Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions August 18 to December 12, 2004 Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums For the exhibition Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions, MacLeish (American, born 1962) created a series of four wall constructions in the Booth Lobby Gallery of the Modlin Center for the Arts. Divided into four parts, the flat and curved shapes are intended to destabilize and offset the architectural space found in the lobby gallery. Working with University of Richmond art students, MacLeish will alter her installation throughout the semester, adding colors to manipulate the construction’s relationship to the space and to the viewer. MacLeish received her B.A. in art history and B.F.A. in painting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her M.F.A. in painting from Yale University. She has taught at various universities through the country, including Indiana University and the Savannah College of Art and Design, and her work has been shown in more than twenty group exhibitions.
Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions was organized by the University of Richmond Museums in collaboration with the University’s Department of Art and Art History, and co-curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, and Erling Sjovold, Assistant Professor of Art, University of Richmond.