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.