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Timed-entry tickets or reservations required

Current Exhibitions

Smaller wooden star sculpture in foreground, large-scale black star sculpture in background.
On View

Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
Overall installation view with gray slipcovered furnishings with surrealist clay objects and a large-scale multi-colored curtain on the back wall.
On View

Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
The art contents of the Aldrich Care Box featuring two artists' books and small sculptures.
On View

Aldrich Care Box
Blue wall in foreground with a silver material and wire sculpture. Two other suspended sculptures in background.
On View

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile
Stainless steel sculpture in form of abstract star by Frank Stella set in the lawn by Main Street in Ridgefield, CT in front of the Museum.
On View

Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey | Outdoor Installation

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Features

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The New York Times writes that our exhibitions are the kind you expect at a “big-guns urban institution, but [find] at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in leafy suburban Connecticut.” – September 2019

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258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877

Hours and Admission

Hours
Date Time
Sunday 12 pm to 5 pm
Monday 12 pm to 5 pm
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 12 pm to 5 pm
Thursday 12 pm to 5 pm
Friday 12 pm to 5 pm
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Admission
Category Price
Adults $12
Seniors $7
Students $7
Members
Educators
Children under 13
Military Families
Third Saturdays 		Free
The Museum is closed on the following holidays:
Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day.
Contact us at 203.438.4519 or general@thealdrich.org

Selected Upcoming Events

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Pastel multi-colored curtain panels with two manicured hands pulling back two pieces of fabric.
May 4, 2021 at 6:00 pm | Public Programs

Virtual Artist Conversation: Genesis Belanger

Join Senior Curator Amy Smith-Stewart and artist Genesis Belanger on a virtual walk through and Q&A of her exhibition Through the Eye of a Needle.

Graphic with a yellow background with a magnifying glass hovering over the words Aldrich Undercover.
May 6 at 7:00 pm to May 9, 2021 at 5:00 pm | Special Event

Aldrich Undercover

Aldrich Undercover returns! The Museum's signature biennial “secret” benefit art sale where the identity of the artist who created the work for sale is only revealed after purchase. In light of safety restrictions because of COVID-19, Aldrich Undercover has been reimagined as a virtual fundraiser.

A man wearing all black with long gray hair views a large-scale black star sculpture by Frank Stella.
May 20, 2021 at 6:00 pm | Public Programs

Frank Stella: Virtual Talk with Art Historian Robert Hobbs presented with The Glass House

This talk will cover Frank Stella’s artistic development and his place in art history by examining Stella’s works from the current Aldrich exhibition Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey and the Glass House’s collection.

Upcoming Exhibitions

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Two shaped canvases, to the left a pink heart, to the right a pink triangle, with tromp l'oeil images,
April 28, 2021 to September 6, 2021 | Leir Atrium

Clarity Haynes: Collective Transmission
Digital print of a opaque tan grocery bag filled with goods such as dish soap, bananas, and a red onion.
June 7, 2021 to January 2, 2022 | South Gallery, Balcony Gallery

Lucia Hierro: Marginal Costs
Image of a person on a bicycle riding away from the viewer with large stacks of yellow bags.
June 7, 2021 to January 2, 2022 | Leir Gallery, Screening Room, Project Space

Hugo McCloud: from where i stand
Multi-part suspended sculpture of yellow squares strung together forming a curving line through a winter forest canopy.
September 19, 2021 to April 24, 2022 | Sculpture Garden

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile | Outdoor Installation
Otherworldly abstract painting and symbols appear on top of vintage cloth background.
October 17, 2021 to May 1, 2022 | Opatrny Gallery Vestibule, Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery

Karla Knight: Navigator

Featured Artwork

Small star sculpture
Frank Stella, Model for the Phoenix Suns 1 (2019)

Frank Stella, Model for the Phoenix Suns 1 (2019)

Frank Stella’s Model for the Phoenix Suns 1 (2019) features open, lattice-like grid points – a consistent corruption of the star form in Stella’s work.

Featured Past Exhibitions

Small sculptural objects on shelf in white room
May 20, 2018 to January 13, 2019 | Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery, Bridge, South Gallery, Balcony Gallery, Project Space, Screening Room

The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives On Tabletop Art Objects

The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, is a meta-group exhibition in five chapters—organized by five curators, including more than seventy artists.

Old Hundred
January 14, 1984, to May 6, 1984 |

Intermedia: Between Painting and Sculpture

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Intermedia: Between Painting and Sculpture on view from January 14, 1984, to May 6, 1984.