{"id":49139,"date":"2018-10-10T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49139"},"modified":"2018-10-10T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:43:03","slug":"southside-gallery-presents-unnatural-history-new-work-by-blair-hobbs-adrienne-brown-david-lee-harper-and-jack-barbera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/southside-gallery-presents-unnatural-history-new-work-by-blair-hobbs-adrienne-brown-david-lee-harper-and-jack-barbera\/","title":{"rendered":"Southside Gallery Presents “Unnatural History”: New work by Blair Hobbs, Adrienne Brown-David, Lee Harper, and Jack Barbera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artists’ reception will be\u00a0Friday,\u00a0October 19 from 5\u20138 pm at Southside Gallery. The exhibition will be on display through October 27, 2018.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blair Hobbs<\/strong>\u00a0likes to find weird surprises in the mundane.\u00a0 Primarily, she finds bright oddities in plants, animals, and the human body.\u00a0 Each canvas is a box of assembled visual cues that form an imagined narrative, and many of those narratives range from bittersweet (or just bitter) to humorous.\u00a0 Each drawing is a paper cut-out glued or sewn to canvas.\u00a0 Other materials include acrylic paints, colored pencils, ink, mulberry papers, sequins, glitter, thread, gold dust, duct tape, candy wrappers, stolen placemats, and broken Christmas tree balls.\u00a0 Hobbs has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan and teaches undergraduate Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.\u00a0 She lives in Oxford, MS, with her husband, John T Edge and son, Jess.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adrienne Brown-David\u00a0<\/strong>was born in St. Louis, MO. \u00a0She began drawing at a very young age.\u00a0 Her passion for art was consistently nurtured by her family. \u00a0She began taking extracurricular art classes at the age of 12. \u00a0These classes consisted of everything from pottery to photography. \u00a0For much of her life, graphite was the main focus of her art. \u00a0After a brief stint at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a short return to St. Louis, Adrienne relocated to St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. \u00a0It was here that she began to focus on painting and mixed media.\u00a0<\/span>Adrienne Brown-David currently works from her home studio\u00a0in Water Valley, where she resides with her husband, Taariq and their four daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Harper,\u00a0<\/strong>a self “described history\u00a0nerd,”\u00a0veers toward the macabre and obscure of human customs and stories. Using the skeletal form as the great equalizer along with a manipulation of the natural world, Harper playfully addresses death and mortality.\u00a0<\/span>Harper is an artist in Oxford, Mississipi and lives with her husband, son, dogs, cat and several chickens. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Barbera\u00a0<\/strong>came to Oxford in 1976 to work as an Assistant Professor in the Ole Miss English Department.\u00a0 In 1993 he began taking courses in the Art Department under Ron Dale.\u00a0 After retiring in 2011, he took another two semesters of ceramics at Ole Miss under Matt Long. \u00a0Barbera has exhibited his work at Lafayette County Library, Oxford, Mississippi; Bozarts Gallery, Water Valley, MS; and Hickory Museum of Art, North Carolina.\u00a0\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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