Mikhail Shevelkin: Paintings & Drawing And Looking then Reading

January 26 – May 25, 2017

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, January 26 | 7 – 9 pm

3rd floor: Mikhail Shevelkin: Paintings & Illustrations. Mikhail Shevelkin is a working artist who has been living in New Haven, CT for twenty one years after immigrating from Moldova, former Republic of the Soviet Union, where it took him almost ten years to “break free” from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and achieve pure abstraction. Rather than working in any particular style, Shevelkin uses media and materials that best suit the particular idea in progress, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and ceramics. Shevelkin experiments with color and texture, aiming to create work that produces the flow of positive enlightening energy: all of his work is meant to be a “creator” in and of itself. His art is an ever changing and developing process, a slow but constant movement toward the absolute.

2nd floor: An exhibition of paintings by local artists, displayed in the nooks and crannies of the Historic Institute Library. Artists include: Susan McCaslin, Heather Hill Young, John Keefer, Barbara Marks, Daniel Eugene, Amy Vensel, Noe Jimenez, Frank Bruckmann, & Steve Digiovanni.

Musician and ambient soundscape artist Derek Piotr will perform.

Both exhibitions are organized by Noe Jimenez & Maria Shevelkina.

This event is free and open to the public; we do want to remind people who’ve never been here before that the Institute Library can only be reached by walking up a flight of stairs, and the Library is not ADA-compliant.