Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center holds an exhibition of work by Susan Weil, Jan. 30-May 23

From a press release:

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center holds an exhibition of work by Susan Weil, Jan. 30-May 23

poemumbles: 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images
Exhibition: January 30 – May 23, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, January 30, 2015 from 5:30 – 8:00pm, FREE Admission
Curated by Brian E. Butler and Rachael Inch
Gallery Talk by Rachael Inch at 7:00pm
Reception Refreshments provided by Cecilia’s Kitchen and Vortex Doughnuts

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) celebrates the completion of the first phase of its renovation and expansion in downtown Asheville with the presentation of poemumbles: 30 years of Susan Weil’s poem/images with a free opening reception on Friday, January 30 from 5:30 – 8:00pm. There will be a gallery talk by Susan Weil’s studio assistant and exhibition co-curator Rachael Inch at 7:00pm during the opening reception. The exhibition opening coincides with the Grand {Re}OPENING of our renovated and redesigned museum at 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville.

Susan Weil is a painter, printmaker and book artist living in New York City. She studied at Académie Julian in Paris before enrolling at Black Mountain College in 1948 and then later at the Art Students League in New York. Weil is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the National Museum, Stockholm; Helsinki City Art Museum; and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. In 2011, the distinguished fine-art publisher Skira released Susan Weil, Moving Pictures, a 142-page monograph on the artist’s large and diverse body of work, with an emphasis on her paintings of the last two decades. It includes scholarly essays on her life and work by noted critics Dore Ashton, David Weir, and Olle Granath. Copies of this book will be for sale.

Susan Weil’s poemumbles are a unique form of poetic expression that explore the limitless potential and fluidity of her thoughts in visual and verbal form. Weil has always had an affinity for words. Ever since her father Leonard read Chaucer and Joyce to her as a child, words have given Weil a unique way of looking at the world. When Susan met her Swedish dealer Anders Tornberg in 1977, she began sending him poems and accompanying images. Over the course of the next six years, Weil sent some 5,000 poemumbles to Anders in Lund, Sweden, from high on the 18th floor of her Chinatown apartment.