Art Gallery Exhibits Include Faculty Works

Artistic works created by UALR Department of Art full and part-time studio faculty are featured in the first spring exhibition in Gallery I in the Fine Arts Building now through March 7. Artists who have work on display in Gallery I include art department chair Win Bruhl, Gary Cawood, David Clemons, Tom Clifton, Brad Cushman, Steve Driver, Mia Hall, Eric Mantle, Heidi Mullins, Liz Noble, Carey Roberson, Aj Smith, Michael Warrick, Marjorie Williams-Smith, Laurel Bakken, Catherine McKnight, David Mann, Delita Martin, Dominique Simmons, and Brittany Wilder. Participating artists feted the opening of the exhibition with a reception at the gallery on Sunday, Jan. 22. In Gallery II, UALR sculptor Michael Warrick’s exhibit “Life Forms” runs through Feb. 26. “‘Life Forms’ includes concept drawings, collaborative animation proposals, photographs, and sculpture in bronze, wood, and stone created from 2008 to 2011,” Warrick said. “These pieces were created while on off-campus duty assignments, while an artist-in-residence at the Cargo/Wheeler Studio in Clough, Northern Ireland, and while in residence at the Ninth International Sculpture Symposium in Changchun, China.” Four of the photographs from the “Life Forms” collection are of sculptures that are located in the Little Rock area; at the Central Arkansas Library System Miller Plaza, the Vogel Swartz Sculpture Garden in the River Market, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.