20 x 24: Recent Portraits by Lyle Ashton Harris is the first major public presentation of a selection of images from the new series of unique Polaroid portraits begun by the photographer in the Fall of 1998.

Since the very origins of art, people have been rendering the unclothed human form. Although the human form is a perennial subject for art, the cultural attitudes surrounding it perpetually change. The work of the 45 artists in this exhibition explores themes including the mundane body, the grotesque body, aging, identity, the celebration of beauty, and cultural norms and prohibitions that surround the body...

Alexis Rockman is talented, dangerous, and nuts. He’s also a diligent researcher with almost too much cerebral curiosity to be a visual artist. He reads. He consults field guides, taxonomies, old travel narratives, and serious books of conceptual science...

The Aldrich Museum is privileged to have the opportunity to present Future-Present: Contemporary Photographs of Children from the Reader’s Digest Collection. The works included in this exhibition represent only a part of the vintage, modern, and contemporary photographic images of children owned by Reader’s Digest.

The Larry Aldrich Foundation Award is given annually to a contemporary American artist of exceptional merit. An independent panel selected the 1998 recipient: Ann Hamilton. Ann Hamilton’s installation whitecloth was conceived after a series of visits by the artist to The Aldrich Museum...

One of the most idiosyncratic qualities of the Aldrich Museum is our building. Originally built in 1783, the structure has been expanded and modified many times during its two hundred years as a home, shop, church, and ultimately, contemporary art museum. This quirky, domestic-scale building, with its hidden windows, vestigial fire-places, and scarred wooden floors is a defining characteristic of the Aldrich...

This exhibition is a selection of Lichtenstein’s multiple-editioned works from 1964 to 1996, chosen from the collection of John and Kimiko Powers, who have assembled one of the most significant private collections of the artist’s work...

Pop Surrealism is an exhibition of work by 73 artists whose surrealist tendencies are informed by popular culture. Both Pop art and surrealism have remained extremely influential on twentieth century art. The artists in Pop Surrealism look deep into representations of contemporary culture, mutating them with a surrealist’s eye.

Melissa Marks has cerated a wonderful idea: a self-aware abstraction named Volitia. Not just any self-aware abstraction either, but an aesthetically promiscuous, abstract character. Marks's achievement is the vigorous, beautiful embodiment of her character on the walls of the Aldrich Museum's Erna D. Leir Gallery.

Redding artist James Grashow transformed the Museum's Leir Gallery into a zoo of wild jungle animals. Crafted from plain and corrugated cardboard and assembled with Elmer's Glue and paper packing tape, these larger-than-life size animals were arranged so that visitors could stroll throughout the gallery in the corridors between their cardboard cages. Grashow fabricated as many animals as possible to replicate the thrill and variety of an actual trip to the zoo.

TV Sets and The Suburban Dream illustrates Mark Bennett's cut-to-the-chase approach to American popular culture. His elaborately detailed floor plans of the homes of some of America's best-known families will bring a shock of recogni­tion because they capture and quantify the straight line of television narrative. Who can see the layout of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's home without hearing, "Honey, I'm home"?...

It is rare in the complex and changing world of contemporary art that one person can have an impact on an entire field. The genre of works on paper has been fortunate in finding such an individual, Wynn Kramarsky, who responds with intelligence and passion, and perhaps more importantly, support for artists working in a media that traditionally has been considered secondary in the hierarchy of art.

The Larry Award Exhibition, Robert Gober; is a selection of the artist's work, including two of his most recent pieces which are being shown for the first time here at The Aldrich Museum. Curator Harry Philbrick worked with Robert Gober in selecting an important cross section of the artist's sculptural output. The exhibition contains work dating from 1983-1997; including two of Gober's most recent works...