September 4, 2024 to January 6, 2025 Miles Huston's Overshoot series situates archival aerial photographs of small family farms above unfolded vegetable boxes, highlighting the shift in our collective viewing position from an on the ground horizontal plane to a novel geo-spatial view from above. The work suggests that modern ecological policies and contemporary farming, while streamlined […]

October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Inspired by a line from Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination explores the artist’s lifelong admiration of the influential naturalist and his own sustained engagement with the natural world. Between his birthplace of […]

October 3, 2024–January 5, 2025 Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 5pm Widely acclaimed when it was published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects has come to be regarded as one of the important early monuments of color photography. Sternfeld (American, b. 1944) was one of a small cohort of pioneers, including William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, and Stephen […]

Please join us to celebrate fall and see new work by Christian Brechneff. Thursday, October 3rd / 3-7pm Chequer Interors 19a Main Street,Essex, CT For more information  

Now through July 28, 2025 Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights  is the fourth in a series of annual collection gallery rotations that bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of the Benton’s holdings. This installation is mounted in collaboration with the Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute’s Research Program on Arts & Human Rights at UConn. […]

September 7 –  December 15, 2024 Presenting modern and contemporary art from the collection of artist Louise McCagg (American, 1936–2020), this exhibition celebrates friendship and collaboration. The Artist’s Eye showcases McCagg’s own art in conversation with the work of notable artists such as Elaine de Kooning, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Philip Guston, Sol LeWitt, Yoko […]

𝑨 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆’ Purveyors of antiques, oddities, curiosities, and vintage anomalies will gather in Ansonia, Connecticut, for a day-long event to peddle and showcase the obscure. This annual […]