WebinART: Gerald Garston: The Joy of Color
Virtual event hosted by Pucker Gallery.
Join us 24 February at 10 am for an opportunity to review the art of Pucker Gallery artist Gerald Garston with Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita, Mara Williams, and Gallery Director Bernie Pucker. This event will be an opportunity to dive into the beautifully distilled and eclectic world of Gerald Garston and his influence from his contemporary and professor, Josef Albers.
The exhibition Gerald Garston: The Joy of Color will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 21 January through 5 March, 2023.
Gerald Garston (1925-1994) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Garston was also a student of Karl Metzler, Louis Boucher, and Josef Albers. In Garston’s own words, Albers “exerted the greatest influence” on Garston, and his color theories can be found throughout Garston’s works. Garston taught Albers’ class Interaction of Color, based off of his book of the same name, for many years at the Creative Arts Center in New Haven, Connecticut and Paier College in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Garston's work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Rose Museum, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
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. 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.
Bernard Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Newbury Street in Boston in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world, presenting approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinArts,” and other public events. Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves, as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School; President of the Newbury Street League; and a Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others. Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College.