In collaboration with the Berman Museum in Collegeville, PA, our most recent installment of the "In Conversation" series highlighted the art and life of Françoise Gilot. Listen in as we explore Gilot's life and practice, contextualizing her work within 20th-century modernism and tracing her legacy to the influence it has on artists today.
Thank you to the panelists Berman Director Lauren McCardel, Philadelphia Artist Kati Gegenheimer, Art Historian Martha Lucy, Berman Founding Director Lisa Hanover and Dina Wind Art Foundation President John Wind for providing an engaging and lively exploration of Gilot’s life and practice through personal stories and art history.
About Françoise Gilot (1921-2023):
Gilot holds an important place in the history of modern and contemporary art—yet despite her many accomplishments as an artist, she was often eclipsed by her tumultuous relationship with Pablo Picasso and was the only one of his many companions to leave him and forge a career on her own. Her diverse oeuvre reflects a curious and experimental studio practice which bridged the 20th-century avant-garde with burgeoning contemporary aesthetics.
To learn more visit the Berman Museum, an international center for the study of Gilot’s work, to see a new exhibition featuring lithograph matrices exhibited alongside corresponding completed works, large-scale oil paintings and round canvases, and materials from the Gilot Archives on view for the first time. On view now through December 15, 2024 ~
