‘Immersive, intuitive forces’

“Sun — Penetrating Wind” (acrylic on canvas), by Sheila Isham (1927-2024), in the show “Between Worlds,’’ at the Newport Art Museum, through Feb. 28.

— Image courtesy of Newport Art Museum

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The museum says the show “features over 30 paintings and works on paper from 1968 to 2004 that traces ‘the evolution of an artist who continually expanded the possibilities of abstraction,’ according to curatorial materials. Sheila Isham, who traveled the globe and spent summers in Newport, took influence from her travels as well as the Washington Color School and ‘treated color and material as immersive, intuitive forces.’ Now, returning to Newport for this expansive retrospective, "this exhibition marks a meaningful rediscovery of Isham‘s work within a community connected to her personal history."