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
Georges
Koskas was born in French Tunisia in 1926 and moved to Paris in 1946
where he worked under André Lhote and Ferdinand Léger.
He combined this studio experience with studies at the IDHEC, the Institute
for Advanced Cinematographic Studies. Soon he illustrated several works
by well-known poets including Verlaine and Baudelaire and began to design
for cinema and theater.
Koskas’ work has been exhibited since the fifties in museums in France, Tunisia and the U.S. with a major retrospective in 1998 at the Musée de Grenoble. In general the work of Georges Koskas can be characterized by a simplistic geometric abstraction, but he seemed to come at this in a naïve way, claiming that “I was a minimalist without knowing it,” in an attempt to “discover a new equilibrium between the elements.”
Works in the Collection
