Connecticut museums and galleries offering exhibits
Connecticut is rich with art galleries, museums and artists in all corners of the state, with gorgeous and engaging exhibits opening every week. Venues that are open to the public, as well as outdoor exhibits, are listed. Visit their websites for social distancing rules.
Hartford County
New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St.: “30 Americans,” a show of portraits of Black people by Black artists, is up to Oct. 30. Artists are Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Noah Davis, Leonardo Drew, Renée Green, David
Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, William Pope.L, Rozeal, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley and Purvis Young. “Mildred Thompson: Cosmic Flow” is up until Nov. 27.“North America Divided,” which pairs 19th-century landscapes and genre scenes with works by contemporary artists Neil Jenney and Valerie Hegarty, is up until March 2023.“American Art in New Britain: The Evolution of the NBMAA” is up until Oct. 1. “Eva LeWitt” is up until Nov. 11, 2023. “Cowboys, Detectives, and Daredevils: Pulp Art at the NBMAA” is up until Aug. 7. The Helen Frankenthaler virtual reality space is now on view.
nbmaa.org.
Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. in Hartford: “Dreaming in Black & White Deep Pool” is up to Aug. 28. “Odds and Ends Steven Laschever” is up until July 17. “Dishonest Dancers Jesús Hilario-Reyes” is up until Aug. 21. realartways.org.
Main Street in Hartford: A stroll down Main Street provides ample artworks to view. In front of the library, there is a sculpture by David Hayes and a statue of Mark Twain. Between City Hall and Wadsworth Atheneum is Alexander Calder’s massive red “Stegosaurus.” In front of the Atheneum are a newly refurbished statue of Nathan Hale and sculptures by Conrad Shawcross, Tony Smith and William Turnbull.
Across the street from the Atheneumn is Carl Andre’s “Stone Field Sculpture.” Also across the street from the Atheneum is the Bushnell Towers sculpture garden. thewadsworth.org.
New England Air Museum, 36 Perimeter Road in Windsor Locks: An exhibit about New England women who made significant contributions to the history of aviation will be on permanent display. neam.org.
Marlborough Town Hall, 26 North Main St.:
Work by Carol Jeffries is up until December. marlborougharts. org.
Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth St. in Hartford:
“Formative: Frederick Law Olmsted in Connecticut” is up to Aug. 28. “Common Struggle Individual Experience: An Exhibition About Mental Health” will be up until Oct. 15. chs.org.
Galleries @ WORK_SPACE, 903 Main St. in Manchester:
“The Art of Recovery,” work by artists impacted by addiction, is up to Aug. 19. workspacemanchester.com.
Chase Family Gallery at Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave. in West Hartford:
Photographs by Mallorie Ostrowitz are up until Aug. 26. mandelljcc.org.
Gallery 66, 66 West Main St. in New Britain:
An exhibit of mosaic and stained-glass art by Martha Dawkins and Nancy Talbot, will be up until July 22. facebook.com/Gallery66NewBritain/
Farmington Valley Arts Center, 25 Arts Center Drive in Avon:
“Untamed: Wildlife Art” is up until July 30. “Summering: FVAC Studio Artist Exhibit” is up to Aug. 27. artsfvac.org.
ArtWalk at Hartford Public Library, 500 Main St.:
“Gateway to Places We’re Told We Cannot Go: Christa Whitten” is up from July 15 to Aug. 27. hplct.org.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford:
“Naama Tsabar / MATRIX 189: Melodies of Certain Damage (Opus 6)” will be up until Sept. 11.“Edward Russell Thaxter: Love’s First Dream” is up to July 31. “Hamilton: The Art of Remaking History” is up to Sept. 11. thewadsworth.org.
Gallery on the Green, on the town green in Canton:
The 62nd Anniversary Exhibition and a solo exhibit by Richard Allen Cohen are up from July 8 to Aug. 6. galleryonthegreen. org.
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at Manchester Community College, on Great Path Road: Spring Arts Festival is up to Aug. 24. manchestercc. edu/hans-weiss-newspace.
Avon Town Hall, 60 West Main St.: A spring/summer exhibit of 29 artworks will be up until Oct. 15. avonarts.org.
Hill Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road in Farmington: “Radical Spirits: Tarot, Automatism, and Feminist Histories,” an exhibit of work by members of the feminist art collective Hilma’s Ghost, will be up to Nov. 1. hillstead. org.
Windham County
Top Shelf Gallery at Fletcher Memorial Library, 257 Main St. in Hampton: “Work by Jane Collins” is up until June 30. Work by Scott Rhoades runs to Aug. 31. fletchermemoriallibrary.org.
Windham Historical Society, 627 Main St. in Willimantic:
Sculptures by Richard Jaworowski and David Corsini, will be on view July 10, 16 and 17 from 1 to 3 p.m.
The Art Gallery in the Fine Arts Instructional Center, Room 112, at Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham St. in Willimantic: “Imagined Places, Inhabited Spaces” is up until Sept. 2. Artists in the show are Adrienne Chadwick, AdrienneRose Gionta, Rod Faulds and Lydia Viscardi. easternct.edu/art-gallery.
