This is a virtual event via Zoom hosted by Pucker Gallery.
This event will be recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Join us Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 10:30AM ET for a conversation with Pucker Gallery artist Li Hongwei.
This conversation will provide an opportunity to carefully and caringly view and virtually "hold" specific works from Hongwei's new collection.
Together with:
Li Hongwei – Pucker Gallery Artist
Robert Mowry - Emeritus Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Emeritus Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Mara Williams - Brattleboro Museum Curator Emerita
Dr. Carl Herbert - Gallery Associate
Bernard Pucker – Gallery Director
Please explore the exhibition catalogue so you can select your favorite work! If you are so inclined, please let us know in advance which work you would like for us to discuss.
The exhibition Revelations will be on view at Pucker Gallery from 14 March through 26 April 2026.
About Our Panelists:
Li Hongwei is a contemporary artist who currently works and lives in Beijing and New York. His outlook on the world is shaped by his study of both Chinese and western art. He first came to prominence with his Weight of Meditation series and has gained widespread international recognition for his work combining porcelain and stainless steel. By comparing and connecting crystal-glazed porcelain to stainless steel, the artist explores the aesthetic of porcelain within the context of contemporary art. The abstract form of the sculptures frees porcelain from being merely functional and allows the work of art to exist as a non-functional object. The ovoid bodies of the sculptures echo the Chinese ideas of beauty, harmony, subtlety, and simplicity. The artist expresses modern concepts and seeks a connection between historical, hand-made porcelain and contemporary, industrial stainless steel. Through the combination of Chinese traditional aesthetics and contemporary art forms, Li Hongwei’s work revives and empowers porcelain within the cultural context of our age. His work has been shown in renowned institutions in Asia, the United States, and in Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the British Museum (London), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and the Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge), among others. Hongwei holds a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and a master’s in ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. As a visiting artist, he has been invited to give lectures in different institutions, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University, and MIT.
Now retired, Robert D. Mowry was the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums and also Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture. A specialist in Chinese art, he has also done considerable work with Korean art, publishing in the field and building a collection of Korean paintings and ceramics for the Harvard Art Museums. Although he majored in European art history, French, and medieval humanities as an undergraduate at the University of Kansas (BA, 1967), with plans to study late medieval architecture and manuscript painting, his two years in Korea as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the late 1960s sparked an abiding interest in Asian art and culture. Since his retirement from Harvard in 2013, he has been serving as a Senior Consultant in Chinese and Korean Art at Christie’s, working primarily with Christie’s New York offices, he also has responsibilities toward the London, Paris, and Hong Kong offices.
Mara Williams assumed Emerita status in 2021, after curating exhibits at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for thirty-three years. Her area of expertise is modern and contemporary art. Recent solo exhibitions include: Gathering Light: The Art of Stephen Hannock; Wolf Kahn— Landscape of Light; Secrets by Gloria Garfinkel; Andy Warhol—Selections from the Jon Gould Collection. Group shows have included the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Janet Fish, Mary Frank, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Maya Lin, James McGarrell, David Nash, Robert Rauschenberg, Ursula von Ridingsvard, Michael Singer, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Barbara Zucker, as well as a host of regional and emerging talent.
Dr. Carl Herbert is a fourth-generation physician whose career has been devoted to helping infertility patients overcome a wide spectrum of obstacles to create their families. Early in his career he participated in the founding of one of the first eIVF centers in the United States. For more than forty years, Dr. Herbert has contributed to the growth and development of assisted reproductive technologies, continually implementing the evolving techniques and optimizing their clinical applications for care. The ambiguity of a socially awkward accolade, “You got me pregnant!”, has become a recurrent reward, both humorous and joyful. By serendipity, Dr. Herbert walked into Pucker Gallery for the first time in 1985 when visiting Boston for a medical conference. From this point on, his nascent interest in art grew under the generous tutelage and encouragement of Mr. Pucker. A close personal friendship evolved as they visited artists and exhibitions around the world; exchanged thoughts on the experience and intrinsic value that art, in all its many forms, can provide individuals and society; and shared writings which illuminated these principles.
Bernie Pucker is the director of Pucker Gallery, which he founded with his wife, Sue, on Boston's historic Newbury Street in 1967. Pucker Gallery represents over fifty artists from around the world, presenting approximately ten exhibitions annually, often paired with artist talks, virtual “WebinARTs,” and Gallery receptions. Bernie is currently a Board Member at the Japan Society, Boston, and the Jewish Publication Society. He also serves on the Leadership Council for Facing History and Ourselves as well as the Artistic Advisory Board for the Terezin Music Foundation. Previously, he has served as President of Solomon Schechter Day School, President of the Newbury Street League, and Board Member for the Friends of Copley Square and The Unity Project, among others. Bernie received his MA in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University and his BA in History and English Literature from Columbia College.