July 13, 2023 & September 14, 2024
Dusti Bonge: The Creative Lifeprovides a look at the creative evolution of a woman who has been called Mississippi’s first true modern artist. Expanding on the success of our recentSpotlightinstallation, this new exhibition presents some of her early realist watercolor and mixed media compositions, four large Abstract Expressionist paintings, and an oil on masonite inspired by a trip to Mexico, all on loan from the Paul Bonge Collection. The newly installed gallery includes aMississippi Public Broadcasting documentarythat features the artist at work in her studio, as well as labels that tell the story of her journeys to the height of the New York art world and back home to Biloxi.
The video is used by courtesy of Mississippi Public Broadcasting.