What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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November 4-10, 2018 What's up! 9 Photo courtesy: Collection of Tate & Webb Wilson Anne Siems "Shelter" Kiki Smith "Kiki Smith is one of the artists in the exhibition who's very well known, who addresses these themes very, very in-your-face — including the works where she examines the familiar tale 'Little Red Riding Hood' and explores the relationship between animals and humans, particularly wolves and humans. In other works, she is equating herself with Alice from Lewis Carroll's manuscript 'Alice's Adventures Underground' and she presents herself as Alice swimming in a pool of her own tears, as if navigating her own sorrow. So those, I think, really express the vulnerability of childhood as an underlying theme." Beth Cavener Stichter "Beth creates these gorgeously sculpted animal forms that focus really on human psychology, and they are stripped of context. They're isolated forms existing in space. On the surface, they simply look like a feral animal or domestic animal suspended in a moment of tension, but their gestures and expressions embody emotions of fear, empathy and longing. And so her works teeter on that edge between that which is animal and that which is human. So that's sort of uncomfortable." Julie Buffalohead "Her work is also narrative and uses animal form as personal metaphors. She is Native American and often, the work is a critique of the commercialization of Native culture, which is really interesting." Anne Siems "Anne incorporates Native American medicine and culture [and often features] rabbits, owls, deer and mythological animals as subjects in her paintings. And she often draws inspiration from the 'Guide on Wildlife in Europe,' which features really interesting animal portraits and animal/human characters. She's been really interested in ceremony and the deep nurturing that nature provides." Photo courtesy: Harlan & Weaver Kiki Smith "Josephine" Photo courtesy: Jason Jacques Gallery Beth Cavener Stichter "Unrequited (Variation in Peach)"