Celebrate with us Sun, Feb. 8, 1-3pm when we open at our new location!

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From: Aimée Burg <ab...@elycenter.org>

Subject: Fwd: Celebrate with us Sun, Feb. 8, 1-3pm when we open at our new location!

Hi,

Can you please share? We are so thrilled to re-open on Sunday at 162 James Street, New Haven!!

All the best,

Aimée

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From: Ely Center of Contemporary Art <in...@elycenter.org>
Date: Sun, Feb 1, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Subject: Celebrate with us Sun, Feb. 8, 1-3pm when we open at our new location!
To: <ab...@elycenter.org>

ELY CENTER OPENING
AT 162 JAMES ST

Opening Reception

Sunday, February 8, 1-3pm
162 James Street, New Haven

The Ely Center is pleased to present a group of four exhibitions on view from February 8- April 12, 2026 with an opening reception on Sunday, February 8, 1-3pm at the new location of 162 James Street, New Haven, CT. Together this group of exhibitions invite visitors to consider moments of transition not as rupture but as a space for connection.

Three solo shows by artists Diana Abouchacra, Lauren Flaaen and Dario Mohr, the Fall ’25 Keyhole Workspace cohort, use installation and transformed objects to examine how bodies, memories, and identities are mediated through structures that both protect and constrain.

Abouchacra’s What Remains Tied, Bound in Belonging offers an immersive installation on memory and care, combining sculptural “memory ties,” audio, and video to consider how belonging is formed over time.

Flaaen’s small tears, cuts and scribbles transforms domestic furniture into a bodily form, exploring vulnerability, protection, and transformation with her reupholstered couch installation.

In Ensconced, Mohr examines light, visibility, and power with illuminated glass cubes that frame Black male bodies in moments of concealment and revelation.

The use and transformation of fixtures, furniture, and unassuming kitchen materials creates an underlying theme of comfort, exposure, intimacy and power in the three artists’ exhibitions.

Intervals is a group exhibition presented by the volunteer artists and curators who comprise the Ely Center’s Curatorial and Program Advisory Committee. Reflecting on pauses, shifts, and in-between states, Intervals addresses moments of change—between places, roles, and aesthetics—while reinforcing long-term vision of inclusivity, diversity, and spaces built through collaboration.

Alexzandria Robin/ Sydney Bell, David Borawski/ Peter Brown, Debbie Hesse/ Marion Belanger, Ellen Hawley | Michael G. Young , Emily Weiskopf/ Douglas Degges, Fritz Horstman/ Sabrina Marques, Howard el-Yasin/ Susan McCaslin, Jeanne Ciravolo/Janet Warner, Judith Kruger/ Catherine Christiano, Kit Young/Paloma Kop & Andrei Jay, Maria Markham/ Jayden Ashley, Suzan Shutan/ Molly Gambardella

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Gallery Hours: We, Th, Su 12-5pm or by appointment- to book an off hours visit please email ab...@elycenter.org

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M I S S I O N

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s mission is to present contemporary art exhibitions and events—challenging, conceptual, and provocative—that are inclusive, diverse and promote dialogue around global and community issues. Our work reaffirms Grace Ely’s testamentary wishes for an art center where artists, arts organizations, and the public assemble, exchange, learn, and engage through exhibitions, performances, and emerging contemporary practice

ECOCA receives support from the City of New Haven, Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Connecticut Humanities, New Alliance Foundation, Wells Fargo and Friends of the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art.