Subject
May 14 – August 14, 2006 This exciting new exhibition, curated by Steven Holmes and culled from the renowned Cartin collection in Hartford, Connecticut, introduces contemporary approaches to portraiture ranging from traditional oil on canvas portraits to enhanced and re-worked photographs to three-dimensional assemblages referencing childhood memories. Subject explores–visually, socially, politically, and psychologically- the nature of portraiture. […]
An Undulating Presence
Artist Susan Benarcik installation “An Undulating Presence,” is on view in the Glassenberg Gallery. It is a site-specific installation made of rolled book pages and recycled cardboard forms that creates an undulating visual marker around the gallery. This marker metaphorically represents the acquired, consumed, and discarded knowledge of a contemporary society.
Portrait of a City: The New London Project
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is one of several venues for this exhibition of life-size photographs of New Londoners by photographer Joe Standart. In 2004, Standart, a nationally-recognized photographer from New York City, set up a studio in downtown New London to capture the dignity and energy he saw in the faces of the people […]
After William Meredith
William Meredith (b. 1919) is one of America’s most respected poets. Meredith is U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and he taught at Connecticut College from 1955 until 1983. This month-long exhibition will feature renderings of Meredith’s poetry by contemporary French artist, and friend of Meredith, […]
Commerce and Culture: Architecture and Society on New London’s State Street
October 7, 2005 – April 10, 2006 This exhibition takes as its subject State Street–a thoroughfare that is relevant to the lives of everyone in the greater New London area. The exhibition will feature historic photos of downtown New London, maps, and memorabilia, including menus and rate sheets from the Crocker House, and vintage postcards […]
Portrait in Progress: The New London Project
October 7 – December 4, 2005 A preview of an upcoming exhibition of the work of photographer Joe Standart. The artist will install a selection of his larger-than-life-size photographs of New Londoners in the Museum.
James Britton: Connecticut Artist
June 3 – September 19, 2005 An introduction to the work of lesser-known Modernist James Britton with a comprehensive exhibition of paintings, drawings and woodcuts from all phases of his career. Born in Hartford, Britton divided his time between Connecticut, New York City and Long Island: for decades he passed monthly through New London on […]
Northern European Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum Permanent Collection
January 30 – December 31, 2005 Note from the Curator (Nancy Stula): The Chapel Gallery is installed with European Art from the permanent collection: it turns out there is such a wealth of works that I have decided to concentrate on Northern European Art—specifically Dutch, Flemish and German Art from the 15th through the 18th, poss […]
Sol LeWitt: Recent Work
March 6 – May 16, 2005 Exhibition will include work in a variety of media: drawings and maquettes for a series of brick dome sculptures, a series of photographs, as well as a wall drawing designed by LeWitt specifically for the Museum’s McKee Gallery. The drawing will measure eleven by forty-five feet and will exist […]