Wadsworth Atheneum

Visual Arts Review: “Matt Pawleski/Matrix 191” — Flirting With the Functional

February 26, 2023
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Instead of adoring function from an aesthetic distance, Matt Paweski confronts it where it lives. These sculptures play with the self-insistence that function has always had in modern design.

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Visual Arts Review: “By Her Hand” — A Show of Women Artists that Surprises and Delights

November 26, 2021
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There were so many women artists here whose work surprises and delights. And the Wadsworth Atheneum’s decision to showcase them makes an important contribution to our evolving understanding of art and its history.

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Visual Arts Review: Two Fabulous Female Painters — Isabel Bishop and Emily Mae Smith

May 3, 2019
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These exhibitions present two very different ways of engaging with gender, both raising the question of gaze.

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Visual Arts Review: A Delightful View of Edward Gorey’s World

April 18, 2018
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The delightful Wadsworth installation is a fitting setting for the beloved artist and illustrator and the work he himself loved.

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