The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum at 258 Main St. in Ridgefield has inaugurated Aldrich Projects, a single-artist series that spotlights a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist every four months on the museum”™s campus. The first in this series is Clarity Haynes: Collective Transmission in which the artist debuts two new paintings, Birth Altar, 2020”“2021 (2021) and Altar for Femme Joy (2020), from her ongoing Altar series, 2000, she describes as queer feminist spaces liberated from patriarchy. Clarity Haynes: Collective Transmission will be on view from April 28 to Sept. 6. Accompanying this presentation is an audio piece by Haynes about the works on view.
Haynes, a queer feminist artist, writer and educator, whose work spans painting, drawing and social practice, received her MFA from Brooklyn College and CFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and she has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
