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Make a Day of It – Field Notes and Nearby Exhibitions

April 23, 2025 0 Comment

There is an abundance of art to see on your trip to or from Field Notes: an art survey at browngrotta arts in Wilton, Connecticut next month (May 3 – 11). 

Tracey Emin
A Moment Without You – Tracey Emin

Coming from the east? The first major presentation of Tracey Emin’s work in a North American museum is currently at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. The exhibition, Tracey Emin: I Loved you Until Morning, features paintings from 2007 to the present. Together, the works demonstrate the artist’s unflinching commitment to challenging conceptions of female experience.

Maren Hassinger
Maren Hassinger, Monument (Pyramid), 2022. Wood and metal. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © Maren Hassinger

While you are in New Haven, you can also see a 10-foot-tall pyramid made of hundreds of thin tree branches that has been installed in the Yale Art Gallery’s Margaret and Angus Wurtele Sculpture Garden, Monument (Pyramid), a 2022 work by the prominent contemporary sculptor Maren Hassinger.

Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi sculpture, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Collection; Photo copyright by yair taller.

Coming from New York or other parts west? The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut is hosting a very interesting exhibition of sculptures by Isamu Noguchi. Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror, features a selection of nine galvanized steel sculptures, the exhibition is organized into thematic groupings that showcase the artist’s mastery of material, form, and texture. In the first, Noguchi imparts inanimate forms with human qualities, complicating the relationship between flesh and steel, body and mirror. Man-made material is transformed into representations of mountains, fruit, and sky in the second grouping, reflecting Noguchi’s belief that, in modernity, industry and nature are intertwined. A final trio of works reveals Noguchi’s ongoing interest in abstraction, bringing theoretical and spiritual ideas, weight and weightlessness, and past and present into visual conversation.

Silvermine Gallery
Roger Mudre, Executive Director, Silvermine Galleries, and Rhonda Brown of browngrotta arts at the Galleries in February. On exhibit then: New Members 2025. On exhibit in May: Fiber 2025, Masters of the Medium: CT and Mastery and Materiality: International. Photo by Tom Grotta. 

Coming to Wilton on May 10th? You can visit Field Notes and three other textile art exhibitions at the Silvermine Art Gallery in New Canaan, CT.  Fiber 2025 has been juried by Tom Grotta and Rhonda Brown of browngrotta arts. An international exhibition, it seeks to showcase the best of contemporary fiber art, reflecting the breadth of functional or non-functional works that use fiber and/or fiber art techniques in traditional or innovative ways. In conjunction with Fiber 2025, are two exhibitions curated by browngrotta arts in the Silvermine Galleries: Masters of the Medium, CT, highlighting the work of acclaimed Connecticut artists Helena Hernmarck and Norma Minkowitz, and Mastery and Materiality: International, featuring work by 17 artists from nine countries, including renowned Jacquard weavers, accomplished embroiderers, and fiber sculptors who work in seaweed, bark, wire, paper straws, lead, and fish scales.

The Glass House, Barbara Kastner: Structure, Light, Land, photo Michael Biondo

Coming to Field Notes another day during its 10-day run? You can see art in the neighborhood in New Canaan or Ridgefield. Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land is at The Glass House in New Canaan — 8.4 miles away. For five decades, Chicago-based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material, and form. Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape. 

A Garden of Promise and Dissent
A Garden of Promise and Dissent (installation view), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, November 17, 2024 to April 12, 2026. Photo: Jeffrey Jenkins Projects

Or, visit A Garden of Promise and Dissent at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, just 6.2 miles from browngrotta arts. The exhibition spans the grounds, featuring works by eight multigenerational artists who explore future gardens as embodiments of imagination and rebellion.  
Looking forward to seeing you in May! 

