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THE ALDRICH WILL PRESENT CHARLOTTE SCHULZ ‘INSUFFICIENCY’ AUG. 26

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RIDGEFIELD, CONN. — The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announces that 2003 “Radius” artist Charlotte Schulz will return to the museum for her first solo museum exhibition, “An Insufficiency in Our Screens,” on Sunday, September 16, from 3 to 5 pm. The exhibition is curated by Thomas Trummer, the inaugural recipient of The Aldrich’s Hall Curatorial Fellowship, and will remain on view through June 8.

Schulz has enjoyed a five-year relationship with The Aldrich that began during her participation in “Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York,” an exhibition and professional development program designed to foster networking opportunities among regional artists and to provide practical guidance for artists entering the art marketplace.

This exhibition will feature a collection of two- and three-dimensional charcoal drawings that invite the viewer to explore strange composite architectural spaces in which dreams blend with memory and reality. Fragments of buildings are tethered together, and interior unfolds into exterior and back again. The space Schulz renders appear to be unpopulated, allowing the viewer to easily step in as protagonist.

The selection of work navigates big ideas, including the question of why specific events happen as they do, when the potential for any number of possible outcomes exists in the universe. The phrase “an insufficiency in our screens” introduces each title in the series of drawings, as Schulz explores an interest in both metaphysical and physical “screens,” and how they filter experience and mediate information in everyday lives.

The museum is at 258 Main Street. For more information, www.aldrichart.org or 203-438-4519.