The Fairfield University Art Museum presents a new exhibition, “H.A. Sigg: Abstract Rivers” on view from Friday March 24, 2017, through Saturday June 10, 2017, in the museum’s Walsh Gallery, in the Quick Center for the Arts, on the campus of Fairfield University. The exhibition features over 25 paintings and sculptures by Abstract Expressionist Painter H. A. Sigg. Sigg was born in Switzerland in 1924 and studied in Zurich and later Paris, where he was especially captivated by the art of French Nabi painter Pierre Bonnard. Although his paintings of the 1950s adhere to a figurative idiom, he soon evolved a purely abstract style, whose graceful, atmospheric and minimalist forms and motifs were inflected by aerial views of Southeast Asia, a vantage point he was afforded in 1968 when he was invited by Swissair to fly as artist in residence in the sky. From his privileged, sweeping view from the cockpit, he made s
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