Pat Musick’s art reflects the tensions that exist between mankind and the natural environment. It addresses the havoc that we have done to the natural world and the devastation that has wreaked upon mankind. Stone and wood speak for the physical world while rusted steel addresses human abuse of the environment. These conditions come together in a conversation of peace and spiritual quiet creating reconciliation.

Visual social commentary was not a high priority for creative expression during Morris Taft Thomas’ formative years as an artist. Now that his chronological age and mental maturity has evolved, there is urgency for him to reflect and document social events as they occurred during his era of social change.

Mr. Thomas was preoccupied with an attempt to escape from what was, to what ought to be; not realizing there is no eradicating life experiences for they come full circle.

This new mixed media technique is designed to capture the viewer’s attention by using an explosion of brilliant hues. The overlay ...

Contemporary Artists Guild, is a group of local artists who come together to share, inspire, and exhibit in various galleries. This year’s annual AMoA Exhibition is juried by David Rackley.

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Lacey Johnson is a senior studying Art History at the University of Alabama. Her paintings search for balance and are a visual metaphor of herself. By seeing bright colors and pleasant imagery they initially evoke happy emotions of contentment and delight, but as the viewer divulges closer to the work one discovers the content of the sentences, poems, broken thoughts that hide underneath the layers of paint and the layers of who she is and the things that have filled her thoughts.

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I was struck by the huge Xs grimly painted on buildings everywhere. A vast sea of Xs swept out before us. The vision seared into my memory as if by heated swords. I began to see Xs everywhere.

There in New Orleans, no one we asked knew exactly what the Xs stood for. So as soon as we returned home, I found out. Instead of being macabre symbols x-ing out all presence, the Xs were in fact a coding system used by the search and rescue teams. I learned that before a search began, the team sprayed one stroke of ...

Catherine recently completed her Masters in Painting at Northwestern State University. She has worked in nearly every artistic field: printing, newspaper, theater, advertising, visual merchandising, freelance design, and studio art. The exhibit, atmospheric transcendence, was created incorporating techniques gathered from the historical investigation of the use of colored grounds. This created color unit-- interesting interplay with applied color-- allow for freer brushwork resulting in dynamic paintings that convey energy, atmosphere, and expression.

James Hunter continues the Folk Art legacy of his Grandmother Clementine Hunter. He was born on November 18th, 1965 on Magnolia Plantation in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. When his father died he lived off and on with his grandmother on Melrose Plantation. Clementine Hunter taught James Hunter how to paint as he watched her for hours painting plantation scenes.

Michael Yankowski has been a Professor of Art at Northwestern State University for 21 years. He is influenced by Renaissance and Surrealist artists and has studied under masters of a variety of media. Yankowski incorporates various types of wood, cast metal, ceramics, and other materials allowing a wide assortment of design possibilities. His most recent sculptures are "open constructions" which permit the viewer to enter a symbolic internal space.

Jeremy Simmons is Assistant Professor of Art at LSUA. Jeremy is from the Flinthills region of Kansas. He obtained his Master of Fine Art in painting from Indiana University at Bloomington in 2003. jermy's work is primarily figurative and narrative. In this exhibit called "Memory, Imagination, Observation" he splits his efforts between these frames to collect and create a dilectical narrative.

The Alexandria Museum of Art announces the opening of the 20th September Competition to be on view from August 25th through November 1. Artworks in a wide range of medium, style and subject matter will be represented.

The September Competition has the reputation of showing exciting and innovative work and is very competitive, drawing entries form all over the world.

The Alexandria Museum of Art’s competition is open to all artists over 18 years of age working in any media. All work is original, has been completed within the last two years, and is available for purchase. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints are among those to be ...