Dusti Bongé at the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama'Dusti Bongé: The Creative Life'
13 July 2023 - 14 September 2024
Gallery artist Dusti Bongé's work is on view iin a solo presentation titled Dusti Bongé: The Creative Life at the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama.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. The newly installed gallery includes a Mississippi Public Broadcasting documentary that features the artist at work in her studio, as well as labels that tell the story of her journeys to the height of the New York art world and back home to Biloxi.