Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453
For more information and tickets visit the Rose Art Museum website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“… a pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington’s work crosses boundaries and mediums, embodying a boundless curiosity and unorthodox spirit that transcends the conventional. Born into a staid upper-middle-class Anglo-Irish family, Carrington would spend her life freeing herself from the gendered strictures imposed upon her. Carrington’s rebellious spirit found refuge in art and literature, leading her to join the Surrealist movement in Europe. Later, after suffering a mental breakdown and institutionalization, she immigrated to Mexico to escape fascism. Carrington would further develop her visionary art in her adopted homeland of Mexico, where she lived for the rest of her long and productive life..."
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