The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art is proud to announce a new exhibit featuring Houston artist Orna Feinstein opening on Friday, April 17. Feinstein’s overlapping structures explore the intermeshing of organic pattern, shadow and light while confined to a limited color palette matrix of monoprinted plexiglas. In conjunction with the exhibit, she will speak of her process and inspiration at the Arcadia Salon on May 14. The exhibit runs through July 5,2015.

Innovation is what sets Houston-based Orna Feinstein apart from the more traditional monoprint maker. The end result is a three-dimensional work, which dazzles and plays with the human eye.

Feinstein is an artist at heart, and with her scientific mind she utilizes her perpetual fascination with biology and chemistry to conceptualize and re-create geometric patterns that are found in organic life. In her work, she draws inspiration from the geometries of a living cell or organism found underneath a microscope, or the concentric circles and linear patterns seen in a cross-section of a tree trunk.

Approaching printmaking in a sculptural way has allowed Feinstein to break barriers, bringing a contemporary perspective to the art of printmaking. Her desire to innovate in a field that hasn’t changed much over the centuries, along with her passion for experimentation led her to print on the non-traditional materials seen in her most recent work. With layering and three-dimensionality of her pieces comes depth and motion, making the observation of her art a truly unique experience.

The artist has won many awards including first place in the AMoA Biennial 600 printmaking exhibition at the Amarillo Museum of Art as well as the first place in the 3rd National Juried Monotype and Monoprint Exhibition juried by Mark Pascale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works are represented in numerous Museums, among them: the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopleos, Greece, Roennebaeksholm Arts & Culture Centre, Naestved, Denmark, and Venice Printmaking in Venice, Italy. She is featured in June Mattingly’s book “The State of the Art: Contemporary Artists in Texas” Second Addition. Currently she has a retrospective exhibition that is traveling to several regional Museums.

Feinstein has earned her BFA summa cum lade in Sculpture from the university of Houston and a diploma in printmaking from the Glassell School of Art. Feinstein is represented by Craighead gallery in Dallas and Anya Tish Gallery in Houston.

Special thanks to Texas Commission on the Arts, the Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas, and Kilgore Law Firm.

On July 18, 2014, 5:30 – 8:00 the Museum of Geometric and MADI, 3109 Carlisle, will hold an opening reception for From Slovenia, Florida and Dallas with Love: Beti Bricelj, Israel Guevara, Jeff Robinson. All three artists will be present for the opening.

On Sunday July 13, before the opening on the 18th, Beti Bricelj will treat us to a “sneak preview” and talk about her art at a 2:30 Arcadia Salon. Israel and Jeff will give talks at Arcadia Salons in September.

Venezuelan-born Miami artist Israel Guevara is known for his unique investigation of color through the use of bright colors and defined and overlapping lines. This allows viewers to experience constant interaction with his creations, resulting in ever changing colors, shapes dimensions and images. Israel began as an architect, but is now a full-time painter who has exhibited widely in Florida.

During a trip through Texas in the 1960’s, Jeff met a Ft. Worth potter who changed his life. Upon returning to Florida, Jeff abandoned his business major, and enrolled in ceramics at Florida Atlantic University, becoming an apprentice to his ceramic teacher, David Tell. In 1970 Jeff and a group of friends established an artists’ community they named “Good Earth Pottery” in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Artists in the group won numerous awards, but by 1976 Jeff and his friends had relocated Good Earth to a farm in Evening Shade Arkansas, where Jeff continued to work full time as a studio artist, exhibiting in galleries and fine art shows until 1981. Due to an injury sustained at the potter’s wheel, Jeff turned his creative energy to woodworking in the late 1980’s in San Diego, creating one-of-a-kind pieces of furniture. After moving to Dallas in 2010, Jeff turned his attention to detailed inlay work, which has led to the immense sculptures he now makes from hundreds of thousands of individual hardwood pieces. Each sculpture takes between 300 and 600 hours to complete. Jeff will illustrate his methods in his Arcadia Salon talk.

Beti Bricelj was born in 1974 in Slovenia and graduated in Fine Arts from the College of Visual Arts in Ljubljana. Having written her thesis on Aboriginal Art, she was invited in the late 90’s by the Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs in Adelaide, South Australia to participate in research of the Aboriginal culture. Since 2002 she has been a member of the Union of Slovene Fine Arts Association, and now lives and works in Postojna. She has participated in numerous independent and joint exhibitions in Slovenia and other European countries.