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‘Vibrational aesthetic’

“Spinning Echo’’ (acrylic paint, canvas, fabric, wood), by Lisa Alvarado, in her show “Spinning Echo,’’ at the Wadsworth Museum and Atheneum, Hartford, through Sept. 3
— Photo by Tom van Eynde

The museum says:

“Lisa Alvarado’s free-hanging paintings expand into the realms of installation, textile, sound and performance. Working in acrylic on unstretched canvas, Alvarado creates meditative, patterned works that evoke Mesoamerican weavings and other non-Western traditions of abstraction. In ‘Lisa Alvarado / MATRIX 192 / Spinning Echo,’ the Chicago-based, San Antonio-born artist transforms the gallery with an installation of new paintings, sound, and site-specific floor sculptures, creating an immersive multisensory experience of what the artist calls her ‘vibrational aesthetic.”’

#Wadsworth Museum

Hartford in 1877

The Travelers (Insurance) Tower in Hartford, which for many years was called “The Insurance Capital of the World.’’