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 […]
Gas in Glass: The Light Sculptures of Mundy Hepburn
February 23 – June 24, 2007 Old Saybrook glass artist Mundy Hepburn creates fanciful large-scale blown glass sculptures that he fills with gas mixtures including xenon, argon, neon, and krypton. He then activates the sculptures with high frequency static electricity. The resulting light sculptures seem to come “alive” with changing colors. And yes, for those […]
Expresiones/Expressions: Caribbean and Latin American Art from the Benjamin Ortiz Collection
February 23 – June 24, 2007 This thought-provoking exhibition of Caribbean and Latin American art, so rarely on view, is co-curated by art historian Gustavo Valdes and features paintings, photographs, sculpture, and drawings from Ortiz’s private collection. Artists represented include both emerging artists and internationally-known masters from the Caribbean islands, Central America, and South America. […]
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 […]