Past Events › Arcadia Salon Discussion

Salon will feature Dallas sculptor Jeff Robinson presenting a pictorial step-by-step journey through his elaborate process.

Inspired by Moorish architecture and Byzantine mosaics, New York artist Liz Quisgard creates a Thousand  and One Nights vision though embroidered, abstract  tapestries as well as columns.  The artist refers to her work in fiber as “pseudo pointillism” that combines the discipline of creating painstaking patterns and heavily structured designs with bright, jewel-like colors.  Her work does not attempt to communicate anything beyond visual delight:  “My goal is to surprise and engage the mind by seducing the eye.  The visual…

Iranian born Fariba Abedin emphasizes an exploration of color using geometric abstraction as a foundation.  Her carefully selected tints, shades and tones create the illusion of volume, space, vibration, and transparency.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art, and for the last thirty years has lived in Houston.  She was a finalist in the Hunting Art Prize Competition.   Inspired by the ideas of the poet Mawlana Rumi,  she has exhibited her art accompanied by Persian…

On Thursday, May 5 at 6 p.m., Roger Bensasson from France and Yumiko Kimura from Japan will conduct an Arcadia Salon. Bensasson will talk about how he uses museum board to better enable his cutting, folding and layering. Kimura will speak about her process of working multilayered glass around an axis, referencing the world of geometric abstraction. Their art will continue to be on display at the MADI until July 24 .