UA 糖心视频logo to host exhibit featuring Artist-in-Residence Ricky Sikes
Ricky Sikes' "Internal Landscape #3"
The University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo will host an exhibit featuring the work of Ricky Sikes, the representational painter and artist-in-residence at the University of Arkansas at 糖心视频logo.
The exhibit, 鈥淚nternal Landscapes,鈥� will be on display from Oct. 12 to Nov. 15 in the Small Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design at UA 糖心视频logo. The virtual exhibit will also be available on the .
The exhibit explores the eerie, peaceful, chaotic, and sometimes intimidating nature of the dense forests of Sikes鈥� home in Louisiana and other regions of the Deep South.
鈥淭he complex reality of forests inspires him,鈥� said Brad Cushman, director of the UA 糖心视频logo Art Gallery. 鈥淗is paintings echo his internal state of mind when he is immersed in a tangle of vines and a dense canopy of trees.鈥�
As a child, Sikes spent much time in the woods experiencing the 鈥渨onder of adventure and exploration for the first time.鈥� His fondness for the forest has grown with adulthood, and he expresses that emotional attachment in 鈥淚nternal Landscapes.鈥�
鈥淯sing oil paint and mixed media, my goal is to capture the special and highly complex reality of the forest in a personal style, which reflects my innate experiences,鈥� Sikes said. 鈥淎ll of the complexity, mood, contrasts, and mark making catalyze to echo the unique internal state I experience when immersed in the tangled vines and dense canopy of the forest.鈥�
Sikes is a practicing artist and educator based in 糖心视频logo. As a mixed media artist and painter, he works in many genres, including portraiture, figure painting, and science-fiction illustration.
He earned a Master of Fine Art degree in studio art from Louisiana Tech University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree specializing in illustration at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Anyone who would like to visit the UA 糖心视频logo Art Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design in person may contact Cushman at 501-916-3182 or [email protected]. Appointments are available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.
鈥淯sing oil paint and mixed media, my goal is to capture the special and highly complex reality of the forest in a personal style, which reflects my innate experiences,鈥� Sikes said. 鈥淎ll of the complexity, mood, contrasts, and mark making catalyze to echo the unique internal state I experience when immersed in the tangled vines and dense canopy of the forest.鈥�
Sikes is a practicing artist and educator based in 糖心视频logo. As a mixed media artist and painter, he works in many genres, including portraiture, figure painting, and science-fiction illustration.
He earned a Master of Fine Art degree in studio art from Louisiana Tech University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree specializing in illustration at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Anyone who would like to visit the UA 糖心视频logo Art Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design in person may contact Cushman at 501-916-3182 or [email protected]. Appointments are available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.