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Ted Victoria: INFESTATION was on view at The Aldrich from October 31, 2009 to November 29, 2009.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will offer a snapshot of Tom Sachs’s work that focuses exclusively on cameras, opening on June 21, 2009.
Charlie White: OMG BFF LOL–Video A was on view at The Aldrich from June 2, 2009 to September 20, 2009.
Robert Lazzarini: Guns and Knives was on view at The Aldrich from February 2, 2009 to September 13, 2009.
Alejandro Diaz: Blame it on Mexico was on view at The Aldrich from February 21, 2009 to May 31, 2009.
Dave Cole: Flags of the World was on view at The Aldrich from February 14, 2009 to May 31, 2009.
Frontier/Frontera is an ongoing project that reevaluates the narratives that make up our understanding of the American West, with particular attention to the U.S./Mexico borderlands.
Frank Poor: Enon Cemetery–Main Street Sculpture Project was on view at The Aldrich from February 7, 2009 to May 24, 2009.
Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber–Video A was on view at The Aldrich from December 14, 2008 to May 31, 2009.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that noted Korean artist Kwang-Young Chun has created his largest free-standing paper sculpture to date.
Full Circle: Ten Years of Radius was on view at The Aldrich from November 28, 2008 to June 7, 2009.
Lars Fisk: Trashbags was on view at The Aldrich from September 14, 2008 to February 15, 2009.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the selection of Huma Bhabha as the recipient of the Museum’s 2008 Emerging Artist Award.
Karin Davie is best known for her exuberant, colorful, and evocative paintings that use undulating stripes and contorted gestures to obsessively animate the canvas and immerse the viewer.
Miguel Soares and Letha Wilson: Video A was on view at The Aldrich from August 10, 2008 to December 7, 2008.
Consisting of sheets of paper tiled to represent an image of the moon, upon closer inspection, the design is made up of text that reads, “I Create as I Speak.” A single sheet is removed from the wall and rests on a lectern, with a microphone and a portable amplifier, inviting the viewer to interact with the work.
The Aldrich is pleased to present Peggy Preheim: Little Black Book, the first Museum exhibition to fully explore the wide range of Preheim’s very delicate and intensely private work.
The Museum revisits a major work by artist Bill Barrette entitled The Bird Collector.
Fashion, fame, and photography reconvene in this exhibition of the artist’s photographs.
Still Life involves tens of thousands of tennis balls. The installation animates both space and meaning as circumstances cause the tennis balls to travel through the world.
Gary Panter: Daydream Trap presents 17 paintings and 19 comics pages made since 1996.
Ester Partegàs: The Invisible was on view at The Aldrich from March 9, 2008, to August 10, 2008.
ROUND is part museum audio tour and part participatory audio blog commissioned by and exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture was on view at The Aldrich from February 11, 2008 to May 9, 2008.
James Prosek: Life & Death–A Visual Taxonomy was on view at The Aldrich from September 16, 2007 to June 16, 2008.
Charlotte Schulz: An Insufficiency in Our Screens was on view at The Aldrich from September 16, 2007 to May 26, 2008.
Voice & Void 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from September 16, 2007 to February 24, 2008.
Marti Cormand: 2007 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from September 16, 2007 to February 24, 2008.
ATM: Aldrich New Staff Hire was on view at The Aldrich September 6, 2007 through February 24, 2008.
50,000 Beds was intended as an exploration of the interdependent roles of art and tourism. It was a collaboration with the three presenting organizations, the artists, and the hotel/business community.
Michael Somoroff's installation Illumination I defies easy categorization. Installed with its open side facing east, toward the rising sun, Illumination I stands over 20 feet high and weighs more than 22,000 pounds. Inspired by both spirituality and politics, Somoroff's work reveals its relationship to the phenomenon of light and the artist’s interest in sacred architecture.
Neil Jenney: North America was on view at The Aldrich from June 24, 2007 to September 3, 2007.
Judge’s provocative new installation focuses on the relationship between a large-scale cast concrete sculpture sited in the Museum’s inner courtyard and a twenty-nine-foot-long drawing that will fill the wall of the adjacent corridor gallery.
Norm Magnusson: On This Site Stood features contemporary social and political historical markers as part of the 2007 Main Street Sculpture Project.
Arturo Herrera borrows imagery from children’s books and other popular culture sources to create hybrid works of art that are both familiar and foreign.
David Abir: Tekrar was on view at The Aldrich from March 11, 2007 to August 12, 2007.
Dario Robleto: Chrysanthemum Anthems was on view at The Aldrich from March 11, 2007, to June 17, 2007.
Elana Herzog and Michael Schumacher: W(E)AVE was on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum from March 11, 2007 to June 10, 2007.
Kysa Johnson: Blow Ups–Spores, Pollen, and Pollutants was on view at The Aldrich from March 11, 2007 to June 10, 2007.
