REUNION

Reunion celebrates the 30th anniversary of ASC’s exhibition “New Faces/New Directions: Emerging Pine Bluff Artists.” The 1990 exhibition showcased then up-and- coming artists Catherine Burns, Scinthya Edwards, Eric Freeman and James Hayes. ASC again has the works of these artists within its four walls. Three of Freeman’s works are in the adjacent “Whimsy & Flights of Fancy” exhibition, and Hayes’ blown-glass sculpture “Celebration Chandelier” has brightened ASC’s atrium since fall 2018.

Within Reunion, works by Edwards and Burns created since “New Faces/New Directions” to the present, spanning over the thirty year period, are featured. Edwards uses color to entice the imagination and create visual dynamism and movement. Burns explores mark making, its physically and as an expression of one’s inner self. In both artists work we find symbols. Within Edwards brightly colored collages, reoccurring circular motifs invoke the outer appearance of the world and its impact on the inner self. Burns pays homage to her ancestors utilizing letters and symbols.

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