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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
March 15 through August 17, 2008Best 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 many other artists whose work entered the museum’s collection in the years since 1957. A subset of this exhibition will be a contemporary photographic portfolio recently acquired by the museum and on view for the first time.
Just When You Think Art is Dead, Here Comes JED
 
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 stream-of-consciousness to make art and found objects not traditionally used for art making, championed by Marcel Duchamp for example, JED focuses their attention on a selection of photographic images, such as test strips and “bad” prints that were discarded and thrown out by their original picture makers. These found/abandoned images are re-contextualized and elevated to “high” art with a sense of humor that underscores the absurd, the forgotten, and now serves as documents of the human attempt to make art despite constant failure, what is commonly known as the “artist’s struggle”. Honks, Beeps, Whistles: Getting Around New London
In The Children’s GalleryMarch 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 as appeal to children of various ages visiting the museum. Various children’s programs and tours are planned throughout the exhibition period.  
Pierre Mignard (1612-1695) Portrait of a Lady n/d Oil on canvas Anton Mauve (1838-1888)
Shepherd and Sheep (n/d) Watercolor and gouache on paper Tradition et Innovation: French Art from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Through December 31, 2008Presenting French art from the permanent collection, with paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Works on view include J.A.D. Ingres’s important pencil study for the portrait of Mme. Moitessier Standing (c.1851), Pierre Auguste Renoir’s bronze Maternite’ (1916), and Auguste Rodin’s sculpture Study of a Crouching Woman. Also on view are 17th century drawings by Nicholas Poussin, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and Francois Boucher; and paintings by Pierre Mignard, Gustave Courbet, and Honore’ Daumier. |
American StoriesThis ongoing and evolving exhibition drawn from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection presents a broad range of American art featuring painting, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. |
All of our exhibitions have been funded in part by generous grants from The Frank Loomis Palmer Fund, Bank of America, Trustee, and Pfizer, Inc.
For information on the Museum Exhibitions, contact:
Dr. Nancy Stula, Interim Director and Curator, Lyman Allyn Art Museum
For general information, please email us at info@lymanallyn.org