Faculty and Staff

Darren Waterston - Uncertain Beauty

03/26/14

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Filthy Lucre, detail

Darren Waterston OS21 resident visiting artist and trustee. Waterston's exhibit Uncertain Beauty at Mass MoCA opened March 8, 2014 and can be viewed through January 2015. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the installation Filthy Lucre, a contemporary re-imagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The installation is accompanied by two galleries featuring a selection of works on wood panel and canvas. Like Filthy Lucre, they express both the grotesque and the beautiful, hinting at utopian fantasies and Arcadian dreams, as well as apocalyptic nightmares.

Filthy Lucre will travel to the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, opening in January 2015 and remaining on view through May 2016. For more on Waterston's work go to darrenwaterston.com.

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