Real Art Awards 2023
Introducing the six artists selected for Real Art Ways' 2023 Real Art Awards - our annual juried competition open at no charge to emerging artists in New England, New York, and New Jersey.

Funding provided by the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation.

Artists Selected:

Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo

Alex Dolores Salerno

Real Art Awards

Cinema
Held Over - Final Week!

Poor Things

This film details the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox Dr. Godwin Baxter.
“The best movie of the year.” – RogerEbert.com

“Both literary and cinematic, Poor Things gives the audience everything we can ask for in a film — beauty and wonder; hefty ideas and clever storytelling; twists, shocks and laughter.” – Wall Street Journal

"Beautifully garish, wonderfully twisted, unabashedly raunchy and at times grotesquely striking..." - Chicago Sun Times

"A gorgeously cinematic excursion of womanhood...propelled by a hunger for new life experiences, personal failures, tragedies and triumphs." -

Huffington Post
93% on Rotten Tomatoes
Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo.
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos.

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Opens Friday, 1/12!

American Fiction
American Fiction confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes, uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

92% on Rotten Tomatoes

Cord Jefferson's directorial debut. Starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Sterling K. Brown.

“One of the best and boldest American comedies in years with a dynamite performance by an Oscar-ready Jeffrey Wright.” – ABC News

“The best picture of the year.” – Washington Post

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In Our Galleries

sub-marine: jeweler of memory

Simon Benjamin

On view through Sunday, January 14.

Photo: John Groo

An installation that consists of video, photography, and sculpture.

This exhibition reframes the Caribbean as expansive, relational, and interconnected over multiple geographies, transgressing colonial divisions.

Simon Benjamin is a recipient of a 2022 Real Art Award.

Join us for Saturday Soup with Simon Benjamin and Gervais Marsh!

Saturday, 1/13 at 3PM

Free Admission

Join Simon Benjamin and writer, curator, and scholar Gervais Marsh for  an informal conversation on the occasion of Benjamin's solo exhibition at Real Art Ways—and the culminating event of his 2022 Real Art Award Exhibition. In the spirit of his Jamaican roots, cups of soup will be served.

Tubular Times:

Camp, Horror, and Music Television: Video Art 1981-1993

Curated by Terri C. Smith

Photo: Peter Brown

Exhibiting artists are: Peggy Ahwesh, Max Almy, Ericka Beckman, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Cecelia Condit, Cecilia Dougherty, Ulysses Jenkins, Nam June Paik, Ann Magnuson, Pipilotti Rist, and Michael Smith,

Am Schmidt, and Willie Stewart.

Tubular Times explores innovative, often humorously irreverent video art made during the years of Vestron, a Connecticut-based video distribution and film production company. On view through Sunday, January14.

Langit Lupa (Heaven and Earth)
Bhen Alan

This exhibition spotlights the banig — a Filipino indigenous mat — to investigate the artist’s relationship with cultural objects, relocation, diaspora, and experiences as an immigrant. The works in the exhibition are influenced by the artist’s Fulbright research and fieldwork in the Philippines in 2022-2023.

Bhen Alan is a recipient of a 2022 Real Art Award.

Unknown, Unknowns
Steven DiGiovanni
Paintings that are based upon pictures that Steven took in his Westville, New Haven neighborhood. Some are also based on photos taken around Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan.
Through this exhibition, DiGiovanni seeks to navigate in the liminal terrain between the disinterested aesthetics of forensic photography and the poetics of space and narrative.

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