Adrien Richard’s senior art thesis exhibition, “Deferred States,” will be held Feb. 5-9 in the Glassblock Gallery in the Fred J. Taylor Library and Technology Center at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. A public reception will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. Feb. 8.
While Richard graduated from UAM in 2019 with degrees in art and psychology, his planned senior exhibition was canceled due to the pandemic, according to a news release.
Richard’s exhibition focuses on portraits that show his interest in “messing around with emotional states of being.” He begins with initial sketches as unplanned doodles to capture the individuality of characters.
Through further studies, expressions are refined with colors that are vibrant and discordant. More recent paintings express his interest in folly of face and of unplanned textural processes, according to the release.
“I have no desire to capture perfection in portraits, as it has been done hundreds and thousands of times. I desire to capture order and disorder with goofy, playful, warped faces that could be both pleasing and unsatisfying,” Richard said.
The Glassblock Gallery’s hours are Mondays from 9-10 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 3 p.m.; Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.