On February 3, 2024, Brett Angell and Courtney Harris, the Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, joined in conversation to discuss Angell's solo exhibition #dutchfakes.
#dutchfakes is on view at Praise Shadows Art Gallery from January 19 – February 25, 2024.
Brett Angell is a Chelsea, Massachusetts-based artist. He received his MFA in painting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studying under the noted landscape painter Tom Uttech. Angell often travels internationally in his job as a museum professional for the MFA Boston, most extensively in Japan, North America and the Netherlands. Influences from Japan and the Netherlands in particular have informed his collages and paintings. He hoards precious materials and decorative papers from his favorite shops and flea markets throughout the world, storing them in his studio until a specific project calls for their use. Angell’s work is in the permanent collections of the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison Wisconsin, The Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, The Sioux City Art Center in Iowa, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where his collages were recently exhibited with Joseph Cornell’s work. His collages were included in the 2022 Praise Shadows group exhibition Little Windows.
Courtney Harris is Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her exhibition about the history of miniature objects, Tiny Treasures: The Magic of Miniatures is on view at the MFA from July 2023 to February 2024 and has an accompanying catalogue. Her projects in recent years have included gallery renovation projects including the French Salon period room reinstallation and a new suite of galleries dedicated to Dutch and Flemish art. She received her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and her BA from Johns Hopkins University.
