Event Description

Ben Strawn’s “Picture Boxes”are vivid and unusual dreamlike images on display in Mullins Library. Strawn creates the picture boxes, each in identical 8” x 8” frames, by painting acrylic figures on successive layers of plexiglass. The multiple layers give the images both three-dimensional depth and a milky, overcast film, creating both a distance from the viewer and the impression of dreamlike images swathed in cloud. The impression is heightened by the subject matter—whimsical images of bunnies, bears, and fish in unexpected scenarios that complement startling images of headless men skewered with knives or surrounded by floating bottles and cups on kite strings.

The exhibit may very well bring a smile to viewers’ faces, or leave them pondering the images that inhabit the very best of their dreams.

Ben Strawn is an alumnus of the University of Arkansas. He lives in Fayetteville with his wife Jessica Robin, their three dogs, and Indigo Wren, their newborn daughter.

“Picture Boxes” will remain on display in Mullins Library through the end of April. To see an online gallery of the exhibit, visit http://libinfo.uark.edu/info/artexhibit.asp, or for more information, visit Strawn’s Web site at http://benstrawn.com.

Location Information: (View Map)
libinfo.uark.edu/, for additional location information.” onmouseover=”this.className=’calendartexthilite’” onmouseout=”this.className=’calendartext’” href=”http://libinfo.uark.edu/” target=”blank”>Main Campus – MULN – Mullins Library
365 N. McIlroy Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-8444
Room: Lobby

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