Artist Couples: A Pre-Valentine’s Day Art Lecture with Debbie Wells
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 6:30 – 8:30pm
$15 M/$20 NM
“We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love” (Seuss). This is so true when it comes to couples in the arts! This lecture covers several couples (of all forms) and their how their personal relationships and professional lives in the art world flourished together (or not) and why.
Debbie Wells of Artful Circle will give a dynamic and fun presentation of the love lives and art of these very interesting creative couples!
Some of the couples include:
- French Impressionist Edgar Degas and his complicated relationship with American artist Mary Cassatt
- The dynamics between American spouses art dealer/photographer Alfred Steiglitz and painter Georgia O’Keeffe
- The marriage of legendary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
- The Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner marriage, including their time spent together on Long Island
- Same-sex couples – Brit artist team Gilbert & George and modern artists Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg
- The art partnership of Os Gemeos, the street artist brother duo
- Pablo Picasso and everybody – his wives, mistresses, girlfriends, etc!
Join us for this fun and festive evening – Bring a friend or significant other! We’ll have delicious refreshments!
About the Speaker
Debbie Wells is the co-founder of Artful Circle with Franklin Hill Perrell which provides visits to art galleries and museums, art lectures and curatorial services. For more information, visit www.artfulcircle.com
She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design (BFA/MA) with a professional background in graphic design, advertising and publicity for over 30 years. Over the years, she has won several awards from Graphic Design:USA magazine for her designs in package design, corporate design and publication.
Wells is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC and has had her photographs in many juried exhibitions, including their historic Black & White Exhibition. She also serves as Immediate Past President of the Board at the Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills and in addition to her leadership role, personal projects there include: creating a hand-painted fundraising mural for their art library and as speaker for the “Dab of Paint” art history lecture series.
Her curatorial work with Franklin Hill Perrell includes exhibitions at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, Heckscher Museum in Huntington, Art League of Long Island in Dix Hills, Preservation Long Island in Oyster Bay, Roslyn Landmark Society, and Bryant Library in Roslyn and Tria Gallery in Chelsea.