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Hostetter Arts Center Gallery

Current Show: "Philemona Williamson"

“Philemona Williamson” on view September 19 to October 20, 2023

Philemona Williamson’s narrative paintings explore the tenuous bridge between adolescence and adulthood, encapsulating the intersection of innocence and experience at its most piercing and poignant moment. The metaphorical images focus on the transitional period of adolescence, when personal discovery and awareness collide with the force of worldly knowledge. The lush color palette and dreamlike positioning of the figures ensures that their vulnerabilities are seen as strengths and not as weaknesses.


Williamson has shown widely with an upcoming solo show at Galerie Semiose in Paris in November, 2023. Other recent solo shows include June Kelly Gallery in NYC; Jenkins-Johnson Gallery in San Francisco, and a mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey in 2017. Philemona also had a one-person show at Drumthwacket, the New Jersey Governor's mansion in 2019.

In 2022, she was awarded a grant from Anonymous Was A Woman and received a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment For The Arts, New York Foundation For The Arts and The Millay Colony. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions such as The Queens Museum of Art, Wisconsin's Kohler Art Center, The Sheldon Museum in Nebraska, The Bass Museum in Miami, The Mint Museum in North Carolina, The Forum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, and The International Bienal of Painting in Cuenca, Ecuador. She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including The Montclair Art Museum; The Kalamazoo Art Institute; The Mint Museum of Art; Smith College Museum of Art; Hampton University Museum; Sheldon Art Museum; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, AT&T and recently - The Baltimore Museum of Art.

Her public works include fused-glass murals created for the MTA Arts in Transit Program at the Livonia Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, a painting used by the MTA’s Poetry In Motion and, for the NYC School Authority, a mosaic mural in Queens. Philemona has taught Painting & Drawing at Hunter College, Pratt Institute, SVA, Bard College, RISD, Cooper Union and Parsons. She served on the advisory board of the Getty Center for Education and is currently on the board of the Visual Arts Center of NJ.

 

Painting of a woman with eyes closed
Poster for the Hostetter Arts Gallery Haunted Terrain Exhibit
Sculptures by Jamie Levine
Poster for the Sarah Kurz Virtual Art Gallery
Metallic sculptural art piece and abstract black and red art piece.
Statue from the Haunted Terrain Exhibit
Student photography on display.
Compilation of photos of Pingry visual arts faculty
Poster of Peter Delman's art show in the Hostetter Art Gallery
23rd annual student photo exhibit poster
Rich Freiwald's Exhibit in the Hostetter Art Gallery: Just Clay
Alumni art exhibition poster for Hostetter Art Gallery of MJ Tyson '04 and Dwight Hiscano '80.
Peter Delman's painting of a woman painted in blue with other women standing behind her painted in red

Past Exhibitions

Painting of a woman with eyes closed
Poster for the Hostetter Arts Gallery Haunted Terrain Exhibit
Sculptures by Jamie Levine
Poster for the Sarah Kurz Virtual Art Gallery
Metallic sculptural art piece and abstract black and red art piece.
Statue from the Haunted Terrain Exhibit
Student photography on display.
Compilation of photos of Pingry visual arts faculty
Poster of Peter Delman's art show in the Hostetter Art Gallery
23rd annual student photo exhibit poster
Rich Freiwald's Exhibit in the Hostetter Art Gallery: Just Clay
Alumni art exhibition poster for Hostetter Art Gallery of MJ Tyson '04 and Dwight Hiscano '80.
Peter Delman's painting of a woman painted in blue with other women standing behind her painted in red

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