Museum of Biblical Art Commissions Six New Works for "Back to Eden"

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS NEWS
By TAHLIB

"The Fruit Eaters" (2013) by Barnaby Furnas 

NEW YORK---"Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden" is now open at the Museum of Biblical Art. The MOBIA exhibition explores the direct and indirect influence of the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden on artists working today. For this exhibition, MoBIA commissioned six new works — the first commissions in the museum’s history — as well as 13 pieces created in the past 15 years. The new commissions are by Anonda Bell, Sean Capone, Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, Mary Temple, and Marina Zurkow. Other artists included in the exhibition include Lynn Aldrich, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mat Collishaw, Jim Dine, Barnaby Furnas, Adam Fuss, Rona Pondick, Naomi Reis, Lina Puerta, Pipilotti Rist, Alexis Rockman, and Fred Tomaselli. "Back to Eden" will be on view through September 28, 2014.