Tim Youd: Connecticut Retyped

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, 2026, 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. 

 

April 24, 2026