The Photograph as Canvas was on view at The Aldrich from March 11, 2007 to June 10, 2007.
Josh Azzarella: 2006 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from October 15, 2006 to February 25, 2007.
David Haislip has been taking pictures of artists installing work at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for the past seven years. His unique, behind-the-scenes perspective has allowed him to take intimate and informal photographs of individuals who have exhibited at the Museum during that time.
No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art was on view at The Aldrich from August 25, 2006 to February 25, 2007.
Paul Fusco's exhibition of photographs, Bitter Fruit, documents the funerals of US soldiers killed in Iraq in his personal protest against government attempts to downplay the costs of war.
Anselm Kiefer: Velimir Chlebnikov was on view at The Aldrich from May 27, 2006, to October 1, 2006.
Land Mine: Laleh Khorramian, Wangechi Mutu, and Michael Zansky was on view at The Aldrich from May 27, 2006, to October 1, 2006.
Julian Opie: Sara dancing, sparkly top was on view at The Aldrich from May 20, 2006, to September 17, 2006.
The painted installation unfolded in three phases over the course of seven months. Each phase charted the movement of a shaft of afternoon light on the Museum from the northwest to the southeast, poetically referencing the movement of the sun across the sky.
Homecoming: Sarah Bostwick, Damian Loeb, and Doug Wada was on view from March 26, 2006, to August 6, 2006.
Tom Burckhardt: FULL STOP was on view at The Aldrich from March 26, 2006, to August 6, 2006.
Jennifer Zackin: Killamanta Kutimusaq (To the Moon and Back) was on view at The Aldrich from January 22, 2006 to June 18, 2006.
Catherine Opie: 2004 Larry Aldrich Award Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from January 22, 2006, to May 14, 2006.
John Giglio: BlowHomes was on view at The Aldrich from October 16, 2005 to May 1, 2006.
More saints seen, a phrase from Gertrude Stein's libretto Four Saints in Three Acts, provided impetus for this series of drawings and sculptures.
Todd Hebert: 2005 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from October 16, 2005 to March 12, 2006.
The exhibition includes a series of twelve paintings, each composed of imagery laid down by the artists in succession without a predetermined plan for its content or structure.
Each of Jane Harris's painting is a controlled experiment limited to a tightly prescribed geometry of elliptical form that utilizes only two colors, painted with a uniform pattern of parallel brush marks.
Fred Wilson's exhibition displays his growing interest in the medium of glass. He has taken the title of the exhibition, "Black Like Me," from John Howard Griffin's groundbreaking 1961 book of the same name.
Lisa Sigal: A House of Many Mansions was on view at The Aldrich from July 10, 2005 to January 8, 2006.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Connection to the Curious, a solo exhibition of the work of Emil Lukas, on view through October 9, 2005. Lukas is interested in the beauty that results from an open-ended exploration of materials and the art-making processes.
“Los Angeles” shot by Sarah Morris in 2004, continued Morris’s investigation into the culture, architecture, and aesthetics of the city, which is the center of the film industry.
Roman de Salvo: Liquid Ballistic was on view at The Aldrich from June 5, 2005, to September 4, 2005.
Roman de Salvo: Main Street Sculpture Project was on view at The Aldrich from June 5, 2005, to September 4, 2005.
Mark Dion: Memento Mori (My Glass is Run) was on view at The Aldrich from May 1, 2005, to October 10, 2005.
Pipilotti Rist: Grabstein für RW was on view at The Aldrich from May 1, 2005, to October 2, 2005.
Contemporary Erotic Drawing was on view at The Aldrich from May 1, 2005 to August 7, 2005.
Orly Genger: Mr Softy was on view at The Aldrich from May 1, 2005 to October 10, 2005.
Solitude and Focus Recent Works by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts was on view at The Aldrich from January 23, 2005, to June 22, 2005.
Shannon Plumb: Behind the Curtain was on view at The Aldrich from January 23, 2005, to June 22, 2005.
Alyson Shotz: Light, Sound, Space was on view at The Aldrich from January 23, 2005 to June 22, 2005.
Bottle: Contemporary Art and Vernacular Tradition was on view at The Aldrich from September 19, 2004, to January 5, 2005.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that David Opdyke has been selected as the recipient of the Aldrich Emerging Artist Award for 2004 by the curatorial staff of the Museum. This award is given to an artist whose work exhibits bold innovation, exciting originality, clear direction, and serious dedication.
Michael Rees: Large and Moving was on view at The Aldrich from September 19, 2004, to January 5, 2005.
Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis was on view at The Aldrich from September 19, 2004, to January 2, 2005.
Aldrich at the Movies was on view at The Aldrich from September 19, 2004, to January 2, 2005.
Jonathan Seliger: Politeness Counts was on view at The Aldrich from September 3, 2004, to January 5, 2005.
