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May 6, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
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LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM FEATURES DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
Finding voices of the African Diaspora that might otherwise be forgotten is at the heart of the Davis Collection.

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art on Saturday, May 29. The extensive exhibition celebrates the passion of an ordinary couple who spent more than 35 years as devoted connoisseurs building a collection of vivid artworks that is both resonant and remarkably personal. Memories & Inspiration will be on view at the Lyman Allyn, the only venue in the Northeast, through August 22.

The show presents 62 selected works from a body of art amassed by Kerry, a retired mailman, and Betty, a former television news producer, who gladly gave up many ordinary comforts to fill their home with these extraordinary paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures as their principal luxuries. Their collection includes works by Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest T. Crichlow, Sam Gilliam, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Alma Thomas, and Charles White. In selecting their work, the couple did not search exclusively for well-known and/or documented artists. Rather, they focused on gathering and preserving a range of artistic approaches to the black image. [Read more…]

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February 23, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 ext. 2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS AARON TAYLOR KUFFNER’S GAMELATRON

NEW LONDON – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is excited to announce the opening of a new exhibition on Saturday, Feb. 27 by conceptual artist, sculptor and composer Aaron Taylor Kuffner. Encountering Resonance: Aaron Taylor Kuffner’s Gamelatron will be on view through May 23.

A Gamelatron is a sound-producing kinetic sculpture presented as site-specific installations and stand-alone art works. Based on the Indonesian music tradition known as gamelan, they are made from bronze and iron instruments that are retrofitted with mechanical mallets on sculptural mounts. The elegant sculptures are connected to a computer that transmits digital compositions into an array of electrical pulsations, resulting in a ghostly, musical automaton.

“We are thrilled to bring this immersive artistic experience to the Lyman Allyn,” said Museum Director Sam Quigley, who is known as an expert in Asian and Indonesian music in his own right. “It promises to actively engage our visitors in an intermingling of ancient art and music and modern technology.” [Read more…]

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February 9, 2021
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 x2112 / dawson@lymanallyn.org

THE LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES ABSTRACT WORK BY XANDA MCCAGG

New London – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Xanda McCagg Recent Work: Icon, on view Feb. 13 through Apr. 18, in the Glassenberg Gallery on the first floor as part of the Museum’s Near :: New contemporary series.

Xanda McCagg’s abstract paintings are investigations of the human condition on both a global and an intimate level. They push and pull the viewers perception through layers of distilled human experience. Using the language of line, color and mark making, McCagg’s work comments on the dichotomies that define and shape our lives. Observing the world around her by exploring the cause and effect of shifting relationships as they occur in nature and in humanity, McCagg creates compositions that speak to memory, metaphor and perception. [Read more…]