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By Tierney Oberharamer
Staff W rtto
The student-run organization.
Art Front,- gets its annual chance to
shine this month at the UNC
Asheville Highsmith Union Art
. Gallery.
“We help hang shows here year
round,” said Angela Polly, Art
Front president and senior art stu
dent.
Art Front hangs a show featuring
its members only once a year. The
show displays several different
artistic mediums including paint
ings, sculptures, printmaking,
ceramics, mixed media and draw
ing. All of the featured artists par
ticipate in Art Front.
All of Art Front’s members
major in art, but the group wel
comes non-art majors as well,
according to Polly. While mainly
concentrating on painting, Polly
shows several mixed-media sculp-
mres in the show. Her series called
‘Three Nudes” uses flesh-colored
nylon stockings and polyester
stuffing. Polly called the piece her
abstraction of the figure.
The sculptures brought to mind
images of the brain and the intes
tines, according to Alex
Williamson, a freshman student,
though without the disgust he usu
ally finds in depictions of human
internal organs. “It was soft and
appealing,” Williamson said.
Artists keep some things hidden
and the concept behind the piece
revolves around revealing these
things, according to Polly.
“It’s about opening yourself up
to new experiences, ideas, any
thing,” Polly said. “Being
exposed.”
A large oil painting by the vice
president of Art Front, titled, “As
A Grown Man Holds His Mother”,
shows a large baby and a smaller
human figure grasping one anoth
er. The artist, Larkin Ford, said the
title is purposefully vague. He
called it a surrealistic take on the
traditional nativity scene.
“It's a hallucination of some
body terrified of the prospect of
their own unborn child,” Ford
said.
Ford said he sometimes uses
cheese knives to apply paint to
the canvas. His other paintings
develop into works even more
surrealistic than his current exhi
bition. Ford described them
severely mutilated figures.
Jeremy Drake, a
senior art student,
exhibits two
as
way.
“1 was making it, and sometxxly
comes in and says, ‘Your totem
pole is leaning to the right!’ and 1
thought, “Oh, shoot”. So, we
pulled it out and I tried to straight
en it out,”Ray said. “It’s been a
real pain.”
The totem pole started her new
adventure in art this semester,
according to Ray.
This spring. Art Front hosts the
annual juried student art show.
Each year Art Front organizes the
entire event and uses its funds to
finance it. The head of the NC
School of the
Arts in Winston
Salem will
pieces. He marked It’s about opening yourself up to judge the show
both as “not for new experiences, ideas, anything, this year which
Shana Arney - Staff Photographer
Justin Burkins, a local landscape designer, takes a closer look at “Untitled,” by Elizabeth Ewing, senior art
student. The piece is made with wood, glass and clay.
sale”. Drake
explained he
wants to keep
them for his final
senior exhibition,
and he’s just not ready to part with
them. His mind might change if
the price was right.
“I’m sure if someone came in
with $800 or $1,000,1 would prob
ably sell,” Drake said.
Alyssa Ray, a student-teacher
at Claxton Elementary School,
shows a tall earthenware totem
pole titled “Heritage.”* It rose
above the heads of most of the
people at the opening.
“We’ve actually been talking
about heritage in the fifth grade
this whole week,” Ray said.
The animals in the totem pole
play a role in everyone’s her
itage, according to Ray. These
animals include a rattle snake, a
beaver, a monkey and a rainbow
trout.
She said it took all semester to
build the sculpture and she ran
into some problems along the
Angeia Polly
Art F ront President
opens on April
12.
“We put out a
call for entries
in April; anyone
can submit work for $5 per entry,”
Polly said.
Art Front also hosts and helps
with several other art related
events at UNC Asheville. Several
times each year they throw
“Creatathons”. During a
“Creatathon”, the art department
stays open over night.
“We stay in the building all night
long and work on our stuff,” Polly
said.
On any other day, administration
kicks students working on projects
out of the building at midnight,
according to Polly.
The Art Front student show is on
display in the Highsmith Student
Union Art Gallery now through
February 2.
For more information on Art
Front activities visit
http://orgs.unca.edu/ArtFront/ or
www.unca.edu/highsmith/gallery.
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