FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2020
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Press Contact: Rebecca Dawson, Director of Communications
860.443.2545 x2112 / [email protected]
THE LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM SHOWCASES WORKS BY MICHAEL HARVEY
New London – The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces the opening of Stains Remain: Works by Michael Harvey, on view Aug. 29 through Nov. 1, 2020.
Harvey, an artist and writer who lives in Lyme, moved to New York in 1969, drawn by the art scene and the offer of a teaching position at The School of Visual Arts. The Lyman Allyn’s exhibition showcases recent paintings that contain personal elements – from conceptual and literary interests to contemplative values and the whimsical and humorous.
“It is, after all, who I am. The stains remain,” said Harvey, referencing the show’s title, which is also the title of the book published to coincide with this exhibition. Stains Remain: Stories of becoming an artist in the 1960s, is available in print in the Lyman Allyn’s gift shop and on Amazon Kindle.
The exhibition will be on view in the Glassenberg Gallery on the first floor as part of the Museum’s Near :: New contemporary series. Harvey’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICALA). He has shown in many countries and in such international exhibitions as the Pan Pacific Biennale and Documenta.
“Painting is doing. A way of being in the world. Making marks, reflecting, noticing, erasing, replacing. Doing it again,” Harvey has said. “It is yourself that is there seeping through the paint, through the gesture, through the conversation. I find joy in trying to bring the picture to life. The mutations of thought and emotion. Over time the painting evolves a history not unlike your own. It is you, like it or not, it’s who you are.”
Harvey’s writing has appeared in Art in America, New Haven Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Story and Art Monthly. His illustrations have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, and he was the art consultant to the New Oxford American Dictionary.
The virtual opening reception will be on Wednesday, Sept. 9 from 6 to 7 p.m. Please visit the calendar of events tab on lymanallyn.org for event registration information.
For more information, please contact Rebecca Dawson by email at [email protected].
About the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum welcomes visitors from New London, southeastern Connecticut and all over the world. Established in 1926 by a gift from Harriet Allyn in memory of her seafaring father, the Museum opened the doors of its beautiful neo-classical building surrounded by 12 acres of green space in 1932. Today it presents a number of changing exhibitions each year and houses a fascinating collection of over 17,000 objects from ancient times to the present; artworks from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, with particularly strong collections of American paintings, decorative arts and Victorian toys and doll houses.
The museum is located at 625 Williams Street, New London, Connecticut, exit 83 off I-95. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 pm; closed Mondays and major holidays. The Lyman Allyn will be open for free all summer long, through Labor Day. For more information call 860.443.2545, ext. 2129 or visit us on Facebook or the web at: www.lymanallyn.org.