Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery

Monday-Thursday: 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Location

SBM Charitable Foundation Building, First Floor

Submissions

The Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery reviews work on an ongoing basis. Materials (images, resume and statement) can be forwarded to:

Maura O’Connor
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery
Manchester Community College
Great Path, MS#19
Manchester, CT 06040

Current Exhibit

Detail, “Crumbs Under My Pillow,” by Elizabeth Alexander

Shifting Patterns

September 21-November 15, 2023

Opening Reception

Thursday, September 21, 6:00 p.m.

 Shifting Patterns is a group exhibition featuring works by four contemporary artists: Elizabeth Alexander (MA), Eliza Au (TX), Daisy Patton (MA), and Adero Willard (NY/MA). Collectively, these artists’ works invite us to reimagine how we connect with our own stories, subjectivity, and mutual experience, and to consider the ways in which our past informs our present. The brilliance of each artist in relation to their own craft is evident in their thoughtful and engaging works, which encourage us to explore our own narratives and perspectives. 

Using languages of repetition, alteration, detail, and color the artists challenge inherent signifiers and create new stories within their various mediums. Whether through cast or found objects, installation, ceramic sculpture, decorative motif, or historical portrait photography, the suggestion of memory is embedded in the material choices of each artist’s work.

The exhibition raises important questions about our personal and cultural associations with objects, visual motifs, and representations. How do we sift through layers of historical, collective and personal recollections to define our present? How might the narratives we embody be re-presented, re-layered, or extracted to reveal the unexpected? By exploring these themes, Shifting Patterns offers a thought-provoking experience for all visitors.

Elizabeth Alexander 
Eliza Au   
Daisy Patton  
Adero Willard  

Previous Exhibitions

  • Spring Arts Festival – May 12-August 24, 2023
  • Diversity in Weaving: Harfort Artisans Weaving Center – March 9-April 19, 2023
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 16, 2022-February 8, 2023
  • Jack Lardis: Color Unbridled – September 29-November 16, 2022
  • Spring Arts Festival – May 12-August 24, 2022
  • Berrisford Boothe – March 28-April 29, 2022
  • The Art of Teaching Art: Connecticut Community Colleges Art and Design Faculty Exhibition – January 28-March 11, 2022
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 16, 2021-January 14, 2022
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 28, 2020
  • Faculty Art Show – November 30, 2020
  • Spring Arts Festival – May 28, 2020
  • Nafis M. White – February 6, 2020-March 17, 2020
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 13, 2019-January 17, 2020
  • Joshua Abelow and William King – October 31-December 4, 2019
  • Connecticut Fellowship Artists – September 12-October 17, 2019
  • Spring Arts Festival, May 17-August 15, 2019
  • Fabular Objects, Hirokazau Fukawa – March 28-May 7, 2019
  • Fine Art Faculty Exhibition – February 7-March 20, 2019
  • Student Art Exhibition – December 14, 2018 to January 15, 2019
  • Tell Us A Story – November 1 to December 4, 2018
  • A Suspension of Stereotypic Perception – September 13 to October 16, 2018
  • Student Visual Art – May 11 to August 15, 2018
  • MONSTERS among/within – March 29 to May 3, 2018
  • Wash With Like Colors – February 8 to March 22, 2018
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 15, 2017 to January 16, 2018
  • Further On – November 2 to December 6, 2017
  • the daydreaming SEA – September 14 to October 23, 2017
  • Student Fine Art Exhibition – May 12 to August 7, 2017
  • ABSTRACT – March 30 to May 2, 2017
  • Break It Down Shake It Up – Fine Art Faculty Exhibition – February 2 to March 8, 2017
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 16, 2016 to January 16, 2017
  • Women’s Work – October 27 to November 30, 2016
  • Object Lessons – September 15 to October 18, 2016
  • Spring Arts Festival – May 20 to August 23, 2016
  • Tom Hébert – April 7 to May 4, 2016
  • IN OUT (works of the body) – February 11 to March 16, 2016
  • Winter Arts Festival: Student Fine Art Exhibition – December 18, 2015 to January 20, 2016
  • Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions – November 5 to December 10. 2015
  • Just Imagine, September 10 to October 22, 2015
  • Spring Arts Festival, Student Fine Art Exhibition – May 15 to August 30, 2015
  • Sol LeWit – February 19 to April 29, 2015
  • Fine Arts Festival, Student Fine Art Exhibition – December 12, 2014 to January 20, 2015
  • Fine Art Faculty Exhibition – October 23 to December 3, 2014
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 14, 2013 to January 14, 2014
  • Habitat – October 24 to December 4, 2013
  • Newly Minted – September 12 to October 16, 2013
  • 2013 Spring Arts Festival – May 17 to August 8, 2013
  • Esther Solondz – Retrospective – April 4 to May 9, 2013
  • Fine Art Faculty Exhibition – February 7 to March 25, 2013
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 14, 2012 to January 14, 2013
  • It’s Your Nature – October 25 to December 4, 2012
  • Beyond Borders: Works by 10 Self-Taught Artists – September 6 to October 16, 2012
  • Spring Arts Festival – May 11 to June 20, 2012
  • Faculty Exhibit – March 29 to April 25, 2012
  • PRESENT: Works by Chotsani E. Dean and Howard el-Yasin – February 2 to March 12, 2012
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 16, 2011 to January 19, 2012
  • Zbigniew Grzyb: A Retrospective (1995–2011) – September 8 to October 20, 2011
  • MCC Spring Arts Festival – May 13 to June 24, 2011
  • Adolf Dehn – March 17 to April 27, 2011
  • Faculty Exhibition Artists – February 3 to March 7, 2011
  • Winter Arts Festival – December 17, 2010 to January 2011
  • Quilts by Ed Johnetta Miller – October 28 to December 2, 2010
  • New works by Cat Balco and Matt Towers – September 9 to October 15, 2010
  • Pasha Radetzki – March 11 to April 28, 2010
  • Heart Gallery – February 4 to March 4, 2010
  • Art/Work – Oct 29 to Dec 8, 2009
  • Go Figure – Sept 17 to Oct 20, 2009
  • Chris Hausbeck – Feb 5 to March 12, 2009
  • Feed the Beast – Oct 16 to Nov 26, 2008
  • Drawn – Sept 4 to Oct 9, 2008
  • Paint – March 27 to May 1, 2008
  • The Toy Show – Feb 7 to March 12, 2008
  • Out of Thin Air – Sept 6 to Oct 17, 2007
  • Loneliness & Melancholy – March 29 to May 1, 2007
  • The Love Show – March 16 to May 1, 2006

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