First Time in Connecticut

iPhone Art Exhibition

July 10 – August 7

Yes, it’s more than a phone. It’s a palette to many artists who create work that will challenge your imagination and what you have thought of as art. If you own an iPhone, or even if you don’t, you owe it to yourself to find out what can be done with a phone at this first exhibition of iPhone art here in Connecticut.  And if this isn’t enough, you will be further challenged with three sound installations created by three local musicians working with digital media. One of the installations will be work done on an iPhone. We assure you won’t go away without having learned something about what is new and exciting in the art world today.

In 2009 an iPhone application (app) developer released an app called Brushes to the ever growing iPhone App Store. It allowed you to do fingerpaintings on the iPhone in a very simple and intuitive way. Several weeks later some extraordinary paintings started to be posted online. A flickr-group soon formed around the Brushes App and accumulated a vast amount of diverse and utterly creative painters and art work.  iPhone painting and fingerpainted iPhone art has taken off and includes one artist who has designed covers for The New Yorker magazine.

There is little question that many artists have found a new “sketchbook” that is easy to always have with them.  The question, however, is use of an iPhone in this manner a fine art medium or will this use pass as a fad?  Come to this exhibition and make a decision for yourself.

The exhibition includes 14 artists from around the world. They are: Russ Croop (Boulder, CO), Christine Finkelson (NYC), Luis Peso Chamorro (Granada, Spain), Corliss Blakely (St. Albans, VT), Bob Poe (Santa Monica, CA), Andrea Mdos (Spain), Cédric Philippe (France), Mathew Watkins (Italy), David Leibowitz (Teaneck, NJ), Susan V Murtaugh, (Two Rivers, WI), Kara Jansson Kovacev (NYC), Joseandrés Guijarro (Ponce (Spain), John Bavaro (Erie, PA) and Benjamin Rabe (Germany).

Electronic music installations are created by musician/composers Lief Ellis, Matt Sargent and Todd Merrill.

This iPhone exhibition is made possible through a generous gift from an anonymous donor.

The board of directors thanks Hooker Brewing Company of Bloomfield, CT for their generous donation of beer, and Union Tavern of Windsor and Tunxis Grille of Windsor for their kind donation of food. This support helps Windsor Art Center to continue to focus its funding on its mission – ART.