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Title:	Martha Diamond: Deep Time
Date:	11/17/2024 - 5/18/2025
Address:	The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877
Location:	Ridgefield, CT
Hours:	Sunday, Monday, Wednesday - Friday: 12pm - 5pm, Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Cost/Cover:	free - $15
Web Page:	https://thealdrich.org/exhibitions/martha-diamond-deep-time
Contact Info:	203.438.4519

Details:

Martha Diamond is among the most perceptive painters of the last five decades. Her work’s formal concision and painterly bravado reflect an inner dialogue with generations of abstract artists, and the results are exceptional: an inimitable handling of gesture and space that reimagines the landscape tradition while deftly sliding between abstraction and representation. Comprised of paintings, works on paper, and monotypes, this focused survey of Diamond’s career proposes “deep time” as a new way of understanding her contribution to American painting. As a concept, deep time has two histories: Enlightenment scientists, poets, and theologians have theorized it to trace symmetries and parallels across the development of human civilization, and geologists use it to describe cycles of stability and upheaval across many millions of years on this planet. In conversation with both ancient monuments and the modern skyscraper, and carrying its own distinctive psychology and ecology, Diamond’s art thinks about time and across time.