Into My World: Recent British Sculpture was on view at The Aldrich from June 13, 2004 to September 1, 2004.
Self-Sufficient Barnyard is an installation of 42 life-sized animals carved out of Styrofoam. The installation includes 3 pigs, 3 sheep, 1 steer, 30 chickens, and 5 rabbits, all deliberately sculpted to resemble computer-generated animals.
Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #1123, Planes with broken bands of color covers 1,800 square feet of the gallery's south, west and north walls, leaving the east wall empty and establishing a specific vantage point for viewing the entire work.
Mary Lum: Interchange was on view at The Aldrich from June 12, 2004, to September 1, 2004.
Peter Halley: Exploding Cells, 1994 was on view at The Aldrich from June 12, 2004, to September 1, 2004.
Nina Levy: Big Baby was on view at The Aldrich from November 9, 2003 to April 16, 2004.
The Drawn Page was on view at The Aldrich from October 2, 2003, to March 18, 2004.
Elizabeth Demaray: 2003 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Recipient was on view at The Aldrich from June 1, 2003, to August 31, 2003.
Ten contemporary artists reflect on nature with installations at the museum and Weir Farm, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Portrait Gallery, a solo exhibition by artist Nina Levy, from June 1 through July 13, 2003, in the Museum’s Erna D. Leir Gallery.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present new work by Janice Caswell, on view January 19 through April 27, 2003. Installed in the Museum's Micro Gallery on the second floor, a space newly dedicated to the exhibition of small artist's projects, Caswell's colorful iconic maps will fill the diminutive gallery with glimpses of places both real and imagined.
Mark Dion: Full House is the first major New York area solo exhibition of this internationally-recognized American artist, on view from January 19 through April 27, 2003. As recipient of the prestigious 2001 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, Dion was presented with $25,000 in October of 2001 and given the opportunity to mount a new exhibition at The Aldrich
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce Carl Ostendarp: 189 Drawings, on view January 19 through March 23, 2003.
Yuken Teruya: 2002 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Recipient was on view at The Aldrich from September 22, 2002, to December 31, 2002.
Early Acclaim: Emerging Artist Award Recipients 1997-2001 features the work of Bonnie Collura, Claire Corey, and Roxy Paine.
The exhibition features highlights from the collection of New Canaan resident Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.
Family was on view at The Aldrich from May 19, 2002, to September 4, 2002.
Linda St. John: Even Dogs Go Home to Die was on view at The Aldrich from May 19, 2002 to July 14, 2002.
Snapshots: An Exhibition of 1,000 Artists features a mix of well-known and local artists, lay photographers from twenty-four countries.
Floor to Ceiling was on view at The Aldrich from January 20, 2002, to May 1, 2002.
The thirteen artists in Model World distinguish themselves by the disparate worlds they portray, the elaborate sculptural forms that result, and the distinct conceptual aims they pursue.
Natacha Lesueur: Opticalfragilistic was on view at The Aldrich from January 20, 2002, to March 17, 2002.
Best of the Season: Selected Highlights from the 2000-01 Manhattan Exhibition Season was on view at The Aldrich from September 23, 2001, to December 30, 2001.
Jordan Tinker: Caudatowan 1986 was on view at The Aldrich from September 23, 2001, to December 30, 2001.
Haluk Akakçe: No Way Forward, No Way Back was on view at The Aldrich from June 3, 2001, to July 8, 2001.
Art at the Edge of the Law was on view at The Aldrich from June 3, 2001, to September 9, 2001.
Systematic Drawing: Janet Cohen & John F. Simon, Jr. was on view at The Aldrich from January 21, 2001, to April 22, 2001.
Janine Antoni: The Girl Made of Butter, 1999 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award Exhibition was on view at The Aldrich from January 21, 2001, to May 20, 2001. In The Girl Made of Butter, Janine Antoni presents a new series of work focusing on the cow as subject and its metaphorical relationship to the mother.
Paper was on view at The Aldrich from January 21, 2001, to May 20, 2001.
Ink Jet: Matt Chansky, Claire Corey, and Tom Moody completely reinvent painting inside the computer.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Glee: Painting Now, an exhibition examining artists renewed confidence in painting in the face of new visual technologies.
Acts of Art: A Performance Series was on view at The Aldrich from June 18, 2000, to July 16, 2000.
Speed of Vision was on view at The Aldrich from June 18, 2000, to September 6, 2000.
Olafur Eliasson: New Work was on view at The Aldrich from January 23, 2000, to April 30, 2000.
Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium was on view at The Aldrich from January 23, 2000, to May 29, 2000.
Playing Off Time: Contemporary Photographers in Dialogue with the Past looks at the way photography freezes a moment.
Best of the Season: Contemporary Art from the 1998-99 Manhattan Exhibition Season was on view at The Aldrich from September 26, 1999, to January 9, 2000.