SOLD OUT: Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver

Join MA-NMWA for a special tour, led by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, Rose Art Museum and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University. Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver, is the artist’s first-ever museum exhibition in New England. The show brings together over thirty works of art, some rarely seen, that span six decades of Carrington’s prolific art-making career. Born into an Anglo-Irish family, Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) strove to free herself from the gendered strictures imposed on her by society. Her rebellious spirit found refuge in art and literature, leading her to join the Surrealist movement in Europe and, later, immigrate to Mexico, where she developed her visionary art. 

The show explores Carrington’s creative and technical versatility, working in a variety of mediums, such as tempera, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, pen, and fiber while offering riveting insight into her artistic process of conjuring fantastical worlds rich in magic and symbolism. Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver reveals the complexities of an artist whose compositions—inspired by biography, folklore, mysticism, religion, and the occult—reflect the unbridled imagination of a woman on a profound journey to unravel the world’s mysteries.

While at the Rose, we will also have an opportunity to view Surrealism(s) – Then & Now which celebrates the centennial of the Surrealist movement. The exhibition traces Surrealism’s evolution from its early 20th-century origins to its lasting influence, and includes works by Mona Hatoum, Frida Kahlo, Tracy Moffatt, Kay Sage, and others.