Join us Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 12:30PM ET for a conversation with:
Mark Davis – Pucker Gallery Artist
Jim Schantz – Pucker Gallery Artist and Owner and Director of Schantz Galleries
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Dr. Carl Herbert – Gallery Associate
Bernard Pucker – Gallery Director
This WebinART will be an opportunity to explore Mark's new work and engage with him and others about his creative process.
The exhibition All That Rhythm will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 11 January through 23 February 2025.
About Our Panelists...
Mark Davis was born in New Haven, CT in 1954 and educated at Goddard College in Vermont. He began making jewelry in his teens and his dexterous metalwork is entirely self-taught. His initial forays into mobiles utilized the metals of his jewelry making: sterling silver, gold plating, and brass. The variety of styles and materials that Davis uses to build his mobiles has expanded dramatically over the years to create a complex and compelling body of work, in addition to moderate scale pieces of movement, with newfound color and grace, Davis also creates large scale public and private commission pieces. His works have been exhibited by Pucker Gallery since 1995 and are included in numerous private and public collections including: Andover Memorial Library, Andover, MA; the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL; the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL; New England College, Henniker, NH; and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Jim Schantz is a landscape painter whose work focuses primarily on the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts. Throughout his nearly forty-year painting career, nature has been a constant source of inspiration. Schantz received his BFA from Syracuse University, his MFA from UC Davis, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Brooklyn Museum School, and the Hornsey School of Art in London. He has taught painting in numerous institutions. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. He has exhibited his work extensively since the 1970s and has been represented by Pucker Gallery since 1988. His works are included in museums and public collections throughout the United States. Schantz has participated in numerous art and music collaborations with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Hawthorne String Quartet at Tanglewood, Skidmore College, the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Prague, Czech Republic, and Boston College. He has collaborated on two CDs with flutist Paula Robison (Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land and Places of the Spirit). He is married to Kim Saul, an artist from western Massachusetts.
Mara Williams assumed Emerita status in 2021, after curating exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty-three years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. As a partner in Arts Bridge LLC, Williams leads exhibition teams for institutions developing new large-scale museum projects. 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 is Chair of the Wolf Kahn Foundation. She has served as chair of the Vermont Arts Council and as a board member of the New England Museum Association, as well as three terms on the Senate Curatorial Advisory Committee for the U.S. Capitol.
Dr. Carl Herbert is a fourth-generation physician whose career has been devoted to helping infertility patients overcome a wide spectrum of obstacles to create their families. Early in his career he participated in the founding of one of the first eIVF centers in the United States. For more than forty years, Dr. Herbert has contributed to the growth and development of assisted reproductive technologies, continually implementing the evolving techniques and optimizing their clinical applications for care. The ambiguity of a socially awkward accolade, “You got me pregnant!”, has become a recurrent reward, both humorous and joyful. By serendipity, Dr. Herbert walked into Pucker Gallery for the first time in 1985 when visiting Boston for a medical conference. From this point on, his nascent interest in art grew under the generous tutelage and encouragement of Mr. Pucker. A close personal friendship evolved as they visited artists and exhibitions around the world; exchanged thoughts on the experience and intrinsic value that art, in all its many forms, can provide individuals and society; and shared writings which illuminated these principles.
Bernie Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Boston's historic Newbury Street 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 Gallery receptions. 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 has served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of the Newbury Street League, and 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.