Exhibition Details:

Field Notes: an art survey
browngrotta arts
276 Ridgefield Rd
Wilton, CT 06897
May 3 – 11, 2025
Saturday, May 3rd: 11am to 6pm 
Sunday, May 4th: 11am to 6pm 
Monday, May 5th through Saturday, May 10th: 10am to 5pm 
Sunday, May 11th: 11am to 6pmSafety protocols:
Reservations strongly encouraged.
No narrow heels please (barn floors)
https://browngrotta.com/exhibitions/field-notes

Fiber 2025
(juried by browngrotta arts)
Masters of the Medium: CT
Mastery and Materiality: International
(curated by browngrotta arts)
May 10 – June 19, 2025
Silvermine Galleries
1037 Silvermine Road
New Canaan, CT
Closed Sunday + Monday
https://browngrotta.com/events/events

Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until Morning
Through August 10, 2025
The Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Closed Monday
https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/tracey-emin-i-loved-you-until-morning

Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror
Through November 16, 2025
The Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157
Closed Monday
https://brucemuseum.org/whats-on/isamu-noguchi-metal-the-mirror

Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land
Through December 15, 2025
The Glass House Visitor Center + Design Store             
199 Elm Street, New Canaan, CT 06840                     
Closed Tuesday + Wednesday
https://theglasshouse.org/pressrelease/barbara-kasten-structure-light-land-april-17-december-15-2025/

A Garden of Promise and Dissent
Through December 17, 2025
The Aldrich
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Closed Tuesday 
https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/a-garden-of-promise-and-dissent-outdoor-installation

Make a Day of It – Visit browngrotta arts and Other Art Venues This Weekend

November 9, 2019 0 Comment
Eva LeWitt, Untitled (Mesh A–J) (site-specific installation view, detail), 2019 Courtesy of the artist and VI, VII, Oslo. Photo: Jason Mandella

If you are coming to Artists from the Grotta Collection: a book launch and exhibition at browngrotta arts in Wilton, Connecticut this weekend, we suggest you take advantage of a few of the area’s other cultural offerings. Eva LeWitt (b. 1985) first one-person exhibition at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, just a few miles (literally)up the road from bga. The artist’s largest exhibition to date, debuts a significant, new site-specific installation commissioned by The Aldrich. Says the Museum, “LeWitt’s sculptural practice explores the visual interconnection of color, matter, shape, light, and gravity. Using materials she can control and manipulate with supporting and opposing attributes – rigid/pliable, opaque/transparent, airy/substantial, and handmade/machine built – LeWitt creates exuberant configurations that vaunt a buoyant physical agency. LeWitt’s deft sculptural arrays wondrously wed industrial materials like Plexiglas, acetate, latex, and vinyl with hand-cast and hand-dyed polyurethane foams, sponges and rubbers to form soft, sensuous, and splendidly vibrant compositions.” The artist’s first publication, with an essay by exhibition curator Amy Smith-Stewart is available http://aldrichart.org/article/eva-lewitt


On Saturday, 30+ highly-skilled artisans from across the country will be presenting their hand-crafted contemporary and traditional furnishings and wearables at the 34th American Artisan Show at the Wilton Historical Society (224 Danbury Road, Route 7). The Historical Society is also just down the road from bga — in the opposite direction. Furniture, folk art, pottery, fine leather goods, Nantucket-style baskets, candles, Windsor chairs, art, tavern signs, fine jewelry, photography, and much more – will be available for purchase at the Show. The show is fittingly set in the Society’s charming 18th and 19th century buildings. Artisan demos on Saturday. 10:00 – 5:00. Admission is $10; under 18 free. Wilton Historical Society: http://wiltonhistorical.org/events/american-artisan-show/

Grace Farms in New Canaan


Another option is a visit to Grace Farms in New Canaan (365 Luke’s Wood) which was established with the idea that space communicates and can inspire people to collaborate for good. To realize this vision, Grace Farms Foundation set out to create a multipurpose building nestled into the existing habitat that would enable visitors to experience nature, encounter the arts, pursue justice, foster community and explore faith. The architect SANAA’s goal was to make the River building become part of the landscape without drawing attention to itself. Under the continuous roof are five transparent glass-enclosed volumes that can host a variety of activities and events, while maintaining a constant sense of the surrounding environment. It sits on 80 acres, most of which are being preserved in perpetuity as open meadows, woods, wetlands and ponds. It’s open six days a week and free to the public. https://gracefarms.org/faq/

Hope to see you Saturday and Sunday or Sunday. You can visit Artists from the Grotta Collection at browngrotta arts, 276 Ridgefield Road, Wilton, Connecticut from 10 am to 5 pm either day. http://www.browngrotta.com/Pages/calendar.php