Rita Deanin Abbey
Art Museum

Rita Deanin Abbey

Art Museum

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From Desert to Bible Vistas

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6 on display, 22 in series

Main Gallery

The From Desert to Bible Vistas series combines mysterious structural forms with haunting atmospheric qualities. In the act of painting, Abbey strives to discover images based on visual perceptions and subjective impressions of desert phenomena. She also drew from meaningful and salient aspects selected from her everyday life. These paintings are diverse in style, but their unifying element and Abbey’s source of inspiration are the forces of nature.

Series Highlights

Rita Deanin Abbey's painting, Daybreak in a Region Almost Empty, 1979. It is a purple background, with smoky portions of darker purple throughout. Yellow and blue shapes in the middle of the painting look like broken glass and black lines appear as tears in the painting. A green section in the top left shimmers beneath the black lines and sections of white add a glow to the shapes and lines.
Rita Deanin Abbey, Daybreak in a Region Almost Empty, 1979
Jacob's Ladder, a large acrylic painting by Rita Deanin Abbey. On the right of the painting is a bright blue background with rounded squares and rectangles outlined in orange and green. On the left of the painting is a background of small diamond shapes with areas of color behind them such as green, blue, and red. There are many V and diamond-shaped lines on top of the background, all in tan, and blue/green coloring.
Rita Deanin Abbey, Jacob’s Ladder, 1987
A painting by Rita Deanin Abbey. The background is what looks like an airbrushed pink, disrupted by three electric rectangles. From left to right the rectangles are blue, green, and orange; however, the rectangles bleed and cut into each other with shaky volts running through them. Groups of small, round, suspended shapes riddle the rectangles. Diagonal movements in the picture plane seem to increase the dynamics of space.
Rita Deanin Abbey, Emergence, 1987

6 on display, 22 in series

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5850 North Park St.
Las Vegas, NV 89149
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