"Sprezzatura" in Exhibit at Guilford Art Center

Guilford Art Center announces its latest exhibit, Sprezzatura, a group show of contemporary art in many media. The exhibit is on view April 23 through June 5 in the Center's Mill Gallery. The opening reception for Sprezzatura is Friday, April 30, 5-7pm, and is free and open to the public.

Sprezzatura is an Italian term coined in the sixteenth century in Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier addressing perfect courtier behavior, and translating roughly as the notion of "avoiding affectation and making whatever is done or said appear to be without effort."

Organized by the members of Connecticut Fusion, Sprezzatura explores use of the term as it relates to contemporary design, and features nationally known artists whose work has a quality of effortless grace, rehearsed spontaneity, or practiced naturalness; reverence of the low in subject matter and ordinary objects made extraordinary by context; and/or a deliberate appearance of having been dashed-off or unfinished.

Included are paintings and drawings by Stacie Albano, John Casso, Michaela Daly, Janet Lage, and Suzanne Siegel; photographs by Joel Baldwin, Paul Duda, and Andrew Quist; and sculpture and mixed media by Ellis Bradley, Jeffrey Gall, Edward LaSala, and Inna Babaeva.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10-4, Saturday 11-4. For more information, contact Guilford Art Center at (203) 453-5947.