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When Art Captures the Wind and the Rain—and a Bit of Ourselves, NRDC

“Weather Report” fills a Connecticut museum with the works of 25 artists who explore what’s happening in the atmosphere and, inextricably, to us.


Zoë Sheehan Saldaña and Glenn Adamson in Conversation, Sculpture Magazine

“There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum consists of some 50 handmade objects—“artistic camouflage,” as the museum puts it—that appear to be ordinary items one might find in any home.


Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum, Hyperallergic

At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.


Best Art of 2019, The New York Times

This was a year of highs that included political protest in the art world, a historic Whitney Biennial, inspiring monuments and a revamped MoMA.


Artists on the Verge of an Ecological Breakdown, Elephant

Over the years, many artists have have proven themselves to be staunch supporters of environmental campaigns.


New Aldrich Exhibit Explores the Concept of Safe Spaces, The Ridgefield Press

“Safe space” is a loaded term these days yet artist Zoë Sheehan Saldaña astutely mines this concept in all its paradoxes to create an exhibition that explores ideas of safe spaces and self-reliance.


Weather Report Exhibit at The Aldrich Goes Beyond Clouds and Rain, The Ridgefield Press

A diverse selection of art ranging from drawings and paintings to sculptures, videos and installations — all featuring weather as the thematic subject — is on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.


Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever, The New York Times

Harmony Hammond, who began exhibiting and curating in the very early post-Stonewall years, was one of the people responsible for defying and reversing this repression.


Going Beneath the Surface, ARTnews

Hammond speaks with the conviction of someone who has been fighting for visibility in the art world—and beyond—for a very long time.


Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art, The Brooklyn Rail

Harmony Hammond proves that abstract art can be politically charged and bursting with content.


A Trailblazing Lesbian Artist Gets Her Due, Hyperallergic

Contested bodies take center stage in Material Witness, Five Decades of Art, an audacious, and long overdue, museum survey of lesbian artist and activist, Harmony Hammond.


Harmony Hammond’s Queer Art of Bondage, Frieze

In the artist’s first US survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, abstract paintings and sculptures evoke women’s bodies in pleasure and pain.