Mihail: Rocketships
April 30 - June 18, 2022
Municipal Bonds is honored to present Rocketships, a mixed media exhibition by the late Bulgarian-born American artist Mihail (1929–2021). Inspired by the iconic moment of the early 1980s when NASA launched its first space shuttle, Mihail created a body of work themed on space travel. His series of architectonic drawings, dream-like paintings, atmospheric watercolors, and model sculptures from the 1980s and 90s celebrates the era of nascent space exploration. During a time of quantum leaps in science and the acceleration of humanity's hope in outer space discovery, Mihail's work captured the transcendent imagination and optimism around what he simply called "rocketships."
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