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Timed-entry tickets or reservations required

Current Exhibitions

White wall with five black and single color drawings of protests.
On View

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

Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey
The art contents of the Aldrich Care Box featuring two artists' books and small sculptures.
On View

Aldrich Care Box
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

  1. Cast sculpture colored objects related to self-care practices including a bar of soap, facial roller, gua sha stone, and tube and bottle of lotion.

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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

We’re open today from 12 pm to 5 pm
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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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
March 11, 2021 | Member Preview

Virtual Members-Only 2021 Director’s Preview

Join Executive Director Cybele Maylone for a look at the artists, exhibitions, and programs that will be taking place in 2021 and beyond.

Three figures stand together with their arms crossed
March 18, 2021 | Educational Programs

Teacher Professional Development: Processing Twenty Twenty in 2020: Examining Grief and Injustice Together

Explore strategies for processing difficult issues, including racism, able-ism, and more within ourselves, in our communities, and in the classroom.

Suspended metal sculpture that looks like light refractions coming through a nearby arched window.
March 29, 2021 at 5:00 pm | Public Programs

Exhibition First Look: Tim Prentice

Please join artist Tim Prentice for a virtual first look at his indoor solo exhibition After the Mobile, which features twenty of the artist’s kinetic sculptures.

Upcoming Exhibitions

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Suspended sculptures in an interior space that are curved and spiraling downwards in shining silver steel.
March 29, 2021 to October 4, 2021 | Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery

Tim Prentice: After the Mobile
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

Star of Persia II
Frank Stella, Star of Persia II

Frank Stella, Star of Persia II

Frank Stella’s Star of Persia II was first presented at The Aldrich in 1969. The work features six repeating equilateral triangles, with the exterior face of each missing a triangular notch. Without these notches, the overall form would be a simple hexagon.

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.

Works by artist William Powhida rest against gallery walls
March 5, 2017 to September 4, 2017 | Opatrny Gallery, Sound Gallery

William Powhida: After the Contemporary

For more than a decade Powhida’s work has provided a satirical, political, and sometimes despairing window into his own experience of New York’s contemporary art market.