Past Exhibit

THE MUSEUM OF GEOMETRIC AND MADI ART PRESENTS
"GEOMETRIC ART IN QUILTS AND GLASS"

April 21 will mark the opening of the spring show at the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, "Geometric Art in Quilts and Glass". The show will be the first to illustrate the expanded scope of the museum to be inclusive of all geometric works. It will exhibit diverse artistic mediums including quilting, blown glass and fused glass. American artists include Susan Leslie Lumsden, quilter; Jim Bowman, decorative glass blower; and Mary Lynn Devereux, glass artist. The show will run through July 15.

Susan Leslie Lumsden, based in Thayer, Missouri, flirts with multiple surface design techniques including image transfer, stenciling, stamping, silk screens, freehand painting, dyeing and beading. Most of her art quilts use the bull's eye block, in homage to an old traditional quilt block; this is where the consistency ends. Fabrics include Chinese and Dupioni silks, although she frequently includes cotton broadcloth, cotton batiks, metallics and often a mongrel fabric. Lumsden hand-dyes most fabrics in colors that resonate with the use of multiple textures - matte, rough, suede-like, smooth, shiny, slick or luminescent. Additional definition comes from the quilting - the stitching which joins the quilt face, the batting and the quilt back.

Jim Bowman, a Dallas artist, is best known for his fanciful blown glass creations. Jim's varied styles and shapes include vividly colored decorative pieces, vessels, chandeliers and sculptures. He can be bold with rondels and florals or delicate in geometric or minimal designs.

Stained glass, fused glass and glass tiles are the medium for Dallas artist Mary Lynn Devereux who works with abstractions of colors or neutrals including line and space and balance. Her work includes small, intimate cast glass sculptures, large mixed-media sculptures and architectural large-scale stained glass and glass tile works.

All three artists do commission work and are found in private collections and public places throughout the country. This show is sponsored by Lyda Hunt Hill, The Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas and the Kilgore Law Center.

For more information call the museum at 214.855.7802.