Bill Walton Exhibition
James Fuentes LLC
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James Fuentes and JTT presents a joint exhibition featuring Philadelphia-based artist, Bill Walton (1931- 2010). This will be the inaugural exhibition for JTT, a new gallery in the Lower East Side, founded by Jamin Tsao. Tsao is the curator for both Walton presentations.
The son of a printmaker, Walton inherited his father's trade, and for the first fifteen years of his career, practiced and taught printmaking. Interested in the materials used for printmaking -- wood, lead, steel -- more than the finished product, Walton began to make sculptures that spoke to the inherent quality of such materials after seeing an exhibition of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1964.
Walton had his first exhibition in 1971 and over his long career exhibited in galleries nationally and at a variety of institutions including; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Gallery and Wellesley College. Fleisher/Ollman Gallery represents the Bill Walton Estate.
This will be Walton's first solo exhibition in New York.
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Schedule
from March 04, 2012 to April 01, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-04 from 18:00 to 20:00