August 25, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 x2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES WORK BY CATHERINE CHRISTIANO

New London – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Album of Flowers | Interesting Times by artist Catherine Christiano, on view Sept. 10 through Nov. 6.

The centerpiece of Christiano’s first solo museum exhibition is a series of large paintings that chronicle a year. Each of the month’s panels juxtapose carefully painted seasonal flora with a collage of content from the New York Times. The still lifes are placed directly within the context of 2016, the emotionally charged and pivotal election year during which the series was conceived.

“Since April 2019, when Catherine Christiano first shared her concept for this body of work, I have been eagerly anticipating the fruition of this project” says Museum Director Sam Quigley. “The splendid realization of her vision exceeds what could have been hoped for and serves up a rich interplay of parallel planes with equal portions of cunning and beauty.” [Read more…]

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July 21, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES ART FROM THE SOL LEWITT COLLECTION

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Sol LeWitt: Artist and Collector at Play, examines friendship, humor and collaboration in modern and contemporary art, with art from the Sol LeWitt Collection. The exhibition will be on view through Oct. 16.

The pioneering conceptualist artist Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007) collaborated with many artists and cultivated deep and lasting artistic friendships, acquiring a wide range of modern and contemporary art. Exploring LeWitt’s own art and that of his friends and contemporaries, this exhibition focuses on vibrant, dynamic, and humorous objects, with loans from the LeWitt Collection in Chester, Connecticut, and related art from the Lyman Allyn’s collection.

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July 5, 2022
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

FREE ADMISSION THIS SUMMER AT LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM: FUNDING PROVIDED BY A GRANT FROM CT HUMANITIES

NEW LONDON – Lyman Allyn Art Museum was recently awarded a grant from Connecticut Humanities to support our participation in the CT Summer at the Museum initiative.

The program invites Connecticut children ages 18 and under plus one accompanying Connecticut resident adult to visit participating museums free of charge from July 1 through Sept. 5, 2022. Funding for the initiative is provided by the CT General Assembly, with the support of Connecticut Humanities and the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the federal ARPA.

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