Maud Gatewood, Comings and Goings, 1983, acrylic on canvas, 60inx72in, image courtesy the Duke Endowment
Maud Gatewood rose to prominence in North Carolina as an aggressively independent voice in the visual arts. She also participated in the evolution of art across America, helping to sustain figurative art and simultaneously adding her unique viewpoint to hard-edged abstraction and, arguably, to pop art.
This talk presents Maud Gatewood as a national figure in the arts via comparison with her many peers, including artists as diverse as Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Stella, and Alex Katz. Maud is discussed as being the individualist she was, while simultaneously being wide awake to the new directions art was taking in a rapidly changing world. Her rich legacy is examined, including Maud being an advocate for experimentation and risk, and how she made North Carolina a culturally more vibrant place with her art, attitude, and inimitable example.
About the speaker:
Will South has been an artist his entire life. From a tiny age, drawing made sense to him when little else did. Making images is his way of participating in the world.
Will South is also an historian of American art with over fifty publications in the field. He received his doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1994 where he was awarded the Henry R. Luce Fellowship to support his dissertation which was published in 2001 as Color, Myth & Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism. He is credited with writing several definitive studies in the field of American Impressionism, including California Impressionism for Abbeville Press, 1998; and Guy Rose: American Impressionist, 1995, for the Oakland Museum of California Art. His article, “The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide was nominated for the American Art Museum Curators’ award for the outstanding scholarly article of the year.
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