ARCADIA SALON DISCUSSION | Featuring Joël Froment, Elvira Daeter and Mokha Laget
Curator Mokha Laget will be joined by both artists of the current exhibit, Poetic Densities for this installment of the Arcadia Salon Discussion Series.
EXHIBIT | Poetic Densities
Exhibit featuring the painted wood reliefs of Elvira Daeter and Joel Froment opens with a reception on October 27, 2017 and runs through January 21, 2018. This exhibit is guest curated by Mokha Laget and will feature an Arcadia Salon Discussion with the artists and curator.
About the Artists
Elvira Daeter is a Dutch artist who has been painting in a constructivist, abstract, geometric style for many years. She likes the MADI idea of eliminating the rectangular frame, which creates an horizon for creative imagination. She says, “MADI means to me power, cheerfulness, freedom, creativity, movement, abstraction, dimension and invention, concerning form, content, and light. It is a challenging style.”
French artist Joel Froment has been a MADI artist from the time Carmelo moved from Buenos Aires to Paris and created a MADI movement in France. Much of his work is kinetic, as is one of the two pieces owned by the MADI in Dallas. There are now more than twenty MADI artists living in France, although some of these were born in South America or Japan. For many years Froment has been the President of MADI International.
2017 Geometric Gala
The Ninth Annual Geometric Gala will be held on Friday, September 15th, from 7:00 PM-10:00 PM. This event will be in the Hall Arts Building, 2323 Ross Ave, on the 19th floor. Tickets will be $115 for Non-members, and $95 for Members. Raffle tickets priced at $20 each, will be for a original geometric piece of art. Nibbles and sips will be provided. Music for the evening is provided by The Texas Gypsies. A silent auction will be held to benefit the museum, and includes donations from:
Bellinis
Chamberlain’s Fish Market
Ellen’s
Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas
Half Shells Seafood
Joule Hotel
Made Goods
Marc Friedland Photography
Matt’s Ranch Martinez (Lakewood)
MoMo’s Quadrangle
Neighborhood Services (Lovers Lane)
Salum
Town Hearth
Presenting Sponsors
Kathryn and Craig Hall
Gardere, Wynn, Sewell LLP
Honorary Chair
Terri Provencal
Co-Chairs
Laurel and Andrew Chooljian
EXHIBIT | Biennial: Origins in Geometry
Biennial: Origins in Geometry is a juried competition to recognize excellence in emerging visual artists deriving inspiration from geometric abstraction. Artists who are selected as finalists will be featured in an exhibit at the Museum July 28 through October 22, included in a catalog with other finalists, receive exposure on the museum website, and have the opportunity to win cash awards for their exemplary work.
This biennial will be curated by the juror, Magdalena Mujica de Arria. Magdalena founded GraphicArt Gallery in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1976 and serves as its Director. In 1992 she founded FIA (Feria Iberoamericana de Arte) and has been involved with this Caracas Art Fair since then. In addition, GraphicArt participates in art fairs such as ArtParis, ArMiami, ArtLima (Peru), among others. Magdalena is on the selection committee for ArtLima.
A total of $3000 from the Helen Manning Bequest will be awarded as follows: Best of Show – $1,500; Second Place – $1000; and Third Place – $500.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Paul Abbot – Dallas, Texas
Gisseline Amiuny – Caracas, Venezuela
Jose Roberto Arraiz – Caracas, Venezuela
Lane Banks – Dallas, Texas
Roger Bensasson – Bagnolet, France
Tim Bolt – Lima, Peru
Roberto Borberg – Caracas, Venezuela
Beti Bricelj – Slovenia
Saverio Cecere – Maracay, Venezuela
Cecy Colichon – Portland, OR
Cristina Colichon – Lima, Peru
Orlando Costa – Caracas, Venezuela
Oscar Duran – Dallas, Texas
Orna Feinstein – Bellaier, Texas
Kentra Gilbert – Houston, Texas
Mokha Laget – Santa Fe, NM
Carmen Menza – Highland Village, Texas
Pedro Morales – Houston, Texas
Tilena Morales – Caracas, Venezuela
Carmen Novaco – Napoli, Italia
Nikola Olic – Dallas, Texas
Ricardo Paniagua – Dallas, Texas
Paul Pena – Rowlett, Texas
Miguel Prypcham – Caracas, Venezuela
Jorge Puron – San Antonio, Texas
Jeff Robinson – Dallas, Texas
India Serena – Paris, France
Zoe Shulman – Austin, Texas
Stan Smith – Lancaster, Texas
Daniel Sullivan – Baltimore, Maryland
Ani Villanueva – Caracas, Venezuela
John Wilson – Manteo, NC
Alberto Jose Sanchez – Caracas, Venezuela
ARTIST OF THE MONTH | Ann DeRulle
Exhibit: June 1 – June 30, 2017
Champagne Reception: Sunday, June 11, 2:00 – 4:00
Artist’s Commentary: 3:00
About the Exhibit: Ann DeRulle will be exhibiting pieces from her latest series of multi-dimensional wall sculptures inspired by her studies in sacred geometry. Incorporating plexiglass, each mixed-media piece offers a symbolic, spiritual message and emanates life-enhancing transformational energies.
