New Acquisition contributed from Middle Eastern Influences: The Art of Liz Whitney Quisgard and Fariba Abedin
Liz Whitney Quisgard has donated all twelve of her Bizarre Bazaar panels to the museum as well as the two trios of works entitled Turning and Tower that were in the recent exhibition. We are extremely grateful for this unprecedented contribution to the Museum.
ARTIST
LIZ WHITNEY QUISGARD
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 arts are exactly that: visual. No meanings, No preachments. No symbols.” Liz has exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute, the Cocoran Gallery, and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as numerous galleries and other museums nationwide.
MADI is a great artistic adventure, and perhaps, the only existing movement which can justify half a century of existance. MADI is more than an avant-garde movement; it has an underlying wave with several and differing offspring. It is the slow-paced growth of a tectonic plate in the history of art. Indeed, since art and environment are perveived as the fusion of two cultural phenomena, the progression and expression of both of these blend in everyday life.
From ” MADI: Concept Overview”, Paris, 2004
ROGER NEYRAT | Artist
Events
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GEOMEKINETICA | BY LARRY AKERS
December 3, 2021 - March 3, 2022 -
SPECIAL EXHIBIT| 40 DAYS 40 NIGHTS BY SHAFAQ AHMAD
March 4 - May 27 -
OPENING RECEPTION | 40 DAYS 40 NIGHTS BY SHAFAQ AHMAD
March 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Monday - Closed
Tuesday - Friday - 11am - 4 pm
Saturday - 11am - 4 pm
Sunday - Closed
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