AN ODYSSEY OF DREAMS 2003–2012

SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA

A Decade of Paintings
Curator Judith K. Brodsky
May 16 – July 27, 2014


Installation view 1 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014
Installation view 2 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014 Installation view 3 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014 Installation view 4 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014 Installation view 5 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014 Installation view 6 of 6, An Odyssey of Dreams, The Sheldon Museum of Art, 2014

Basil Alkazzi paintings are ethereal reflections that blur the boundary between abstraction and representation…. Working in gouache on paper is a challenge, and Alkazzi is a master of the form… [He] explores the spiritual in art — not religious, per se, but aimed at a deeper, more universal feeling that artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and especially Mark Rothko have tapped in the past.