PHOTOGRAPHY
Events
Photography: Jerimiah Chechik: #obscuralux at the Discovery Science Center in Bridgeport
Sacred Heart Discovery Science Center and Planetarium 4450 Park Avenue, BridgeportOn view through March 2026—come explore how images can shift what we think is real. Step into a space where art, science, and perception collide. Experience the work of Jerimiah Chechik, whose imagery lives between truth and fiction—blending memory, technology, and altered reality to create something that feels both familiar and uncanny. Artist’s Statement I […]
Opening Reception • Photography and the Painted Image at the Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonOpening Reception Friday, January 30 Time: 5 – 7 pm This exhibition explores the intersection between photography and painting, highlighting the ways in which the two mediums have overlapped and complemented each other. The first section showcases the painted backdrop, a hallmark of 19th- and early 20th-century portrait studios, where elaborate hand-painted backgrounds framed sitters within […]
Mother Island: Act I Rebecca Weisman at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn
A.I.R. Gallery 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NYThrough February 8, 2026 A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Mother Island: Act I, an immersive installation of moving images and sculptures by Rebecca Weisman. This is Weisman's first solo exhibition in New York City. The first of a trilogy, Mother Island: Act I interrogates motherhood as both creative effort and survival strategy. Weisman interpolates […]
Facades of New London: Photographs by G. Roger Clements at the Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonFebruary 7 – April 12, 2026 For the last fifteen years, photographer and architectural designer G. Roger Clements has documented New London’s buildings and urban spaces. Working with 35mm, medium-format, and large-format cameras and film, Clements develops his photographs by hand in his New London studio and darkroom. This exhibition reflects Clements’ interest in local […]
Free – $12Good Stories Well Told: Photographer David Hendley at the La Grua Center in Stonington
La Grua Center 32 Water St, StoningtonPhotographer David Hendley explores how deliberate compositional choices (framing, vantage point, and light) can slow our perception and open space for seeing the natural world more deeply. David uses his work to simplify and minimize our natural surroundings to reveal emotional undercurrents of solitude, hope, wonder, and belonging. Through these emotional attachments he invites you […]
John Coplans: Self Portraits at the Yale University Art Gallery
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street, New HavenDecember 19, 2025 – June 14, 2026 This installation focuses on the self-portraits of British photographer John Coplans (1920–2003). Coplans’s approach to portraiture is unconventional in many ways. Often made up of multiple images, his portraits never show his face; instead, they focus on his aging body, depicted up close and printed at a large scale. The […]
Photography and the Painted Image at the Lyman Allyn
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonJanuary 17 – April 12, 2026 This exhibition explores the intersection between photography and painting, highlighting the ways in which the two mediums have overlapped and complemented each other. The first section showcases the painted backdrop, a hallmark of 19th- and early 20th-century portrait studios, where elaborate hand-painted backgrounds framed sitters within idealized worlds. The […]
DOROTHEA LANGE: Life Work at the Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonFebruary 21 – May 3, 2026 The powerful photographs of Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) have become icons of American cultural history, documenting the human toll of the Great Depression and the striking landscapes of the 1930s Dust Bowl era. Her images of suffering farm families reflect the strength and spirit of individuals facing hard times. Lange began […]
Free – $12
