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Currently on display at the Arkansas Arts Center is Building the Collection: Art [mostly drawings] Acquired in the 1980s.

In the entranceway, several large pieces direct you toward the show. Handy Illusion is a massive ink on paper. A face consumes the paper’s surface, but it’s been drawn and redrawn with energetic swirling lines. As you gaze at the face, additional sets of eyes, noses, and lips gradually come into view.

Dorothy Wahlstrom – Nurse at Dachau by Jerome Wilkin shows a nurse gently checking the forehead and neck of an elderly patient in striped, institutional pajamas. This large drawing is primarily linear. Although there is toning, it appears to have been added after the initial line drawing.According to Neiman Reports’, E. Ann Kaplan, Dorothy Walhstrom was a Red Cross nurse featured in the book Witnesses to the Holocaust (1990; Rhoda G. Lewin).

Walking through the galleries, I couldn’t help but be taken by Bill Vulsanovich’s life-sized, photorealistic work showing a teenage boy wearing a sweatshirt and what appear to be polyester gym pants with a raised seam. The fabric appears so real, that you’re tempted to reach out and touch it.

Another photorealistic work by Marcia Isaacson called Melanie Across a Chair, shows a woman bending backward across a chair. Her head and elbows touch the floor on one side; on the other, the soles of her feet.

A small drawing of a man’s back by Martha Mayer Erlebacher looks almost like a silverpoint. The graphite has been applied with a delicate hand; the layers built slowly, never quite achieving black.

There was even a small ink drawing by Rembrandt, which appears to have been a study for a future painting.

But my very favorite work, which will be in my memories for some time, was Four Figure Set Piece by Kent Bellows. One one side of this horizontal piece, two clothed women seem to be discussing how to direct an unclothed man and woman on the other side. The nudes wait on the women with bored expressions. Like the figures’ gestures, the textures in the drawing are incredibly convincing – the stuccoed walls, hair, and fabric.

The Arts Center rotates their collection frequently, so if you want to see the works currently on display, it’s best to get there quickly.

Congratulations to Tom Acevedo, the grand prize winner of the 2010 National Invitational. An exhibition of his paintings, titled Tom Acevedo – An Autobiography, just opened at the Archer West Gallery in Quincy, Massachusetts.

I made a trip to the Arkansas Arts Center, for their new show In Search of Norman Rockwell. Eighteen of Rockwell’s works are presented with photographs by Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist that is known for his pictures of everyday America.

Most of Rockwell’s works were collotypes (prints). I was disappointed, because I was hoping to see more of his original paintings. Of the prints, my favorites were Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom from Want (the Thanksgiving Day painting we are all very familiar with). These were created by Rockwell and his illustrator friend Mead Schaeffer. They wanted to help the war effort, and offered to make posters for the government. Rockwell and Mead traveled to Washington to present some preliminary sketches, but they were turned down. However, Saturday Evening Post editor Ben Hibbs later saw their works, and was very enthusiastic about publishing them on consecutive covers of the magazine.

Of the oil paintings presented, my favorite was Home From Camp. It shows parents welcoming their little boy. The flatness of the background makes the volumetrically rendered areas stand out – seem that much more alive. Important areas of the painting, where colors are similar and subject areas might mesh, are outlined.

In fact, there is a lot of outlining in Rockwell’s other paintings as well. In The Golfer, we also see layers of brushwork, applied in short, rounded, quick strokes. In Old Man Tracy, the subject is rendered in the same manner. However, the figure stands before a landscape painted loosely, using longer, more-relaxed strokes.

The 100^th Year of Baseball was painted using gouache on canvas. The resulting texture makes the painting look like an old billboard.

My favorite piece by Rivoli was Town Meeting, which shows a group of citizens listening with concerned faces.

The exhibition continues through September 18. Admission is free.

Also at the Historic Arkansas Museum is a show titled Forgotten Places, featuring works by photographers Rhonda Berry and Diana Michelle Hausam. This exhibition is on the second floor, through the doors leading to the administrative offices. Both artists create black and white (and sepia-toned) works focussing on abandoned rural buildings and items left behind to deteriorate. Rhonda often combines photographic images, layering one upon another.

My favorite piece was Diana’s Wallpaper (23 x 28”; $647). A pair of splay-legged race horses charge wildly across a deteriorating wall, their jockeys whipping them ahead. The wallpaper strip has become worn with age. The wall’s supporting structures press through the image. In places, the paper has been worn to reveal old stucco. The paper itself is ripped, torn, drilled, or shot with pellets.

I also liked Diana’s Chicken House (27 x 21”; $593). This digital photograph shows a large, collapsing building with a saddle-backed roof. A morning haze gives it the feel of an important relic only stumbled upon.

In Curiosity (18 x 22”; $546), a steep staircase in an abandoned home leads to a room just out of sight. Debris, perhaps from a collapsed ceiling, litters the steps. An old newspaper at the foot of the stairs seems to have been dropped by an old tenant.

My favorite piece by Rhonda was As Ivy Grows Over the Door (20 x 16”; gelatin silver;  $350). In this piece, a structure has been consumed by layering vines. I found myself looking for the door, and discovered one superimposed over an underlying photograph. Only as I looked carefully did I also discover a pair of pigeons, one in flight across the door and one wandering onto the scene from the foreground.

Forgotten Places closes August 7th. I’m glad to say that Diana’s latest works will soon be featured in the Only Originals Gallery.

The 41^st Annual Exhibition of the Mid-Southern Watercolorists is winding down at the Historic Arkansas Museum. It’s on the second floor, in the gallery overlooking Reel to Real: Gone with the Wind and the Civil War in Arkansas. The Gone with the Wind show features costumes and production paintings from the film. I was hoping to spot the green-velvet dress that Scarlet made from curtains, but it wasn’t included.

My favorite paintings in the show included Ann Franklin’s Sunny Winter Day (16 x 20”, NFS). It’s a study of horses at a feed rack, painted in brilliant, but not garish, colors. An orange-red predominates, which makes the focal point, a purplish horse, stand out among the crowd. A yellow palomino standing next to the subject keeps the eye focused onn the center of the painting, the complementary purple and yellow colors playing off one another.

I also liked Following Old Paths by Mary Nancy Henry (23 x 30”; $425). Painted in layers of warm grays and black, it shows a forested path simplified into sculptural forms.

Parallel Universe by Barbara Edwards (38 x 32”; $2,000) is best viewed a few feet away. This large abstract translates into an otherworldly landscape. The predominantly warm-blue piece is accented with dark, cold blues and strips of orange-browns which seem to define fields. The paint is splattered, scratched, brushed and dabbed.

Htun Tin painted 327-Sail (36 x 28”; $2,000). The work takes its name from the boat in the foreground, which read 372-sail on its side. The boat is tied to a dock, and is quite realistic. My only criticism would be the harsh skyline in the background. It seems too abrupt and unnatural, and conflicts with the realistic style elsewhere in the painting. A very nice work nevertheless.

Joan’s New Shoes by Judith Coffey (24” x 34”; NFS) is a flat, abstracted work painted in pastel metallics on a black ground. The work shows a woman; the composition cuts off her head. In the background appear to be the fragments of chairs and tables. Numbers are scattered throughout.

The Mid-Southern Watercolorists have a reputation for assembling an interesting show, and I’m already looking forward to seeing next year’s entries.

NOTE: If you visit the Mid-Southern Watercolorists site, be sure to click on the images to see the full composition. They have been cropped to square to fit on the web page.

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