Major exhibition by pioneering artist Dusti Bongé opens at The Mississippi Museum of Art
Dusti Bongé (American, 1903-1993), Shrimp Boats at the Dock, Biloxi, MS, P-159, c. 1940. oil on canvas, 21.75 x 27.875. Collection of the Dusti Bongé Art Foundation.
JACKSON, MS
.-The Mississippi Museum of Art will open Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, an expansive survey revealing the full range of the pioneering artists oeuvre. Considered Mississippis first artist to work consistently in a Modernist style, Dusti Bongé (190393) was active in New Yorks dynamic art scene and creative communities which flourished along the Gulf Coast in the 1930s through the early 1990s. During her lifetime, she created a multifaceted body of work that transitioned from figurative and Cubist depictions of scenes of her hometown Biloxi in the late 1930s, through a period of Surrealism and into Abstract Expressionism that defines her mature work.