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Frost, Cox to be featured in University Art Gallery
Issue date: 10/19/07 Section: News
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Southwest Baptist University's Driskill Art Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by Emily Frost and Minda Cox, both residents of southwest Missouri.
The exhibit runs Monday through Friday, October 19 - November 15, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The public is invited to meet and speak with the artists at the opening reception on Friday, October 19 from 5-7 p.m.
Driskill Art Gallery is located in the Jester Learning and Performance Center, Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar.
Frost works in mixed media collage and construction.
She finds much joy in giving new meaning to old and discarded objects, which she finds perfect for evoking familiarity while challenging assumptions about the way the world works. "Lamentations," the title of her show, expresses grief for the wounded world.
"We lament too little in a time where there is so much to mourn," said Frost. "The reality of human hurt, extreme poverty, lingering racism, the apparent insignificance of the person, misguided consumerism and spiritual turmoil so deeply intertwined within our human experiences, are realities that cry out to be recognized and dealt with at a level deeper than words alone can express. And yet, in the midst of this picture of suffering, the viewer will also see the purposes of God and the power of the cross."
Cox's work is titled "The Spirit of Watercolor."
Despite physical disabilities and as a result of unbelievable perseverance, painting in watercolor has given Cox the freedom to express herself and to dance as it were on paper.
Although she works from her electric wheelchair, she has discovered while studying under Frost, that any creative act, including drawing or painting, is an act of freedom.
Freedom is a gift, not to be abused. For this reason, she tries to make beauty and truth visible to the eye as well as to the heart.
"Art, then," says Cox, "is also an act of worship, no matter how small, and therefore it should show us what God is really like and what God sees when He looks at us."
The exhibit runs Monday through Friday, October 19 - November 15, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The public is invited to meet and speak with the artists at the opening reception on Friday, October 19 from 5-7 p.m.
Driskill Art Gallery is located in the Jester Learning and Performance Center, Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar.
Frost works in mixed media collage and construction.
She finds much joy in giving new meaning to old and discarded objects, which she finds perfect for evoking familiarity while challenging assumptions about the way the world works. "Lamentations," the title of her show, expresses grief for the wounded world.
"We lament too little in a time where there is so much to mourn," said Frost. "The reality of human hurt, extreme poverty, lingering racism, the apparent insignificance of the person, misguided consumerism and spiritual turmoil so deeply intertwined within our human experiences, are realities that cry out to be recognized and dealt with at a level deeper than words alone can express. And yet, in the midst of this picture of suffering, the viewer will also see the purposes of God and the power of the cross."
Cox's work is titled "The Spirit of Watercolor."
Despite physical disabilities and as a result of unbelievable perseverance, painting in watercolor has given Cox the freedom to express herself and to dance as it were on paper.
Although she works from her electric wheelchair, she has discovered while studying under Frost, that any creative act, including drawing or painting, is an act of freedom.
Freedom is a gift, not to be abused. For this reason, she tries to make beauty and truth visible to the eye as well as to the heart.
"Art, then," says Cox, "is also an act of worship, no matter how small, and therefore it should show us what God is really like and what God sees when He looks at us."
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