femme brut(e)
September 14, 2006 – February 4, 2007 This exhibition features works by significant women artists who demonstrate an interest in pushing the limits of their medium, whether it is photography, drawing, or painting, as well as those who challenge traditional expectations of women’s subject matter. The show features works from the Big Daddy series by May […]
From the Hand of the Composer: the Art of Melissa Manchester
September 16, 2006 through February 4, 2007 Complementing Femme Brut is an exhibit of original musical compositions penned by Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Manchester. This exhibit aims to highlight and make visual the creative process and link music with visual art forms. Text as image will offer the viewer insight into the composer’s creative process […]
Moires Blinks Monochromes Stops Starts Mixes: An Installation by Ellen Carey
September 14, 2006 – February 4, 2007 Carey’s work explores the photographic process using large-format Polaroid cameras. Her work is abstract—it does not record images seen through a camera lens—but rather the chemical process of photography. The resulting large-scale images are brightly-colored shapes: the “pulls” resemble surfboards and the moirés, a type of fabric.
Italian Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through December 31, 2006 This ongoing exhibition features Italian art from the Museum’s permanent collection. Works on display date from the 14th through the 19th centuries and include paintings, sculpture, and drawings by such artists as Tiepolo and the Renaissance masters Zuccaro and Tintoretto. In conjunction with this exhibition, Dr. Robert Baldwin, Professor of Art […]
Les Santons de Provence
November 24 through January 22, 2007 Back by popular demand, more than 200 santons – “little saints” – in French, will be on display for the holiday season, featuring santons from the personal collection of Edith “Fuzzy” Gipstein as well as from the Museum’s permanent collection. Santons are hand-painted clay figurines, which populate a replica in miniature of a 19th-century […]
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 […]