Virtual Event by Pucker Gallery
On 12 February Pucker Gallery had the incredible opportunity to review the art of Mallory Lake as we revisit her favorite places and her poetic version of each place. We will discuss how place can be transformed and preserved by art. Chief Curator of the Brattleboro Museum at Art Center, Mara Williams and Gallery director, Bernie Pucker will guide our conversation.
Mallory Lake's exhibition, "Italia Real & Imagined: Pastels by Mallory Lake" will be on view at the Gallery through 27 February 2022.
Mara Williams has been curating exhibits at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gathering Light: The Art of Stephen Hannock, Wolf Kahn—Landscape of Light; Secrets by Gloria Garfinkel; Andy Warhol—Selections from the Jon Gould Collection. Group shows have included the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Janet Fish, Mary Frank, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Maya Lin, James McGarrell, David Nash, Robert Rauschenberg, Ursula von Ridingsvard, Michael Singer, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Barbara Zucker, as well as a host of regional and emerging talent.
In addition to Brattleboro, her exhibits have been seen by audiences at Tufts University Art Gallery, Florence Griswold Museum, Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, and a number of galleries in New York City.
As a partner in Arts Bridge LLC, Williams leads exhibition teams for institutions developing new large-scale museum projects. She led a team at Norwich University to conceive and build the inaugural exhibits and media productions at the Sullivan Museum & History Center; she was the exhibition developer and project manager for the Vermont Historical Society's interactive exhibit and film, Freedom &Unity: One Ideal, Many Stories; she developed Bravo! A Century of Theatre in Fairfield County; and a number of exhibits for the Vermont Folklife Center.
She holds an A.B. in theatre from Boston College; an MFA in museology from Syracuse University, and has completed doctoral course work and passed comprehensives in comparative arts at New York University. She has served as chair of the Vermont Arts Council and as a board member of the New England Museum Association. She is currently serving her third term on the Senate Curatorial Advisory Committee for the U.S. Capitol.