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Held concurrently with  at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory) focuses on Ann Craven’s moon paintings, executed from 2020 through 2024. Craven begins by painting the moon plein air and afterwards scales her composition based on her initial observation. Over the course of the exhibition, three curators will collaborate with the artist to execute three distinct presentations of her moon paintings. The exhibition, like the moon itself, will evolve over time, bearing the traces of the moon’s “celestial journey” within the universe of the gallery. 

Taking place in three rotations, the inaugural installation of the exhibition will be curated by Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art (May 22–June 30); Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space will curate the second rotation (July 1–18); and Adam Weinberg, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art will curate the third and final rotation (July 20–August 17). Collectively, the exhibition will be selected from over 150 compositions, each one executed from nature, the full range of which will be made accessible through an accompanying digital catalogue. Approximately 20 paintings will appear on view in each rotation.

The exhibition is overseen and developed by Anne Collins Goodyear, Co-Director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020-2024), on view May 3, 2025, through January 4, 2026 at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, and Spotlight: Ann Craven, on view May 14 to September 14, 2025 at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine.

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges the Shapell Family Art Fund and the KHR McNeely Family Foundation, Kevin, Rosemary, and Hannah Rose McNeely, for generous support of Ann Craven | Painted Time: Moons (Laboratory).