Artists' Reception Set March 3 for Moore, Church Exhibitions

Carl E. Moore’s Her First Flowers (left) and Meikel Church’s Beating Like a Heart (detail) are among the works in the artists’ respective exhibitions at ASC. Moore and Church will be on hand for an artists’ reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 3, at ASC.

Free, Public Event Celebrates Shows by Memphis Painter, North Little Rock Collage Artist

The Arts & Science Center will celebrate its two latest exhibitions with a free, public reception from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, March 3, 2022, at ASC’s main building at 701 S. Main St.

The event is in support of shows by Memphis-based painter Carl E. Moore and North Little Rock-based mixed-media artist Meikel Church. The artists will be available to speak with visitors during the reception.

The reception is sponsored by MK Distributors, and both exhibitions are sponsored by Relyance Bank. As part of ASC’s COVID safety measures, masks are required for all visitors ages 2 and older.

Carl E. Moore

Carl E. Moore’s PAUSE. People, Places and Scenes is on display now in the William H. Kennedy Jr. Gallery through Saturday, April 30, 2022. Using flat imagery and bold colors, Moore’s paintings express social and ethical issues that face Black Americans on a day-to-day basis.

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The artwork depicts “People living in their community, living their lives and in their spaces, as Black Americans living in a PAUSED position, waiting,” Moore explained. “Waiting for the next headline or event to happen. Waiting for the next justified police shooting or the next unexplained act of violence. Waiting for the most recent statistical data about high unemployment or the next random report on unequal healthcare for Black women. Waiting for the next apology for a recently discovered history of wrongdoing or waiting for gentrification, redlining, redistricting, or redevelopment to claim Black neighborhoods.”

For more information about Moore, visit carlemoore.com.

Meikel Church

Meikel Church’s collage collection Was It Ever Real? will be on view in the Ben J. Altheimer Gallery from March 3 through Saturday, June 4, 2022. Repurposes images from vintage magazines to make his works, Church recontextualizing them into imaginative scenes.

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The theme of “Was It Ever Real?” is the past as it was as it happened, as we see it today, and how it will look in the future before it fades away.

For more information about Church, visit meikelchurchcollage.com.

For more information about the exhibitions, contact Jessica Lenehan via email at jlenehan@asc701.org or call 870-536-3375.