Opening Reception: Sunday, March 9, 1-3pm

Workshops:
March 9, 11am-1pm -  Pop Rivet Aluminum Box Building: Madison Donnelly
March 16, 3pm - Tin Can Luminaries
March 23, 1-3pm - Printmaking and Assemblage with Alloys: Emily Weiskopf
March 30, Aluminum Casting: Elli Fotopoulou
April 13, 1-3pm - Necklace based on Anni Albers: Luke Atkins

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Tin There, Done That, a group exhibition kicking off the celebration of ECOCA turning 10!

Tin/Aluminum, the traditional material for a 10th wedding anniversary, represents ECOCA’s marriage of fostering contemporary arts in New Haven and the charitable legacy of Grace T. Ely in her Elizabethan mansion.

Tin There, Done That features the work of: Adria Arch, Adam Brent, Tamara Dimitri, Madison Donnelly, Mary Dwyer, Terry Donsen Feder, Lesley Finn, Elli Fotopoulou, Deborah Greco, Shanti Grumbine, Nate Heiges, Tom Kutz, Maria Markham, Hillel O’Leary, Sok Song, Alixe Turner, Shane Ward, Christina Hunt Wood.

Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, March 9, 1-3 pm. ECOCA will also be hosting a series of free workshops for others to learn more about working with aluminum. 

ECOCA’s 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala follows this exhibition on Saturday, April 26 with food, live and silent auctions (selections include works by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Ken Grimes, Roberto Lugo, Mario Moore, Mark Mulroney, Clara Nartey, Kim Weston), a Steel Drum Band, aluminum origami demo Workshop with Sok Song, and a Photo-booth from Statement Sets with a rack of festive metallic wears.

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 9, 1-3pm

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is pleased to present A Desire Path, inspired by the unplanned trails that humans create despite extensive planning. This group exhibition features the works of Jessica Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis and Sydney Kleinrock. Each artist navigates their practice similarly to such a structure, finding moments in natural settings to get to their destinations; planned or unplanned, cyclical or straight. Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, March 9, 1-3 pm.

“Our planet holds knowledge in its physicality: the past, the present, and the future of a landscape hum in simultaneous presence. The landscape overwhelms our limited senses like a drug, placing a distorting lens between our awareness and reality. What I find, in the natural world, is a psychedelic density—a wealth of information seen and unseen.” -Ewaskio

“For much of my life, I viewed my own body as a similarly non-functional vessel. Then, just weeks after starting this series, I learned I was pregnant. My work evolved from two-dimensional drawings into sculptural forms, driven by an obsession with creating vessels that reflected my ever-changing body—and, more recently, my ever-expanding roles as a woman, wife, mother, educator, and artist.”-Bottalico

“As a native of New England, I was fascinated by the quality of color and light of the West Coast. To step into that [Muir Woods]  forest was to experience the sublime and a deep inner peace; these paintings became a way for me to revisit that feeling.” -Fallis

“I use the fragmented nature of the quilted material to queer time through non-linear storytelling, often drawing on stills from life, memory, and imagination. The sections, when viewed as a whole, simultaneously depict moments of growth and decay, chaos and calm—weaving together a picture that evokes our entangled influence on nature through the cyclical passage of time.” -Kleinrock

Amartya De In Process: March 9 - April 13, 2025

Reception: April  13, 2:30-4:30pm
Artist Talk: April 13, 4:30pm, Elle Perez guides a discussion with Amartya De

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Maidan & XX, a two part solo exhibition of photographer Amartya De. 

On March 9th, viewers are able to begin their investigation into the photographic installation in its starting point with only a handful of photos on view. Over the weeks leading up to April 13th, De will be printing negatives in the Ely Center Basement Darkroom that he spent the previous year creating as well as making archival digital prints. Viewers will get a glimpse into De’s process which has grown out of his years growing up in Kolkata and the time he has spent travelling across the United States. Highlighted in Maidan & XX is a juxtaposition of time and space so viewers have a longer spectral dimension that holds their time - forcing them to be in the moment and retrospective simultaneously.

The photographs in this exhibition were mostly taken in 2023 but the film was only processed in February of 2025. “This latency became an inevitable part of my practice over time as I learnt the capabilities of the medium and the underlying subject matter and its relationships with formal compositional strategies, capacity, and the theme of national identity, borders, friendships and alienation.”

Please join us for the reception on Sunday, April 13, 2:30-4:30pm, to see the completed installation followed by a discussion guided by photographer Elle Perez at 4:30pm.

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 9, 1-3pm

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Stone Screen, a solo exhibition of Anita Maksimiuk in the Flat File gallery. 

Maksimiuk uses migration and urban elements to represent her experience as a first-generation American. Maksimiuk uses imagery that includes parts of the American Southwest, Eastern Europe and everything that make up the five boroughs of New York City, which she calls home. “When creating a body of work, I consider my role as a new American, keeper of multiple cultures and a maker working in highly physical processes that demand patience, time and both hands. The works displayed here combine the highly graphic, commercial history of screen print with the organic, somewhat elusive nature of the lithography stone.” Included on display is a screen used to create her prints, adding insight into their creation. 

Please join us for the opening reception on Sunday, March 9, 1-3 pm.