Site Lines: Four Solo Exhibitions Engaging Place, featuring artists David Brooks, Kim Jones, Virginia Overton, and Peter Liversidge will be celebrated with a closing party on Saturday, January 28, 2017 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Gravel Mirror (1968), a work by the influential artist and writer Robert Smithson, incorporated gravel found on the grounds of The Aldrich and was a significant touchstone for the development of this exhibition series, which presents site-specific commissions ranging from sculpture to drawings and performance-based works. The exhibitions encompass both the monumental and the ephemeral, intersecting, interconnecting, or mirroring the Museum’s galleries and two-acre Sculpture Garden, as well as the surrounding community. The artists utilized materials found on or indigenous to the grounds and the area, offering a response to “site” that underscores the institution’s material history and its visual condition by transforming scale and circumstance. The works seek to “frame” the view within and beyond the galleries against the natural landscape while also accentuating the Museum’s unique architectural features, such as a pitched roofline, paned windows, and a room-scale camera obscura.
The realization of Peter Liversidge’s Proposal for The Aldrich Museum No. 14: Choral Piece Written and Performed By the Employees of Ridgefield Hardware, 2016 will take place at the party. This proposal features a choral performance written and performed by the employees of Ridgefield Hardware, the local family-owned and operated shop that has been a fixture of the community since 1938.
There will be festive fare, gallery tours led by Museum educators, and art-making workshops for all ages. Artists Kim Jones, David Brooks, and Peter Liversidge will be present.
The next suite of exhibitions, featuring Beth Campbell, Suzanne McClelland, William Powhida, and Kay Rosen will open on March 5, 2017.
For press inquiries, please contact Emily Devoe at 203.438.4519, extension 140, or edevoe@aldrichart.org
The Aldrich, in addition to significant support from its Board of Trustees, receives contributions from many dedicated friends and patrons. Major funding for the Site Lines exhibition series is provided by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. Additional support is provided by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Francis H. Williams and Keris Salmon; Brad and Sunny Goldberg; White Cube; Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich; ZENO X GALLERY, Antwerp; Danbury Audi; DEDON; and JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey. CTC&G (Connecticut Cottages & Gardens) is the official media partner of the exhibition series.