Blitt, Feeling the Music
Category : MulvaneExhibits, RitaBlittExhibits

Location: Rita Blitt Gallery

May 3 – August 30, 2025

Guest curated by Camry Ivory, 2024 Rita Blitt Interdisciplinary Artist Fellow

This exhibition explores Rita Blitt’s work through the lens of music’s influence on visual art. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s pioneering work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which proposed that painting could capture the abstract expressiveness of music, this exhibition celebrates Blitt’s ability to evoke rhythm, melody, harmony, and emotional resonance through her vibrant visual compositions.

 

Rita Blitt, Feeling the Music II (detail), 2008, acrylic, ink, and paper. Mulvane Art Museum permanent collection.

Explore selected works

Udow Percussion

Udow Percussion 2

  • Rita Blitt
    Udow Percussion 2, 2019
    acrylic and crayon on paper
    Gift of Rita Blitt, 2016.1196
Blur X

Blur X

  • Rita Blitt
    Blur X, 2009
    acrylic on canvas
    Gift of Rita Blitt, 2016.1251

    Watch Blitt’s film blur, which she created in collaboration with composer Lansing McLoskey and animator Tom Alpern.
Stravinsky XIX, Tango

Stravinsky XIX, Tango

  • Rita Blitt
    Stravinsky XIX, Tango, from Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, 2013
    ink and pastel on paper
    Gift of Rita Blitt, 2016.0853.06
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