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AUGUST INSTALLATION

The August Installation is a unique opportunity for artists to exhibit in the Hilles Gallery of Creative Arts Workshop. Although the Workshop is closed to the public during August, the August Installation is on view through the two-story windows of Hilles Gallery.

Shown above: The Metamorphoses of the Gods
2003 August Installation by Hochi Asiático
Curated by Benjamin Ortiz

 

THE GOLDEN YEARS
John Fleming
July 30 - September 1, 2006
Opening reception: Sunday, July 30, 2-4pm

These are The Golden Years for John Fleming – in life and in the upcoming August Installation at Creative Arts Workshop. The installation will feature over forty of Fleming’s one of a kind life size metal sculptures, ranging from a Lovely Dancer to a Man Singing Let Me Call You Sweetheart.

Fleming uses found objects to create his figures, from old pans to bed springs and furnace fixtures. He uses things that have been lying around his North Branford home and garden. He explores the curbs during metal pickup times in North Branford, and he sorts through the metal sculpture discards at Creative Arts Workshop, where he continues to take classes. The once lifeless objects he finds become faces, hair, and legs in his sculptures.

Fleming assembles the figures one piece at a time. Some fall together in a month while others may take up to six months, waiting patiently for a perfect nose or a chained heart for completion. He never knows what they will look like by the end, which is when he usually titles the work.

Now in his 80s, Fleming never did art early in life, but he has been doing it for over thirty years now. He first started with painting and then went on to take sculpture classes at Creative Arts Workshop. He was introduced to metal sculpture at CAW in the early 90s by department head Ann P. Lehman. He has continued to take classes ever since and he uses the facilities to cut and weld his pieces.

Fleming has exhibited throughout the shoreline in member shows of the Shoreline Alliance for the Arts, Madison Art Society, and Guilford Art League. His work was featured in a One Man Show at the Scranton Library in Madison in 1998. Earlier this year in New Haven, his work was included in the Inter Face II group exhibition at City Gallery and a group exhibition in the Small Space Gallery of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. He was the 2005 First Place recipient of the Sculpture Award in the New Haven Paint and Clay Club exhibit.

 

2007 Installation Proposals

CAW's Gallery Committee will accept submissions for the 2007 August Installation artist(s) beginning in Fall 2006. For information about submission guidelines, please contact Sandy Bartle, Gallery Coordinator, Creative Arts Workshop, 80 Audubon Street, New Haven, CT 06510. For information call (203) 562-4927 or email: sandy@creativeartsworkshop.org

August Installation 2007 guidelines are not yet available to download.

2006 Installation

The Golden Years by
John Fleming

 

2005 Installation

Diaphanie x 4 by
Blinn Jacobs

2004 Installation

Magniflora by Jessica Schwind

Magniflora

Magniflora