lauren frances adams artwork

June 8, 2024–January 5, 2025

Winterthur Museum connects the past and the present in an exciting new exhibition showcasing contemporary art. Transformations features more than thirty nationally recognized artists whose work draws inspiration from the historic collections of the museum, garden, and library. Discover how the old influences the new—forging connections across communities, transforming our perspectives about history, and commenting on our lives today. These artistic expressions reflect each artist’s connection to the fine craftsmanship and design in Winterthur’s collection of decorative arts and archival materials as well as its naturalistic garden and landscape.

Artists include Andrew Raftery, Kate Sekules, Greg Moore and Omar Tate, Joey Quiñones, Lauren Frances Adams, and Jerome Bias.

“Necessary Contemplation”

by Lauren Frances Adams, Jason Patterson

IN EARLY 2022, WE VISITED EACH OTHER’S STUDIOS in Baltimore and Chestertown, Maryland, to discuss the influences of historical memory, ancestry, and artists’ roles navigating time and place within white supremacy. Our first collaboration, in 2020, was the exhibition Rights and Wrongs: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Vote, hosted by the Peale Museum at the Carroll Mansion in Baltimore. A few months later, we were on a panel together, “Imagining the Future: Public Art Confronts the Past,” hosted by the unc Center for the Study of the American South. What follows is a snapshot typical of our dialogues, meandering from past to present, art to life, and personal to public.

Category: Media

Transformations at Winterthur Museum

Jason Patterson and Lauren Adams in Southern Cultures Magazine

“Necessary Contemplation”