CLOSING RECEPTION

Join us for the closing reception of the summer exhibitions and FINALLY the Live Printing Event: Stump-in-Situ!!

1-4 pm Sunday, August 4

Horacio Marquínez: America Unfiltered
Keyhole Artists: Ramón Bonilla, Esthea Kim, Adrian Panaitisor, Línda Perla-Giron, Emily Weiskopf
Can Yağız: Not today either
Lawrence Morelli: Remembrance

Press: Photographer Sees America, No Filter
Artists Embrace Change, Transformation

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

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

DIGITAL GRACE

Explore the new Digital Grace exhibition color(less) curated by our spring SCSU Arts Administration Intern, Michelle Szabo.

Szabo will hold an “Ask the Curator” Q&A session at 3pm, Sunday Aug 4

“As I was thinking about this exhibit and ECOCA's overarching focus on environmental impact this year, I started thinking about a less talked-about pollution that we humans produce called light pollution. Light brings us many things including the ability to see color, color being the reflection of light. If there is little light, or extreme bright light, we see less saturation of color or more brightness of color until it becomes either black or white, respectively.” - Szabo

To fully experience the exhibition, it is best to be seen on your computer monitor or other personal device where you can adjust brightness, however this will also be displayed in the foyer of ECOCA.

OFF SITE EXHIBITION

How did we get here?

Going to Upstate NY this weekend to catch some shows you didn’t make during UPAW? Don’t miss ours!

On view in partnership with ArtPort Kingston July 18 - August 7
80 Smith Ave, Kingston, NY

Hours: Aug 3 & 4 12-5 pm, and Aug 7 12-5 pm or by appointment

ECOCA is pleased to present “How did we get here?” an exhibition with artists whose work asks the viewer to look, then look again. Art builds a path between the personal and the universal: our collection spotlights the moments when that path can become a winding, narrative journey. “How did we get here?” is as important a question for the onlooker as “Where are we meant to go from here?” The work of art is a lens into the maker’s intentions, but the audience is already looking through many lenses at once: cultural, political, intersectional. It is in the second look–and beyond–that the viewer squints, considers angles, negotiates a way into the stories our featured works contain.

Faustin Adeniran, Natale Adgnot, Emmanuel Amoakohene, Scott Azevedo, Shweta Bist, Ramón Bonilla, Leah Caroline, Jeanne Ciravolo, Melissa Dadourian, Leila Daw, Lesley Finn, Christian Amaya Garcia, Cadence Giersbach, Shanti Grumbine, Donté Hayes, Swati Jain, Brian Kaspr, Josh Kramb, Patrick Li, Valerie Lyons, Caitlin McCormack, Aisha Nailah, Caroline Voagen Nelson, Ariana Padovano, Línda Perla-Giron, Vick Quezada, Claudia Renfro, Roxy Savage, Cate Solari, Katherine Spencer, Jacquelyn Strycker, Susan Tabachnick, Jason Ting, Emily Weiskopf, Kim Weston, Ying Ye

PRESS for “How did we get here?”
From Two Coats of Paint
From Hyperallergic

COMING UP

This Month’s Weird Music Night is happening!
THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 7pm

Featuring:
Spyrodon, Stone Jaw, Skull Tower 4E, Tommy Riles and The Chomins

Curated by John O’Donnell

Refreshments provided by Ungrafted Selections

SUMMER APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM

Thank you to everyone who came out in celebration of the unveiling of our inaugural SAP public art project!

“Every Piece is Part of the Whole” is a 40-foot banner that transforms the façade of the historic Ely Center of Contemporary Art with references to some of New Haven’s most iconic features.
Thank you to Destiny Palmer and her assistant Perla Mabel Ledesma for leading the program with there infectious enthusiasm!

The Banner will remain on view at the Ely Center through fall 2024.

GALLERY HOURS

ECOCA WILL BE CLOSED FOR EXHIBITION CHANGE STARTING AUGUST 5- SEPTEMBER 1

(Excepting Weird Music Night on August 8, of course!)

ECOCA Gallery Hours:
Wed, Thurs & Sun 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, Avangrid, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Hoffman Foundation, 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.