{"id":62103,"date":"2012-06-28T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=62103"},"modified":"2012-06-28T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T14:35:32","slug":"internationally-known-hartford-art-school-professors-exhibit-at-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/06\/internationally-known-hartford-art-school-professors-exhibit-at-health-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationally Known Hartford Art School Professors Exhibit at Health Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who\/What: <\/strong>Gene Gort – Digital Print Editions, \u201cCyclamen\u201d
\nJim Lee – Landscape Drawings and Woodcut Prints, \u201cWhite Bridge at Hamburg Cove\u201d
\nWhere<\/strong>:\u00a0 Celeste LeWitt Gallery, UConn Health Center Food Court
\nWhen<\/strong>: Now through September 26, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily<\/p>\n

\"Artwork<\/a>
Artwork by Gene Gort <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the artists:
\n<\/strong>Gene Gort<\/strong><\/a> is a visual artist, video producer, media programmer and educator. His artwork and videotapes have been shown at the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass.; Pacific Film Archive\/Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.; the Video Art Foundation, Barcelona; Cyberarts Festival, Boston; and at art venues in Toronto, Ohio, New York, New Hampshire, among others.<\/p>\n

He has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation with nominations, and received grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Pollack-Krasner and LEF foundations; New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artist Projects; and residencies at the MacDowell Artist Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire and at iPark East, Haddam. Gort, a resident of Avon, is a professor of media arts, a program he designed and directs, at the Hartford Art School\/University of Hartford, West Hartford.<\/p>\n

\"Artwork<\/a>
Artwork by Jim Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jim Lee<\/strong><\/a> is a printmaker\/book artist with a Masters in Fine Art in printmaking. Jim Lee\u2019s work has been exhibited in many national and international exhibitions, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Center for Book Arts, N.Y.; Galerie Im Hollental, Buchenbach, Germany; the Boston Printmakers International Biennial; the Taipei Museum of Fine Arts and the 2nd Qijang International Print Festival, Chongqing, Peoples\u2019 Republic of China.<\/p>\n

His work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan, the National Portrait Gallery, Getty Art Center, Wadsworth and Boston athenaeums, Art Institute of Chicago, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, libraries, universities, and corporate and private collections.<\/p>\n

In 1978 he began making limited edition letterpress books and established \u201cBlue Moon Press.\u201d He lives in Glastonbury and teaches relief and intaglio printmaking, drawing and book arts at the Hartford Art School\/University of Hartford, West Hartford.<\/p>\n

The University of Connecticut Health Center\u2019s collection of fine arts serves to enhance the environment and promote the sense of a caring community for patients, visitors, staff and students. Art is selected, acquired and exhibited by the UCHC Art Advisory Committee. To view a selection of the Health Center\u2019s permanent collection visit: http:\/\/auxiliary.uchc.edu\/art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The prints from Gene Gort and Jim Lee are on display in the Celeste Lewitt Gallery until Sept. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":62119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-62103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 05:37:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62125,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62103\/revisions\/62125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/62119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62103"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=62103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=62103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}