Co-curated by Rice University Associate Professor of Art History Leo Costello and Sarah Wilson of the Courtauld Institute, “To Speak of Everything: The Art of Raymond Mason” is the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States and an opportunity to re-open a critical dialogue on a prominent but now understudied twentieth-century British artist.
On view until February 20th at the New York Studio School, “To Speak of Everything: The Art of Raymond Mason” focuses on Mason's process of works that are rooted in a lifelong and sympathetic recording of people, faces, crowds, and the places in which he lived.
British sculptor Richard Mason studied at the Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Art and moved to Paris in 1946 where he was part of the artistic circle that included Balthus, Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Sam Szafran, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Images: Leo Costello
