The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

This is our seventh annal summer Highlights Exhibition. We have selected two or three works from each of the twenty-six artists who we feel had the most exciting and significant one-man or one-woman shows this year in New York City art galleries. Eleven of the artists had their first show this year. The trend toward Lyrical Abstraction which became apparent in Highlights two year ago continued this year; an overall “post-modern” soft look seems to have emerged as an ongoing movement. Despite the denunciation of art as an object by the practitioners of conceptual and ephemeral art, exciting and significant works of art are being created and continue to interest the public in art galleries and museums.