Philemona Williamson: Difference between revisions

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==Biography==

 

Her African-American parents were employed by a wealthy Greek family, and she grew up in their Manhattan home.

She recalls a diversity of cultures but no racism when growing up.{{sfn|The World & I|1999}}

Her father was the chauffeur and her mother the housekeeper.

She said of the environment in the home on [[Sutton Place, Manhattan|Sutton Place]] that she and her parents maintained "a kind of quiet gentility" while their employers were involved in an endless "Greek passion play."{{sfn|Farrington|2004|p=323}}

 

Williamson has worked at [[Parsons School of Design]], The Getty Institute for Education in the Arts, [[New York State Council on the Arts]], [[University of North Carolina Chapel Hill]], [[Bard College]], [[Rhode Island School of Design]] and [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].{{sfn|Jersey Arts}}

As of 2010 she lived and worked in [[Upper Montclair, New Jersey]], with a studio in Bloomfield.{{sfn|Smith|2010}}

 

Art critic Catherine Bernard has said, "The tension of the figures, the colors, and the distortion of space are all shadows, however faint, of our dismembered memories."{{sfn|The World & I|1999}}

 

Her ''Folktales from Around the World'' (2003) is a set of four glass mosaic murals at the Glen Oaks Campus School in Queens.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}

Her work is held by the [[Sheldon Museum of Art]] in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]; the [[Mint Museum]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]; [[Hampton University]] museum in [[Hampton, Virginia]]; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, [[Flint, Michigan]]; Reader's Digest Art Collection and AT&T.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}

==Exhibitions==

 

Williamson's work has been displayed in many group and individual exhibitions in locations such as [[State University of New York at Old Westbury|SUNY College]] in [[Old Westbury, New York]]; the [[John Michael Kohler Arts Center]] in [[Sheboygan, Wisconsin]], the [[African American Museum (New York)|African American Museum]] in [[Hempstead (village), New York|Hempstead, New York]]; the [[Queens Museum of Art]] in New York City, the [[Montclair Art Museum]] and the [[Bronx Museum of the Arts]] in New York City.{{sfn|Towson University}}

Selected solo exhibitions:{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2012}}

*1988: ''Philemona Williamson: Recent Paintings'', The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York

*1999: ''Time and Memory: Paintings by Philemona Williamson'', John Michael, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

*2000: ''New Paintings'', June Kelly Gallery, New York

*2003: ''New Paintings'', June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue

*2006: ''New Paintings'', June Kelly Gallery, New York

*2008: "Sudden Passage", essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York

*2009: Philemona Williamson Exhibition, curated by Bertha Gutman, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA; brochure

*2010 November: ''Fractured Tales'', June Kelly Gallery, New York{{sfn|ArtSlant}}

==References==

'''Citations'''

'''Sources'''

{{refbegin}}

|title=Philemona Williamson

|author=ArtSlant

|title=Philemona Williamson Lecture

|author=CBS Baltimore

|date=2004-12-30|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-516721-4}}

|author=Harpers Magazine

|title=Williamson, Philemona

|author=Jersey Arts

|title=Philemona Williamson

|work=Mutual Art

|title=Strong, Colorful Surreal Paintings by Philemona Williamson at June Kelly Gallery |date=November 13, 2010

|author=June Kelly Gallery

|title=Philemona Williamson

|author=June Kelly Gallery |year=2012

|date=2003-03-01|publisher=Pomegranate|isbn=978-0-7649-2447-7}}

|author=Mutual Art |title=Philemona Williamson (American)

|title=Artwork: Seasons (Philemona Williamson)

|work=NYC Subway

|last=Rosenfeld |first=Robbie |year=2007

|title=Philemona Williamson "Fractured Tales"

|last=Smith |first=Alexa

|date=2 October 2010 |work=NYC Art Gallery Exhibits

|title=Philemona Williamson: Half-Remembered Dreams

|date=February 1999

|author=The World & I

|author=Towson University

|title=PHILEMONA WILLIAMSON: NEW WORK

{{refend}}

 

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[[Category:21st-century American painters]]

[[Category:People from the Upper East Side]]