Middlesex County
The Space Gallery, 1 Main St. in Chester: “Contemporary Show” by River Valley Artists is up to Aug. 31. rivervalleyartists. com.
Katharine Hepburn Museum, at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center at 300 Main St. in Old Saybrook: Artifacts from the life and career of Katharine Hepburn are on permanent display. thekate.org.
New London County
Hygienic Art Galleries, 79 Bank St. in New London: “This is Us,” work by Rebecca Fowke, Dame Fk, Stephanie Gerald, Kern Bruce, Mere Doyen and Nicki Arciolinda Bonanno, is up from July 15 to
Aug. 12. hygienic.org.
Gilbert V. Boro Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds, 80 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: The sculpture grounds, with works by Boro and other artists, is on private property but is open to the public. Boro asks guests not to enter any buildings. A YouTube video about the grounds, part of the Smithsonian Channel documentary series “America: Over the Edge,” can be seen at gilbertboro.com.
Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water St.: “Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post Covers: Tell Me a Story” and “Missing Narratives” are up to Sept. 18. mysticmuseumofart. org.
Mystic Seaport Museum, 75 Greenmanville Ave.: “Story Boats: The Tales They Tell” is up to Aug. 14. mysticseaport. org.
Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness” is up to Sept. 18. flogris.org.
Norwich Arts Center, 60 Broadway: The annual members show is up until July 26. norwicharts.org/exhibits.
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, 84 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “111th Annual Exhibition of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts” is up until Aug. 20. lymeacademy.edu.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St. in New London: “Picturing Mystic: Views of the Connecticut Shoreline, 1890-1950” is up to Sept. 4.“Poetry in the Wild: Sculptures by Ana Flores”will be up all summer.“The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis,” an exhibit by Nasty Women Connecticut in honor of bell hooks, will be up until Aug. 12. lymanallyn.org.
Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St. in Old Lyme:
“Water All Around Us,”work by artists age 3 to 18, is up to Aug. 12. lymeartassociation.org.
Thames River Gallery, 329 Bank St. in New London:
“Eye of the Beholder,” an exhibit of seven local artists — Thomas Adkins, Lisa Miceli, T.R Mockler, Brechin Morgan, H. Gray Park IV, Howard Park and Len Swec — will be up until Sept. 17. instagram.com/
thamesrivergalleryct.
LaGrua Center, 32 Water St. in Stonington: “13th Annual Stonington Artists Show” is up from July 8 to Sept. 23. lagruacenter.org.
Fairfield County
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St. in Ridgefield: “Melvin Edwards: Asafokra” is up until Sept. 5. “52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone” is up to Jan. 8. aldrichart.org.
The Glass House, 199 Elm St. in New Canaan:
The historic home of architect Philip Johnson is open for outdoor tours.“Pliable Plane: Anni Albers” is up until Dec. 13.“David Hartt: A Colored Garden,” with paintings by Charles Ethan Porter and a new film by Hartt, will be up until Nov. 14. theglasshouse. org.
Greenwich Art Society, 299 Greenwich Ave.: The Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation presents “43 Degrees: A Solo Exhibition by Ava Lee” to July 21. greenwichartsociety.org.
Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road in New Canaan:
The 2022 Guild Summer Salon, an exhibit of work by more than 100 Silvermine members, will be up to Aug. 18. silvermineart.org.
Bruce Museum, One Museum Drive in Greenwich:
“Permanent Science Galleries: Natural Cycles Shape Our Land” is up until the end of the year. brucemuseum.org.
Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Mathews Park, 299 West Ave. in Norwalk:
“8th Biennial FOOTPRINT International Exhibition2022 and“Shop Swap: East London Printmakers at CCP” are up to Aug. 28. contemprints.org.
The Gallery at Still River Editions, 128 East Liberty St. in Danbury:
“The Inner Sanctums: Gene Moore” will be up from July 9 to Sept. 30. stillrivereditions.com.
Hollis Taggart Southport, 330 Pequot Ave:
“Abstract Ascension: Dana James, Kathryn MacNaughton and Anna Pietrzak” is up to Aug. 31. hollistaggart.com.
Loft Artists Association,
575 Pacific St. in Stamford: The annual member/guest exhibit is up until July 31. loftartists.org.
Housatonic Museum of
Art, on the campus of Housatonic Community College, 900 Lafayette
Blvd. in Bridgeport: “Vincent Baldassano: To Be Continued” will be up to July 22. museum. housatonic.edu.
City Lights Gallery, 265 Golden Hill St. in Bridgeport:
“18 Artists, 18 Years,”an exhibit of work by Maralyn Adlin, Carlos Bautista Biernnay, Claude Desir, Karen Loprete, Looketha (Marcella Cavalliere), Dan Makara, Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, Shanna Melton, Brad Noble, Francis Pressley, Mark Rich, Gerald Saladyga, David Sepulveda, Scott Schuldt, Liz Squillace, Rita Valley, Amanda Walker and Joan Wheeler, is up until July 15. citylightsgallery. org.
