NEW BRITAIN - June 6, 2008 – Artist and CCSU Professor of Art James L. Buxton Jr., will exhibit at the Greater New Britain Art Alliance’s Downtown Gallery.  The one-man show is entitled “Rivers Deep.”  It will open June 19 and run through July 26.  

Professor Buxton will attend the June 19 gallery opening and reception.  Scheduled for 4:30-7:30 p.m., the event is open to the public without charge.  Refreshments will be served.

The show features Buxton’s colorful and evocative three-dimensional works in wood as well as a number of his paintings.  “‘Rivers Deep’ speaks to the many complexities of life, life experiences, and the questions about its answers and journeys,” said Professor Buxton, who has been a member of the CCSU faculty since 1991.  He graduated from Cornell University in 1982 and earned Master of Fine Arts degrees (in sculpture and in printmaking) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.  He also studied at the Paris Academy in France.

A partial listing of other solo exhibitions featuring Professor Buxton’s art includes such diverse venues as Westchester Community College, the Farmington Art Guild, the Winfisky Gallery in Salem, MA, and the Sibley Hall and Tjaden Hall Galleries in Ithaca, NY.  He has also been represented in group shows at CCSU, the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, the African-American Affairs Commission of Hartford, the Madison Mile Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in Madison, CT, Gateway Community College in New Haven, and the Essex Art Association. 

The Downtown Gallery is located at 117 West Main Street and is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment.  All gallery shows are free.

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