Please join us for this public lecture by visiting artist, Ken Weathersby, followed by a reception in the Gallery of Art & Design

Weathersby has exhibited nationally and internationally, with notable solo shows at Minus Space (Brooklyn), Pierogi Gallery (New York), One River Gallery (Englewood, NJ), and NIAD Art Center Gallery (Richmond, CA. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Art (New York), Honey Ramka (Brooklyn), ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn), 57w57Arts (New York), Parallel Art Space (Ridgewood, NY), Mixed Greens (New York), Aljira Art Center (Newark), the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Gallery (Morristown, NJ), Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York), the Visual Art Center of NJ (Summit, NJ), Seven (Miami), Toomey Tourell (San Francisco), and I.S. Projects (Leiden, Netherlands), among many others.

Weathersby has received numerous awards and residencies, including the Individual Artist Painting Fellowship by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council/NJSCA (in 2008 and 2016).  His work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, Brooklyn Magazine, the New American Paintings blog, Two Coats of Paint, Painter’s Bread, and elsewhere.  Weathersby holds a BFA from USM, and an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art.  He was born in Gulfport, Mississippi and has lived in the New York City area since 1990.