Greg Willard
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Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
media release: THIRD FLOOR PROJECT SPACE “'Paper Play' Art in Covid," an exhibition by Gregg Williard, is on display in the third floor exhibition space, extended through June 7. The work addresses the struggles we all have faced in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. “These drawings, like my experience of the time,” Willard explains, “seem too fast or too slow or too small or too slant for message, analysis, reportage or spectacle. They present instead a miniature theater that haunts a paper stage, resistant to closure or cliché.” Gregg Williard is a visual artist and writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied painting and drawing with George McNeil and Lennart Anderson at The New York Studio School, fiction writing with Jerome Badanes at the State University of New ork and drama with The Performing Garage/Wooster Group. His work has been widely exhibited and published. Most recently, Willard’s work was featured in a one-person show at the Ohio State University Lima Campus Gallery and his narrative mural projects with Bhutanese refugees have been shown at the Overture Community Gallery and the UW-Madison’s Gallery 7.
Please join artist, Gregg Williard, in the third floor Education Studio at Arts + Literature Laboratory for a conversation and viewing of his current exhibition, "Paper Play" Art in COVID on Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 5:00pm. Following a brief artist talk in the Education Studio, Williard will lead a conversation and a walk through of his show, talking about process, choice, intent, influences and anything else that comes to mind about making art.