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.: “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. “Permanent Collection Installation: People and Places in America, 1960s to Today” is up until May 1. “Eva LeWitt” is up until Nov. 11, 2023. “The Poetry of Nature: Hudson River School Landscapes from the New-York Historical Society” is up to May 22. “Cowboys, Detectives, and Daredevils: Pulp Art at the NBMAA” is up until Aug. 7. nbmaa.org.
Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. in Hartford: “Lamentations Tina Freeman” is up until May 15. “Your Absence Is My Monument: Merik Goma” is up until May 22. “Battlegrounds Elizabeth Flood” is up until June 12. realartways.org.
Art League of New Britain, 30 Cedar St.: CWA Connecticut Women Artists’ annual members’ juried show will be up to April 29. ctwomenartists.org. alnb.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.
Connecticut Historical Society, One Elizabeth St. in Hartford: “Formative: Frederick Law Olmsted in Connecticut” is up from April 22 to Aug. 28. “Common Struggle Individual Experience: An Exhibition About Mental Health” will be up until Oct. 15. Permanent exhibits are “Making Connecticut” and “Inn & Tavern Signs of Connecticut.” chs.org.
Monastery Gallery of Art at the Holy Family Retreat Center, 303 Tunxis Road in West Hartford: “In the Spirit of Trust” is up until June 19. monasterygallery.art.
Galleries @ WORK_SPACE, 903 Main St. in Manchester: “Inspiration: Blank Canvas Show 2022” will be up to April 20. workspacemanchester.com.
Widener Gallery in Austin Arts Center at Trinity College, 300 Summit St. in Hartford: An exhibit of paintings inspired by Ireland by by Professor of Fine Arts Joseph Byrne is up until May 6. trincoll. edu.
The Ethel Walker School, 230 Bushy Hill Road in Simsbury: ““Vex the Ending,” a show of paintings by Steven Cabral and Tracy Hayes, is up until April 29. By appointment only by emailing calvarezdelugo@ my.ethelwalker.org.
Chase Family Gallery at Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave. in West Hartford: Visual Passages: Marjorie Feldman” is up until May 10. mandelljcc.org.
Kent Library, 50 North Main St. in Suffield, presents work by Roger Duffy until April 30. suffield-library. org.
West Hartford Art League, 37 Buena Vista Road: “Members Annual Juried Exhibit,” juried by Camilla Cook, is up to May 1. westhartfordart.org.
Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. in Hartford: “Three Women Expressing the Languages of Color” is up until
May 13. It features work by Cynthia Cooper, Suzanne Jill Levy and Clara Nartey. charteroakcenter.org.
Farmington Valley Arts Center,
25 Arts Center Drive in Avon: A ceramics show, and “In Bloom: Buds and Blossoms” are up to April 30. artsfvac.org.
ArtWalk at Hartford Public Library, 500 Main St.: “Words in Clay, Words on Paper: James Finnegan & Michelle Cotugno” is up to April 23. hplct.org.
Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St.: “Second Layer: Conversations Through Canvas by B.D. Stellmacher” will be up to April 23. windsorartcenter.org.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum ofArt, 600 Main St. in Hartford: “Nevine Mahmoud / MATRIX 188” is up to May 1. “Milton Avery” will be up to June 5. “Edward Russell Thaxter: Love’s First Dream” is up to July 3. thewadsworth.org.
ArtGalleryatUniversityofSaint Joseph, 1678 Asylum Ave. in West Hartford: “Four Works by Ann McCoy” is up to May 28. usj.edu/ arts/art-museum.
Clare Gallery at St. Patrick—St. Anthony Church, 285 Church St. in Hartford: “Beyond the Subject: Work by Fr. Michael Reyes O.F.M.” will be up to May 23. spsact.org.
Gallery on the Green, on the town green in Canton: “A. Walter Kendra: A Life in Art” plus a group show, “Down to Earth,” are up from April 22 to May 21. galleryonthegreen. org.
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at Manchester Community College, on Great Path Road: Work by Berrisford Boothe will be up to April 29. manchestercc.edu.
New London County
Hygienic Art Galleries, 79 Bank St. in New London: “Collective Chaos,” a show of work by Justin Fritch, Bill Herzfeld and Matt Makela, is up from April 22 to May 20. 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.: “Quilt National ‘21” is up to April 17. “More than Hot Type,” a printmaking exhibit, is up to May 29. mysticmuseumofart.org.
Florence Griswold Museum,
96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “New London County Quilts & Bed Covers, 1750-1825” is up to May 1. flogris.org.
Norwich Arts Center, 60 Broadway: Sandra Jeknavorian: Between Realms” is to April 30. norwicharts.
org/exhibits.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St. in New London: “Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions” is up to April 24. “Locations: Recent Work by Marian Bingham” is on view through April 10. “Unbeatable Women: Power and Innovation in the Work of Women Photographers,” is up to June 19. lymanallyn.org.
Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St. in Old Lyme: “Expanding Visions: Traditional and Beyond” and “Hudson Valley Art Association’s 89th Annual National Exhibition” are up from April 15 to June 2. lymeartassociation.org.
Litchfield County
James Barron Art, 17 Old Barn Road in Kent: “Deborah Brown: The Shadow Paintings, Four Seasons” and “Janet Sobel and Ashley Shapiro: Spiritual Connection” are up to May 21. Open by appointment only. jamesbarronart.com.
Craven Contemporary, 4 Fulling Lane in Kent: “Quite an Eyeful,” works by artists who focus on eyes, is up until May 8. Artists include Julie Cockburn, Alice Neel, David Shrigley, Chris Levine, Tony Oursler, Mickalene Thomas and Alex Prager. artnet.com/galleries/ craven-contemporary/artworks.
Kent Art Association, 21 South Main St.: The annual juried show is up until April 24. kentart.org.
KeniseBarnesFineArt, 7 Fulling Lane in Kent: “Unexpected Windows: New Paintings by Elizabeth Gourlay” is up to May 15. kbfa. com.
Carol Corey Fine Art, 6 North Main St. in Kent: “The Watercolors of Charles E. Burchfield and John Marin: Masters of the American Medium” and “At Water’s Edge: Works by Dozier Bell, Lisa Lebofsky, James Mullen and Eileen Murphy” will be up to April 24. carolcoreyfineart.com.
David M. Hunt Library, 63 Main St. in the Falls Village section of Canaan: “Robert Cronin: Recent Paintings” is up to May 6. huntlibrary.org.
Five Points Gallery, 33 Main St. in Torrington: “Portraits in Red: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project,” with work by Nayana LaFond, and “Native Voices,” with work by Justin Beatty, Nate Begay, Patrick Collins, Jason Montgomery and Rebekah Jarvey, will both be up to May 7. fivepointsarts.org.
New Haven County
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. in New Haven: “Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look” and “Recent Acquisitions” are up until June 26. “Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power” is up until July 10. artgallery.yale.edu.
Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. in New Haven: “Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction” is up until July 24. britishart.yale.edu.
Artspace, 50 Orange St. in New Haven: “Love Notes,” the annual fundraising exhibit, is up from April 21 to 23. 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: “Let Them Roam Freely,” work by Hong Hong and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, is up to May 15. nxthvn.com.
Gallery 53, 53 Colony St. in Meriden: “Twisted Visions,” a show of abstract art, is up up to April 28. gallery53.org.
Henry Whitfield State Museum, 248 Old Whitfield St. in Guilford: “Weld-Built: The Guilford Architecture of William E. Weld” is on view. 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” and “Factory” are on view. newhavenmuseum.org.
Hamden Senior Center in the Miller Memorial Library Complex, 2901 Dixwell Ave.: Hamden Art League’s annual Goldenbells exhibit will be up until May 17. hamdenartleague.org.
Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main St. in Waterbury: An American Lens: A History of Photography in Waterbury” is up until Dec. 31. “The Village Project,” work by Denise Minnerly and Don Bracken, is up until May 8. “Two for the
Road: Ernest Roth and André Smith in Europe” is up to May 15. mattmuseum.org.
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull St. in New Haven: Undercurrents,” a group show curated by Kristina NewmanScott, is up to April 24. Artists are Richard Bottwin, Joy Bush, Robert Carley, Jeremy Chandler, Alexandra Chiou, Zoe Cohen, Rima Day, Brooks Dierdorff, Christina Dietz, Daniella Dooling, Scott Glaser,
Priya N. Green, Laurence Elle Groux, Clymenza Hawkins, Steven Holmes, Katie Hovencamp, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Laura Kern, Colleen Kiely, Zofie King, Susan Knight, Elizabeth Knowles, Cindy Konits, Terrence Lavin, K’La Lawson, Suzanne Levy, Crystal Marshall, Melinda McDaniel, Melissa Sutherland Moss, Sarah Nance, David Van Ness, Caleb Portfolio, Sarah Schneiderman, Sarah Sipling, Yuli Sung, Mami Takahashi, Kelsey Tynik, Anthony Warnick, Elizabeth West, Marjorie Wolfe, Shiqi Wu, Yichen Zhou and Despina Zografos elycenter.org.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave. in New Haven: “Forest — Wander: Frank Bruckmann and Roy Money” is up from April 21 to May 22. kehlerliddellgallery.com.
Susan Powell Fine Art, 679 Boston Post Road in Madison: “David Dunlop: Journeys in Light” is up from April 22 to June 11. susanpowellfineart.com.
