William Clothier Watts, Grazing Sheep, Temple of Luxor, Egypt, c. 1915. Watercolor on paper.
Exhibition Reception & Lecture with Dr. Mark White: Mediterranea
Thursday, December 1 at 6:00 p.m.
Celebrate the opening of Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection with a lecture by Dr. Mark White, the Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art and original exhibition curator. Reception follows. FREE.
Dr. Mark White, the Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art
Mark Andrew White joined the New Mexico Museum of Art as Executive Director in 2020. He is currently overseeing the construction of the Vladem Contemporary, an expansion dedicated to the art of our time, located in Santa Fe’s historic Railyard District.
White received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1999 and spent the first decade of his career in academia at Oklahoma State University. In 2009, he became the Eugene B. Adkins Curator at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and, in 2015, he was named the Wylodean and Bill Saxon Director of the museum.
White specializes in modern and contemporary American art with a particular focus on the Southwest. His recent exhibitions and publications include Picturing Indian Territory, 1819-1907, the first art historical survey of the visual culture of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories; Macrocosm/Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the American Southwest (2014), the first exhibition and publication exploring the influence of mid-century abstraction in this region; and Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy (2012), a reexamination of the influential U.S. State Department exhibition and controversial legacy in American art.
Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection is made possible by the generous grant and loan of artwork from The Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust in Fairfield, Texas. This exhibition is sponsored locally by Linda and Robert Bowsher and by Taylor Porter Attorneys at Law.
