June 26 - August 2
Michael Quadland | "Wonder" | Triptych | 48" . 96" | acrylic on panel | 2014
Michael Quadland's work focuses on the expression of emotion. Quadland uses a non-objective format as a way to maximize imagination and projection, using abstract forms and evocative colors in layered surfaces. According to the artist, the layers and traces of his paintings contain secrets that can be revealed to the viewer over time, thereby retaining interest long after they are first seen. |
West & East Gallery
Michael Donovan 
Michael Donovan | "Implement Inducing Flexure (1)" | Red Oak, Steel, Steel Cable, Pulleys, Hardware | 171" x 77" x 110 " (detail) | 2009
Michael Donovan writes: “My work explores the act of preservation. I am interested in utility as a means to create a self sustained existence for my objects. Based on my personal investigations I create sculptural implements that simultaneously establish and preserve an actuated state through their utility while representing a physical manifestation of the synergy between material and myself. The work that is being performed within each structure implies permanently suspended movement. Each piece performs a designated task with no true purpose other than sustaining the level of energy generated within it. The transitory nature of these acts is negated as the latent energy is made observable in the work but is never relinquished. Interacting within each piece structural elements become dependent on one another, actualizing a state of dynamism that is perpetually self-induced. By perpetually engaging tool with task my sculptural objects become self- contained events. Through the establishment and preservation of the latent energy within the work I intend to create awareness within the viewer making them cognizant of themselves in relation to the work and the space that it exists.” |
TDP Gallery
Terry Donsen Feder 
Terry Feder | "Flowers (C)" | 9" x 12" | Oil on aluminum
Terry Donsen Feder, a member of the adjunct faculty at Hartford Art School, has exhibited in many Connecticut galleries, in New Mexico, Florida, Nevada and Ireland. She has designed and executed murals in Nevada, Nantucket, and in private homes and business elsewhere in New England, including a forty-seven foot mural at Peppercorn’s in Hartford. Her work is part of many private and corporate collections and in the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art. |