Season’s Greetings from The Aldrich
Eleven artists from around the world took their inspiration from salvaged celebrated their first major museum exhibition as their work was introduced Donate
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materials, reclaimed objects, and appropriated ideas; many of them to the community during our Found and FOUND Outside series.
Artist James Grashow touched us with his Corrugated Fountain. An accessible project, that patrons visited time and time again to make wishes as the work Donate
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concept and material resulted in an emotional, popular, and monumental deteriorated outdoors on the Museum’s terrace.
The curators reintroduced a call for artist’s proposals and took the country’s united states series of exhibitions. Nineteen projects that approached both the alliance of separate forms, entities, or conditions of being addressed Donate
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pulse at the height of an intense election season by mounting the the nature of the United States as a country and “united states� as hot-button issues from immigration to conflict to cooperation.
Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms—Works from 1959–1979 celebrated the disciplines of art, design, and craft have converged to establish a trend. A renowned private collections and earned critical acclaim. Donate
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iconic sculptural furniture designer at a moment when the creative beautifully designed gallery environment showcased objects from
The Aldrich hit the road! Shimon Attie’s topical exhibition Metro.PAL.IS was it now moves to the Wexner Center for the Arts at a time when his multiJessica Stockholder’s Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood, made from The Donate
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seen by students in UConn’s William Benton Museum of Art; -channel video approach to the Mid-East conflict is supremely relevant. Aldrich’s ailing ash tree, is making an international tour to France and Spain.
The Aldrich co-published two important illustrated monographs in conjunction Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms, from Gregory R. Miller & Co. These books The New York Times, Departures, and TIME. Donate
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with exhibitions—Erik Parker: Colorful Resistance, from Skira Rizzoli, and were acknowledged by prestigious periodicals, including BOOKFORUM,
Social calendar highlights included Trespass, an evening of illicit artistic action At Aldrich Undercover veteran artists combined forces to host a secret art exhibition and education programs. Donate
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where emerging artists took creative license by graffiti tagging new cars. sale and sculpture garden soirÊe. Both fundraisers benefited the Museum’s
Makers Market, a tented open-air marketplace, featured a curated selection foliage was at its peak, and an unseasonable downpour was unable to daunt drawn to the Museum. Donate
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of skillfully crafted products. The fair’s Connecticut debut came when the spirits of the exhibiting design luminaries and the many new visitors
Draw On!, the Museum’s community drawing festival, continued to build,
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involving more school groups and institutional collaborators.
The Aldrich partnered with Ridgefield Library to host a successful two-day across disciplines, from education to business to technology to art, pondered performances, and participatory workshops. Donate
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Creativity Conference on imagination and innovation. Thought leaders a variety of inspiring idea-driven lectures, panels, conversations,
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877 Tel 203.438.4519, Fax 203.438.0198, aldrichart.org
After looking back on the accomplishments of 2012, it is time to look to the future, and we need your support in order for the Museum to remain vital in 2013. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to The Annual Fund. Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year from your friends at The Aldrich.
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