Ongoing/upcoming Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative (CMAI) Sidney and Rosalie Rose Gallery
Hank von Hellion, Vanda Saints
Hank von Hellion May 26 – November 28, 2021
Leslie Graff (top) On Her Mind, 2020, acrylic on canvas, (bottom) On His Mind, 2020, acrylic on canvas, Courtesy of the Artist
Leslie Graff Through May 16, 2021 Sutton, MA-based artist Leslie Graff examines the fundamental human experience in her acrylic and mixed-media paintings. Her portrait-based series explore individual identity as it is defined by relationships, especially within family settings.
Hank von Hellion, of Worcester, works with street art, graffiti, illustration, installation, and photography and has painted several outdoor murals in the city. For this project, he will create a site-specific installation at WAM, responding to museums as places of contradiction—both empowering and at times elitist—in light of his own experiences as a developing artist. Von Hellion's work is informed by growing up in the punk subculture, and reconciling his understanding of his art and identity in light of this. In addition to his work as a freelance artist and muralist, he is Managing Director of the Worcester PopUp at the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC), workshop instructor, and creative consultant and independent curator for businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Women of WAM: Depictions of Femininity in Early Modern Europe Self-guided Exhibition, early European Galleries Through June 2021 The Worcester Art Museum's collection of European art contains many paintings and sculptures depicting female saints, mythological subjects, and members of elite society. This self-guided exhibition explores how these works both embodied and reinforced the idealized notions of femininity in Early Modern Europe. Women of WAM was a collaboration between Clark University and WAM. Clark University students chose the theme, selected the works, and wrote the special labels and brochure. Funding was provided in part by the Art History program, Visual & Performing Arts, Clark University, and seeded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Details, top row, left to right: School of Fontainebleau, Woman at Her Toilette, 1550–1570, Museum purchase, 1932.23; Giulio Cesare Proccacini, Saint Catherine, early 1600s, Charlotte E.W. Buffington Fund, 1971.113; Master of the Magdalen Legend, Mater Dolorosa, late 1400s–early 1500s, Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Collection, 1940.43; bottom row, left to right: Nicolaes Maes, An Old Woman Praying, about 1655, Museum purchase, 1924.14; Paolo Veronese, Venus Disarming Cupid, 1550–55, Gift of Hester Diamond, 2013.50; Jan Gossaert, Portrait of Queen Eleanor of Austria, about 1516, anonymous loan, 83.84.1
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