Exhibit
May 5 - June 30, 2012
In conjunction with the Dale Chihuly show at the Arboretum, the Museum will be displaying art glass by Dallas artists Mary Lynn Devereux and Polly Gessell
Arcadia Salon
Sunday, May 20, 2:00
Evolution of An Idea
The Texas Sculpture Association sponsors this program featuring never-before-seen New Interchangeable Art by Morton Rachofsky.
Arcadia Salon
Thursday, June 14, 5:30
Jennifer Way, Ph.D., professor of Art History at University of North Texas, discusses the work of Melé within the context of concrete art, constructivism, and geometric abstraction.
Opening Reception
Friday, July 20, 6:30
Three African-American Artists: Kevin Cole, Albert Shaw, and Jack White curated by Phillip Collins
Herbin
was born in 1882 in Quiévy en Cambrai, France. He is one of the
most important geometric artists of the 20th Century. As early as 1899
he experimented with pointillism, and then cubism, but he found his
own style with geometric art.
During the 1930s he participated in Cercle et Carre, and became President of the Abstraction-Creation group. He was a co-founder of the Salon de Réalités Nouvelles in the 1950s, and saw to it that the MADI artists were allowed to exhibit there. Herbin developed his "alphbet plastique", where forms and colors stand for letters, and greatly influenced several generations of geometric painters. He died in 1960 at the age of 78.
Works in the Collection
