This journey documents diverse American experiences, highlighting our common humanity in a time of division.

Lawrence Morelli: Remembrance

When Morelli needed to move out of a permanent studio, he became creative in where and how to work. No longer using models for large scale paintings, Morelli has been sitting at G Café in New Haven, painting outside in small notebooks. He has been working from intense memories of places throughout his life, spanning from California, Michigan, New York, and Connecticut. Each work has the date of its creation as well as the location and date of the memory.

Keyhole Artists: Ramón Bonilla, Esthea Kim, Andrian Panaitisor, Línda Perla-Giron, Emily Weiskopf

ECOCA's Spring '24 Keyhole Workspace Residency culminates in the exhibitions of its 5 local artists. Each artist will have solo exhibitions highlighting the work created and how they have been thinking about the environment and climate.

Can Yağiz: Not today either

Not today either features Can Yağız’s document-sized collages and monotypes, capturing moments of self-reflection and the fragility of existence. Degradation of both materials and imagery is integral to how Can contemplates themes of belonging, selfhood, and decay. Objects imbued with memory, like a soaked tissue or a scuffed envelope, offer a sense of continuity amidst the loss, rendering much-needed progression in material.

Stump-In-Situ: Logan Bishop, Enrique Figuerado, Nathan Lewis, Jesse Peck, Maria Porada

Happening live at 1-4pm on June 23rd, 5 artists will activate 5 stumps on Trumbull Street (sycamores that had to be cut due to disease) via a public printmaking event. Some of the prints created from this event, along with other works by the artists will be on display in the flat file. This is a merging of performance, printmaking and public art to activate an awareness of ecological issues happening here and now. Curated by John O'Donnell.

SUMMER GALLERY HOURS

Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays 12-5 pm

ECOCA’s Environmental Leadership for Artists programs are supported by the City of New Haven’s Creative Sector Relief Fund. ECOCA receives support from the City of New Haven, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Connecticut Humanities, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo, Yale University, and Friends of the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art. 

Please contact aburg@elycenter.org for more information and high-resolution images.