The work of seven artists whose art is based on photographic imagery has opened at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield. Titled Twenty Twenty this exhibition was conceived of in 2019 to document and respond to the 2020 election season and was originally scheduled to open in June 2020. With the museum”™s temporary closure from early March to the end of June due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition opened in October and will be on view till March 14. Twenty Twenty is not only a year, but also a term that describes meeting a standard of visual acuity.
The Aldrich commissioned the seven artists to create the work for this exhibition, which will be accompanied by a newspaper, published in two editions, that will bookend the exhibit.