11/18/25 Opening Reception - Chip Rutan: “Space and Time” @ CT State Community College Middlesex

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From: Weber, Matthew (Middlesex) <mwe...@mxcc.commnet.edu>

Subject: 11/18/25 Opening Reception - Chip Rutan: “Space and Time” @ CT State Community College Middlesex

On Tuesday, November 18, CT State Community College Middlesex is holding an art exhibition reception our new show:

In Pegasus Gallery and The Niche:

Chip Rutan: “Space and Time”

November 14, 2025 – January 23, 2026

Opening Reception on Tuesday November 18, 4:30-6:30pm at Pegasus Gallery.

 

Chip Rutan photographs the lower Connecticut River Valley and shoreline.  His images depict locations he has known since childhood, and captures the momentary and transient nature of place, memory, and of home.

Photographs in Rutan’s “Space and Time” series were initially created with a Polaroid film camera between 2022 and 2023. The resulting images were digitally scanned, edited, and reprinted, while retaining the distinctly imperfect visual qualities of the Polaroid media.  His human subjects were photographed from afar, so their likeness is impossible to discern, yet each composition contains a nostalgic and psychologically charged atmosphere of familiarity.  Subjects walk along the beach, lounge, swim, and in many works, they appear to blur into the haze of dominant horizon lines. Rutan describes his photographs best as “ephemeral and dreamlike… portal(s) to a simpler time and place.” 

 

Rutan lives in Old Saybrook, and has exhibited his photographs regionally and nationally.  He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (at Hartford), and a BA in Mathematics from the University of New Haven.  See more of Rutan’s work on his website at: https://www.chiprutan.com

    

Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall

Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

The Niche is in Founders Hall across from the Registrar’s Office

Hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fridays 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Matthew Weber (he/him)
Professor of Fine Arts, Graphic Arts & Art Curator

Chair of Communications, Humanities, Digital Media, and the Arts 

Snow Hall, Room 407
100 Training Hill Road, Middletown, CT 06457
matthe...@ctstate.edu
860.343.5806 

https://ctstate.edu/art-galleries/#middlesex