Reception and Talk with Professor Mike Glier

    Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM until 8:30 PMEastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00


    357 Old Long Ridge Rd
    Stamford, CT 06903
    United States


    Williams Fairfield County Association
    invites Williams alumni, parents and friends
    to connect with fellow Ephs and
    join a reception and talk on the exhibition

    The Joy I Felt
    with

    Professor Mike Glier
    Alexander Falck Class of 1899 Professor of Art, Emeritus


    When the Last Monarch Leaves New York This Painting Will Shake and Moan
    (2023) by Glier

    Date/Time
    Thursday, May 8, 2025
    6:30 PM Reception
    7:30 PM Program

    Location
    The Barn @ Downing Yudain
    357 Old Long Ridge Rd
    Stamford, CT 06903

    Cost
    No charge to attend this Williams event,
    but your RSVP is important to help with our planning.

    Glier's exhibition, The Joy I Felt, includes a selection of paintings that were featured in his recent exhibition, The Grammar of Animacy: Charles E. Burchfield and Mike Glier. Organized by the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo NY, the exhibition featured fifty-three paintings and drawing by both artists, arranged in topical groups. The Joy I Felt will also introduce cut-paper paintings, a new form for the artist.  Similar to the Field Notes series that was previously exhibited at Downing Yudain, the cut-paper paintings are derived from the direct observation of nature, but also explore the unique ability of cut paper (most notably engaged by Matisse!) to combine line, form and color into a single operation, resulting in crisp and colorful compositions that are appealingly hand-crafted. 

    The Joy I Felt explores how Mike Glier infuses observational painting with abstraction to convey a multi-sensory experience of nature. He uses an abstract visual language, derived from plein-air observation, to describe an intimate, reciprocal relationship between him and his subject, the living world.

    Born in Kentucky, Mike Glier '76 studied psychology and art at Williams College before attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. An advisee of Robert Morris, Glier also received an MA from Hunter College. 

    Mike is the past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in painting and the New England recipient of Awards in the Visual Arts 9. Glier uses painting and drawing to explore topics of common interest. He also taught for many years at Williams College, which he considers to have been a part of his creative output. Masculinity, consumerism, and conflict were subjects for much of his early work. For the last two decades, however, he has focused on the human relationship with the environment.

    Solo exhibitions of Mike’s drawing and painting have been presented at a variety of public and private institutions including Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston; Gerald Peters Gallery, NY and Santa Fe; Downing Yudain Gallery, CT; The Kitchen, New York; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne; The Cambridge Arts Council Gallery 344, Boston; San Jose Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, NY.  

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