Emmett Wigglesworth “It is Not Enough to See…One Must See Through to Find Truth”

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

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Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning(JCAL) presents a solo exhibition by Queens-based artist Emmett Wigglesworth. The exhibition will be on display at JCAL Miller Gallery. An artist talk & demonstration on Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 2:00pm.

This retrospective spans a career over six decades and includes paintings, silkscreens, oil pastels, and sculptures and a newly commissioned piece for JCAL, titled the same as the exhibition. For the past 5 months Wigglesworth has worked 35 hours a week in JCAL’s Studios to complete 3 new large-scale pieces including, “It is Not Enough to See…One must See Through to Find Truth.” The piece is composed of 6 life-sized painted foam core sculptures, installled in front of a 10 foot painting, giving a viewer experience like no other.

In the over 40 artworks represented, Wigglesworth’s signature black and white “scribble” as he likes to call it, depicts images of figures, gestures, light, and sky. Multi-colored lines and patterns decorate the surfaces, recalling geometric and floral designs. Wigglesworth aims to use his artistic talent as a functional way to put into practice a spiritual truth as a means to counter a concerned society, to enhance a more humanistic world.

JCAL is accessible via public transportation including the E and J MTA Subway lines, LIRR, and numerous bus lines.

A resident of Jamaica Queens for more than 20 years, Emmett Wigglesworth is a muralist,painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet since the 1950’s. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet since the 1950’s. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, where he attended the College of Art and later enlisted in the military service and honorably discharged from the U. S. Marine Corp. in 1957. In 1959 Wigglesworth began his participation in the Civil Rights movement, working with the CORE Freedom School in Selma, AL teaching art, and wrote and directed two plays for the CORE Freedom Theater in San Francisco, CA. Wigglesworth has exhibited in Ghana, and throughout the U.S. His mural commissions include private homes, PS 181 Elementary School in Brooklyn, NY, the NY Cultural Council, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Kings County Hospital, Abyssinian Development Corporation and the Brooklyn New York Children’s Center. Wigglesworth is a recipient of the C.A.L.L.Program, with the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2014. He is a member of the National Conference of Artists, the WEUSI Artists NYC, Association of Caribbean and American Artists, AAA Artists and Cross Sections, the Fulton Art Fair Artists, as well as the Artists in Transition.