Portraits by late Starkville artist to be featured at MSU gallery
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, MissāAn exhibition spanning the 60-year career of artist Carole McReynolds Davis will be open Sept. 6-Nov. 18 at Ā鶹“«Ć½ Stateās Visual Arts Center Gallery.
Titled āFigures and Faces Not Far From Home,ā the special university event features selections from an estimated 1,000 original works created by the local icon who died in 2014.
Free to all, an opening reception will be held 5-6 p.m. Thursday [Sept. 8] in the gallery at 808 University Drive. Refreshments will be served.
Representing the artistās style from 1970-2008, the collection was brought together by Davisā daughter, Elizabeth Williams, and Lori Neuenfeldt, gallery director of the sponsoring MSU Department of Art.
āCaroleās love of people gave her the ultimate inspiration, and she created uniquely beautiful works of art that capture the beauty of Southern life,ā Neuenfeldt said. āMany of the portraits are of faces familiar to the Starkville and MSU communities.ā
Neuenfeldt said Davis had planned to produce a book titled āNot Far From Home.ā It would have included images of flowers and landscapes, as well as portraits and still lifes produced over the course of her seven-decade life. To help honor Davisā dream, the proposed title was incorporated into the exhibitionās title, she added.
She also said students enrolled in her spring-semester introductory art course had studied Davisā comments inscribed on the back of each painting. The products of their class research is found on panels accompanying the displayed pieces.
āFigures and Faces Not Far from Homeā and related exhibition programs are made possible with support from MSUās College of Architecture, Art and Design, home to the Magnolia Stateās largest undergraduate studio art program. For more, visit .
Visual Arts Center Gallery hours are 12:30-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday, as well as by appointment.
Neuenfeldt may be contacted at 662-325-2973 or LNeuenfeldt@caad.msstate.edu.
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