Page 8 - Boca Club News - July '23

Page 8, Boca Club News
Boca Museum of Art Exhibit, “Three Artists: Three Visions,

One Spirit” Presents Works of Creative Innovators

“Spirit lives in everything.” This iconic quote by the late and her stature in the art dimensional imagery that
artist Sari Dienes serves as the entryway to the standout world stretches back to expands our definition of
new exhibition by the Boca Raton Museum of Art of three the 1930s in Paris and what can be seen by the
breakthrough artists: Sari Dienes (1898-1992), Matthew London. She was born naked eye.
Schreiber (b. 1967), and Sri Prabha (b. 1969). The work in Debrecen, Austria- Sc hre iber has
of each artist is showcased within its own gallery in this Hungary and emigrated exhibited at major
winning trifecta, across a panorama of art that encompasses to the U.S. in 1939 at the museums and galleries,
the Museum’s first floor, on view now through October 22nd. age of 41. Dienes was an including: the Johnson
All three spaces are curated by Kelli Bodle, the Associate original member of the Museum of Art (Cornell
Curator of the Museum. Neo-Dada movement Un i ve r si t y) ; MI T
An inspiration to Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, of the 50s and 60s, Museum (Cambridge);
Sari Dienes was an important figure during the seminal and her impact upon Johannes Vogt Gallery
decades of the Mid-Century art world in New York. Her Robert Rauschenberg (NY); Swiss Hall, the
exhibition, Incidental Nature, features three core elements and Jasper Johns is permanent installation
of her six decades of artmaking: her 1950s street rubbings, undeniable. In the early at Herzog & de Meuron
works inspired by her time in Japan, and portraits of her 1950s, her pioneering Residence in Basel,
famous circle of artists. works prophesied what Switzerland; and a site-
Matthew Schreiber is one of the world’s foremost would later become specific installation in the Sunflower, by Sari Dienes (about
hologram and laser artists. Exploring Schreiber’s process the Pop Art movement. Miami Design District, 1954). Ink on Webril on matmount.
more deeply than any previous showing of his work, Dienes lived and worked curated by Ambra Medda,
his drawings and holograms in his exhibition, Orders of alongside a stellar circle, the co-founder and director of Design Miami. Schreiber’s
Light, include ephemeral images of spiritualist medium including: Yoko Ono, holographic expertise was tapped by Deana Lawson for her
communities in Lily Dale, New York, and Cassadaga, Florida. the composer John The Darkness Containment exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York, where she was
His works on paper feature blind contour studies, peripheral Cage, the choreographer Machine, by Sri Prabha (2023). honored with the Hugo Boss Prize in 2020.
view drawing, and lens-less photography. Merce Cunningham, India ink and acrylic on canvas. Sri Prabha: Resonator: Reanimator. Sri Prabha is a multi-
Sri Prabha masterminds a site-specific installation titled experimental filmmaker disciplinary artist based in South Florida. He was born in
Resonator-Reanimator, fusing ideas from Vedic eastern Stan VanDerBeek, as well as Johns and Rauschenberg. A Hyderabad, India in 1969. His work emphasizes the artist’s
philosophy and western science to explore our connection portion of this exhibition features her portraits and rubbings keen interest in contemporary environmental issues, and how
to the natural world. Melded together, they land the viewer of some of her famous artist friends. humans interact with the natural world. His installations aim
within a psychedelic multiverse of saturated colors. Matthew Schreiber: Orders of Light. The Brooklyn-based for a co-mingling of Vedic eastern philosophies with western
Sari Dienes: Incidental Nature. The complete quote by artist Matthew Schreiber was born in 1967, in Cleveland. science, to tell a richer story. Prabha was recently selected as
Sari Dienes, in its entirety—“Spirit lives in everything. It has He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost hologram one of the winners of the 2022 Art Basel Miami Beach public
no age, no color, no sex”—welcomes museumgoers as they artists, and is celebrated for his laser light sculptures. His Lab art showcase by the City of Miami Beach, for a monumental
enter the first-floor galleries. Celebrated as “the doyenne of produces fine art holography on a curated and invited basis, installation Cosmic Occupancy.
the American avant-garde,” Dienes is finally receiving the and some of the Lab’s current artists include Paul McCarthy, At the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Prabha creates site-
national acclaim she deserves. Her work has been exhibited Ed Ruscha, and Deana Lawson. Since childhood, Matthew specific, multi-sensory installations that people can walk
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Whitney Schreiber has had a dual interest in art and science. For this through—mixed media, video, soundscapes and audio
Museum of American Art, and is included in the permanent exhibition, the Museum selected more than 50 works, most frequencies, light projections, interactive structures, traditional
collections of many of the country’s leading museums. Dienes never shown before, including works on paper, holograms,
(1898-1992) was a descendant of Eastern European royalty, and photographs. The results are fascinating, multi- Boca Museum of Art Exhibit on page 9

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