ART OPENINGS AND EXHIBITS
MUSEUMS
Fun & Games? Leo Jensen’s Pop Art — The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme; features the work of Pop Artist Leo Jensen (1926–2019); runs through May 19; held in conjunction with “Art in Play” at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum; hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Sun. through March; after that, the site is open till 5 p.m. on all of those days; (860) 434-5542.
Beatrice Cuming: Connecticut Precisionist — Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St., New London; Cuming (American 1903-1974) was an important and under-recognized Connecticut woman artist working in an era of tremendous change; she worked in New London for much of her career and celebrated modernity in her dynamic depictions of urban life in the 1930s-'50s; runs through May 26; artworks by students from area schools on view in the museum's Lehman Auditorium; featured now through April 28 is art by students of the Bennie Dover Jackson Multi-Magnet Middle School in New London: opening reception is Friday; hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun.; (860) 443-2545.
Women of Mystic — Mystic Museum of Art, 9 Water St., Mystic; this exhibition features the work of Mystic art colony's creative and irrepressible women artists; runs through June 2, but museum is closed April 22May 3; hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; (860) 536-7601, mysticmuseumofart.org.
Alexis Rockman: Oceanus — Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic; the show features 10 large-scale watercolors and an 8-by-24-foot panoramic painting, all commissioned by the Museum to become part of the permanent collection; also, “Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates,” a major exhibition featuring selections from the 19th-century Blaschka Glass Invertebrates collection at The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and from other institutions, runs through Sept. 2024; “Sea as Muse and Fish & Forrest: Through the Lens of a Commercial Fishermom” features silver objects and wood carvings inspired by the sea; runs through spring 2024; (860) 572-0711; mysticseaport.org.
OTHER VENUES
Resilience — Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; this exhibition examines social justice in America through the eyes of Andre Rochester, a 40-year-old Black man and Pamela Pike Gordinier, a 76-year-old white woman; on view through May 26; artist talk at 7 p.m. May 7; gardearts.org.
Patrick Regan Art Exhibit — The Golden Owl, 19 Golden St., New London; showcasing Regan's beer label illustrations for Tox Brewing Company; through April 28; noon-8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat, noon-5 p.m. Sun.; (860) 924-2695.
Inside Narrative and Storytelling — Hygienic Art Gallery, 79 Bank St., New London; works by Gallery One CT artists conveying the idea of journeys through paintings, printmaking, collage, watercolors and photography; through Saturday; also, “Stoimen Stoilov Redux,” a retrospective collection of works by noted Bulgarian artist whose ties to the local community originated through his friendship with the late poet William Meredith; through April 30; hours noon-7 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun.; hygienic.org.