Events Calendar

ATMOSPHERE
John Breakey

February 4 - March 1, 2020

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2020
5 - 9 PM during Art Loop

“These paintings are inspired by the great space above and to the horizon line and its continuous parade of atmospheric conditions. My hope is these observed depictions of natural events serve as a respite or pause for the viewer.”

John Breakey’s career has spanned thirty years as a designer and art director. Since 2003, he has served as the area coordinator of Graphic Design at the Delaware College of Art and Design helping Communication Design majors find success.

John’s love of typography has been put to use in the areas of signage, environmental wayfinding, branding, advertising, and web development for local, national, and global clients. 

Prior to relocating to Wilmington in 1997, he operated a studio in New York City and provided creative services to the publishing, advertising, and design industries.

Elizabeth Denison Hatch Gallery

FOCAL POINTS: WOMEN ADVANCING THE APERTURE
Group exhibition of contemporary female photographers

February 7 - April 24, 2020

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7, 2020
5 - 9 PM during Art Loop

Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture showcases contemporary female photographers whose work centers on the themes of illusion, perception, and perspective against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. Like their antecedents, this exhibition celebrates the strength, conviction, and advancements made by women to address gender parity and the powerful role art plays in producing multiple layers of dialogue.

Punctuated predominantly by black and white photography, this inspiring exhibition presents a convergence of imagery that pushes the boundaries of photo-imaging and technique. Through the manipulation of light, focal points, shutter speed, filters, and subject material, the collective works reveal and articulate a persistence of the female voice. Through a framed visual language, the camera lens creates an illusion and perception between abstraction and representation.

While the syncopated cadence of vignettes draw the viewer in for close inspection, they magnify the role, presence, and even the absence of female photographers in history. The imagery serves as the prologue to how we continue moving forward on issues related to an equal voice at the voting booth, but also to advancing female artistic expression in the little white cube of the museum. The exhibition includes thirteen luminaries: Lynn Cazabon, Alida Fish, Bronwen Hazlett, Connie Imboden, Virginia Lockman, Rebecca Parsons, Laurie Beck-Peterson, Amie Potsic, Christine Shank, Jo Smail, Gigi Stoll, Paula Gately Tillman, and Midge Wattles.

Focal Points: Women Advancing the Aperture exposes the finest range of styles, materials, and photographic processes to tease out the fluid relationship between material process and the soul of innovation and artistic expression. Some works reveal no basis in the visible world, while other works pursue visualizing raw reality. In all, this exhibition underscores what makes The Delaware Contemporary unique: a center dedicated to presenting challenging and awe-inspiring art by young, emerging, and seasoned artists who persevere in advancing the aperture of photography.

DuPont II Gallery

RELEVANT PROGRAMS

ART & COUTURE: A CONTEMPORARY CENTENNIAL
Celebrating the Suffrage Movement and 100 Years of Women's Rights
Featuring artist Shawn Baron Pinckney
Saturday, April 25, 2020 | 7 - 10 PM

This exhibition aligns with a series of programs, exhibitions, and events closing on April 25th, 2020 at Art & Couture: A Contemporary Centennial. Art & Couture features an interactive fashion experience designed by artist Shawn Baron Pinckney to epitomize the powerful role art and fashion play in celebrating the advancement of gender equality made over the last century, and to recognize the individuals and organizations that carry the torch today. Using fashion, history, and literature as the armature of inspiration, Pinckney elicits contemporary discourse about societal norms inviting viewers to broaden the optics of their perspective.

This noon-time lunch series on the first Friday of every month pairs an engaging 30-minute discussion about a work of art with a delicious lunch in the Thronson Café. (Café lunch voucher included in price).

Stop by The Delaware Contemporary on first Fridays for exhibition openings, open artist studios, food trucks, cash bar, and new programming every month.
February 7, 2020 - 5 - 9 PM | FREE

FEATURED OPENING RECEPTIONS:
- FOCAL POINTS, a group exhibition of contemporary female photographers in connection with "Art & Couture: A Contemporary Centennial"
decontemporary.org/focal-points
- MIDNIGHT MASS, a lobby installation by Amie Potsic
decontemporary.org/amy-potsic
- ATMOSPHERE, a studio artist exhibition by John Breakey
decontemporary.org/atmosphere

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:
5 - 8 | The Art Cart
East Coast Sweets will be onsite selling gourmet chocolates