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Joseph Farris Gallery at CNMA

The Joseph Farris Gallery exhibits work by emerging and established artists from Connecticut and the metro New York area.

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Current Exhibition -- For God, Race and Country

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press Release

For God, Race and Country : Christopher Capozziello

February 5th – March 18th, 2010

Opening: Saturday, February 13th, 7-9 PM

In honor of Black History Month, created as a forum for discussion of the resistance against racial prejudice, the Center for New Media and the Arts is proud to present Christopher Capozziello’s photojournalistic essay “For God, Race and Country”.   These encounters with a violent history spark a difficult and necessary dialogue about racial understandings and interactions in our local communities.

Capozziello worked in close connection with David, a young Klan initiate, to explore the uniquely insular world of the Ku Klux Klan, which most of the country has never witnessed, yet which persists to this day.  The Klan’s contemporary existence is troubling; it casts a shadow on educational efforts toward multiculturalism and political correctness, and the very idea of “white supremacy” points to a widespread lack of diversity in our collective consciousness and media imagery.

The mentalities held by the subjects of these photographs are by-and-large the same mentalities that provoked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and millions of other African-Americans to fight for equality. By learning more about how prejudice continues today, a younger generation might garner new understanding about the difficulty their predecessors faced in addressing those gaps for the first time.  We can analyze how prejudices have shifted toward new scapegoats, how current racism can be both ignored and applauded.

The artist discloses that “[these images] will be an example of hatred to most and will stir up a great deal of animosity.  Many who look at these pictures have expressed feelings of superiority over the people in them because they feel they are more evolved in their thinking.  This [self-indulgence] is not the purpose of the pictures; it is to learn, and it is to ask questions of how and why racism continues today.”

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

Homestead Quilts -- Women's History Month Quilts

March 20th - April 1st, 2010

Opening Reception: March 20th, 2 - 4 PM

Wine and light refreshments provided.

Aevum -- Group Show

April 2nd - May 1st, 2010

Opening Reception: April 2nd, 7 - 9 PM

Wine and light refreshments provided.

Mark Sadan -- Venus Rising

May 7th - May 29th, 2010

Opening Reception: May 7th, 7 - 9 PM

Wine and light refreshments provided.

 

Check the blog under the category "Joseph Farris Gallery Exhibitions" for an archive of previous exhibitions and press releases.

 

History of the Joseph Farris Gallery

In August 2009, the Gallery at the Center for New Media and the Arts was named in honor of Joseph Farris, a successful cartoonist from Bethel and friend of the Center. The Center for New Media and the Arts has a permanent collection of original cartoons by Joseph Farris, many of which were published in New Yorker magazine.