ART OPENINGS AND EXHIBITS

OPENINGS

Elective Affinities

Opening reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, UConn Avery Point campus, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton

This exhibition celebrates work by 18 artists from eastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island. They are exhibiting paintings, collage, photography, print, and wall hung sculpture for this second juried exhibition, with works selected by a committee convened by the AVS Gallery. Runs through June 1. Gallery hours are noon-4 pm, Thursday-Sunday.

The Crossing: A Juried Exhibition

Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday Hygienic Art Main Gallery, 79 Bank St., New London

Juror and sculptor/painter Dana Naumann will judge a variety of submissions from new and veteran artists in a variety of styles. Runs through June 15. Gallery hours are noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday.

Disparate Vision

Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Saturday Hygienic Art Lower Gallery, 79 Bank St., New London

Hygienic collective show with artwork from Aliyah Denea, Rosie Rosado, Rebecca Fowke and Ariel Miner. The event will be enhanced by lighting, music and refreshments. Runs through June 15. Gallery hours are noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, noon-4 p.m. Sunday.

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; hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun.; (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 May 19 is art by students of Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School, and through May 12 art by students of the New London Visual & Performing Arts Magnet Pathway; 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; hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily; (860) 536-7601, mysticmuseumofart.org.

Spineless: A Glass Menagerie of Blaschka Marine Invertebrates — Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic; 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; (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; gardearts.org.

Ship to Shore: A Marine Show — Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Old Lyme; also on view through May 30 are art by the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and John Caggiano’s solo show, “Then & Now”; hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun.; (860) 434-7802. Impressionism ... Then & Now — Thames River Gallery, 239 Bank St., New London; this exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition features the work of 11 artists and will be on view through mid-summmer; gallery hours are 10 a.m-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat.; @thamesrivergalleryct, (860) 443-0344.