Assemblage and Abstraction

Seeking meaning beyond the didactic nature of representational art the artists featured in the Peter B. Lewis Gallery explore the potential of art that is still anchored in and emerging from the everyday world. Using collage, assemblage and abstract compositions to reveal layered and multiple meanings, they incorporate everyday objects and commercial media, often merging aspects of both painting and sculpture. Celebrating the promised gift of a major canvas by Thornton Dial and several other impressive loans, this installation operates in what artist Robert Rauschenberg called "the gap between art and life."