Exhibits & Events

Bill Walton (1931–2010) gave shape to outdoor and domestic experience by concretizing the aesthetic dimension of a life lived. Never literal, Walton’s work is predicated on oblique references—clues in the form of titles that usually name sculptures, the medium he is best known for. Walton’s titles might allude to towns he visited on fly fishing trips (Roulette and West of Roulette, for the township in western Pennsylvania) or folkplace names that are not on maps such as Dark Hill, Evening Creek, and Swamp Creek. The Red Floor/WhiteFloor series incorporates—or references—flooring materials, perhaps the detritus of a home renovation project, memorializing the history of a past domestic realm. The wooden element in Wisteria is from an actual wisteria vine from the artist’s front yard, repurposed by Walton when the plant died and transformed into a modest memorial to the idea of home.