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MISSISSIPPI STATE, MS – Showcasing the work of nine seniors in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University, “Variety Pack: A BFA Thesis Exhibition” presents a wide range of works in the fields of drawing, painting, photography, and ceramics. The exhibition is a requirement for the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a fine arts emphasis.

Featured artists include Paige Ammon of Collinsville, MS; Brian Earwood of Madison, MS; Syble Elmore of Starkville, MS; Jonathan Hart of Long Beach, MS; Page Miller of Cordova, TN; Ashley Love of Starkville, MS; Dale Moore of Columbus, MS; Lindsey Perkins of Vicksburg, MS and Kisha Weathersby of Chicago, IL.

Paige Ammon’s works, reminiscent of landmasses, utilize a mixed media of dirt, polyester resin, fiberglass and wood to create large-scale sculptures. Brian Earwood’s creations of oil on canvas are modern landscape paintings of electrical sub-stations that strive for non-traditional color and compositions to present these non-picturesque spaces in a new way. The oil paintings of Syble Elmore, entitled “The Sound of Silence”, attempt to portray the emotions and passions of the deaf and blind, using her brother as a model.

Jonathan Hart’s ceramics consist of salt-fired stoneware, which abstract nature to suggest an imaginary world for the viewer. Ashley Love expresses the song and movement of relational figures employing various lines and values with charcoal, pastel and conté crayon on birch plywood. The photography and installation by Page Miller seek to glorify the objects that hold our clothing together, giving rise to a place of reverence for her handmade fasteners. Charcoal and pastel drawings of Dale Moore are based upon the depths of the mind and the dream world comprised of conscious and unconscious visual development inspired by the Symbolist art movement.
Lindsey Perkins has been engaged in a number of charcoal drawings arranged in a chronology that focuses on a narrative using three opposing species of animals as a commentary on the issue of man’s free will. Kisha Weathersby has developed a series entitled “The Bondage of the Mind”, representing the battle between faulty and veritable information that lies in our deep conscience, through ink, charcoal and acrylic.

On display in McComas Hall at the Department of Art Gallery, the exhibition opens on April 9th and closes on April 25th. Following the exhibition opening, a reception for the public will be held on April 12th from 5:30-7:30pm.

For more information, please call Dale Moore at 662-549-1474 or email gdm24@msstate.edu.