(9.19) A new season starts at Brown University’s Bell Gallery with a rebranding: The gallery is now being called The Bell. I like it. This happens to work in a way it might not have worked had David Winton Bell’s last name been something like Murgatroyd. At any rate, The Bell will be hosting an opening reception and artist talk this Thursday evening and it is free and open to the public.
Join artist Franklin Williams in conversation with Kate Kraczon, chief curator and director of exhibitions of The Bell, to celebrate the opening of Williams’ survey exhibition It’s About Love.
Bursting with color, texture, and organic form, the intensely personal work of Franklin Williams (b. 1940 in Ogden, UT; lives and works in Petaluma, CA) sustains a tension between figuration and abstraction.
A reception in the List Lobby will follow the conversation and, as always, The Bell is free and open to the public. This exhibition runs to December 8th.
Seen here is a detail of Yellow Apron, 1971. Acrylic on sewn canvas, yarn, crochet thread and painted nails.
Gallery hours: Sunday thru Wednesday: 11am to 5pm/ Thursday and Friday: 11am to 8pm.
Free, 6pm to 8pm, Thursday, September 19, The Bell, 64 College Street, (directions)