ART INSTALLATION BY RICH HARRINGTON ON DISPLAY THROUGH JUNE 25 →
Artist Rich Harrington with works Daddy and Butch from the Here We Are Series
“This is the way we play and learn,” an art exhibition by SUNY Broome Adjunct Instructor Rich Harrington, continues through June 25 at the Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery, 186 State Street, Binghamton, with an opening reception on June 3.
The artwork addresses issues of bullying, cultural roles defined by toys, games and textbooks, and the effect these have on growing into adulthood. Using culturally charged images, familiar materials, and a sense of humor, the work entices then provokes the viewer to look closer for deeper meaning.
Much of the work is comprised of multiple pieces referencing the repetition and reiteration of elementary school learning, as well as the hypnotic sprawling sameness of the suburban development in which the artist was raised.
Source: http://news.sunybroome.edu/buzz
RICH HARRINGTON RECEIVES NYSCA GRANT →
Still of Direct Instruction while on view at Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts’ show, Salon
SUNY Broome Adjunct Instructor Rich Harrington is the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Finishing Fund grant for his project, “Direct Instruction.” Finishing Funds grants support artists in the completion/post-production of film, video, sound, new media and Web-based work.
Nick Rubenstein, Co-Founder/Creative Director of the LUMA Projection Arts Festival, worked with Harrington to create a piece that incorporates video projected images on a wall of 477 “Language Master” speech therapy cards used in elementary schools of the 1960s. Accompanying the video piece is a 42-minute audio track created from the included cards.
The piece provokes questions of language, meaning, repetition, gender roles and place in the context of mid-century suburban middle-class American culture.
Source: https://news.sunybroome.edu/buzz
Artist draws inspiration from his history, materials →
Artist Rich Harrington in front of his oil painting “Varsity” at the Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery in Binghamton. Harrington’s installation titled, “This is the way we play and learn”, will be on display until June 25th.
Now all grown up, Harrington is putting together a monthlong show at the Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery in Binghamton, titled "This is the way we play and learn," displaying work designed to evoke the environment Harrington grew up in.
“When you look at my work, it creates a narrative or a story, and that story references growing up in Endwell, New York, which is a white, middle-class, suburban New York in the 1960s,” Harrington said.
His exhibit will involve a number of assemblages, which can be described as a cross of sculpture and collage.
Confronting Mainstays and Existential Questions at Art Miami and Context →
Alan Coulson, Jordan, oil on panel, 31 x 39 inches.
MIAMI — Since Art Basel’s Miami Beach fair set down its roots over a decade ago, Miami Art Week has become a cacophony of satellite fairs and events jam-packing the international art circuit’s calendar for the first week of December. One fair that gives the flagship behemoth a run for its money is actually its predecessor, Art Miami. An eclectic mix of galleries focusing on the primary and secondary markets inhabits this international fair, which encompasses three large tents in midtown Miami. Next door is a smaller tent that houses Art Miami’s sister fair, Context, a venue for younger spaces showing emerging and mid-career artists. Context is the MoMA PS1 to Art Miami’s MoMA: smaller, younger, and sleeker.
Source: https://hyperallergic.com
Local artist and BU alum speaks on importance of following passions →
Harpur College alumnus Anthony Brunelli came to campus Friday to speak to students about the importance of living in the moment and of embracing their thoughts and emotions — even if it means going against the grain.
Brunelli, who graduated in 1992, makes photorealist oil paintings which have been shown in museums in Paris, Florence, Prague and more. Photorealism is a type of art in which the artist recreates a photograph as realistically as possible using another medium. Brunelli opened his own art gallery, Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery, on State Street in 2003 and manages it with his brother John.
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