April 17–May 29, 2016
Reception and panel discussion, Monday, May 16, 6–8 pm
Panel discussion at 6:30 pm
Depressive Realism an exhibition by East Hartford, Connecticut artist, Adam Viens. The exhibition featured large-scale mixed media paintings that were complex and challenging in their visual language. The work posed more questions than it answered. It required the viewer to reflect on the artist’s intentionality, the emotions the pieces evoke, as well as the larger subject of “depressive realism,” a term adopted in the 1970s.
Panelists: Adam Viens, the artist; Michael Galaburrí, Program Specialist for Art Connection Studio; Faith Vos Winkel, MSW, Assistant Child Advocate, Office of the Child Advocate State of Connecticut; and Father Thomas Gallagher, Pastor and Guardian at St. Patrick – St. Anthony Church. The panel discussed a variety of processes that are often used to help adults (who may have psychiatric, developmental, or behavioral disabilities) connect with themselves and others and build successful daily lives.
Masking Trauma, 2015
