Gallery Talk: “Op Art” with Associate Curator Elizabeth Gollnick, Ph.D.

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Join Associate Curator Elizabeth Gollnick, Ph.D. for a gallery talk about the exhibition “Op Art: Abstract Illusion” in the A.H. Blank gallery. Op artists explored how abstract art could exploit the idiosyncrasies of perception. The works in this exhibition consider how what we see is more than meets the eye.

Free; No registration required. *A snow date is scheduled for Sunday, January 12.

Yaacov Agam (Israeli, born 1928)
Magic Night Rain (detail), ca. 1970
Agamograph (lenticular print) on paper
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Keith Shaver in honor of Mary and Roy Shaver, 2012.51
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines