Gatherings

In the midst of this pandemic, when the Museum had to close its doors and
cancel or postpone all the planned exhibitions and programs, Benton Jones, The
Museum’s Director of Art decided to curate a show called Gatherings. The time of
social distancing and isolation became the right time to search through the
breadth and depth of the Museum’s permanent collection, which provided the
majority of the works Benton selected for this show. It seems that during the lock
downs and quarantining, what we missed the most was getting physically
together. Yes, there are Zoom meetings, Skype and Facetime calls, which became
a new way of gathering and keeping us together, but it seems that these ways of
communicating can feel like a Waterless Fountain, which is the title of Roy Freed’s
sculpture that Benton decided to incorporate into the Gatherings exhibition.

It has become evident, now more than ever before, that we human beings, are
very social creatures and we simply thrive on being together, in small or big
groups, even if for a short time, so that we can share a common theme, purpose
or some kind of experience. There is a unique power in gatherings that unite us in
times of celebration, but also in difficult times.

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