Liz Quisgard is an artist who believes in art for art’s sake and needs no political or social justification for her work. Words now seem irrelevant to the octogenarian. “My goal is to surprise and engage the mind by seducing the eye,” she declares. “We all understand a row of triangles, a strip of squares, an arrangement of circles and swirls. No need to ask their meaning. They simply are what they are. They speak to us universally and without apology.” Quisgard’s needlepoint compositions, worked in bright synthetic yarns on cotton buckram cloth in a style she refers to as “pseudo pointillism,” feature repeating geometric forms created with numerous dots of color. She carefully arranges the shades of these colors so as to create a trompe l’oeil effect of three-dimensionality.