A Colorful Dream, Photography by Adrien Broom
November 19, 2016 – January 8, 2017 A Colorful Dream is a family friendly, interactive exhibition by contemporary fine art and commercial photographer, Adrien Broom. This exhibit will feature large scale photographs detailing a young girl’s journey as she rediscovers all the colors of the rainbow. Over three years in her studio, Broom constructed individual sets composed […]
Reading the Image: Text in American Art since 1969
October 8, 2016 – January 22, 2017 Reading the Image: Text in American Art since 1969 explores how contemporary artists have used text as a tool for challenging social conventions and myths. Some have reacted to the influx of text found in mass media by appropriating or mimicking common visual strategies, making statements about commercialism and […]
The Distance Between Us
August 6 – October 23, 2016 The Distance Between Us is a book by photojournalist Christopher Capozziello, who turns his camera on his own life, and that of his twin brother Nick. He confronts their differences and the anger and shame Chris carries over being the healthy twin. Nick has cerebral palsy. Initially, sharing this […]
The New London Project 10th Anniversary Portraits
September 10, 2016 – January 22, 2017 New London Project 10th Anniversary Portraits celebrates the tenth anniversary of the highly acclaimed Portrait of a City, the New London Project. In the exhibit, photographer Joe Standart presents 25 pairs of images: original portraits taken in 2006 displayed side by side with portrayals of the same subjects 10 […]
A Good Summer’s Work: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Impressionist
May 7 – Sept 11, 2016 American Impressionist J. Alden Weir is most often associated with his studio at Weir Farm in western Connecticut, yet many of the artist’s best works were created at his little known retreat in Windham, where he painted each summer for nearly four decades. A Good Summer’s Work focuses on paintings created […]
Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School
May 7 – 29, 2016 The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to present a special exhibition by the students of the Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School. Students, parents, teachers, families, and art enthusiasts of all ages are invited to explore artwork created by students, grades K-5. Two-and three-dimensional artworks, in a variety of media, […]
The Artist WithIN
June 10 – July 24, 2016 The Artist WithIN began when OutCT, our region’s LGBTQ organization, asked OutCT board member and artist Amy Hannum to curate an art exhibit in celebration of Pride month. This June the Lyman Allyn Art Museum honors that tradition by inviting the exhibit to the Glassenberg Gallery. The exhibit will […]
Artists at Work
February 13 – April 8, 2016 Artists at Work showcases one of the museum’s newest additions—a collection of drawings by Italian, Dutch and French artists of the 17th and 18th centuries recently donated by a local collector. These sketches, generally made as studies for oil paintings or theatrical sets, show the fine line between fine art […]
Time and Again
February 27 – April 24, 2016 This exhibition, the second in the Lyman Allyn’s Near :: New contemporary series, shows recent work by New London artist, Michael Peery. Featured are two large canvases rendering an imaginary scene entitled The Kiss, a private moment in a public house that may raise more questions than it answers. The […]
Dark Water, Deep Treasures: The Art of Discovery
February 5 – May 15, 2016 Click the link to view related exhibit, Beyond Three Hundred Fathoms.Dark Water, Deep Treasures: The Art of Discovery features 21 paintings from the private collection of oceanographic explorer, Robert D. Ballard, PhD who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985. Dr. Ballard’s collection contains original works by National Geographic illustrators, […]