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.
Past Exhibitions
- Jeremy Teicher ’06 Exhibition
- Christine Romanell: “Cyclical Gravity”
- 27th Annual Student Photography Exhibition
- Teachers in the Studio
- Marsha Goldberg: A Solo Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper
- Jesse Wright: Everywhere Return
- Alumni Exhibition 2022
- Omar Lawson, Figure Painter, and Armando “Out There” Diaz, Photographer
- Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
- Annual Art Faculty Exhibition: "Making the Unknown Known"
- Peter Turnley Selected Photos
- Haunted Terrain By Peter Delman P '97, '98
- Sarah Kurz '99 Survey
- Theda Sandiford: Foundation
- 25th Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
- Jamie Levine: 2020 Free Fall
- 24th Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
- Art Faculty Exhibition 2020
- WW11: Eye of the Storm by _gaia studio
- Alexandra Schoenberg: Through the Looking Grid
- Alumni Exhibition MJ Tyson ’04 and Dwight Hiscano ’80
- Peter Delman P '97, '98: The Persistence of History
- 23rd Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
- Art Faculty Exhibition: Now and Then
- Rich Freiwald "Just Clay: From Porzellan to Pop"
- Photographic Works from the Permanent Collection
Jeremy Teicher ’06 Exhibition
Christine Romanell: “Cyclical Gravity”
27th Annual Student Photography Exhibition
Teachers in the Studio
Marsha Goldberg: A Solo Exhibition of Paintings and Works on Paper
Jesse Wright: Everywhere Return
Alumni Exhibition 2022
Omar Lawson, Figure Painter, and Armando “Out There” Diaz, Photographer
Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
Annual Art Faculty Exhibition: "Making the Unknown Known"
Peter Turnley Selected Photos
Haunted Terrain By Peter Delman P '97, '98
Sarah Kurz '99 Survey
Theda Sandiford: Foundation
25th Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
Jamie Levine: 2020 Free Fall
24th Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
Art Faculty Exhibition 2020
WW11: Eye of the Storm by _gaia studio
Alexandra Schoenberg: Through the Looking Grid
Alumni Exhibition MJ Tyson ’04 and Dwight Hiscano ’80
Peter Delman P '97, '98: The Persistence of History
23rd Annual Pingry Student Photography Exhibition
Art Faculty Exhibition: Now and Then
Rich Freiwald "Just Clay: From Porzellan to Pop"
Photographic Works from the Permanent Collection
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