July 23 – October 16, 2022
Examining friendship, humor, and collaboration in modern and contemporary art, with art from the Sol LeWitt Collection.
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. [Read more…]
The sixth annual exhibition of Nasty Women Connecticut, The Will to Change, Gathering as Praxis, hosted at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum’s Near::New series, is dedicated to the life and work of writer and social activist bell hooks (1952–2021). Nasty Women Connecticut looks to hooks’ writing to make sense of feminisms’ shortcomings and to further the project of community gathering as an essential activity of the feminist movement. The group invited submissions of art, writing, and other formats that celebrate openness and inclusivity and make space for our contemporary ambiguity, looking globally to understand community’s role in feminist movements. hooks teaches us (in plain words) that no one is liberated under sexist, exploitative, oppressive systems. That, in these present-day scenarios we’re all held captive, and that “healing does not take place in isolation.”