Artists Live is a visual arts program, which features award-winning
Connecticut artists in month-long exhibitions starting the first Friday of each
month from March through December except for August throughout 2017. It will
take place at 23 Royce Circle in downtown Storrs, Connecticut. Each
participating Artist, will be “live” the final Friday of their month of exhibition for an
artist discussion with Kathleen Zimmerman at 5 pm followed by a reception at 6
pm, which is open and free to the public. Kathleen partnered with the Mansfield
Downtown Partnership and were jointly awarded the State of Connecticut’s Office
of the Arts Regional Arts Grant to create this program.
Oi Fortin will be the fifth of the series of ten artists. Her work will be on
exhibit June 1st through the 30th concluding with an artist conversation on June
30th at 5 pm. Oi Fortin’s work is emotionally charged, allegorical, and vibrant. Her
contemporary abstract expressionist prints are notable for a vivid palette and
spritely motifs along with their ability to invoke a calm and meditative state
summoning the mystical. While Oi’s compositions are influenced by nature,
relationships and her interior life they become playful and mysterious reflections
not realistic portrayals. In this exhibition self-titled “Momentum”, Oi reflects on the
flow that occurs during the printmaking process. One print begets the idea of
another and the work is no longer cognitive but organic, an inspired dance that
continues, seemingly under its own power, until the afternoon light dims in her
studio.
For more information about the artists and their work visit their websites at:
www.kathleen-zimmerman-artist.com
www.facebook.com/Oi-Fortin-417638685041359/