November 19, 2022 | 11:00 am
Please join us for a tour of Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art with the exhibition’s co-curator Katrina London. This is the inaugural exhibition at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico, and explores ideas of intergenerational influence and innovation among visual artists working in a range of practices.
Comprised of 43 artworks, the exhibition pairs pieces by a dozen groundbreaking women artists of the postwar period with new commissions of contemporary art presented publicly for the first time. It draws primarily from the permanent collection of modern art at Kykuit, the former Rockefeller family home that now operates as a historic house museum on The Pocantico Center campus.
Artists Sonya Clark, Maren Hassinger, Elana Herzog, Melissa Meyer, Fanny Sanín, Barbara Takenaga, and Kay WalkingStick were asked to respond to the museum and grounds at Pocantico with artwork for the exhibition. The result is a series of inspired encounters that frames the modern art of the postwar period as relevant, generative, and open to myriad creative possibilities.
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About Katrina London
Katrina London is the manager of collections and curatorial projects of The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She is responsible for the stewardship of the collections within the Pocantico Historic Area, which includes supervising the conservation and care of works of art, curatorial research, and organizing exhibitions and educational programs.
Prior to joining the Fund, Ms. London was a curatorial associate at the American Federation of Arts, where she worked on a wide range of traveling exhibitions. She holds a Master of Arts degree in decorative arts, design history, and material culture from the Bard Graduate Center and a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history with minors in French and studio art from the University at Albany, SUNY.
Image: Left: Mary Callery, Orpheus, 1951. Kykuit, National Trust for Historic Preservation. / Right: Melissa Meyer, A Nod to Grace (detail), 2021. Melissa Meyer Studio, New York City. Photos by Andy Romer. Courtesy of the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center Gallery.
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