The Arkansas Arts Center at Little Rock will present the exhibition, “Horizons Interrupted”, from Jan. 13 through March 11 in the Sam Strauss Sr. gallery.
“Horizons Interrupted” is the “Curator for a Day” Tabriz auction item purchased by Arkansas artist Norwood Creech of Lepanto, Ark. Curator for a Day allows the purchaser to work with Arts Center curatorial staff, select works from the permanent collection and title the show, creating a complete curatorial experience of creating an exhibition.
Creech thoughtfully selected a group of works in which the horizon line is a critical element of the composition. Creech finds that this element transfers to other genres, including still-life and abstraction. Whether high or low, for Creech the line in these works provides an important grounding spatial reference.
“As much as we may think we are viewing the true horizon, when we look out at a sunset, what we see is not the true horizon. The true horizon follows the contour of the earth and is the true horizon is beyond that which we can see before us,” Creech said. “The true horizon is obscured and interrupted by all of the physical manifestations, from front to back, left to right, up and down, between us and it.”
The exhibit includes work by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Arthur Davies, Hayley Lever and more.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The gallery is closed on Monday and major holidays. For more information, call 501-372-4000 or visit www.arkarts.com.