Exhibition by Old Lyme Artist Nancy Gladwell on View at Middlesex Community College

MIDDLETOWN/OLD LYME — An exhibition by local artist Nancy Peel Gladwell titled “Remains of the Day” is on view through May 10, in the Pegasus Gallery and the Niche at Middlesex Community College (MxCC).

Gladwell’s paintings employ traditional modes of representation while contemplating contemporary issues of material consumption, digital and metaphysical resources.  

The show title is drawn from Kazuo Ishiguro’s award-winning book, “Remains of the Day,” where the butler/protagonist confronts shifting perspectives of personal memory and purpose. Her reading also extends the meanings and processes of understanding the multidimensional web as a similar form of remains.  

Gladwell explains, “We all leave a sizable trail of discarded and misappropriated things as the detritus of every single moment. As in Ishiguro’s book, most are psychological, behavioral, unintended, or not, misunderstood or not. They are physical and physiological and represent transitions, cleansings, and restorations.”  

Gladwell is an adjunct professor of Fine Arts at MxCC and has taught at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and Long Island University, C. W. Post. Her work is held in international public and private collections including the Heckscher Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Parrish Museum.  

See more of her work at https://nancypeelgladwell.net

The Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall. Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. (Closed 4/7). 

The Niche is in Founders Hall across from the Registrar’s Office. Hours: Monday – Friday 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m. (Closed 4/7).