The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Vertically oriented abstract acrylic painting depicting kaleidoscope-like intersecting triangles of pastel, pink, red, blue, purple, yellow, and grey. Fine dark red and orange lines outline two intersecting rough circles following the edges of the triangles, then two smaller circles above and below. This would be repeated again if the pattern wasn't cut off by a serrated cream border running around the edge of the painting.

Merging Emerging

2010

Audra Skuodas

(American, 1940–2019)
America, Ohio, 21st century
acrylic on canvas
Overall: 182.8 x 152.4 cm (71 15/16 x 60 in.)
Dorothea Wright Hamilton Fund 2011.113
© Audra Skuodas
Location: 228A Cleveland Artists

Did You Know?

This artist combines the ideas of the infinite and the finite in this work.

Description

After decades of working primarily in a figurative mode, Skuodas turned to pure abstraction only recently. Her art often addresses connections between the spiritual and physical realms; in her words, "I believe our psyches are linked to the laws which manifest themselves in the formation of a flower, a snowflake, or a seashell."Befitting its title, the painting's composition is structured, yet openended along its perimeter.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.113