The UA Museum Of Art Housed A Real Treasure: Director Peter Bermingham.
By Margaret Regan
FOUR OR FIVE summers ago, Peter Bermingham the artist surfaced
in Davis Dominguez Gallery s
Small Works Invitational.
The director of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, he had
contributed a deadpan fantasy of a museum in chaos. Calling the work Untitled (After Theodore Géricault s Raft of the Medusa 1818-1819), Bermingham painted a torrent
of water spewing out of the Géricault on a museum wall.
There was a dangerous, flooded moat right below the painting,
but a soaked survivor was pulling himself up to the solid ground