MCC Hosting Visiting Artist Berrisford Boothe

Manchester CT

22 March, 2022

12:57 PM

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MANCHESTER, CT — Manchester Community College is scheduled to host an opening reception for visiting artist Berrisford Boothe next week. The event is slayed for March 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery on campus. The reception and gallery are open to the public. Admission is free. The artist will be on hand to discuss his work and answer questions at the reception from 6:45to 7:30 p.m. In addition, he will work directly with art history students on-campus throughout thefirst week of April. The exhibition will feature early large-scale improvisational performance drawings, whichBoothe describes as "the immediate, arrested evidence of my thinking" at the pivotal moment heturned away from the socio-political figurative work that he had been doing. It represents the beginning of his investigation into mark-making from which "true expressions of self" would emerge. The drawings were a springboard into understanding ritual and improvisation in art. Boothe is a professor of art at Lehigh University and an established 30-year practicing andexhibiting artist on the regional, national and international art scene. He has also exhibited as adigital artist, printmaker, photographer and conceptual installation artist. Boothe is an inactivemember of the June Kelly Gallery in New York City, where he showed for five years. Heexhibited for years at the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia and has amassed 15 careersolo exhibitions and participated in excess of 75 group exhibitions. He continues to exhibit his work nationwide and internationally. Visit https://bboothe.cas.lehigh.edu for more information. The Hans Weiss Newspace exhibition will run March 28 through April 29. Gallery hours areMonday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the SBM CharitableFoundation Building, first floor.