Special exhibitions at the Lyman Allyn complement the Museum’s permanent collection galleries, providing visitors with something new to see and experience with each visit.
Join us for artmaking on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month! Free First Saturday offers projects inspired by our exhibitions and Science Saturday explores the connections between art and science.
Featuring particularly strong collections of American paintings and decorative arts, the Museum also presents a wide range of changing exhibitions and programs throughout the year.
Lyman Allyn Park will produce a dramatic change in the landscape of New London by creating a 12-acre, freely accessible urban park that will serve as a cultural and educational resource for the City of New London and the surrounding region.
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. Hetakes the viewer on a visual journey between the two media. The vividly bold paintings and prints seem familiar and yet distant; perhaps a memory from a dream when one is jarred awake. Within the brilliant colors and dense brushstrokes, one can almost see a structure, a landform, something recognizable, but not then quite. Dinkin says of his work, “The images depict a personal universe—distilled landscapes bound only by their own reality. They strive for the flickering ambiguity of paint to dreamy vision, held fast within a structure that is both descriptive and dimensional.”