“The Divinest Sense” Exhibition

This special “The Divinest Sense” Exhibition features the works of June Glasson, Jonathan Brand and Bevan Ramsay and is curated by Jon Riedeman. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, October 6th @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm.

About The Artists:

June Glasson
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, designer and teacher living in Millbrook, New York. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery of London and at Nature Morte Gallery in Berlin. She is represented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT, and Visions West Contemporary in Colorado. Her work has appeared in New American Paintings, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, and on numerous book covers.

”My work is a marriage of the work that I create in the solitude of my studio, and work that lives in the world and is more collaborative or community based. In both my painting and my socially engaged work, I am interested in thinking about how both individuals and communities see themselves, and are seen and see themselves.” June Glasson

Jonathan Brand
Jonathan Brand is a recipient of the distinguished Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, several Canada Council for the Arts project grants, The Roberts Foundation Grant, and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts Grants. His work has been exhibited at The Queens Museum of Art, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, NURTUREart New York and Gallerie de Roussan in Paris. His collaborative work has been shown internationally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Jonathan and his work have been featured in articles in The New York Times, New York Daily News, Journal du Design, and on the Discovery Channel online. Brand received a BA from the University of Guelph and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. He lives and works in New Haven, CT, where he is a Founder of the NXTHVN arts incubator.

Of the works he is currently working on he says: ”For me the image of a lemon represents a fresh start. Lemons command our senses. Looking at a lemon we can imagine the experience of cutting open the fruit; we know the smell and its associations. Our body physically responds when our mind is brought to the lemon; mouth tensing, salivating just through the recognition of the thing. I’m interested in how the lemon can bypass the thinking mind and target something else. By presenting a lemon without color or full dimensionality, I am presenting something so against its nature. Although still recognizable as a lemon, there is oftentimes references to the body in, for example, how the lemons are positioned, merging and relating to one another. They paradoxically become fleshy.”

Bevan Ramsay
Following Bevan Ramsay’s first degree, in Fine Arts in 1994, he trained as a cabinet-maker and completed an apprenticeship in antique restoration. He was co-founder of a successful furniture design firm, eventually selling his shares in order to further his education. He earned a BA in Philosophy and Intellectual History from McGill University in 2007, and an MFA in Sculpture from Concordia University in 2011. In 2012, Ramsay returned to North America following a year in India, where he served as a Volunteer Advisor for children’s art programs while his wife conducted academic research. Bevan Ramsay is a native of Montreal and currently based in Norfolk, CT.