News Release
August 25, 2011
Contact: Carolyn Pennington, 860-679-4864
e-mail:
cpennington@uchc.edu
Two Award-Winning Artists Exhibit at LeWitt Gallery
What: Jenni Freidman – "Reverie" and Jan Blencowe – "Rhyme and Season: The Poetic Landscape"
Where: Celeste LeWitt Gallery, UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington
When: August 25 through December 7, 2011, daily 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
About the Artists:
Jenni Freidman says her work is inspired by what she
finds in nature. She has exhibited at galleries, museums, art
centers, and invitational exhibitions in the United States and
Europe. Her works are in private and public collections, including
Paper New England in Hartford, where she is on the Board of
Directors, Amity Art Foundation in Woodbridge, University of
Nebraska’s Sheldon Art Gallery and its Omaha Library, and Hallmark
Collection, Kansas City, Missouri.
The Hartford native and West Hartford resident, Freidman earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the University of Hartford’s art school in West Hartford, where she is currently an adjunct professor, and a master’s in fine arts from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Freidman attended workshops in woodcutting in the U.S. and in Florence, Italy, and is the recipient of scholarships, fellowships and grants.
Jan Blencowe considers visual art her first language. The Clinton resident says she has been drawing and painting for as long as she has been talking. Her formal training began in high school, painting in the abstract expressionist style. The fine art program at Caldwell College in New Jersey followed where she received a bachelor’s degree with concentrations in painting, color and art history.
Blencowe's work is collected worldwide with pieces in private collections in Australia, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Germany, the United Kingdom and across the United States. Her work hangs in the American Embassy in Honduras and has been purchased by 20th Century Fox. She has exhibited in numerous juried shows and is the winner of many awards and prizes.
The University of Connecticut Health Center’s 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’s permanent collection visit: http://auxiliary.uchc.edu/art.
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