The Unstoppable Rose Wylie
Left alone and unconstrained, the British artist has painted throughout the pandemic.
The artist Rose Wylie at her home and studio in Kent, England, surrounded by her wild, rambling garden. Credit.Sam Wright
By Tess Thackara
April 22, 2021, 5:50 p.m. ET
The artist Rose Wylie came of age in austere postwar England, a member of the so-called Silent Generation, but she doesn’t quite fit the mold. While she leads a relatively frugal and hermetic life that exemplifies the resourcefulness her contemporaries are known for, silent she is not. At 86, Wylie paints freewheeling pictures, often with words loosely scrawled across them, that are gloriously big and crude, and full of
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Berry Campbell is pleased to present
Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring. This exhibition marks the esteemed Maryland-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition title,
Soaring, is an homage to the late Dr. David Driskell’s essay,
Soaring With a Painterly Voice, written on the occasion of Burwell’s 1997 survey exhibition at Hampton University Museum, Virginia. Driskell described Burwell’s work as, “transcendental in showing stylistic diversity of earthly beauty and cosmic vision.”
Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring, organized by guest curator, Melissa Messina, highlights the dynamic transition in Burwell’s abstract visual language from two-dimensional painterly planes to three-dimensional sculptural forms. Burwell’s paintings from the late 1970s and early 1980s employ a distinctly bold palette and reference organic forms found in natural floral and earthly phenomena. The exhibition centers on the painting
Florida State University’s Lilian Garcia-Roig, an internationally recognized visual artist specializing in painting from the College of Fine Arts, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
Garcia-Roig, chair and professor in the Department of Art, is one of 184 Guggenheim Fellows selected to the class of 2021. They were among a group of about 3,000 artists, writers, scholars and scientists who participated in the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 97th competition. Her fellowship is in the Creative Arts: Fine Arts category.
“Professor Garcia-Roig receiving this fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation is wonderful news,” said James Frazier, dean of the College of Fine Arts. “It is an acknowledgment of the caliber of her work and her exceptional achievements as an artist. Anyone who knows her knows of her passionate commitment to the arts and to the arts at FSU. Personally, I am extremely happy for her. As dean of the College of Fine Arts, I couldn’