Yoko Ono has been an avant-garde musician, a pioneer of performance and conceptual art, a global autism ambassador and a human rights activist. But to most of us, she will always remain first and foremost John Lennon's wife. Thirty years after his death, Ono does not shy away from this association, and continues to direct the spotlight away from herself and onto him.
Come Together: The Artwork of John Lennon is an exhibit of original drawings, lithographs and serigraphs by Lennon, who was a visual artist long before he became a musician, never mind an integral member of the most legendary rock group of all time. His cartoon-influenced caricatures reflect the same humorous and childlike spirit that was evident in much of his musical output with The Beatles and his own bands. Ono organized the exhibit in the 1980s, and it has been touring the country ever since. This weekend, the exhibit comes to Franklin, and the Scene had an opportunity to talk with Ono about it.
She spoke from her studio in New York about the exhibit, her own art and her relationship with John, punctuating her insights with a girlish giggle that belies her 78 years.
Do you think of this exhibit as a collaboration with John?
It is definitely a collaboration. I'm just a conduit for him to express himself through the work, I suppose. And in a way it's very interesting. It's very timely now, because we need some kind of positive and fun feeling around, and art can give that. But otherwise it's just a very depressing time. We're all thinking, "Oh dear, what's going to happen now?" And so it's nice to hear John's voice, for one, and it's nice to see what John was envisioning.
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