Winfred Rembert: Stories to Tell
Upper Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“I want to tell the truth with this art. I’ve got so many stories to tell, I’ll never get to tell them all, but I’ll do the best I can.”
Winfred Rembert
“Winfred Rembert’s tooled-leather paintings command whatever space they inhabit... The self-taught artist had a remarkable eye for color and pattern, and a lingering sorrow that sustains in the work’s quiet intensity.”
Tessa Solomon, ARTnews
“Rembert’s skillful mastery of tooling leather came from the five years he spent incarcerated in Cuthbert, Georgia... The resulting imagery is both jocund and heartbreaking.”
Annie Armstrong, Artnet News
“When you start down a cotton row picking and looked up, you couldn’t see the end. When I followed Mama down her row it would take almost all day to reach halfway. The whole day would net about 150 to 200 lbs—$4.00.”
Winfred Rembert
“This is what jazz looked like in the ‘60s in Albany, Georgia. My memory of jazz was of a dark place, never overcrowded, but almost full, lots of smoking and drinking and mellow moods, no dancing. Everybody just mostly laid back, sippin’ on their drinks, and puffin’ on their cigarettes.”
Winfred Rembert
Wolfgang Tillmans:
Works from the Collection of James Barron
Lower Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
"Mr. Tillmans’s photographs are both documentary and diaristic, romantic and realistic, widely aware yet focused, and always demonstrating the physical ways and means of the medium."
Roberta Smith
“I was first introduced to the work of Wolfgang Tillmans by my cousin Ellen Cantor, an artist who lived in London. She brought me to a small exhibition of his work in an obscure location in a remote area of London. I was immediately struck by Tillmans’ artistic voice and the installation of his works, which was unlike anything I’d ever seen. Some photos were taped to the wall, others were pinned, and some were framed.
Soon after, I bought my first Tillmans photograph, and also began placing them in the homes of my clients. The works in this exhibition have been on the walls of my own home, and it’s a joy to share them with our audience. Each represents an aspect of his work. Combined, they give a feeling of the power and breadth of his photography.”
James Barron
"They [the Freischwimmer series] are photographs made without a camera, purely with light… they evoke all sorts of associations, like skin, or astronomy, or chemicals dissolving, and it’s all done by the brain. It’s what your ‘brain association tool’ creates."
Wolfgang Tillmans
"This is something [Tillmans] has been exploring for over a decade: a purist approach to colour and form that acts as a counterpoint to his figurative pictures... From across the studio, with the sunlight falling on them from above, they look like the jewel-coloured windows of a white-walled church."
Liz Jobey
Aaron Siskind: Outside World / Inside World
Garden Cabin
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.”
Aaron Siskind
"Aaron Siskind was my first artist friend. I met him in 1978, when I worked at the JEB Gallery in Providence... It was a stunning experience for me to be in the darkroom with a master, and hear his thoughts about printing, photography, and life. He was incredibly generous in his thought and expertise, and I’ve remained grateful for the past 47 years.
My father was passionate about photography, and when my parents visited me in Providence, they also came to Aaron’s home and darkroom. They became my first art clients, buying some twenty photographs of Aaron’s... These photographs are part of that group. I’m excited to share these with our art audience."
James D. Barron
“Photography is more than a means of recording the obvious. It is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.”
Aaron Siskind
“When I make a photograph, I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order—(unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”
Aaron Siskind
Beverly Pepper / Outdoor Sculpture
Currently on view by appointment only
“Time, that fourth dimension, has always been an essential element in [Beverly] Pepper’s work—a desire to create something outside history, something bigger and more enduring than herself, than all of us.”
Megan O’Grady
Clodia Medea (2014 - 2024)
Curvae in Curvae (2012 - 18)
Curved Presence (2012)
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