Dusti Bongé: Portals and Passages, Surrealist Works from the 1940s to 1950s
Hollis Taggart•Jan 09, 2025 — Mar 15, 2025
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Hollis Taggart is pleased to present a focused exhibition of the artist Dusti Bongé’s surrealist works. A deeply intuitive painter long represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery as well as Mississippi’s most acclaimed modernist artist of the post-war era, Bongé (1903-1993) fused the influences of the New York School with colors and forms inspired by the overlooked “third” coast of the U.S.—the Gulf Coast. Featuring fifteen paintings from the late 1930s to early 1950s, this exhibition spotlights how Bongé’s surrealist works served as a crucial bridge between her early figuration to her later, more well-known, abstract style. Dusti Bongé: Portals and Passages, Surrealist Works from the 1940s to 1950s will be on view on the first floor Annex of Hollis Taggart from January 9 through March 15, 2025, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 9, from 5-8PM.
Rather than the automatist techniques of Bretonian surrealism that privileged unconscious mark-making, Bongé was...More
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Dusti Bongé: Portals and Passages, Surrealist Works from the 1940s to 1950s
Hollis Taggart•Jan 09, 2025 — Mar 15, 2025
Press Release
Hollis Taggart is pleased to present a focused exhibition of the artist Dusti Bongé’s surrealist works. A deeply intuitive painter long represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery as well as Mississippi’s most acclaimed modernist artist of the post-war era, Bongé (1903-1993) fused the influences of the New York School with colors and forms inspired by the overlooked “third” coast of the U.S.—the Gulf Coast. Featuring fifteen paintings from the late 1930s to early 1950s, this exhibition spotlights how Bongé’s surrealist works served as a crucial bridge between her early figuration to her later, more well-known, abstract style. Dusti Bongé: Portals and Passages, Surrealist Works from the 1940s to 1950s will be on view on the first floor Annex of Hollis Taggart from January 9 through March 15, 2025, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 9, from 5-8PM.
Rather than the automatist techniques of Bretonian surrealism that privileged unconscious mark-making, Bongé was...More
