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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Protest Puzzle, Untitled #2 by Krystal Ramirez, Image 2.

    Krystal Ramirez

    Protest Puzzle, Untitled #2, 2020

    Paperboard, adhesive, printed reproduction of a photograph

    16 x 20 in

  2. I AM / I AM NOT by Ashley Hairston Doughty, Image 2.

    Ashley Hairston Doughty

    I AM / I AM NOT, 2020

    Vinyl and acrylic paint

  3. Ayotzi by Javier Sanchez, Image 4.

    Javier Sanchez

    Ayotzi, 2015

    Neon, metal

    30 x 20 x 5 in

  4. New Citadel: The Moving Architecture of a Situationist City (a Tribute to Constant Nieuwenhuys) by David Sanchez Burr, Image 1.

    David Sanchez Burr

    New Citadel: The Moving Architecture of a Situationist City (a Tribute to Constant Nieuwenhuys), 2015

    Video

  5. Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XVI by Michael Ogilvie, Image 1.

    Michael Ogilvie

    Hugs 'End of the Rainbow' Series XVI, 2005

    Pencil, ink, acrylic

    20 x 30 in

  6. NV 316 NHJ by David Ryan, Image 2.

    David Ryan

    NV 316 NHJ, 2002

    Acrylic on wood

    32 x 38.5 x 2 in

  7. Algiers by George Siejka, Image 1.

    George Siejka

    Algiers, 1996

    Oil on linen

    24.375 x 16.125 in

  8. Nearly Perfect Warmask by William T. Wiley, Image 1.

    William T. Wiley

    Nearly Perfect Warmask, 1973

    Mixed media on canvas

    40.25 x 39.75 in

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About the artist

Rita Deanin Abbey

1930-2021

Abbey was raised in Passaic, New Jersey She graduated from the University of New Mexico with an MFA in 1954. In 1965 she joined the art department at the University of Southern Nevada (now UNLV) and taught there until 1987. In his book Mapping the Empty: Eight Artists and Nevada (1999), the writer William L. Fox stresses her “prodigious” artistic output “in watercolor, ink, oil, acrylic, oil pastel, steel, bronze, copper, vitreous enamels, Plexiglass, fiberglass, polyurethane foam, polyester resin, mahogany,” and her debt to the basin and range landscape where she spent most of her life. “[W]here they [the works] take us is into contemplation of natural form, akin to what we feel when confronted in person by the geology of the desert.”

"A Towering Spirit" Piece by Scott Dickensheets about Rita Deanin Abbey in Double Scoop