The School of Art has mounted a retrospective exhibition of the work of Carol Jayne Schlosberg, an alumna of the school and former lecturer there, who was murdered last March in Mexico.
The exhibit, on view through Sunday, June 28, features approximately 60 of Schlosberg's paintings and works on paper. Hanneline Rogeberg, MFA '90, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, is curator of the exhibit in conjunction with Schlosberg's sister, Lynda Bazin, who is director of creative marketing at Sybase, Inc.
Schlosberg earned her M.F.A. from Yale in 1992 and taught at the School of Art 1993-95. She had worked for John Gambell Graphic Design in New Haven since 1995, and was active in the art world in New England and New York. As an undergraduate at Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, she was a 1989 recipient of an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship for study at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She earned her bachelor's degree at Montserrat College in 1990 and moved to New Haven, where she lived until moving to Vermont in October, 1997.
At Yale, Schlosberg studied with such artists as William Bailey, Gregory Amenoff, Andrew Forge, Natalie Charkow, Frances Barth and Richard Lytle. Her work -- which has been described as "textured, abstract, sometimes geometric, sometimes free form" -- has been shown in group exhibitions in Connecticut, Massachusetts and South America, most notably in the New Talent show at Alpha Gallery in Boston. She exhibited in solo shows at Montserrat College of Art and the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Connecticut.
Schlosberg was killed on March 29, 1998 while walking along the beach at midday in Puerto Escondido, a popular surfing resort on Mexico's Pacific coast. Her death has been the subject of investigations and inquiries in the U.S. at the highest diplomatic levels. Pressure was put on Mexican authorities to find her killers by U.S. congressmen and senators, by Schlosberg's family and by prime-time television specials this spring, including "20/20" and "Hard Copy." On June 4, two farm workers were arrested in connection with the case, and a judge recently ruled there is enough evidence against them to proceed with a criminal trial.
An exhibition catalogue, edited by Andrew Forge, professor emeritus of painting at the School of Art, has been published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibit. It includes essays by both Rogeberg and Bazin; painter Frances Barth, senior critic in painting at the School of Art; Schlosberg's classmates Melissa Marks and Stuart Elster; her former teacher and colleague Rose Olson from Montserrat College of Art; and friend Susan Sillars. The catalogue was designed by John Gambell M.F.A. '81, owner of the design firm for which Schlosberg worked in New Haven.
The School of Art is located at 180 York St. The exhibit will be
open to the public free of charge 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. For general
information, call 432-2605; for information about access for the
mobility-impaired, call 432-2645.
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