WWU to exhibit Transitions in Color and Texture

1/28/2013 Mary Ann Beahon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (573) 592-1127

 

Transitions in Color and Texture, featuring the fine art of Heather Haymart and Chris McCarthy, will be on display at William Woods University Feb. 10 to March 12.

An opening reception will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 10 in the Gladys Woods Kemper Center for the Arts. In addition, Haymart will demonstrate her process at 3 p.m.
 
Haymart is an artist who makes textural abstract paintings with depth. She is driven by nature, human emotions and inexpressible thoughts to create. Her paintings reflect this meditative state she enters during creation and the emotion is communicated by the light that comes through in her color usage. She is working towards enlightenment one painting at a time.

A graduate of the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Bachelor of Science in K-12 art education, she taught middle and high school art before turning to painting as a career.
 
McCarthy's work is a complex mix of both the hot and cold side of the glass medium. Fascinated with the ability to play with fire to create form, he sculpts each piece, thinking about the effect of light and diffraction. His use of the Venetian techniques of Murrini, Incalmo and Battuto gives his work depth and complexity. McCarthy creates simple elegant forms that radiate and glow with warmth.
 
He began blowing glass in 1997 at the City Museum in St. Louis. Six years later he opened his own studio, Park Avenue Glass.
 
The Mildred M. Cox Gallery in the Gladys Woods Kemper Center for the Arts is open 9 a.m.-6.p.m. Monday through Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call (573) 592-4245.
                                                                         
CUTLINES:
Two glass pieces by Chris McCarthy
A painting by Heather Haymart