The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Rudy Shepherd’s Somebody’s Child paints the portraits of victims in an effort to celebrate their humanity and mourn the loss of life.

In Genesis Belanger’s exhibition Through the Eye of a Needle, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, death is an expected, albeit uninvited, guest, at home in the affluent domiciles orchestrated here through tableaux and mise-en-scène.

Curatorial Assistant and Publications Manager Caitlin Monachino created a gingerbread replica of The Aldrich for a local event at the Lounsbury House in Ridgefield. Read about her process of creating this incredible masterpiece!

The artist has painted 400 portraits pulled from the news cycle to understand the people beyond the headlines.

Twenty Twenty's 71 works are by only seven artists, who in late 2019 were asked to capture 2020 with drawings they based on photographic images.

“Twenty Twenty,” an exhibit that documents and responds to the 2020 election season.

The show highlights Stella’s work with star figures, a form he’s often explored during a career of more than six decades.

A new exhibition calls to mind an interview with Frank Stella from a 1983 issue of Architectural Digest.

The artist's first ever major solo exhibition is now showing at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut.

There’s always something slightly unnerving about Genesis Belanger’s sculptures. Her tableaux of furniture and ceramics, with their crisp edges, soft, buttery textures, and dusty pink and tan hues, are spiked with a sharp, humorous bite.

Sculptural artist Genesis Belanger made her solo show debut at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on Sept. 21 with her haunting exhibition “Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle.”

Genesis Belanger meditates on mourning and loss in Wallpaper's October issue.

Genesis Belanger's theatrical life-size tableaux blur the boundaries of art and design. he artist creates stage sets with furniture she builds to evoke loosely a nostalgic mid-century mood.

In her first major solo museum exhibition, Through the Eye of a Needle at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Genesis Belanger expands her iconic, domestic porcelain and stoneware objects that disavow glazes and anthropomorphize desires.

Belanger riffs on the sorts of thoughtful-but-ultimately-tired gestures that people make in sympathy.

The artist cites a painterly 19th-century landscape and a geometric 20th-century mural as influences on his own work.

The artist’s Minimalist abstractions helped change the direction of his painting.

Through Nov. 29, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will display 25 watercolor paintings by Shepherd depicting the victims of police brutality and other race-related incidents.

Titled “There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” Sheehan’s exhibition prods at the relationship between artisanal craft and industrial production, and posits that the pairing might be uniquely American at heart.

Zoë Sheehan Saldaña: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here evokes a sense of urgency and taps into our current yearning for survival.