Exploring Denis Williams’s Works on Paper

Exploring Denis Williams’s Works on Paper

A lecture by Felicia Mings (Goldfarb Gallery, York University)

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

gallery@bgc.bard.edu

$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a college or university, people with museum ID, people with disabilities and caregivers, and BGC members

Join us for an evening with curator Felicia Mings of the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery. Mings will discuss the visual motifs, materials, and circulation of a selection of Denis Williams (1923–1998)’s less studied paintings and book illustrations as means to explore the breadth of his intellectual engagements and his role in defining the arts of Guyana in the mid- to late twentieth century.

A Material Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora lecture.

Felicia Mings is a curator at the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University in Toronto, Canada. She focuses on interpreting and presenting modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on arts of Africa and the Caribbean, along with their diasporas. Mings’s recent curatorial projects include the Toronto iteration of Charles Campbell: An Ocean to Livity (2025), Maryam Taghavi: Unfolding Worlds (2025), Dele Adeyemo’s From Longhouse to Highrise: The Course of Empire (2023), and Meleko Mokgosi: Imaging Imaginations (2023). Felicia holds a master of arts in visual and critical studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College.

Image: Denis Williams with Plantation No. 1, 1949, from Evelyn A. Williams, The Art of Denis Williams (Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2012).