A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
March 15 through August 17, 2008 Best known for its collection of 18th and 19th century American Art, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum also has a strong history of collecting contemporary art which this exhibition will showcase. Featured are works by Ellen Carey, Sol LeWitt, Ad Reinhardt, Rainer Fetting, and Cleve Gray as well as […]
Just When You Think Art is Dead, Here Comes JED
March 1 through April 27, 2008 JED is a three-person collaborative who use the first initial of their birth names to form a fictitious contemporary lens-based, conceptual photographic artist in the early 21st century. JED represents their collective alter egos, whose identity is a secret. Borrowing from the Dada and Surrealist’s art movements, which includes […]
Honks, Beeps, Whistles: Getting Around New London
In The Children’s Gallery March 15 through August 17, 2008 Celebrating New London’s role as a hub of transportation, this gallery is dedicated to the interests of children. The show will feature a variety of works including paintings, antique toys, wagons and tricycles. The exhibit functions to support the LAAM Education department’s programs as well […]
At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch
October 12, 2007 through February 25, 2008 Listen to Helen Harrison’s review of the Cranch exhibition on “Art Waves” which aired on December 6, 2007 on 88.3 FM WLIU’s “In the Morning with Bonnie Grice.” Despite a fifty-year career as a landscape painter, Christopher […]
Barbara Roux: Evidence from Nature
October 12, 2007 – February 25, 2008 Miles Gallery will present an installation of this environmentally-based artist. Her hermetically- sealed “evidence bags” are actual specimens taken from nature. This unique exhibition is visually intriguing as well as inspirational and is the perfect complement to the Museum’s major fall exhibition At Home and Abroad: […]
The British are Coming: British Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through February 4, 2008 Curated by Nancy Stula from the Museum’s permanent collection, The British are Coming features paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts from the 17th through the 20th centuries. On view are works by such luminaries as Peter Lely, John Ruskin, George Romney, William Morris, and members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Dante Gabriel […]
Les Santons de Provence
Through January 20, 2008 Back by popular demand, more than 200 santons, or “little saints” in French, will be on display for the holiday season. The exhibition includes many examples on loan from the personal collection of Edith “Fuzzy” Gipstein as well as santons from the museum’s permanent collection. Santons are hand-painted clay figurines that populate a miniature replica […]
Guido Garaycochea: Painted Boxes – Echoes of the Past Cajas Pintadas, ecos del pasado
Guido Garaycochea, a Peruvian painter working in New York, presents a poignant series of three-dimensional painted boxes in this special and personal installation that deals with the political turmoil and personal loss that has plagued his country for many years. The exhibition includes a video component and encourages audience participation.
Larry Dinkin: Painting to Silkscreen, an Interpretive Process
Larry Dinkin: Painting to Silkscreen, an Interpretive Process July 13 – September 23, 2007 The relationship between painting and silkscreen prints as seen through the creative eyes of New York artist Larry Dinkin. He takes the viewer on a visual journey between the two media. The vividly bold paintings and prints seem familiar and yet distant; perhaps […]
The New York School: Works from a Private Collection
July 13 – September 23, 2007 This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Dinkin exhibit. The works on view range in date from 1936 to contemporary works created in the last five years. All relate to, or are derived from, the abstraction of the 1950’s. The earliest work in the show predates Abstract Expressionism by […]