Bruce Museum Tour & Lunch: Kenji Nakahashi and Blanche Lazzell Exhibitions
April 2 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Wednesday, April 2nd, 11am-1:30pm
Don’t miss this special opportunity to join an exclusive tour with Jordan Hillman, Bruce Museum associate curator, of two highly anticipated new exhibitions, followed by a private lunch at the museum.
The first monographic exhibition of her work in nearly two decades, Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist traces the artist’s pioneering approaches to abstraction in the United States. One of the earliest and most important female abstract artists in America, Lazzell is known for her paintings and innovative woodcut prints. She pursued an international and avant-garde education that included the Art Students League in New York under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase alongside classmates such as Georgia O’Keeffe. She spent 1912 in Paris, taking classes at the progressive Académie Julian and Académie Moderne headed by Charles Rosen and Charles Guérin. She joined the vibrant artists’ colony in Provincetown, becoming a student at the Cape Cod School of Art where she was exposed to Fauvist color and technique. She studied with the Cubists Fernand Léger, André Lhote, and Albert Gleizes and spent a year in the studio of Abstract Expressionist painter Hans Hofmann.
Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday. Playful and intellectually rigorous, his photographs highlight the pleasures of ordinary life, from subway encounters and skyscrapers silhouetted against the sky to such mundane objects as eggs, pencils, and analogue clocks. Yet Nakahashi often destabilized his subjects by placing them in unexpected, even surreal contexts, resulting in images that surprise, challenge, and delight. Seen through the eyes of this extraordinary artist, the more than thirty photographs on display invite the viewer into the strange beauty of Nakahashi’s world.
Please meet at the Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich by 10:50am.
Cost: $65 for Carriage Barn members | $80 for non-members
Includes lunch. Register below. Space is limited.
Curator-led tour and lunch at the Bruce Museum on Wed., April 2, 2025 at 11:00am
Please note registration and payment for this program is non-refundable. In the event you must cancel, we will consider your purchase a donation and will happily issue you a donation receipt.