News Release
June 7, 2007
Contact: Carolyn Pennington, 860-679-4864
e-mail:
cpennington@uchc.edu
Highly Acclaimed Artists Exhibit at UConn
Health Center
Who/What: Janet Shafner, “Still Life Paintings” and Marija
Pavlovich McCarthy “Recent Oils and Watercolors”
Where: Celeste LeWitt Gallery, UConn Health Center, 263
Farmington Ave., Farmington
When: June 7 through September 5
About the artists:
An interpretive realist, internationally-known artist Marija
Pavlovich McCarthy says she tries to bring a balance between the
ordained and the accidental in her paintings, highlighting the
complexity of nature and its contrasts.
A native of Yugoslavia, she was trained at the Academy of Fine
Art in Belgrade and at the Corcoran School of Art and George
Washington University in Washington. A Woodbury resident since 1996,
she has lived and painted throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa,
where her works are represented in collections at institutions such
as the National Museum of Yugoslavia, the presidential collections
of Pakistan, Palestine and Tunisia, as well as congressional and
private collections worldwide. She has also participated in solo and
group shows in various cities in Tunisia, Pakistan, and Belgium.
In the U.S., her work hangs at the New Britain Museum of American
Art and her solo exhibitions include the Woodbury Fine Arts, the
Greene Gallery in Guilford, the William Ris Gallery in Stone Harbor,
N. J., The Art League, Alexandria, Virginia, and the Spectrum
Gallery and the Tunisian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has
participated in group shows at the Copley Society of Boston, New
England Watercolor Society, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art to name
a few.
A signature member of numerous art societies, McCarthy has been
featured in Artists Magazine and Best of Watercolors 1996 and
Floral Inspiration 1997, published by Rockport Publishing
Company. She was also a featured watercolor artist in American
Artist magazine. McCarthy has taught painting at the Corcoran
School of Art, the Maryland College of Art and Design, The Art
League in Alexandria, and currently at the Washington Art
Association in Washington, Conn.
Janet Shafner earned a master’s in studio art at
Connecticut College in New London, a degree in art history at
Barnard College in New York City. She studied at the Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and at the Art
Students League in New York City. She has served as director of the
adult studio art program at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New
London, and taught at Connecticut College in New London, Mohegan
Community College in Norwich and the University of Connecticut at
Avery Point, Groton.
An accomplished artist, she has had numerous solo exhibitions in
galleries, museums and public institutions, including the Lyman
Allyn Art Museum, Slater Museum in Norwich, John Slade Ely House in
New Haven, the Kaber Gallery and the Yeshiva University Museum in
New York City, and the Purdue University Gallery in Lafayette, Ind.,
to name a few. She has participated in more than 50 exhibitions in
Connecticut, and others in Maryland and New York. Shafner also
traveled to Cincinnati, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, Canada, and Israel
as part of the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition “Woman of
Valor.” Her works hang in a number of public collections, including
the Slater Museum, Housatonic Museum of Art in Bridgeport, Lyman
Allyn Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., and
others.
A resident of New London, Shafner creates still-life paintings
using simple objects, focusing on the effects of light on textures
and shapes.
The University of Connecticut Health Center’s collection of fine
arts serves to enhance the environment and promote the sense of a
caring community for patients, visitors, staff and students. Art is
selected, acquired and exhibited by the UCHC Art Advisory Committee.
To view a selection of the Health Center’s permanent collection
visit:
www.uchc.edu/auxiliary/art.html.
Editor's Note: Download high quality image of artist’s
painting at:
www.uchc.edu/auxiliary/artexhibits.html.
The University of Connecticut Health Center includes the schools of
medicine and dental medicine, the UConn Medical Group, University
Dentists, and John Dempsey Hospital, a Solucient Top 100 Hospital®
2006. Founded in 1961, the Health Center pursues a mission of
providing outstanding health care education in an environment of
exemplary patient care, research and public service. To learn more about
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