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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch June Mattingly // contributing art writer “Geometric Interpretations: Works Using Paper” at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art through September 26 This invitational group show by artists living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is a microcosm of individualistic interpretations of geometric art heightened by being limited to primarily working with paper. |
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| Mediums as diverse as graphics, pen and ink, pastels, computer art, collage and watercolor create artworks as distant apart in form as origami, jewelry and wall sculpture yet because of the abstract theme it looks quite striking and interconnected when installed all together in the three main galleries of this dedicated museum. The museum shows MADI art in their permanent collection in the high-ceilinged imposing entry way. If you’re on the mailing list you’ll receive announcements of changing exhibitions. |
| Familiar names in the show include Robert McCan represented by William Campbell Contemporary in Fort Worth, Rusty Scruby remembered for his retrospective at the MAC, and Ron Anderson head of the art department at T.C.U. in Fort Worth. Since this is a large varied group, only a few representational works are illustrated - all the more excuse to get over to 3109 Carlisle Street. |
| Ron Watson, "Exordium," 2006 |
| Madi Museum & Gallery 3109 Carlisle Street Dallas, TX 75204-1194 214.855.7802 www.madimuseum.org |
| Rusty Scruby |
| MADI, a movement featuring non- figurative art originated in Buenos Aires in 1946 but it isn’t limited to South America. For instance, artists took the style up in the Netherlands, Russia and Japan. Since the 60s Hungarian Op artist Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) inspires MADI-type artists because the way his art transformed the flat surface marking a world of unending possibilities foreshadowing a new global reality shaped by computer programming and the Internet. A great contemporaneous museum exhibition coming up is “Constructivist Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s,” at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, June 26 through September 25. |
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