MoCA Westport, 19 Newtown Turnpike:
“Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse,” a collaboration with The Contemporary Art Modern Project and the Fiber Artists Miami Association, will be up to Sept. 4. Artists include Laetitia Adam-Rabel, Alissa Alfonso, Carlos Bautista Biernnay, Nancy Billings, Liene Bosquê, Pip Brant, Carola Bravo, Mabelin Castellanos, Melissa Dadourian, Camille Eskell, Susan Feliciano,
Molly Gambardella, Amy
Gelb, Joseph Ginsberg, Jac Lahav, Maria Lino, Laura Marsh, Sooo-z Mastropietro, Caitlin McCormack, Shelly McCoy, Jeanne Jaffe & Molly McGreevy, Norma Minkowitz, Aurora Molina, Valeria Montag, Chiara No, Evelyn Politzer, Rosana Machado Rodriguez, Alina Rodriguez Rojo, Damian Rojo, Margaret Roleke,
Debora Rosental, Rosario Salazar, Yolanda Sanchez, Natalia Schonowski, Leslie Sheryll, Silvana Soriano, Maru Ulivi, Rita Valley, Lisu Vega, Laura Villareal, Joan Wheeler, Silvia Yapur and Wendy Wahl. mocawestport.org.
Stratford Library, 2203 Main St.:
“Stuff I See,” photograph by Nicole Irene, is up until July 31. stratfordlibrary.org.
New Haven County
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. in New Haven: “Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction” is up until July 24. “Marc Quinn: History Painting +” is up until Oct. 16. britishart. yale.edu.
Artspace, 50 Orange St. in New Haven:
“Completely Familiar, Entirely Free,” a show of work by Lani Asunción, Amira Brown, Saskia Globig, Michael Ipsen, Kyuri Jeon, Micah Lat, Matt Lavine,
Anna Lindemann, Shelby Meier, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Jessica Smolinski and Sonnie Wooden, addresses the historic and continued roles of industry and advertising in shaping urban spaces. It is up from July 16 to Sept. 10. artspacenh.org.
Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Suite 200, in Woodbridge: The museum is open by appointment only at palestinemuseum.us.
NXTHVN, 169 Henry St. in New Haven: “From the Outside In,” a show of work by Kaitlyn Higgins, Lauren Wiedenmann, Sofia Carrillo, Nelly Torres, Jaiden Shoulders, Ashlynn Topper and Sereen Mezzane, is up to Sept. 4. nxthvn.com.
Gallery 53, 53 Colony St. in Meriden: “Frank A. Lamphier, Jr. & Justin Piccirillo: A Journey Through Meriden History,” an exhibit of political cartoons, is up from July 9 to 23. gallery53. org.
Henry Whitfield State Museum, 248 Old Whitfield St. in Guilford: “Weld-Built: The Guilford Architecture of William E. Weld” is on view until December. portal. ct.gov/ECD-HenryWhitfieldStateMuseum.
New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave.:
“Strange Times: Downtown New Haven in the COVID Era,”“Children of the Elm City,”“Factory” and “The Quantum Revolution: Handcrafted in New Haven” are on view. newhavenmuseum.org.
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull St. in New Haven:
“Suzanne Anker: After Eden” and ”Amerikrainian Flags: Recent works by Jay Bright”are up through July 17. elycenter.org.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave. in New Haven:
“Lost/Found: Over 65 Artists Consider What They Have Either Lost or Found,” is up to July 31. The artists are Alicia Afonso, Mark Battista, Robert Bienstock, Dawn Bisharat, Marsha Borden, Chris Bordenca, Amy Browning, Frank Bruckmann, Bill Butcher, William Butcher III, Louise Cadoux, Allen
Camp, Susan Clinard, Alison Cofrancesco, Penrhyn Cook, Rod Cook, Robyn Cooper, Kit Curry, Amanda Duchen, Riley Dunbar, Carol Dunn, Thomas Edwards, Joe Fekieta, Chris Ferguson, Brian Flinn, Julia Forrest, Julie Fraenkel, Jake Gagne, Sean Gallagher, Jeffrey Gangwisch, Kelley Griffin, Matthew Garrett, Eddie Hall, Heidi Harrington, Kate Henderson, Ann Hodgdon-Cyr, Kate Pollard Hoffmann, Mary Janacek, Karen Kertesz-Sklar, Earl Killeen, Oxana Kovalchuk, Terrence Lavin, Marta Machabeli, Sven Martson, Janice Mauro, JoAnne McFarland, Roy Money, Nancy Moore, Michelle Morgan, Hilary Opperman, David Ottenstein, Hank Paper, Rujuta Paradkar, Dionne Pia, Barbra Ringer, Matthew W. Robinson, Mark K. St. Mary, Preeti Garg Schaden, Franklin da Silva, Lisa Toto, Basia Tov, Gabriela Vazquez, Amanda Walker,
Gar Waterman, R.F. Wilton, Marjorie Wolfe, Amie Ziner and Lou Zucchi. kehlerliddellgallery.com.