Among the myriad of forms that have appeared in Frank Stella’s (b. 1936) work, the star is the most singular, standing out as a stable and immediately identifiable shape amidst the tangle of abstract, invented forms that the artist has utilized over his long career.
The historical arc of Stella’s use of the star travels from the minimal to the maximal, with the recent star sculptures frequently exhibiting a corruption of the form as well as a wild diversity of materials and fabrication techniques. Frank Stella’s Stars, A Survey will be presented both in the galleries and the Museum’s Sculpture Garden. A 150-page hardbound book featuring essays by the exhibition’s curators Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, and Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator, will be co-published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.
Curated by Richard Klein, Exhibitions Director, and Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator.
Through the Eye of a Needle is the first major solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Genesis Belanger (b. 1978), whose practice spans sculptures and tableaux, primarily composed out of porcelain, stoneware, and upholstery. Anthropomorphizing common household objects–lipsticks with wagging tongues, lamps with ladies’ pearls, and tins with doey-eyed sardines–Belanger’s methodology blends Surrealism and Pop art with a self-possessed feminism informed by a career inside the fashion and advertising industries. Debuting an entirely new body of work specially conceived for The Aldrich, Belanger will create her largest and most elaborate mise-en-scène to date: dozens of animated objects arranged on ghostly furnishings that suggest narratives about our anxiety afflicted present. The artist’s first museum publication, featuring an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Amy Smith-Stewart, will accompany the show.
2020 has been historic year and the work being created by the artists now reflects their lived experience through a landmark election year, a global pandemic, and a national reckoning with systemic racial injustice and police brutality. The exhibition asks the question can a ‘slow’ museum exhibition actively participate in democracy amidst the cacophony of Tweets and abbreviated news app headlines via a medium that moves no faster that the speed of a human hand pushing a pencil?
Artists participating in the exhibition include Marti Cormand (Brooklyn, NY), Oasa DuVerney (Brooklyn, NY), Judith Eisler (Vienna, Austria and Warren, CT), Andy Mister (Beacon, NY), William Powhida (Brooklyn, NY), Gil Scullion (Middletown, CT), and Diana Shpungin (Brooklyn, NY).
Join Fiona Garland for this special lecture series, Focus on the Frick. Please note: there will be four lectures are on successive Tuesdays at 11:00 am: February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; the ticket covers all four events.
Register for your ticket on Eventbrite and a link for Zoom will be sent out a week before the event.
$140 for non-members and $120 for members.
Join Fiona Garland for this special lecture series, Focus on the Frick. Please note: there will be four lectures are on successive Tuesdays at 11:00 am: February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; the ticket covers all four events.
Register for your ticket on Eventbrite and a link for Zoom will be sent out a week before the event.
$140 for non-members and $120 for members.
Join Fiona Garland for this special lecture series, Focus on the Frick. Please note: there will be four lectures are on successive Tuesdays at 11:00 am: February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; the ticket covers all four events.
Register for your ticket on Eventbrite and a link for Zoom will be sent out a week before the event.
$140 for non-members and $120 for members.
Join Fiona Garland for this special lecture series, Focus on the Frick. Please note: there will be four lectures are on successive Tuesdays at 11:00 am: February 23, March 2, March 9, March 16; the ticket covers all four events.
Register for your ticket on Eventbrite and a link for Zoom will be sent out a week before the event.
$140 for non-members and $120 for members.