2023
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Dusti Bongé: The Creative Life
July 13, 2023 – September 14, 2024 Mobile Museum of Art https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/dusti-bonge-the-creative-life/ Dusti Bongé: The Creative Life provides 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 recent Spotlight installation, 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 Bongé Collection.
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Spotlight: Dusti Bongé
July 13 - October 22, 2023 Montgomery Museum of Fine Art https://mmfa.org/exhibition/spotlight-series/ The American South Consortium is a multi-year partnership of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Columbia Museum of Art, and the Mobile Museum of Art. The Consortium created a series of exhibitions shaped by each of our collections to broaden the story of American art. The Spotlight series tells new and innovative stories while expanding the understanding of fine art and design. The installations highlight the stories behind singular objects, one from each museum.
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Knowing Who We Are
April 1, 2023 - March 4, 2024 Ogden Museum of Southern Art https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/knowing-who-we-are-the-rise-of-abstraction-vernacular-art-and-photography/ The art of the American South has never existed in isolation. It has – since the earliest moments of the American experience – run concurrent with dominant academic art movements and popular trends, while maintaining a distinct regional identity. Knowing Who We Are explores the rise of Abstraction, Photography and Vernacular Art.
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Of the Past and Present: Estates and Contemporary Artists at Hollis Taggart
June 29, 2023 - August 25, 2023 Hollis Taggart https://www.hollistaggart.com/exhibitions/177-of-the-past-and-present-estates-and-contemporary-artists-at-hollis-taggart Hollis Taggart presents a group exhibition featuring examples of work by all of the artists and estates represented by the gallery. Of the Past and Present celebrates the growth of the gallery since its founding in 1979 and provides a rare opportunity to engage with the breadth of artists in its roster, which today encompasses both significant historic American artists as well as the cutting-edge of contemporary art.
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Southern/Modern
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Spotlight: Dusti Bongé
March 23 - July 1, 2023 Mobile Museum of Art https://www.mobilemuseumofart.com/exhibitions/dusti-bonge/ Mobile Museum of Art presents Spotlight: Dusti Bongé, an exhibition presented by the American South Consortium exploring themes that speak to our nation’s shared histories and diverse regional identities.
The first of four Spotlight exhibitions, funded by a grant from the Art Bridges Foundation, opened March 23, 2023, at the Mobile Museum of Art, featuring paintings and works on paper by Mississippi’s first Modernist artist, Dusti Bongé. Born Eunice Lyle Swetman in 1903, lived and painted in Biloxi, MS and exhibited her work in New York and New Orleans. |
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From Provincial Status to International Prominence: American Art of the 1950s
April 20- May 20, 2023 Hollis Taggart https://www.hollistaggart.com/exhibitions/175-from-provincial-status-to-international-prominence-american-art-of-the-1950s/ The exhibition From Provincial Status to International Prominence: American Art of the 1950s, features over 30 artists who experimented with new styles during the seismic formation of the New York School in the post-war 1950s. In the aftermath of World War II a loose group of American artists came to be known variously as Abstract Expressionists, the action painters, or the New York School.
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Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70
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Our Own Work, Our Own Way: Ascendant Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
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Dusti Bongé, Lyle Bongé, Paul Bongé, Joey Rice
January 28 - May 31, 2023
Dusti Bonge Art Foundation
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Celebrating the spirit of collaboration, experimentation and inspiration among artists, we are happy to announce our next show,
Dusti Bongé, Lyle Bongé, Paul Bongé, Joey Rice The show will feature works created by each artist and some of their collaborations as well. It will showcase how each artist pursued abstraction in photographs, paintings, works on paper, and mixed media sculptures. |
Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
2022
Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons
October 13 - November 12, 2022
Hollis Taggart, New York, NY
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Hollis Taggart presents the expansive exhibition “Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons” located on the first and second floor gallery space at 521 West 26th Street.
“Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons” includes 35 works by Bongé, reintroducing audiences to the full arc of her career, and also features 15 works by Parsons, The exhibition captures the significance of network and relationship- building among women within the art ecosystem at midcentury, with Parsons leveraging her own success as a gallerist to bring forward Bongé’s innovative vision and work. This is the first major showing of Bongé’s work since Hollis Taggart began representing the estate in 2021. Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
All Photos courtesy Hollis Taggart |
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PRESS:
11.8.22 Artnet News
Spotlight: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons’s Artist-Gallerist Relationship Forms the Heart of a New Exhibition at Hollis Taggart
11.4.22 Artsy
Why Secondary Market Galleries Appeal to New and Established Collectors Alike
10.24.22 Antiques Trade Gazette
News in Brief: Southern US artists show
10.10.22 Forbes
New York’s Top October Art Exhbitions Have A Southern Flavor
10.5.22 Garden & Gun
Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi
Spotlight: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons’s Artist-Gallerist Relationship Forms the Heart of a New Exhibition at Hollis Taggart
11.4.22 Artsy
Why Secondary Market Galleries Appeal to New and Established Collectors Alike
10.24.22 Antiques Trade Gazette
News in Brief: Southern US artists show
10.10.22 Forbes
New York’s Top October Art Exhbitions Have A Southern Flavor
10.5.22 Garden & Gun
Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi
Dallas Art Fair
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Women and the Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper
February 16 - March 9, 2022
Huxley-Parlour , London, UK
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Women and the Void: Abstract Expressionism on Paper displays 20 works on paper by women working in abstraction between 1945 - 1970: Mary Abbott, Dusti Bongé, Jay DeFeo, Perle Fine, Anne Ryan, Alma Thomas, and Michael West.
Huxley-Parlour Gallery, founded in London in 2010, is a modern and contemporary art gallery committed to creating a dialogue between those artists who have made an impact on recent art history, and those who are at its vanguard today. https://huxleyparlour.com/exhibitions/women-and-the-void-abstract-expressionism-on-paper/ |
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Dusti Bongé: Southern Exposure
November 11, 2021 - January 8, 2022
McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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The McCormick Gallery presents the first solo gallery exhibition in 45 years, outside of the Southern United States, of the art of Dusti Bongé (1903-1993). Located in Chicago’s West Loop, the gallery offers mid-century as well as contemporary paintings, and is known for presenting (often overlooked) post-war Abstract Expressionists.
The McCormick Press has published a lovely, 44 page, fully illustrated catalog with an essay on her life and work to accompany this exhibition. To view all works in Southern Exposure, please visit: https://www.thomasmccormick.com/artists/dusti_bong_ |
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Dusti Bongé: Joss Paper
September 24, 2021 - February 20, 2022
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
The Armory Show 2021
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The Art of Joey Rice
February 27, 2021 - July 24, 2021
Dusti Bongé Art Foundation
Exhibition curated by Bill Myers & Carol Leake.
Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé
February 26, 2021 - July 11, 2021
Mississippi Museum of Art
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Mississippi Museum of Art
This retrospective exhibition debuted at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans in 2019, https://www.msmuseumart.org/exhibition/piercing-the-inner-wall-the-work-of-dusti-bonge/. |
Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé
April 11, 2019 - September 8, 2019
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Exhibition curated by Bradley Sumrall
https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/piercing-the-inner-wall-the-art-of-dusti-bonge/
Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/piercing-the-inner-wall-the-art-of-dusti-bonge/
Photo gallery with highlights of the exhibition
