“Let me recite what history teaches…,” an exhibition of recent work by Thomas Lail, professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Theatre Arts and Digital Media, opened Oct. 10 in The Rice Gallery at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD.
“Let us recite what history teaches… ” refers to the penultimate line of Gertrude Stein’s “A Complete Portrait of Pablo Picasso” and this exhibition follows a smaller exhibition of Lail’s work held last year and titled after the final line of the same poem… “History Teaches.” The current exhibition surveys a greater scope of Lail’s recent work including sculpture, silk screened rolls of wallpaper, silk screened paintings, objects, and video. Lail’s overprinted images reference the patterns of Utopian designer/writer William Morris.
Lail also recently exhibited work at Hot Wood Arts in Red Hook, Brooklyn; in Portal: Governor’s Island, a month-long exhibit of solo projects by selected artists in the historic 1890s buildings of Colonel’s Row on Governor’s Island, New York City, and in Periphery Space at Paper Nautilus Books in Providence, RI.
The Rice Gallery, managed by McDaniel College’s Art & Art History Department and located in Peterson Hall, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free. “Let me recite what history teaches…” is on view through Nov. 1.
Published: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:05:49 +0000 by d.gardner