The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

In February 2023, Eduardo Andres Alfonso joined the Museum as Associate Curator. We asked Eduardo a few questions about his time at The Aldrich so far and what he’s been working on.

Elizabeth Englander’s first solo museum exhibition, Eminem Buddhism, Volume 3, features new and recent works. The exhibition will be on view from April 7 to October 20, 2024, and will be accompanied by the artist’s first museum publication featuring an essay by Eduardo Andres Alfonso, Associate Curator.

Elizabeth Englander answered a few questions about her work and practice.

Layo Bright’s first solo museum exhibition, Dawn and Dusk, features new and recent works in glass and pottery made between 2020 and 2024. This show brings together several ongoing series tracking Bright’s synchronized jumps from figuration to abstraction. The exhibition will be on view April 7 to October 20, 2024, and will be accompanied by the artist’s first museum publication featuring an introduction and interview by Amy Smith-Stewart, Chief Curator.

Layo Bright answered a few questions about her work and practice.

Curatorial and Publications Manager Caitlin Monachino shares how The Aldrich has programmed public sculpture on site since the Museum's founding in 1964.

We asked Eddie Marshall, Principal and Landscape Architect at STIMSON, a few questions about how the Sculpture Garden renovation project has been going so far.

On February 26, 2024 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to inaugurate the commencement of its Campus and Sculpture Garden Renovation Project, slated to be completed Fall 2024.

Thanks to a generous extended loan by Brown Jordan, visitors are welcome to enjoy the Walter Lamb Collection by Brown Jordan throughout the Museum’s outdoor spaces.

The story of the Old Hundred, the original galleries at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, as a turning point in Robert Indiana's career and the place he found "LOVE."

This Spring, the Aldrich Teen Fellows worked with exhibiting artist Hangama Amiri on a project that allowed the Fellows to share their reflections on the themes found in Amiri's exhibition with the wider Aldrich community.

The Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri fled the Taliban as a child. Her new museum show reclaims space for women with colorful textile works.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce that curator and architect Eduardo Andres Alfonso has been named Associate Curator and will be starting his new role at the Museum on February 13, 2023. Using research to situate exhibition histories within larger social, economic, and political contexts, Alfonso’s curatorial practice engages audiences through new commissions and innovative exhibition design.

Willoughby Thom, The Aldrich's Summer Intern, reflects on her time at the Museum and the work she did with both Marketing & Communications and Education Departments. She worked on a number of projects during her 8-week internship but primarily focused on digitizing and cataloguing a large portion of material from the late to mid-1990's as well as conduct a visitor's experience survey for the museum's Third Saturday programming.

Amy Smith-Stewart has been named Chief Curator after nine years at the Museum acting first as Curator, and most recently as Senior Curator. Smith-Stewart succeeds Richard Klein who retired from his position as The Aldrich’s Exhibitions Director on June 10 after over thirty years at the Museum.

High school intern Soren Covell reflects on his month-long internship at The Aldrich witnessing the installation of 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum looks back at a 1971 exhibition devoted to women and puts their work in conversation with emerging feminist artists.

Duane Slick deploys his canine friend in a thrilling show. For the 60-year-old artist and professor, this first museum solo is long overdue.

Born in 1887 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Alexander Archipenko started his career studying painting and sculpture at the Kyiv art school from 1902–1905, the foundation to an extensive trail of international exhibitions in the years to come. On loan to The Aldrich by a private collector and longtime Ridgefield resident, Woman with Folded Arms demonstrates Archipenko’s prowess and sensitivity in interpreting the body, where the figure’s apparent femininity is conditional to its strength. On the occasion of this artwork’s presentation, The Aldrich will be donating a portion of admissions to Doctors Without Borders through May 15, 2022.

Learn about the making of the Museum's largest exhibition to date, 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, from Caitlin Monachino, Curatorial Assistant and Publications Manager.

Blog entries from the Fall 2021 cohort of Aldrich Teen Fellows speaking about their projects inspired by Hugo McCloud and Lucia Hierro's exhibitions.

Richard Klein will conclude his administrative duties as Exhibitions Director in June 2022 and organize his final exhibition at the Museum in February 2023. Klein has worked at the Museum for over three decades, holding the position of Exhibitions Director since 2004.