Sunlight pours through Rita Deanin Abbey’s monumental “Wall of Creation,” scattering blues, golds and desert tones across the gallery walls. As the first notes of music rise into the room, the glass-like surface seems almost to breathe, with color shifting gently with rhythm and light responding to sound.
There are moments in art when the boundaries between disciplines quietly dissolve.
Inside the luminous galleries of the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum, one such moment unfolds beneath Abbey’s sweeping installation. Originally commissioned for Temple Beth Sholom in Las Vegas, “Wall of Creation” is a 20-by-40-foot mural made of polyester resin and fiberglass. Its arc of color and Hebrew scripture radiates across the gallery like a celestial horizon, carrying both spiritual history and artistic brilliance. In a city celebrated for spectacle, the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum offers something rarer: a contemplative space where art, architecture and reflection converge.
During “Ancient Echoes: Baroque & Modern Resonance,” audiences gathered beneath this extraordinary work to experience a rare dialogue between visual and musical expression. Curated by Dr. Alexandria Le, artistic director of RDA Performs, the program explored how historic sound worlds and contemporary voices intersect. > Read More
