Past Exhibitions

Past exhibitions from the

This is an installation image featuring six rows of portraits of subjects' faces and the back of their heads

June 6, 1999, to July 11, 1999 | Old Hundred, Leir Gallery

20 x 24: Recent Portraits by Lyle Ashton Harris

20 x 24: Recent Portraits by Lyle Ashton Harris is the first major public presentation of a selection of images from the new series of unique Polaroid portraits begun by the photographer in the Fall of 1998.

June 6, 1999, to September 12, 1999 | Old Hundred

The Nude in Contemporary Art

Since the very origins of art, people have been rendering the unclothed human form. Although the human form is a perennial subject for art, the cultural attitudes surrounding it perpetually change. The work of the 45 artists in this exhibition explores themes including the mundane body, the grotesque body, aging, identity, the celebration of beauty, and cultural norms and prohibitions that surround the body.

A large map of the world with various animals superimposed on top. Two young stand on either side of the image looking away from the viewer at the dinosaurs

March 21, 1999, to May 23, 1999 | Old Hundred

Alexis Rockman: A Recent History of the World

Alexis Rockman is talented, dangerous, and nuts. He’s also a diligent researcher with almost too much cerebral curiosity to be a visual artist. He reads. He consults field guides, taxonomies, old travel narratives, and serious books of conceptual science. He collects obscure facts and incorporated them (along with the bold balls, the dead seagull and rattlesnake carcasses, the women's underwear, the images quoted from pop culture and art history, and other physical and representational artifacts) into his creations.

January 24, 1999, to March 14, 1999 | Old Hundred

Future-Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children from the Reader’s Digest Collection

The Aldrich Museum is privileged to have the opportunity to present Future-Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children from the Reader’s Digest Collection. The works included in this exhibition represent only a part of the vintage, modern, and contemporary photographic images of children owned by Reader’s Digest.

This is a photo of the artist Ann Hamilton with one of her metallic sculptures around her neck. She received the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1998

January 24, 1999, to May 23, 1999 | Old Hundred

Ann Hamilton: Whitecloth, 1998 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition

artist of exceptional merit. An independent panel selected the 1998 recipient: Ann Hamilton. Ann Hamilton’s installation whitecloth was conceived after a series of visits by the artist to The Aldrich Museum. She responded to the incongruity between the Museum’s exterior appearance.

This is the image of Lee Boroson's installation "Cake Walk" which took over the stairwell and made it feel like you were ascending into the clouds

September 13, 1998, to January 3, 1999 | Old Hundred

Here: Artist’s Interventions at the Aldrich Museum

This quirky, domestic-scale building, with its hidden windows, vestigial fire-places, and scarred wooden floors is a defining characteristic of the Aldrich, exerting a subtle and pervasive influence on all the exhibition we mount. The influence usually extends only as far as the installation of an exhibition, not its content; in that case of Here: Artist's Interventions at The Aldrich Museum, the invited artists have taken great advantage of our building, exploiting its unique character in their work.

A cartoon living room with a couch, lamp, rug, bookshelf, chair, coffee table

September 13, 1998, to January 3, 1999 | Old Hundred

Roy Lichtenstein: Prints from the Collection of John & Kimiko Powers

This exhibition is a selection of Lichtenstein’s multiple-editioned works from 1964 to 1996, chosen from the collection of John and Kimiko Powers, who have assembled one of the most significant private collections of the artist’s work. With the passing of Roy Lichtenstein in 1997, the art world lost not only one of the most significant pioneers of Pop art, but also an artist who over the last forty years has had a profound influence on the nature of contemporary printmaking.

June 7, 1998, to August 30, 1998 | Old Hundred

Pop Surrealism

Pop Surrealism is an exhibition of work by 73 artists whose surrealist tendencies are informed by popular culture. Both Pop art and surrealism have remained extremely influential on twentieth century art. The artists in Pop Surrealism look deep into representations of contemporary culture, mutating them with a surrealist’s eye.

This is a piece by Melissa Marks which features her iconic flower-like characters/ forms on a bright orange background with various shades of pink, yellow, blue

June 7, 1998, to July 18, 1998 | Old Hundred, Leir Gallery

Melissa Marks, The Adventures of Volitia: Heroic Burlesque

Melissa Marks has cerated a wonderful idea: a self-aware abstraction named Volitia. Not just any self-aware abstraction either, but an aesthetically promiscuous, abstract character. Marks's achievement is the vigorous, beautiful embodiment of her character on the walls of the Aldrich Museum's Erna D. Leir Gallery.

April 19, 1998, to May 31, 1998 | Old Hundred, Leir Gallery

YaZOO!: James Grashow

Redding artist James Grashow transformed the Museum's Leir Gallery into a zoo of wild jungle animals. Crafted from plain and corrugated cardboard and assembled with Elmer's Glue and paper packing tape, these larger-than-life size animals were arranged so that visitors could stroll throughout the gallery in the corridors between their cardboard cages. Grashow fabricated as many animals as possible to replicate the thrill and variety of an actual trip to the zoo.

A floor plan of the fictional home of Fred and Wilma Flintstone from the cartoon "The Flintstones"

January 18, 1998, to March 15, 1998 | Old Hundred

Mark Bennett: TV Sets and the Suburban Dream

TV Sets and The Suburban Dream illustrates Mark Bennett's cut-to-the-chase approach to American popular culture. His elaborately detailed floor plans of the homes of some of America's best-known families will bring a shock of recognition because they capture and quantify the straight line of television narrative. The artist acts as supreme editor, distilling our collective memories, hopes, and desires by isolating and highlighting the places we seek to inhabit, the things we strive to own, and the people we most admire.

January 18, 1998 to May 24, 1998 | Old Hundred

Large-Scale Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky

It is rare in the complex and changing world of contemporary art that one person can have an impact on an entire field. The genre of works on paper has been fortunate in finding such an individual, Wynn Kramarsky, who responds with intelligence and passion, and perhaps more importantly, support for artists working in a media that traditionally has been considered secondary in the hierarchy of art.

Two pairs of wax legs standing in a false river/ ocean with algae, rocks and water

January 18, 1998, to May 24, 1998 | Old Hundred

Robert Gober: The 1996 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition

The Larry Award Exhibition, Robert Gober; is a selection of the artist's work, including two of his most recent pieces which are being shown for the first time here at The Aldrich Museum. Curator Hany Philbrick worked with Robert Gober in selecting an important cross section of the artist's sculptural output.