Fairfield, CT -- Fairfield University Art Museum, Walsh Gallery is excited to invite the public to the Opening Night of its new H.A. Sigg exhibit, "Abstract Rivers", on Thursday evening, March 23. The program schedule is as follows:
5:30 p.m. Gallery Talk by Lauren Cesiro, Adjunct Professor of Art History at Fairfield University
6:00–7:30 p.m. Opening Reception
Light Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. Advanced registration is recommended at www.fuam.eventbrite.com.
H. A. Sigg: Abstract Rivers is on view from Friday March 24, 2017 through Saturday June 10, 2017, in the Museum’s Walsh Gallery in the Quick Center for the Arts, 200 Barlow Road, Fairfield, CT. The exhibition features over 25 paintings and sculptures by Abstract Expressionist Painter H. A. Sigg. His abstract paintings feature graceful, atmospheric and minimalist forms and motifs which were inflected by aerial views of Southeast Asia, a vantage point he was afforded in 1968 when he was invited by Swissair to fly as “artist in residence in the sky.” From his privileged view from the cockpit, he made sketches of the distant topography below. These became the inspiration and the source for the lithe and geometric abstractions suggestive of terraced fields and gently meandering rivers that characterize his work beginning in the 1970's.
Image Credit: H. A. Sigg, Within the Red III, 1993, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 46 inches.