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March, 2010

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Event:

Cromwell & Marshall Art Show

Date:

March 6th to April 24th, 2010.

Time:

5:00 PM

Location:

Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT

Contact:

860 688-2528

'A Different Time, A Different Place' an exhibition of works by Connecticut artists Stanwyck Cromwell and Cora Marshall.

Opening public reception on Saturday, March 6, from 5 - 7 p.m.,
at the Windsor Art Center at the Freight House, corner of Central & Mechanic Streets (behind CVS, off Rte. 159 in downtown Windsor)
Show runs March 6 - April 24,.
Supported in part by: The George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation

Information: www.windsorartcenter.org

A Different Time, A Different Place

Exhibition opens at Windsor Art Center

This exhibition, A Different Time, A Different Place, features Connecticut artists Stanwyck Cromwell and Cora Marshall, and testifies to the importance of time and place in their work. Both artists draw inspiration from their African heritage and their origins in two different Americas, yet they reveal their connecting and diverging perspectives in distinctly different ways.

Mr. Cromwell has chosen paintings, drawings, and sculptures from various series, including his black-eyed peas series. Viewing his collective works as "an embodiment of all his experiences as a human being and a Guyanese-born artist living in America," he pays tribute to his Caribbean/African roots and juxtaposes past and present in vibrant colors, symbols and metaphors such as black-eyed peas. He uses multiple overlays to create depth and imaginary mindscapes in works that are figurative, abstract, and surrealistic.

Dr. Marshall focuses on the past in order to understand the present. She delves into her African American and Native American ancestry in the explicit subject matter of her paintings. The mixed-media works in this exhibit are portraits from two related series, Runaways! Going, Going, Gone and To Be Sold, both of which were inspired by actual advertisements in 18th and 19th century newspapers. Dr. Marshall movingly portrays the humanity of enslaved people, who had only been represented as mere chattel. She challenges us to reflect on the importance of remembering our ancestors and what it means to be free.

Please join us in viewing this exhibition and in exploring the different perspectives that the artists reveal in their work as well as their profound connections derived from their shared ancestry. Ponder, too, the ways our own lives diverge and are connected to theirs through time and place.

About the artists:

Stanwyck Cromwell , born in Georgetown, Guyana, attributes his artistic gifts to his parents, both artists, and to his cousin Maurice C. Jacobs, a noted Guyanese artist. After working as a graphic artist in Guyana, he came to the United States in 1970. Mr. Cromwell earned a B.A. in Applied Arts from Charter Oak State College and a M.F.A. in painting from the University of Hartford. He has served many artist-in-residence programs and has received recognition from the Honorable Governor Jodi Rell; the Nassau County Legislature, State of New York; and from the African American Museum of Hempstead, New York. His work has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions in southern New England and New York, most recently at the Hartford Public Library. He has works in private and public collections.

Cora Marshall was born in Washington, DC. She earned a B.F.A. from Howard University, an M.S. in Education from Bank Street College of Education with Parsons School of Design, and a Ph. D. from New York University. An artist, educator, and scholar, she currently is chairperson of the Art Department at Central Connecticut State University where she also teaches. Her work has been exhibited widely, including in Kumasi, Ghana; Pittsburgh; New York and Brown Universities; the Craftery Gallery in Hartford; and Picture That, LLC in Stamford, CT. Her research and speaking engagements focus on contemporary African American artists, especially women. In 2004, she was selected as Outstanding Art Educator in Higher Education by the Connecticut Art Education Association.

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