William Wegman

Sungkok Art Museum has organized an exhibition of the work of William Wegman. “William Wegman: Funney/ Strange” explores forty years of Wegman's work in all media. Included are about 110 works, among them the signature 20 x 24 Polaroids, as well as early black and white and altered photographs, paintings, drawings and collages. Coming of age in the 1960s Wegman was an early exponent of conceptual art and a pioneering maker of video. He continues to be a video artist and conceptual thinker at the same time that he is an adventurous painter, prolific writer, and masterful photographer who was born in Holyoke and brought up in merry and lovely family. He has seduced us with cartoonlike images and startled us with profundity and humor. In 1970s, He acquired his canine muse Man Ray and began to include the dog in both photographs and video which reveal life’s oddity smart and gently and have been beloved by the general public and critic. Wegman who has ‘blunt yet sublime ways’, ‘dramatic and narrative finesse’, and ‘embrace of life’s oddities’ made television segments for ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’. His works are housed in ‘Museum of Fine and FIne Art, Boston', 'San Diefo Museum of Art', 'The Museum of Modern Art, New York', 'White Columns Gallery, New York', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis','Sonnavend Gallery, Mew York', 'Whitney Museum of American

“William Wegman: Funney/ Strange” will bring forty years of Wegman’s works, black and white photographs, the signature Polaroids of his troupe of Weimaraners, collages, drawings and vibrant and energetic landscape paintings that incorporate found postcards and greeting cards.

William Wegman
Funney/ Strange