Happy Little Trees, an oil painting by Jacqueline Stella, is part of the “Deck the Walls” exhibit. Image courtesy of Lyme Art Association.
OLD LYME–The Lyme Art Association (LAA) celebrates the return of a festive holiday favorite and a new exhibit showcasing the art of interior spaces.
The Association in a press release said Deck the Walls is back with heartwarming artwork with fun themes, vibrant colors, and playful mediums that remain true to LAA’s representational roots.
Brechin Morgan, Rooms by the Sea, acrylic. Image courtesy of Lyme Art Association.
Additionally, 3D art by the Society of Connecticut Sculptors will be displayed throughout the gallery, along with a solo show from Faripour Forouhar in the Mile Brook Gallery.
Live music will be performed on select weekends during the show’s run.
Also on display is LAA’s newest exhibit, Inside Story. The show invites viewers into the quiet drama of interior spaces: the rooms, corners, and thresholds that shape daily living.
A reception for Inside Story will be held on Sunday, Nov. 23, from 2 to 4 p.m.
All shows are on view Nov. 14 through Jan. 1, 2026.
The signature work of Allison Gildersleeve’s exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Museum is ‘Split Screen’, 2024, oil on canvas. The image above shows a detail from the painting. Photo courtesy of Lyman Allyn Museum.
NEW LONDON – On Friday, Oct. 10, the Lyman Allyn Art Museum hosted an opening reception for its newest exhibition, “Allison Gildersleeve: Here Somewhere.”
The collection – described by the museum as a series of richly layered paintings in which “time is not sequential, and location is not fixed” – will be on view through Jan.18, 2026.
The museum in a press release said Gildersleeve was raised in a colonial farmhouse surrounded by woods in southeastern Connecticut. The artist returns to the familiar settings of her childhood — wooded areas, home interiors, open highways, and backcountry roads — to show that repeated visits to the same place invariably result in wildly divergent depictions.
“I paint environments as they present themselves to me: as dynamic, ever-changing places thick with anticipation, dread, happiness, calm,” Gildersleeve said. “These are experiential landscapes — settings filled with the presence of human activity and emotion even though no people are painted within them. I use photographs I have taken in the same locale over a tenyear period as source material, but the paintings are never derived from just one take.”
The opening reception is free for museum members. Non-members are $10. To register, call 860-443-2545 ext. 2129 or email info@lymanallyn.org.
This exhibition has been made possible with support from an anonymous foundation. Funding is also provided by the Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts.
Thomas Adkins’ oil painting, titled ‘Barnyard, Litchfield Hills,’ is the signature painting of the Lyme Art Association’s ‘New England Landscape’ exhibition openng Sept. 19.
‘New England Landscapes’ and ‘Timeless’ on View in LAA Galleries
OLD LYME—On Friday, Sept. 19, the Lyme Art Association (LAA) unveils separate exhibitions on New England landscapes and the timelessness of art.
A free, opening reception for New England Landscape and Timeless exhibitions will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The Association in a press release said New England Landscape is an annual member exhibition honoring the “many moods, colors, and textures that define New England’s natural splendor.”
Jim Laurino, ‘House in Cornwall’
The exhibit is supported by Ascend Bank in partnership with the Community Foundation of Middlesex County.
Timeless, the American Artists Professional League’s juried national member exhibition,will be on view simultaneously in LAA’s Goodman Gallery.
The LAA describes Timeless as a contemporary approach to realism, with artists rendering moments of life through the interplay of light, shadow, and form.
Both exhibitions will run through Nov. 6.
Hours at the 90 Lyme St. gallery are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free; contributions are appreciated.
Included in the exhibit is Dürer’s “Joachim and the Angel,” ink on paper.
NEW LONDON–The Lyman Allyn Art Museum has announced the opening of “Albrecht Dürer: Master Prints,” featuring over 40 woodblock prints and engravings from the German Renaissance master printmaker.
The exhibit will run through Nov. 30.
The museum in a press release described Dürer (1471-1528) as an extraordinary innovator who revolutionized printmaking.
The exhibition features a selection of Dürer’s prints, including two woodcuts from his celebrated Apocalypse (1498), his engraved Adam and Eve (1504) and his Meisterstiche (master engraving) of Saint Jerome in His Study (1514). All sixteen prints from Dürer’s Engraved Passion (1507-12) will be on view, along with examples of his Small Woodcut Passion cycle (1508-10), and his Life of the Virgin (1503-10). Several compositions by some of the artist’s most influential contemporaries and predecessors are included, with examples by Albrecht Altdorfer and Martin Schongauer, among others.
Born in Nuremberg, Dürer apprenticed under his goldsmith father and under the Nuremberg painter and printmaker Michael Wolgemut. He soon rose to prominence, utilizing his skill and ambition to produce increasingly accomplished drawings, paintings, and prints. After several years of travel and work in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, Dürer returned to Nuremberg to focus on printmaking. Dürer’s woodblock prints and engravings brought printmaking to a new level of sophistication, establishing an international reputation for the artist.
Lyman Allan Curator Tanya Pohrt said Dürer redefined printmaking in the early 1500s.
“Visitors will have the unique opportunity to explore the artist’s exceptional mastery of a remarkably complex medium,” she said.
The exhibit is organized by the Reading Public Museum of Pennsylvania. Additional works from Connecticut College’s Wetmore Print Collection will be featured in the exhibition. Funding comes from an anonymous foundation as well as the state Department of Economic and Community Development.
The museum at 625 Williams Street, New London, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 860-443-2545, ext. 2129 or visit www.lymanallyn.org.
Thomas Adkins’ oil painting, titled ‘Barnyard, Litchfield Hills,’ is part of the Lyme Art Association’s ‘New England Landscape’ exhibition starting Sept. 19.
‘New England Landscapes’ and ‘Timeless’ on View Sept. 19 Through Nov. 6
OLD LYME—On Friday, Sept. 19, the Lyme Art Association (LAA) unveils separate exhibitions on New England landscapes and the timelessness of art.
A free opening reception for New England Landscape and Timeless exhibitions will be held Sunday, Sept. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The Association in a press release said New England Landscape is an annual member exhibition honoring the “many moods, colors, and textures that define New England’s natural splendor.”
Jim Laurino, ‘House in Cornwall’
The exhibit is supported by Ascend Bank in partnership with the Community Foundation of Middlesex County.
Timeless, the American Artists Professional League’s juried national member exhibition,will be on view simultaneously in LAA’s Goodman Gallery.
The LAA describes Timeless as a contemporary approach to realism, with artists rendering moments of life through the interplay of light, shadow, and form.
Both exhibitions will run through Nov. 6.
Hours at the 90 Lyme St. gallery are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free; contributions are appreciated.
