Current Exhibitions

Meanwhile

Works by Cherith Lundin
August 28, 2024-September 28, 2024

Opening Reception and Artist's Talk
Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 4-6 p.m.
Barrington Center for the Arts

Cherith Lundin's Artist Statement

Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

- Mary Oliver

“Meanwhile” is an installation of paintings, drawings, and prints that locate moments of beauty and longing on the threshold between architecture and landscape.

Large-scale, immersive paintings depict rhythmic architectural arrangements of walls and screens, interspersed with glimpses of verdant gardens and parks. Conjured from memory and imagination, the paintings juxtapose dynamic gestures and vibrant bands of color with straight edges, grids, and thin veils of paint. The walls of color act to focus, slow, and interrupt views, while light from sources outside of the paintings filters onto their surfaces, radiating, and opening up space. Complementing the paintings are charcoal drawings and woodblock prints from Lundin’s “River Fragments” series, in which she returns to the city park of her childhood home in Germany through subtly changing, repeated imagery.

Across the work in the exhibition, abundance of vegetation has the effect of obscuring views. Our eyes are tempted by distance and end up caught in surface textures, the attainable and unattainable negotiating a familiar tension. Meanwhile, the play of light that happens across the surface of the work quietly becomes the primary event, creating a dynamic in which the paintings are as much about awareness of our own presence and perception as they are about what we are looking at.

Marc Chagall and the Bible

Works by Marc Chagall (1877-1895)
Traveling Exhibition by Sandra Bowden
October 4, 2024-December 14, 2024

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 5, 2024 | 4-6 p.m.
Barrington Center for the Arts

About the Exhibition
Marc Chagall (1877–1895) is perhaps the foremost visual interpreter of the Bible in the twentieth Century. With wit and joy, he has given us the stories that we know so well from the Old Testament. His art is filled with his own reoccurring symbols of visual memory and imagination. He said he did not see the Bible, but he dreamed it, even as a child. Chagall’s vision of the Old Testament combines his Jewish heritage and modern art giving us a rich display of symbol and imagination.

Chagall said, “Since my early youth I have been fascinated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me and it seems to me still that it is the greatest source of poetry of all time.”

Chagall and the Bible includes 44 etchings and lithographs of Chagall’s graphic works and one signed original poster. Ten etchings from his 1960 Bible series brings together the artist’s spirituality and childhood fantasy through the sophisticated artistry of a master printmaker. Another 28 brilliantly colored images from his 1956 and 1960 suites of Bible lithographs are luminous interpretations of some of his favorite stories from the Hebrew Bible. Each is a delightful and colorful interpretation that lets the viewer enter the worlds of the Bible and Marc Chagall.

It is most interesting that Chagall, who is Jewish, would have used the Crucifixion in so many of his works, yet over 100 of his works include the Crucifixion as a reference or the subject of his paintings. Mystical Crucifixion and Christ in the Clock, two colored lithographs in this exhibition, demonstrate his fascination with this theme.