The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
is pleased to present this compelling body of work by Rafal
Olbinski, New Dreams of Old Values, hosted amid a yearlong
celebration of the museum’s fifth anniversary. A fitting
echo to the museum’s reflections on its past and contemplative
gaze toward the future, in these works Olbinski mines historical
precedent, visual and otherwise, to comment on present-day
circumstances and needs. As Matthew Gurewitsch eloquently
states in his accompanying essay, Olbinski’s art is “driven
by the spirit of moral and ethical inquiry.” New Dreams
of Old Values is Olbinski’s exuberant response to his
sustained examination of the canon of cardinal virtues.
Dennis Harper
Curator of collections and exhibitions
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
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