May 15, 2020
Isabel Atkinson
Seven Forms Student Design Showcase: Isabel Atkinson
Distraction by Isabel Atkinson Isabel Atkinson is a second-year apparel design student at the University of Minnesota. She is inspired by avant-garde design, digital nighttime aesthetics featuring colored lights and dark cityscapes (think cyberpunk but less punk), and intriguing silhouettes. This is reflected in her apparel, through the repetition of large shapes across the body,…
Isabel Bishop: Noon Hour, 1935
Isabel Bishop Noon Hour, 1935 Etching, 6 ⅞ x 4 ¾ inches 1965.28.7 ABOUT THE ART In Noon Hour, from 1935, Isabel Bishop depicts the casual lunchtime conversation between two young women who are liberated briefly from their secretarial or sales desks. While many twentieth-century artists captured distinctly “American” scenes, Bishop focused on the…