Horace Ballard has curated the first solo show of Mary Ann Unger’s work in more than 20 years, alongside works by her daughter — the artist Eve Biddle.
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To Carve a Moon from Bone opens at the Williams College Museum of Art, the first solo exhibition of Unger’s work in more than 20 years.
Read articleTomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities
From a distance, the colors shimmer like a crazy quilt of neighborhoods seen from the air, scarlet and blue and yellow, as though the houses were painted as bright as tropical birds …
Read articleFrantz Zéphirin’s paintings dream and dance among the Spirits
Two beings are moving between water and air — they may be floating on the foam of a wave or hovering over the water in a light like a storm at dawn. …
Read articlePrintmaking fills the Berkshire hills with color
I’m at WCMA, after a morning at the new Sol LeWitt retrospective of silkscreens, aquatints and lithographs, sharing a quiet minute with Katsushika Hokusai’s Amida Waterfall …
Read article‘Strict Beauty’ reveals Sol LeWitt through his prints
If Sol LeWitt were alive today, would he be working with a programmer in fractal algorithms? Listening to the way he worked, it can be easy to imagine him experimenting in the digital age …
Read articleKameelah Janan Rasheed charts galaxies and infinite libraries
In an octagonal room at the Williams College Museum of Art, abstract forms ring the walls like astral bodies, like baby stars half visible in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust.
Read articleWomen (artists) about town …
I walked through WCMA on Monday afternoon, with the work of women artists around me, and wondered where else have I seen work by women in the Berkshires this summer … And I’m finding the answer more challenging than I expected.
Read articleKameelah Janan Rasheed weaves a room of all possible stories
I’m standing in a round room at the top of the Williams College Museum of Art and seeing it transformed through Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s eyes.
Read articleShe can turn a library into a labyrinth (Sept 1 newsletter)
WCMA has reopened, after more than a year closed in the pandemic, and I am transfixed by Amalia Mesa-Bains’ Library of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.
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