Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens announces Awak­en­ing: The Art of Ursula Schwartz

Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens presents Awak­en­ing: The Art of Ursula Schwartz an exhibition on view May 7 — July 21, 2013.

This intro­spec­tive exhibit fea­tures a sam­pling of large-scale oil paint­ings cre­ated by con­tem­po­rary artist Ursula Schwartz. Born in Nel­spruit, South Africa, she expresses her unique South African per­spec­tive through bold col­ors, enteric brush strokes, and inti­mate por­traits and fig­u­ra­tive work. Poetry writ­ten by the artist and her young son will accom­pany each paint­ing. Schwartz’s paint­ings reflect the com­plex nature of mod­ern fem­i­nin­ity, and por­tray an ele­gant jux­ta­po­si­tion of power and vul­ner­a­bil­ity. Her work has been exhib­ited, sold, and col­lected in South Africa, Europe, and the USA.www.polasek.org