ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting, on view from June 9 to August 14, 2016.

No Boundaries presents a varied and compelling selection of paintings by nine prominent Indigenous artists from Australia’s Western desert: Paddy Bedford, Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Tommy Mitchell, Ngarra, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tjumpo Tjapanangka, Billy Joongoorra Thomas, and Prince of Wales (Midpul). These innovative artists produce works of beauty and subtlety that express ancestral truths, kinships, and views about the natural world, record personal histories, and challenge assumptions about abstraction in the art of our time.

The Johnson Museum will present a panel discussion, “Painting Country” and “Just Painting”: Contemporaneity and Abstraction in Australian Indigenous Art, on Friday, June 24 prior to a reception celebrating the summer exhibitions. At 4:30 p.m., the Miami-based collector, philanthropist, and documentary filmmaker Dennis Scholl will join scholar and curator Henry Skerritt, University of Pittsburgh, and Johnson Museum curator Andy Weislogel to discuss the collecting of Aboriginal painting, its status as global contemporary art, and the duality between indigenous artists’ cultural responsibility to paint their country and the importance of individual artistic expression. The reception will take place from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting originated at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and was organized by William Fox, Director, Center for Art and Environment, and scholar Henry Skerritt. The exhibition is drawn from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl. It was previously on view at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.