Sam Messer, "Mr Coincidence (Paul Auster),” 1999, oil on canvas, 58 by 48 inches.
:Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition, "Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum," on view March 15–August 17.
Contemporary art poses such questions as where does the past stop and the present begin? Where does the local artist meet with and become a colleague of internationally recognized artists? These are questions that will be posed and discussed at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum's galleries this spring.
The museum is hosting an exhibition of work drawn from its rarely seen collection of contemporary art, all of which has been acquired since 1958, both through purchase and donation. Adjunct Professor of Art History at Connecticut College Janis Mink curates this exhibition with the assistance of the students in her seminar class "Issues in Contemporary Art." Their goal is to offer an elegant and surprising presentation that will showcase the museum's holdings.
"Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum" will exhibit photographs, paintings and works on paper from the mid-Twentieth Century until today, with an emphasis on the past 20 years.
An impressive list of artists will be on view, including Richard Avedon, Ellen Carey, Nan Goldin, Alex Katz, Barbara Kruger, Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Sol LeWitt, Sam Messer, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano and William Wegman, among others.
The museum is at 625 Williams Street. For information,
www.lymanallyn.org
or 860-443-2545.
