John Cage: the Sight of Silence November 8, 2012

Best known as a ground-breaking composer and performer, John Cage was also a visual artist who created an extensive but little-known body of watercolors and prints over the last twenty years of his life. Presented during the centennial year of Cage's birth, this exhibit will focus on a compelling group of watercolors Cage created while visiting the Mountain Lake Workshop, Virginia, in 1988 and 1990. Cage's visual art will be presented within the context of his transdisciplinary practice that included experimental music, a strong interest in Zen and Eastern philosophies, and performance, providing an entree into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most creative thinkers.