The Aldrich will be closed to the public May 26 through June 6 for installation of The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me.
Beginning on opening day of the The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me, The Aldrich will present Tim Youd’s Connecticut Retyped, a new work that is part of the artist’s long-running 100 Novels Project. The 100 Novels Project entails the artist retyping an entire chosen book onto a single sheet of paper, reinforced with another sheet, layering every word until the page becomes an abstract, ink-saturated record of the entire novel.
At The Aldrich, Youd will enact a live, durational retyping of American author Richard Yates’s 1961 debut novel Revolutionary Road on the same model typewriter that Yates used, during the author's centenary year. Presented alongside The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me, a new recurring ten-year series spotlighting Connecticut-based artists on view June 7, 2026 to January 10, 2027, Youd’s project draws on the state’s rich literary history and Yates’s own ties to Connecticut, where the novel’s suburban setting was famously cast.
Roving the Museum’s campus, Youd will work daily in public view from June 7 through 21, 2026, inviting visitors to interact with him while he is on-site. The project will culminate with a framed diptych, a relic of the process and event, presented during The Aldrich Decennial.
Visitors are invited to see the performance for free on days he is working in the Sculpture Garden or elsewhere on the Museum’s grounds, or with Museum admission when Youd is inside the Museum’s galleries.
Tim Youd: Connecticut Retyped is organized by Diana Bowes Chief Curator Amy Smith-Stewart and Director of Education Namulen Bayarsaihan.
Tim Youd (b. 1967, Worcester, MA) is a performance and visual artist working in painting, sculpture, and video. To date, he has retyped 87 novels at various locations in the United States and Europe as part of his ongoing 100 Novels Project. Residencies at historic writers' homes have included William Faulkner's Rowan Oak with the University of Mississippi Art Museum (Oxford, MS), Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia with SCAD (Milledgeville and Savannah, GA), Carson McCullers' Childhood Home (Columbus, GA), and Virginia Woolf's Monk's House (Rodmell, Sussex). His work has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, including Atlanta Contemporary, CAM St. Louis, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University, Emory University, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Monterey Museum of Art, MCA San Diego, and the Lancaster Museum of Art and History. He has presented and performed his 100 Novels Project at the Ackland Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art Omi, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and LAXART, and retyped Joe Orton's Collected Plays at The Queen's Theatre with MOCA London. Youd’s performances have been reviewed by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Artnet News, Hyperallergic, The Village Voice, The Art Newspaper, Interview, and a variety of other national and international publications. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Beginning on opening day of The Aldrich Decennial, artist Tim Youd will undertake a live, durational retyping of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road on The Aldrich’s campus. Presented in dialogue with the exhibition’s focus on Connecticut artists, the project draws on the state’s rich literary history and Yates’s own ties to Connecticut, where the novel’s suburban landscape was famously realized.
Top image: Tim Youd, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
