If you were hoping for demure neutrals and pastels, you won’t find many here.
Carlos Hernández Chávez’s new solo exhibit, Dialogues: Impromptu Conversations in Color, provides a diversion from the time of year when winter is often less than lovely: now. The snowbanks are hard and gray, the streets are still a mess from last week’s storm, and if we hear one more debate over television stations naming winter storms, we are going to scream.
So, thank the artist for a free, temporary escape.
In his artist statement, Hernández Chávez’ says that color “brings consciousness into things that may be insignificant to others: the iridescence of a bird’s plumage, or the morning’s pink and yellow sunbeams washing on my bedroom wall; the orange glow of streetlights on freshly fallen snow; the shiny rainbows flowing in an oil slick washed by the rain.”
His work will be on display in the ArtWalk Gallery at Hartford Public Library through March 15, 2014.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-8pm; Friday and Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 1pm-5pm
