CURRENT
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Mentoring Courtney Love:
David LaChapelle & Courtney Love |
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Mentoring Courtney Love: David
LaChapelle & Courtney Love
On View: April 13 – August 10, 2013
The concept of mentoring is one not often associated with the
contemporary art world. Yet artist Courtney Love, best known as a
musician, credits artist and photographer David LaChapelle with
mentoring her as a visual artist. Love's work, featured in this
exhibition, are all works on paper. They are executed in a
combination of pastel, watercolor, graphite, colored pencil,
charcoal, acrylic, and marker. The works on view are all portraits,
including some self-portraits, and this is where we see the
relationship between her work and that of her mentor David
LaChapelle. While LaChapelle's photographic portraits are slick and
hyper-real, Love's portraits are sketch-like and spontaneous. Her
images are raw and full of emotion, and they bear a resemblance to
her music. There is a consistency in vision between her music and
her visual art that suggests an authenticity of expression. |
Exhibition Opening: March 2, 2013 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Running - (March 2, 2013 through August 10, 2013)
Pop Goes the Easel explores Pop Art of the 1960s and its impact on painting, printmaking, and sculpture in the decades that followed. Curated by Dr. Barbara Zabel, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Connecticut College, this exhibition includes works by the male Pop stars Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Indiana, and Roy Lichtenstein—as well as works by women artists who received less attention in that male-centered decade, including Idelle Weber, Marjorie Strider, and Niki de Saint Phalle. These artists chose banal subjects such as soup cans, cows, race cars, and pin-up girls; they appropriated the look of advertising, commercial art, and comic strips; and they adopted commercial techniques such as stenciling and silk screening.
By exploding traditional notions of easel painting, Pop artists of the 1960s radically expanded the possibilities of how art is made and how it is viewed. Pop Art and its Progeny explores the social and political avenues opened up by Pop for more recent American artists Barbara Kruger, Shepard Fairey, and Nancy Davidson, as well as for those working on the global stage, including Chinese artists Li Lihong and the Luo Brothers. This exhibition shows how Pop Art freed later artists to pursue new directions and to broaden their perception—and our understanding—of the world around us.
Andy Warhol, Cow, screenprint on wallpaper, 1971, 45 1/2 x 29 3/4 inches, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Gift of Raymond Macrino, 1971.282.
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Opens Saturday, February 2 and runs through June 22, 2013
This exhibition features the Egyptian falcon mummy along with other interesting ancient artifacts from the Lyman Allyn's collection. Come see Greek red and black figure pottery, a wooden Greco-Egyptian horse toy, ancient glass, and much more!
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Ongoing Exhibit
This ongoing and evolving exhibition drawn from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection presents a broad range of American art featuring painting, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
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Our exhibitions have been funded in part by generous grants from the Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, Bank of America, Trustee and the Connecticut Humanities Council, with support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
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