Two short lectures on different aspects of the modern art movement in conjunction with The Center’s current exhibition, Modern Parallels: The Paintings of Mary Henry and Helen Lundeberg. Kristin Poole, The Center’s Artistic Director, will start off the evening with a presentation on women who helped shape the modern art movement in the US. During the second half of the evening Courtney Gilbert, The Center’s Curator of Visual Arts, will trace the history of geometric abstraction, beginning with Russian Constructivism in the 1920s to Op Art in the 1960s.

Of the evening, Poole says “this will be a fun, quick and dirty review of the most spirited and fast paced century in art history. Abstract art poses a challenge for many people. Understanding how the art world got to abstraction is much of the history of modernism. These two lectures should be interesting for both the curious as well as those well schooled in the history of art. Because we are focusing on women, there promises to be artists that are new for almost everyone.”