DELTA STATE ANNUAL FACULTY EXHIBITION
FIELDING WRIGHT ART CENTER
OPENING RECEPTION, THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 5-7 PM
Delta State University’s Art Department will hold the opening reception for its annual faculty exhibition on Thursday, Oct. 4, from 5 to 7 PM.
DSU’s art faculty are practicing artists and designers who regularly exhibit in venues across the nation. The annual faculty exhibition, held at the Fielding Wright Art Center through Oct. 25, offers the campus and the community an opportunity to view work created by these artists over the past year. The artwork reflects the diverse interests of Delta State’s art faculty and includes drawings, paintings, prints, musical instruments, quilts, jewelry, and large-scale sculpture.
Sammy Britt is represented by a series of landscape paintings that explore the language of light and color and the different light keys in which they are seen.
Cetin “Chet” Oguz will showcase portrait paintings and a series of landscape paintings depicting the reminiscences of Jones Bayou.
Ky Johnston will present three custom-made guitars. They combine elements of various instruments that he admires and use a variety of new and reclaimed woods, hardware, and electronics.
Michaela Merryday, whose research focuses on sustainability and culture, is showing jewelry made from wood and stone dust waste produced by furniture making and sculpture classes at Delta State.
Nathan Pietrykowski will display selections from his interactive webcomic Stock, which invites visitors to participate in games, submit photographs, collaborate on digital drawings, and leave voicemails.
Mollie Rushing is a textile artist whose quilts use pattern and color to create the illusion of texture and space but also remain conscious of the history of quilts and their function in our lives.
Kim Rushing explains that when out in the world, he is not often willing to carry his bulky digital SLR; instead, he reaches for his phone because it lends itself more readily to images that can be described by what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the “decisive moment.”
Kayla Selby’s series No employs a combination of digital and traditional media to explore interactions and the pressure to appease others in the current social landscape.
Michael Stanley’s sculpture Delta Queen was inspired by his time in the Mississippi Delta. Its combination of classical and contemporary conventions references the duality of living in the Delta. We recognize our past but it is not what defines us.
John Stiles, a graphic designer who works in a variety of media and explores a range of different subject matter, will show some of his paintings as well as digital illustrations and graphic design.
Robyn Wall is a printmaker whose work explores the personal associations our surroundings carry, whether landscapes or structures. At the same, she makes us aware that our memories can distort and recreate our images of these places.
Delta State’s annual faculty exhibition will be on view until Oct. 25. The gallery is open Monday-Thursday from 8 AM to 5 PM and on Friday from 8 AM. to 4:30 PM. For more information, contact the Art Department at 662-846-4720. Join our email list to receive regular updates on upcoming events or follow us on Facebook.
