John Wilson: A Retrospect
Life-like images of a hand, a foot and a broken rope lie next to one another in a silent display. They are only charcoal studies for John Wilson’s mural, “The Incident,” but they seem real—haunting and dismembered. The mural itself is just as dark and moving as these sketches. “The Incident” depicts an African-American family watching the aftermath of a lynching. The victim’s body is being cut down by the Ku Klux Klan members that hung him, and the African-American family is confined to the side of the image, able to watch but not to respond. Although the mural itself has been taken down from the Mexico City site where Wilson painted it in 1950, many of his sketches and plans remain and are on display at Faulconer Gallery’s exhibit entitled “John Wilson: A Retrospective.”
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Leatherface revisited:
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Escape Tragedy: an organic process
It’s a little after 6:30 p.m., rehearsal for Escape Tragedy Starring Harry Houdini is about to start and actor Ross Koon ’06 is skateboarding around the set. Koon, the other three actors, the director and the stage manager all joke animatedly with each other. There is a sense of camaraderie within the small group involved in the production.
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