You are invited, as well as your family and friends, to experience the pieces and hear Ann explain the media and intended symbology. The exhibit centerpiece uniquely portrays her understanding of the process of manifestation in our world. Plus, she will also demonstrate the detectable life-enhancing energies radiated by each piece.
About the Art Pictured: One of these multi-media pieces entitled “ Cosmic Unification” incorporates two layers of plexiglass suspended separately above an aluminum background. Papers painted by her are collaged on different levels, with a golden cross fashioned by her sandwiched between the layers. The piece is then topped with a stainless steel circle containing a golden hexagram anchored at the center by a chrysocolla stone.
About the Artist: To help create the kind of world we all desire, my purpose as a visual artist is to offer contemporary, inspired works of multidimensional art that communicate symbolic, spiritual messages and that emanate energies of transformation, inspiration and upliftment. In the current form of multidimensional wall sculptures, my art incorporates elements of sacred geometry either through shapes, their configurations and/or overall dimensional proportions.
In recent years, Ann’s art has been exhibited extensively throughout the D/FW Metroplex (most often by virtue of juried acceptance), has garnered numerous awards and graces private collections in numerous U. S. states.
Her works can be commissioned in the sizes and colors to best suit and upgrade their residential, commercial or institutional environments. More of her work can be seen at her studio in north Dallas by private appointment (phone 972-733-1719). Her website www.AnnDeRulleArt.com also offers a glimpse of her work, the impact of which can only be fully realized in person.
Come share in being further enlightened, enriched, uplifted and, hopefully, inspired.
ARCADIA SALON DISCUSSION SERIES | John Henry
In coordination with the exhibition featuring the sculpture of John Henry, he will be featured in the newest installment of the Arcadia Salon Discussion Series.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH | James Allumbaugh
Through the month of May, the work of James Allumbaugh will be on display as another installment of the Artist of the Month Exhibit Series. Art Committee Co-Chair Ruth Anderson has initiated this program for Dallas artists who have never had a solo show at the Museum.
EXHIBIT | The Sculpture of John Henry
John Henry is known worldwide for his large-scale public works of art, which grace numerous museum, corporate, public and private collections. His works are prominently exhibited in many American cities and states as well as throughout Europe and Asia. In the Dallas area, his sculptures may be seen in the Hall Sculpture Garden in Frisco, and in front of the Hall Arts Building in the Dallas Arts District.
The geometric forms that have defined John’s work for more than forty years have their aesthetic and historical base in Constructivism. John received a Ford Foundation grant to attend the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned a BFA. He received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1996. He was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States.
Some recent exhibitions include: OPEN 2007, Venice, Italy; Sarasota Season of Sculpture 4, Sarasota, FL, 2007; American Sculptors in the Shadow of the Alps, Art St. Urban, Switzerland, 2007; Sculpture a Wyoming Invitational at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, 2008; his one man exhibition throughout the state of Florida, Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project, 2008/09, Sculpture for New Orleans, 2009, and Art in the Garden at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, July 2009.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH | Tim Bolt
Art Committee Co-Chair Ruth Anderson has initiated a program for Dallas artists who have never had a solo show at the Museum. April features the prints of Tim Bolt.