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It’s a Maud, Maud World at BRAHM
August 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
$8
Maud Gatewood, Comings and Goings, 1983, acrylic on canvas, 60inx72in, image courtesy the Duke Endowment
Maud Gatewood rose to prominence in North Carolina as an aggressively independent voice in the visual arts. She also participated in the evolution of art across America, helping to sustain figurative art and simultaneously adding her unique viewpoint to hard-edged abstraction and, arguably, to pop art.
This talk presents Maud Gatewood as a national figure in the arts via comparison with her many peers, including artists as diverse as Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Stella, and Alex Katz. Maud is discussed as being the individualist she was, while simultaneously being wide awake to the new directions art was taking in a rapidly changing world. Her rich legacy is examined, including Maud being an advocate for experimentation and risk, and how she made North Carolina a culturally more vibrant place with her art, attitude, and inimitable example.
