To honor Women’s History Month, the Art Gallery will be celebrating female artists. The latest exhibit, “mountain and SEA” by Leslie Baum, covers the gallery’s floor.
According to a press release by the university: “My work, mountain and SEA, features an immense painting that covers the entire Gallery floor. The application of acrylic paint appears as watercolor and the work is liquid creating a luminous effect. Composed of 12 separate, but conjoined canvas drop cloths, the painting references tree imagery of Ernst Ludwig Kirshner, Paul Klee, Paul Cezanne and Georgia O’Keefe.
In mountain and SEA, I wanted to create a space with multiple perspectives, ultimately upending our sense of orientation, location and comfort. Gallery visitors are invited to walk on the drop cloths, to stroll on a painting that, during the darkest days of Chicago, conjures a vibrant landscape,” Baum said.
The exhibit takes its title and inspiration from a 1952 photograph of Helen Frankenthaler, where the artist is seen surrounded by painted works. This idea of being surrounded by paintings and art is what inspired Baum to have a painting surround and swallow an entire space.
The exhibition began on February 17 and will run until March 4. It will be brought out once again after Spring Break on March 14 and last until March 22.
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