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From UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

  1. Collection of Masks: Conejo, Jaguar, Murciélago, y Pescado by Geovany Uranda, Image 5.

    Geovany Uranda

    Collection of Masks: Conejo, Jaguar, Murciélago, y Pescado, 2020

    Dye-sublimation print on fabric

    5 x 10 in

  2. Pandemic Paintings by Sue Havens, Image 1.

    Sue Havens

    Pandemic Paintings, April-December 2020

    Acrylic on 150lb paper

    30 x 22 in

  3. Horror Vacui! (International) by Matthew Couper, Image 1.

    Matthew Couper

    Horror Vacui! (International), 2014

    Oil on linen

    10.5 x 13.75 in

  4. Elephant Stone/Full Fathom Five (Orange Study) by Tim Bavington, Image 3.

    Tim Bavington

    Elephant Stone/Full Fathom Five (Orange Study), 2005

    Acrylic on canvas

    59 x 47.75 x 1.5625 in

  5. III (Three Wishbones in a Wood Box) by Lorna Simpson, Image 4.

    Lorna Simpson

    III (Three Wishbones in a Wood Box), 1994

    Cedar box containing felt, ceramic, bronze, and silicone rubber

    13.5 x 5.3125 x 2.125 in

  6. Decoration 1 by Lucio Pozzi, Image 2.

    Lucio Pozzi

    Decoration 1, 1993

    Watercolor and ink on paper

  7. Untitled by Steve Keister, Image 1.

    Steve Keister

    Untitled, 1987

    Charcoal on paper

    23 x 17 in

  8. Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings- Box 11, Group 15 by Richard Tuttle, Image 1.

    Richard Tuttle

    Loose Leaf Notebook Drawings- Box 11, Group 15, 1982

    Watercolor on notebook paper

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About the artist

Barry Gealt

American

“My paintings border on being abstract, but abstraction in a way that means clarity—not like nonobjective paintings, but having the essence of something,” Barry Gealt explained to an interviewer for Bloom magazine in 2012. Born in Philadelphia in 1941, Gealt attended the Philadelphia College of Art for his BFA and then received a MFA with honors from Yale University in 1965. From 1969 until his retirement in 2007 he was a professor of Fine Arts in the painting program at Indiana University’s School of Fine Arts (now part of the university’s Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design). His wife, the art historian Adelheid Gealt, is director emeritus of the university’s Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art. In the early 1980s he changed the focus of his work from figure painting to landscapes with the stated aim of making the art less about human narratives and more about the experience of looking and seeing. He manipulates his paint with a number of forceful techniques, sometimes applying it in thick layers that echo the tactile, textured heaviness he sees in the landscape itself. His imagery is often inspired by the countryside near his home in Spencer, Indiana, or by his frequent trips to Maine. Gealt’s works in painting and fused glass have been exhibited in North America and Europe, with solo exhibitions in New York, Nebraska, Canada, and Germany. He has been collected by numerous institutions, including the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, and the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Udine, Italy.

(written by D.K. Sole)