Monthly Roundup
Closing Soon
Through Dec 10 | Joseph Fucigna: Drip-Drop, Tick-Tock, Here + Now
Joseph Fucigna’s one-person exhibition, Drip-Drop, Tick-Tock, Here + Now, was originally scheduled to open at the Housatonic Museum of Art in September 2018, but a fire above the gallery caused water damage. The show was rescheduled for September 2020 and was postponed a second time due to the pandemic. Finally open, Fucigna’s exhibition demonstrates his transformation of industrial materials into organic forms.
Installation view of The Language in Common. Credit: Charles Benton.
Through Dec 12 | The Language in Common
The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan’s main gallery on campus, has reopened to the public with an exhibition featuring works that occupy the spaces between poetry, visual art, and performance. Through installation, sculpture, video, drawing, poetry, and performance, five artists present iterations of what the poet Alice Notley calls “the language that holds all being together.” Read my student David A. Rodriguez's review in the Arts Paper here.
Ongoing
Through Jan 2 | Hugo McCloud: From Where I Stand
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum will mount the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, continuing through January 2, 2022. Works in the show are from 2014 to 2021, a transformative period that includes experimental abstraction to figurative painting. Touching on notions of class and identity, Hugo McCloud’s works often incorporate unconventional materials such as single-use plastic bags. Watch Aldrich Exhibitions Director Richard Klein and McCloud in conversation on YouTube here.
Through Jan 9 | Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints
The New Britain Museum of American Art presents an overview of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s printmaking practice with lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints includes eighty-three objects and is arranged chronologically. In conjunction with this exhibition, the NBMAA will also mount complementary shows of the artist’s daughter Eva LeWitt as well as selections from the LeWitt Collection.
Through Jan 9 | On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale presents works by women artists who have graduated from Yale University including Audrey Flack, Eva Hesse, Howardena Pindell, Roni Horn, Maya Lin, Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, Mary Reid Kelley, among others.
Opportunities
Grants
Public Art Learning Fund, deadline: Dec. 13
Jobs
Chief Curator, Mattatuck Museum
Program Director, Creative Arts Workshop
Open Call
Buy Art this Holiday Season
The artists and artisans below are all Connecticut makers.
Amira Brown — drawing sale via Butterhouse Projects
Cole Mama Creations — bespoke totes, baskets, and more
Denyse Schmidt Quilts — quilts, patterns, and workshops
Elm City Tees — tie-dyed everything
Hardenco — custom clothing and accessories with unlimited repairs
Heather Hope Gendron — blankets, gift wrap, prints, etc.
Kate Stephen Jewelry — New Haven-based jeweler
Kiara Matos Ceramics — ceramics for sale online and at the new store in New Haven
Rockwater Pottery — functional ware and home goods
Smolinski Family Store — a family of artists
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