"Under Color"
On View: April 14 - May 22, 2014
Jeanne Williamson
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Artist-in-Residence and Exhibition
As the HBI Artist-in-Residence, Jeanne Williamson will work on site to create a series of Jewish wedding canopies, or chuppot. Using common construction fencing as her template, Williamson draws inspiration from this material and its grid-like patterns. Her process incorporates painting, simple printmaking techniques and stitching to achieve vivid color and texture. Visually and conceptually linking the “protected area” of an urban building site with the symbolic protection of the wedding canopy, the chuppot on view offer a new interpretation of our relationship to our surroundings and the ritual of marriage.
Jeanne Williamson is an artist living in Natick, Massachusetts and is a member of The Boston Printmakers, the Surface Design Association and Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham, MA. She is represented by Gravers Lane Gallery in Philadelphia, and her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions nationally, including the Boston Center for the Arts, the Danforth Museum of Art and Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ. Her work is currently on view as part of an outdoor installation at Jackson Homestead in Newton, MA. In addition to doing artwork, Jeanne is also a web designer, and the author of the how-to books, Uncommon Cards (Running Press, 2013) and The Uncommon Quilter (Potter Craft/Random House, 2007).