The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

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.

An interview with the mystically inclined artist, who shares the interests of Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton.

“Critic and activist Lucy Lippard’s landmark 1971 exhibition of twenty-six women artists at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum was among the first institutional responses to the underrepresentation of women in art history. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the museum has reassembled the show’s original cast – including Howardena Pindell, Carol Kinne, and Adrian Piper – and positioned them in dialogue with emerging female-identifying or nonbinary artists. Leilah Babirye, Tourmaline, and Hannah Levy are among the twenty-six additions, all of whom live in New York and have yet to have a major solo museum show, in keeping with Lippard’s original criteria.”

Alongside Alexander Calder and George Rickey, Tim Prentice forged a new path in kinetic art. We spoke to the American nonagenarian artist and architect ahead of his major two-part exhibition, ‘After the Mobile’, at the Aldrich, Connecticut.

This week: On Tim Prentice, Chausson’s Le roi Arthus, Baroque set design & more.

Using plastic to paint, draw connections, and ask questions.

Read about Lucia Hierro's work in Sculpture Magazine.

Lucia Hierro takes us on a Polaroid tour of her native New York including spots in Washington Heights, the Bronx and Brooklyn where she is currently based.

A lone plastic shopping bag, plucked by the breeze, floats gracefully down the street. It is the “muse” of Lucia Hierro, who, although foremost an academic, is also a conceptual artist.

Artist Hugo McCloud’s first solo museum show spotlights his creative turns.

With summer on the horizon after a long pandemic winter, museums are throwing their doors open to tell every kind of story.

Tim Prentice (b. 1930) is known for his innovative work in the field of motion in sculpture. Prentice has been a resident of Connecticut since 1975, and After the Mobile marks his first solo museum exhibition since 1999.

Karla Knight has spent the last forty years creating an impressive body of work that spans painting, drawing, and photography.

Since The Aldrich’s founding in 1964, Frank Stella has participated in fifteen group shows, and yet, Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey marks the first exhibition dedicated solely to the artist at the Museum.

During the pandemic, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, has been experimenting with ways to bring art out of its white galleries, and into homes within the local community.

The 84-year-old abstract artist's giant star sculptures, now on display in Connecticut, exhibit a life of their own.