Winter 2024 Direct from the Director
I hope you will join us for the two winter exhibitions described in the current newsletter, which open with receptions on Jan. 18th (Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp) and on Feb. 1st (Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica) respectively.
I am excited to give you a sneak preview of what will be coming up in the galleries after that! Following Helen Glazer in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries will be a solo show of recent works by a Fairfield University Studio Art professor, entitled Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color.
In this exhibition of recent work, Chamlin explores ideas about color theory and light through a series of landscape and interior stills. Since 2012, the artist has carefully charted her paints using the Munsell color system, which analyzes colors in terms of hue (the color itself), value (relative light and dark) and chroma (level of saturation or brilliance). For each of her paintings, Chamlin sets a highly specific palette; experimentation within this limited range then guides her decisions about process and pictorial space.
Chamlin's works will be complemented by an exhibition entitled The Landscape in Focus: Recent Acquisitions of Photography, on view in the rear gallery. The photographs on view will include recent donations to the Museum of work by artists including Alen MacWeeney, Bea Nettles, Victoria Sambunaris, Larry Silver, James Welling, and Huang Yan, among others.
Following Christy Rupp in the Museum's Walsh Gallery, in the Quick Center for the Arts, will be Peter Anton: Just Desserts, a solo exhibition of Anton’s incredibly realistic, oversized pop sculptures of desserts, on view from May 10 through July 27, 2024.
Anton’s models for his array of desserts come from products that are instantly familiar to the viewer and evoke a nostalgia for childhood (and adult) favorites. Sculptures that will be featured in the exhibition include a melting chocolate-covered ice cream pop, a gigantic box of donuts, and an open box of chocolates with a few missing a bite, together with numerous crumpled brown candy cups.
I hope this brief preview has whet your appetite for all that we have in store for you this spring and summer!
I want to also remind you that thanks to a generous Access for All grant from the Art Bridges Foundation the Museum is now open until 8 p.m. on Thursday nights! I encourage you to plan an evening visit to take advantage of these wonderful new expanded hours.
Looking forward to seeing you in the galleries! Artfully yours, Carey
Captions: Suzanne Chamlin, Autumn Yellow, 2022. Oil on linen. 9 x 12 inches. Lent by the artist. Suzanne Chamlin, Painter Hill Road 4, 2022. Oil on linen. 10 x 20 inches.Lent by the artist. Suzanne Chamlin, Window Study – Summer, 2023. Oil and charcoal on linen. 8 x 10 inches. Lent by the artist. Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (train on salt flats), Great Salt Desert, Utah, 2002. Chromogenic print. Edition: 5. 39 × 55 inches. Gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez. Peter Anton, Super Donuts, 2020. Mixed media. Lent by the artist.
