{"id":122538,"date":"2022-09-08T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=122538"},"modified":"2022-09-08T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:04:44","slug":"postcards-from-the-edge-of-oxford-paintings-by-anne-scott-barrett-on-display-at-city-grocery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/postcards-from-the-edge-of-oxford-paintings-by-anne-scott-barrett-on-display-at-city-grocery\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the Edge of Oxford Paintings by Anne Scott Barrett on Display at City Grocery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walk into the dining room of City Grocery<\/strong>, and you might feel like you stepped into a portal. Surrounded by neat rows of familiar-looking scenes in watercolor, take a closer look and you will see Oxford<\/strong> through the extraordinary lens of local artist Anne Scott Barrett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnne Scott Barrett is a Mississippi native born in Yazoo City and in a long-term relationship with Oxford.\u201d This line from Anne Scott\u2019s bio on her web page provides a perfect introduction to the vibe of her new series of paintings depicting Oxford from the past few decades. For those of us who are also in a long-term relationship with Oxford, or are perhaps born-and-raised locals, Anne\u2019s paintings, Postcards from the Edge<\/em><\/strong>, will summon plenty of nostalgia for \u201cthose days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A combination of opportunities, from Yoknapatawpha Arts Council\u2019s Visual Artists Series<\/strong> to a loaner studio on The Square<\/strong> from which to paint, led Anne Scott to immersing herself in a project she had long wanted to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had been working at the University for ten years,\u201d Anne said, \u201cand I decided I needed to really focus on painting, because I have been saving photographs from decades of roaming around town\u2014especially at night and being silly and drunk with everybody all the way from the \u201890s through currently. I always thought I [would] do paintings of these photographs, because they capture the feelings and the places and times that are gone now, like Parrish\u2019s and Smitty\u2019s and Two Stick and Longshot \u2026 places that, when you live here long enough, you recognize from habit of driving by like Three Way and the \u2018Dumpster Rooster\u2019\u2014everybody knows that one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even if you\u2019re newer to Oxford, you will recognize the magic in Barrett\u2019s paintings that holds Oxford true to itself\u2014beneath the glossy exterior of a growing, gentrified community, a grittier core remains. The images are identifiable, even when they are slightly off-kilter, surreally depicting Oxford from a perspective that most residents and frequent visitors will find familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paintings capture \u201cthese nighttime, fuzzy, parts-missing sensations that the \u201890s and the 2000s in Oxford had,\u201d Anne said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t all bright and shiny and pretty. It was still kinda funky and neon-lit and it wasn\u2019t so super fancy, it was just barely on its way to being super fancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the paintings portray a bygone era, but a few are more contemporary scenes, such as the marquee of The Lyric<\/strong> in \u201cWhat\u2019s Going On\u201d and the previously mentioned \u201cDumpster Rooster,\u201d an ornery bird that terrorized the Three Way Grocery<\/strong> and White Oak Lane<\/strong> neighborhood up until a few years ago. Others, like \u201cDoorknob Navigation,\u201d and \u201cBalcony Beckons,\u201d show landmarks that remain, however in earlier stages of their existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut then you have the one of City Grocery,\u201d Anne said, of \u201cUniverse in Reverse.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s pre-renovated City Grocery [bar] from the perspective that you\u2019re looking at it from the mirror, so the painting itself is backwards, but if you \u2026 look at it in a mirror, it comes correct.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s part of what is so neat about having everything in the dining room of City Grocery\u2014wherever you sit you can see a reflection of all these paintings, and it becomes this time portal. They just keep going and going and reflecting and reflecting. Everything has that waking dream sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although this is Anne Scott\u2019s first series of paintings, whether you are new to Oxford or a longtime denizen, you are sure to have seen her work around town. Concert posters, logos, and murals make up a large body of her work, including the famous Proud Larry<\/strong>\u2019s logo and murals. Tate Moore<\/strong> of Square Pizza <\/strong>has a huge collection of her concert posters hanging in his restaurant, a genre of work that includes bands like Widespread Panic<\/strong>, Fugazi<\/strong>, and of course, \u201cthe hometown heroes, Kudzu Kings<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an ode to those years that I\u2019ve done all that work around Oxford that\u2019s just kind of faded into the sheetrock here,\u201d Anne said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paintings will be on display in the dining room of City Grocery through the end of October. All the originals are available for sale now. You can either buy them directly at the restaurant or purchase through her website, AnneScottBarrett.com<\/strong><\/a>. Additionally, there will be twenty prints of each painting for sale, priced at under $200 each, also available on her website beginning October 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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