Edna Andrade: An Overview
Edna Andrade: An Overview opens on October 27, 2015 and remains on view through February 8, 2016, in the Harnett Museum of Art. One of the foremost artists to emerge in Philadelphia in the 1960s, Edna Andrade (American, 1917-2008) is recognized as an early leader of the Op Art movement. Through her pioneering interest in visual perception, her paintings are characterized by pulsating patterns, vivid color, and a sensual immediacy that defies narrative content and meaning. Inspired by the teachings of the Bauhaus, her geometric designs were derived from the study of natural formations as well as architechtonic structures. The exhibition, featuring more than fifty paintings, represents the first comprehensive look at the range of Andrade’s work, from her early figurative landscapes, through her Bauhaus-type designs and transition to Op Art, as well as her quasi-abstract studies of the Atlantic coastline.