City Gallery, 994 State St. in New Haven: “6x6: An Invitational,” with work by Rick Albee of Guilford, Judy Atlas of Milford, William Frucht of Danbury, Joyce Greenfield of New Haven, Abbie Griffths of New Haven, Sheila Kaczmarek of Guilford, Kathy Kane of East Haven, Esthea Kim of New Haven, Lenny Moskowitz of New Haven, Gary Recchia of Guilford, Ruth Sack of Cheshire, and Ellen Burnett of Weehawken, New Jersey, is to May 1. city-gallery.org.
Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 E. Main St. in East Haven, will present “Shimmering Water & Seascapes: Photography by Victoria Navin” until April 30. hagamanlibrary.org.
Tolland County
William Benton Museum of Art, 245 Glenbrook Road at UConn in Storrs: “Tradition and Transformation: Mithila Art of India” is up until July 31. benton.uconn.edu.
Homer Babbidge Library on the campus of UConn in Storrs: “Beth Pite, Colorscapes” is on view through the end of summer. lib. uconn.edu/about/exhibits/.
Saxton B. Little Free Library, 319 Route 87 in Columbia: Artwork by Helen Cantrell is on show until May 31. columbiactlibrary.org.
Arts Center East, 709 Hartford Turnpike in Vernon: “Still Lifes and the Legacy of Charles Ethan Porter” will be up to April 30. artscentereast.org.
Fairfield County
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main St. in Ridgefield: “Milano Chow: Prima Facie,” “Duane Slick: The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better” and “Karla Knight: Navigator” are up until
May 8. “Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski: Portal Pieces” is up until May 29. aldrichart.org.
Greenwich Art Society, 299 Greenwich Ave.: 105th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, curated by Brinda Kumar, will be up to May 5. greenwichartsociety.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.
The Gallery at Still River Editions, 128 East Liberty St. in Danbury: Scratching the Surface: David Haislip” is up until May 27. stillrivereditions.com.
Hollis Taggart Southport, 330 Pequot Ave: “Beyond the Surface: Edward Holland, Will Hutnick, Emily Kiacz, Lizbeth Mitty and Erika Ranee,” is up to April 30. hollistaggart.com.
Loft Artists Association, 575 Pacific St. in Stamford: “Artifacts,” a still life exhibit, is up until May 1. loftartists.org.
Fairfield University Art Museum, 200 Barlow Road in Fairfield: “Adger Cowans: Sense and Sensibility” is in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries to June 18. ”13 Ways of Looking at Landscape: Larry Silver’s Connecticut Photographs” will be up until June 18. fairfield. edu/museum/
MoCAWestport, 19 Newtown Turnpike: “Punk is Coming,” with work by Merrill Aldighieri, Amy Arbus, Emily Armstrong, William Badgley, Alex Bag, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberta Bayley, Janette Beckman, Celeste Bell, Richard Butler, Beth Collar, Jayne County, Jim Fields, Jill Furmanovsky, Danny Garcia, Richard Hambleton, Duncan Hannah, Tony Hope, Pat Ivers, David Johansen, Kevin Kerslake, Cindy Hudson Kral, Lynette Bean Kral, Ivan Kral, Helmut Lang, Jenny Lens, Linder, Judy Linn, John Lydon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hans Neleman, Fabrika Ouch, Lisa Jane Persky, Thebe Phetogo, Amos Poe, Eileen Polk, Richard Prince, Dee Dee Ramone, Ruby Ray, Jamie Reid, Marcia Resnick, Ebet Roberts, Sheila Rock, Sue Rynski, Donna Santisi, Marian Schwindeman, Steven Sebring, Kate Simon, Penny Slinger, Patti Smith, Paul Sng, Julien Temple, Gail Thacker, Arturo Vega and Sally Webster, is up until June 5. mocawestport.org.
Middlesex County
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Middletown: Senior Thesis Exhibitions are up until April 24. wesleyan.edu/cfa.
College of East Asian Studies Gallery at Wesleyan University in Middletown: “Strong Bodies for the Revolution: Pursuing Health and Power in the People’s Republic of China” is up to May 13. wesleyan. edu/cfa.
Spectrum Art Gallery, 61 Main St. in the Centerbrook section of Essex: “Animals and People in the Landscape” will be up until May 8. spectrumartgallery.org.
Ben Parker Studio, 1 North Main St. in Essex: “Sip and Stare,” an exhibit that pairs artwork with flavors, will be up until April 29. A spirits event is April 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. A beer event is April 28 form 6 to 8 p.m. brdparker.com/sip-andstare.
Windham County
Top Shelf Gallery at Fletcher Memorial Library, 257 Main St. in Hampton: “Work by Ann C. Rosebrooks is up until to April 30. fletchermemoriallibrary.org.