ARCADIA SALON DISCUSSION| Featuring Fariba Abedin
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 music and the poetry of Rumi , who advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love.
2015 Geometric Gala
The Seventh Annual Geometric Gala will be held at the International in the Design District on Friday, October 23rd. The venue is courtesy of Jim lake Companies, and the cuisine has been donated by Ellen’s Southern Kitchen. An auction item from Tesla will be a Tesla auto to drive for a day. Other auction items include restaurants and hotel stays and a round of golf at Las Colinas. Music for the Sponsor pre-party will be provided by an Irving Symphony quartet, and the Gala Music by the Texas Gypsies. Thanks to Norman Mucha and all our sponsors: Addison Coffee Roasters, Dallas Stars Foundation, Ellen’s Southern Kitchen, Empire Baking Company, Jim Lake Companies, Jimmy’s Food Store, Tom Thumb and Total Wine.
Fri Oct 23
Geometric Gala
International on Turtle Creek
150 Turtle Creek Blvd
Dallas, TX 75207
Dallas, TX 75207
7:30 PM
ARCADIA SALON DISCUSSION| Featuring 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 exhbited at the Chicago Art Institute, the Cocoran Gallery, and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as numerous galleries and other museums nationwide.
OPENING RECEPTION
MIDDLE EASTERN INFLUENCES: THE ART OF LIZ WHITNEY QUISGARD AND FARIBA ABEDIN
Opening reception for the artists of Middle Eastern Influences begins at 5:30 pm for members and 6:30 pm for the public.
MIDDLE EASTERN INFLUENCES: THE ART OF LIZ WHITNEY QUISGARD AND FARIBA ABEDIN
“Middle Eastern Influences: The Art of Liz Whitney Quisgard and Fariba Abedin” opens at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art with a Reception at 6:30 on Friday, October 9. The show will continue at the Museum at 3109 Carlisle St. until January 8, 2016. Both artists will give talks about their art, Liz on Thursday, October 15, and Fariba at the closing of the exhibit.
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.
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 music and the poetry of Rumi , who advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love.
AWARDS CEREMONY & OPENING RECEPTION
BIENNIAL 2015: ORIGINS IN GEOMETRY
Thirty-one artists are featured as finalists in the exhibition jurored by Eleanor Heartney. The top three artists will be announced and awarded prizes at the opening ceremony and reception.
BIENNIAL 2015: ORIGINS IN GEOMETRY
Biennial: Origins in Geometry is a juried competition to recognize excellence in emerging visual artists deriving inspiration from geometric abstraction. Thirty-one artists are featured as finalists in the exhibition jurored by Eleanor Heratney. The top three artists will be announced and awarded prizes at the opening ceremony and reception on July 10th. The show runs through October 5th.
Eleanor Heartney is a New York based art writer, cultural critic and curator who has been writing about art since 1981. She is Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for such other magazines as Artnews, Art and Auction, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post and the New York Times. She is the author of numerous books on contemporary art, including Postmodernism, Defending Complexity: Art Politics and the New World Order, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, and Art and Today. She is a co-author of After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art and The Reckoning: Women Artists in the New Millennium. Heartney is a past President of AICA-USA, the American section of the International Art Critics Association. She was the 1992 recipient of the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism. In 2008 she was honored by the French government as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Heartney has lectured extensively around the country and internationally, and since 2007 has been visiting critic in residence at Montclair State in New Jersey.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Gisseline Amiuny | Caracas, Venezuela
Roger Bensasson | France
Lorenzo Bocca | Italy
Lisa Cardenas | Dallas
Kevin Carpenter | Dallas
Conan Chadburne | San Antonio
Elvira Daeter | The Netherlands
Selena Dixon | Dallas
Oscar Duran | Dallas
Ryan Goolsby | Dallas
Carter Herrington | Dallas
Shakil Akran Khan | Ontario, Canada
KeLaine Kvale | Dallas
Lori Laberge | North Carolina
Susan Lecky | Dallas
Layla Luna | Ft. Worth
Sherri Mignonne | Dallas
Nicola Olic | Dallas
Ricardo Paniagua | Dallas
Paul Pena | Rowlett
Richard Plumly | San Antonio
Jeff Robinson | Dallas
Maria Santiago | Virginia
Diana Shaffer | Dallas
Yvette Kaiser Smith | Chicago, Ill.
Juergen Strunck | Southlake
Paul Tassone | McKinney
Michael Tichansky | Dallas
Vet | Dallas
Para Winningham | Portland, Oregon
Colin Wright | Devon, England
Special thanks to Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas.