2023 Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition Opens Jan. 26

Artwork by some of the University's most talented students will be on display when the annual Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition opens on Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Joseloff Gallery.

This exhibition is a longstanding event at the university. In the late 1980s, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust was created at the University of Hartford to honor the late Alexander Goldfarb and his dedication to the arts. This trust would fund the Juried Student Art Exhibition—as it was then called—to be held annually at the Joseloff Gallery.

Each year, the exhibition collaborates with a juror to help select the winners. Of the fifty-one works that were chosen for the show, two undergraduate students will receive purchase prizes in the amount of $1,000 each. This year's juror is Sam Adams, Ph.D., Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Adams offers a unique perspective on the process of jurying.  

“When jurying an exhibition remotely, there is a loss in not being able to see the technical details in person. However, there is something equalizing about the digital process; the largest works do not necessarily take up the oxygen in the room, since each work is more or less the same size on my screen. I was drawn to works that move beyond literal representation and into a psychologically complex or conceptual realm.”

The winning students’ artwork will become a part of the Goldfarb Memorial Collection, owned by the Hartford Art School and proudly displayed throughout the University's public spaces. The exhibition opens with a reception and awards presentation on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. It runs in the Joseloff Gallery through Feb. 11. 

This exhibition and associated events are made possible by the Alexander A. Goldfarb Endowment fund held by the Hartford Art School Endowment, Inc.