The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

"Getting” Contemporary Art: Martha Diamond: Deep Time

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Participants will begin this class with close looking in the gallery, examining in detail Martha Diamond’s visionary paintings of the built environment. By studying Diamond’s preparatory monotypes, oil sketches, and finished works, we can begin to understand her method of capturing “perceptions” in paintings that hover between abstraction and figuration. The session will conclude in the classroom for a hands-on activity and slide presentation exploring the wide range of influences on Diamond’s work.

Kristen Erickson has been teaching art history and curating exhibitions for the past three decades. She spent eight years working in the curatorial field at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art before turning to teaching. Kristen currently teaches art history at Greenwich Academy, where she also runs the campus art gallery. She holds degrees in French and art history from Vassar College and Oxford University. A resident of Ridgefield, Kristen loves making contemporary art come alive for new audiences.