| 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.
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