Connecticut River Photography Part of Wesleyan's Art For Haiti Benefit

On May 21, former Councilman David Bauer, a livelong resident, continued his half-year-long project of photographing the Connecticut River at Middletown. These photographs represent one night's work.

Bauer, looking for a way to visually represent the myriad changes the warmest year on record has had on the region, he turned to the transformative power of sunset, exploring the remarkable variations of Middletown's riverfront.

His work, along with Connecticut painters, sculptors and photographers, are part of a show, Art for Haiti, whose opening reception is June 6 from 5-7 p.m. at the Ezra & Cecile Zilka Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown. 

"There were ominous, heavy storm clouds across northern Connecticut," Bauer writes, "but I went down to the river out of habit. It was not that great of a sunset, but it gave me a chance to work with the 50mm lens, so I might use it better for cemetery photos. This sunset turned out to be one of the most cyan (blue) sunsets I have seen."

Exhibitors

• Paul Baldassini – Painter – Realism - Middletown
  
• David Bauer – Photography – Landscapes - Middletown
  
• Lief Nilsson – Painter – Impressionist - Chester
  
• Ralph Levesque – Sculpture — Higganum
  
• Andria Alex – Painter – Landscapes & Installations — Connecticut
  
• Balam Soto – New Media — Hartford
  
• Joyce Senesac – Painter – Watercolors - Middletown
  
• Tina McCurdy – Painter – Acrylic Landscapes - Connecticut
  
• William Lawson – Photography – Portrait & Architecture - Connecticut
  
• Connie Nichols – Clay Sculpture - New Canaan
  
• Pierre Sylvain – Curator and Painter - Middletown

The show runs through June 15 for the benefit of Movin' with the Spirit, which seeks to serve the poor and strengthen the villages of Duverger and Dandann, Haiti, by building an orphanage, school and health clinic. 

Exhibit hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

For information, see Facebook Art for Haiti page and on Art4Haiti.com.

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