Join curator Katie Pfolhl as she gives a Noontime Talk on the exhibition George Dunbar: Elements of Chance. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests.

George Dunbar: Elements of Chance is the first comprehensive museum retrospective for the artist George Dunbar (American, born 1927), who played a pivotal role in introducing abstract art to the South. The exhibition explores the evolution of Dunbar’s art from his early action paintings from the 1940s and 1950s to his most recent work in clay relief. A Louisiana native, Dunbar studied in Philadelphia and New York before returning to Louisiana in the 1950s to create paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and prints that marry the stark geometry of modern art with the lush, elemental materials that call forth the region’s distinctive local landscape.