Two for the Price of One: A Summertime Exchange between The Aldrich and Katonah Museums
July, 2007
Beginning on July 1 and continuing through September 2, visitors to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, will receive a pass for free admission to the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, NY, while visitors to the Katonah will receive a pass for free admission to The Aldrich. This annual collaborative offer, now in its fourth year, is an effort to encourage attendance and to raise awareness of the exceptional exhibitions and programs scheduled at each of these institutions.
It is the mission of the Aldrich's curatorial department to present innovative, exciting, diverse contemporary art exhibitions and programs that focus on emerging and mid-career artists. This summer visitors will experience a range of exhibitions, including Neil Jenney: North America which introduces new work by one of the most elusive artists of our time. With a focus on the landscape imagery of North America, this is the artist’s first museum exhibition since 1994. The exhibition features never-before-seen paintings, drawings, and a selection of text-based canvases ranging in date from the early seventies, when Jenney developed his signature good paintings, to the current day. Also on view will be Mary Judge: Studies in Segmented Form, a provocative new installation that focuses on the relationship between a large-scale cast concrete sculpture sited in the Museum's inner courtyard and a spolvero ("dusting" in Italian) wall drawing that will fill the wall of the adjacent corridor gallery. In this presentation, Judge continues her interest in making reductive, process-oriented work that is humanized by the utilization of organic geometry and a sensuous use of materials.
On view at the Katonah Museum of Art this summer will be the exhibition Children Should Be Seen: The Image of the Child in American Picture Book Art, which brings together approximately eighty-five works of original illustrations of children in a comprehensive survey of the best American picture-book art of the last decade. Organized collaboratively by the Katonah Museum of Art and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Katonah’s Learning Center and the 5th anniversary of the Carle Museum. This exhibition explores the changing image of the child in contemporary picture book art and is the first exhibition on this theme ever to be presented in the United States or, to the curators’ knowledge, anywhere in the world. The artworks are grouped by the following sub-themes, with the aim of highlighting American picture book artists’ interpretations of six of childhood’s formative stages and experiences: The New Child; The Child and Family; The Child At School and At Play; The Child In the Community; The Child In History; The Questioning Child; and The New Picture Book. Children Should Be Seen will appeal to a wide audience and has been planned to be of interest to adults and children alike.
To learn more about events and programs at The Aldrich visit www.aldrichart.org and for Katonah visit www.katonahmuseum.org.
