Parchment painting in Newark show
0 Comments Published by Djelloul Marbrook February 3rd, 2010 in Art, Art history, Articles, Events, Museums, News, Paintings, Publications, Research.A newly conserved parchment painting by Irene Rice Pereira, Composition In White, is among the works to be shown in an exhibition at the Newark Museum called Constructive Spirit, Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s. The show opens February 17th. Dr. Karen A. Bearor, Pereira’s biographer, contributed an essay to the catalogue entitled Light Play in Abstract Art and Film. In her essay she discusses Pereira’s work in relationship to other artists in the show who were also interested in light and light projection.
