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Art as far as the eye can see
VAST’s regional show turns out depth and skill10:52 AM CDT on Thursday, July 23, 2009
Now in its fourth year, the 125-Mile Exhibition has grown, featuring regional artists who do everything from craft jewelry and ceramic sake bottles to photography and paintings.
River Oaks artist Chris Cunningham shows confidence with clay in Sake Bottle #3, a vessel that’s probably functional, but is more likely a take on the clean minimalism of Japanese art and architecture and the focused use of strong, energetic color.
Visual Arts Society of Texas member Miranda Reuben of Grapevine seems to have been inspired by medical textbook illustrations in Rostro du Mujer, an etching aquatint screenprint. A female face is characterized by strong distinction between line and shadow, and what could be a take on the line and sway of facial muscles.
The annual exhibit is put on by the Denton-based Visual Arts Society of Texas and open to artists who live within 125 miles of Denton.
The exhibit also shows the widening reach of the society itself, with more members from the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well as Denton.
Fort Worth artist Leigh Ann Williams interprets the look of open-shutter photography in The Mars Volta, an oil painting in which arms of light seem to drift toward a lens.
Thirty-seven artists made the exhibit, 11 of whom are members of the society.
Juror Chris Bergquist Fulmer, an art professor at North Lake College in Irving, selected the show. She has taught in public schools and has done curriculum development for Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin. As an artist, Fulmer creates mixed-media work on paper and panel.
The 125-Mile Exhibition runs through Aug. 6 in the West Gallery on the first floor of the Texas Woman’s University Fine Arts Building, on Pioneer Circle at Oakland Street. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.
—Lucinda Breeding
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