CURRENT EXHIBITS
On view November 14 - January 1
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 23 from 2 - 4 pm
Deck the Walls
The Lyme Art Association is pleased to celebrate the end of the year with the festive holiday favorite, Deck the Walls. With colder nights and shorter days, this exhibition warms hearts and uplifts spirits by featuring artwork that brings smiles to faces through fun themes, vibrant colors, and playful mediums all while remaining true to LAA’s representational roots. Additionally, 3-D art by the Society of Connecticut Sculptors shall be displayed throughout the gallery, and Faripour Forouhar is having a solo show, called A Life’s Journey Through Paintings, in LAA’s Mile Brook Gallery. Plus, as a special treat for the season, live music will be performed on select weekends during the show’s run.
Inside Story
On view at the same time as Deck the Walls is a new exhibit, Inside Story. This show invites viewers into the quiet drama of interior spaces, i.e., the rooms, corners, and thresholds that shape our daily lives. More than simple settings, interiors hold memory, emotion, and narrative. Interiors are places of solitude, reflection, work, ritual, and imagination. This exhibition seeks to explore this world within the walls of real, invented, intimate, expansive, orderly, or chaotic places, and visitors will discover art that evokes a mood, tells a story, and captures the personal, poetic, and psychological spirit of an inner space.
A Life’s Journey Through Paintings: Faripour Forouhar Solo Show
Faripour Forouhar, the first-place award winner in 2024 of the Lyme Art Association’s 103rd Elected Artists Show, is having a solo show of his oil paintings in the Lyme Art Association’s Mile Brook Gallery. In his show, A Life’s Journey Through Paintings, gallery visitors see a beautiful selection of his landscape art, many of which capture the quiet diginity of winter and the majesty of mountains.
New England Landscape is proudly supported by Ascend Bank in partnership with the Community Foundation of Middlesex County.
Partner Wall Program
New London Homeless Hospitality Center
During the run of Deck the Walls, the portion of LAA’s sales from the sale of selected artwork will be donated to New London Homeless Hospitality Center.
The New London Homeless Hospitality Center is a place of safety, welcome, and practical help for adults experiencing homelessness in southeastern Connecticut.
Each year, about 600 people turn to us for support. Every guest is welcomed with dignity at our 36-bed overnight shelter and our Daytime Hospitality Center on State Pier Road in New London.
Founded in 2006, NLHHC works closely with dozens of community partners—public agencies, nonprofits, healthcare providers, and housing programs—to address the root causes of homelessness for each individual and help them move into stable, permanent housing as quickly as possible.