Winfred Rembert: Stories to Tell

Upper Gallery Gallery
November 23, 2025 - January 28, 2026

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