Gallery Talk: "…in the center thereof rose a fountain"

Curator Jack Rasmussen & the artist, Mira Hecht will discuss the exhibition "…in the center thereof rose a fountain", in a gallery talk scheduled for

Saturday, 2:00- 3:00pm

About the exhibition:

Mira Hecht’s luminous oil paintings exude a sense of order and calm. Constructed of translucent and overlapping veils of color, the paintings are containers of subtle energy and light. Their formal presentation superficially resembles some of what the Washington Color School was up to, but with a purpose or content her Color School cohort would never have admitted to.Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, Mira is a product of the San Francisco Bay rather than the Chesapeake. Her paintings are not just about themselves. They convey a welcome reverence for the fragility and interconnectedness of life and a subtle insistence to take care of all we hold dear. They are still, yet always moving.

Also integral to the artist's practice is creating mixed media works on paper. In these works, gouache, graphite and collage come together in a celebration of line, form and color.

This event will be held in-person at the museum.

Please direct any questions about this event to the museum's main contact for this event, Patricia Edwine-Poku at [email protected].

Image: Mira Hecht, Weaving the Rainbow, 2021. Oil on canvas, 17 x 15 inches. Courtesy of Addison Ripley Fine Art.

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