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Embedded Histories - Short & Long: Brad Ford Smith WHERE: Ro2 Art The Cedars 1501 S. Ervay St. Dallas TX, 75226 WHEN: March 13 - April 3, 2021 This exhibition by Brad Ford Smith is a selection of intimate ink drawings of local landscapes where the division between history and time runs thin. These are locations where embedded histories lay just below the surface. … a baseball field is a POW camp … a dilapidated east Dallas shopping center is a freedmen’s town … a grassy lot in the Trinity river bottoms is the first place “Elvis has left the building” was announced. Learn More>> Manifold Nature Ken Craft WHERE: Ro2 Art | The Cedars 1501 S. Ervay St. Dallas TX, 75215 WHEN: March 13 - April 3, 2021 Ken Craft is a painter who incorporates seemingly oppositional visual styles to create his narratives. Using both representational painting, and a more gestural comic book style, Craft makes sense of his world through capturing moments both mundane and monumental. Nature here functions as a visual landscape and psychological backdrop for internal forces to play out. Working on unconventional materials like cardboard and found panels underscores the transitory nature of human connection during times beyond our control. Craft brings his experience as a firefighter to ruminate on these larger forces through drawing, watercolor and oil. Learn More>> Arcadian Kaleidescopic Propagation Ken Craft WHERE: Ro2 Art | Downtown 110 N. Akard St. Dallas TX, 75201 WHEN: March 27 - May 1, 2021 Jeff Parrott’s process is activated by sound and a dialogue with the mysterious forces belying the creative urge. Music has been part of his life since the age of 4 when he began playing the violin. The interplay of invisible sonic waves and how they shape perception is the basis for Parrott’s imagery. In his newest exhibition Arcadian Kaleidoscopic Propagation, creatures from an unattainable utopia emerge in polychromatic compositions. Forms are fractured and reflected, they crawl across the canvas in cacophonous and sometimes harmonious ways. Accompanying this exhibition is a live performance by Jeff Parrott, performing works in the musical genre of his own creation: psyexpression. Learn More>> |
