MCC Hosting Visiting Artist Berrisford Boothe

MANCHESTER, CT — Manchester Community College is scheduled to host an opening reception for visiting artist Berrisford Boothe next week.

The event is slayed for March 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery on campus. The reception and gallery are open to the public. Admission is free.

The artist will be on hand to discuss his work and answer questions at the reception from 6:45
to 7:30 p.m. In addition, he will work directly with art history students on-campus throughout the
first week of April.

The exhibition will feature early large-scale improvisational performance drawings, which
Boothe describes as "the immediate, arrested evidence of my thinking" at the pivotal moment he
turned away from the socio-political figurative work that he had been doing.

It represents the beginning of his investigation into mark-making from which "true expressions of self" would emerge. The drawings were a springboard into understanding ritual and improvisation in art.

Boothe is a professor of art at Lehigh University and an established 30-year practicing and
exhibiting artist on the regional, national and international art scene. He has also exhibited as a
digital artist, printmaker, photographer and conceptual installation artist. Boothe is an inactive
member of the June Kelly Gallery in New York City, where he showed for five years. He
exhibited for years at the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia and has amassed 15 career
solo exhibitions and participated in excess of 75 group exhibitions.

He continues to exhibit his work nationwide and internationally. Visit https://bboothe.cas.lehigh.edu for more information.

The Hans Weiss Newspace exhibition will run March 28 through April 29. Gallery hours are
Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the SBM Charitable
Foundation Building, first floor.