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
Dawn Clements: Paper Flowers
Lower Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“Clements reminds us that you don’t need much—sheets of paper, ballpoint pen, and watercolor—to make something great, and that the most abiding pleasures may be found right in front of you. I have come to think of these drawings as love letters to the world.”
John Yau
“Like cinema, [my work] moves and the experience takes time and that maybe is slower. Some works of art are slow; they walk instead of run. I think a lot of my work is slow.”
Dawn Clements
“Part of deciding to draw the flowers every day was that, instead of me moving my point of view, the flowers are going to be constantly moving before my eyes. I said, ‘I want to do one every day because I want to see the change, to see how they live and die before my eyes.’”
Dawn Clements
Everything is offered to the eyes’ delectation, as if it too could smell and touch... The artist’s ethics and aesthetics are evident throughout: she wants to honor the existence of whatever she is looking at.”
John Yau
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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