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'Full Figure' on Display at the Carroll County Arts Center
The "Full Figure" exhibition celebrates the human shape and spirit through works from ten local artists.
The Full Figure exhibit is currently on display in the Tevis Gallery at the Carroll County Arts Center.
Works crafted from ten local artists range in mediums from acrylic paint to wire sculpture and vary in styles from realism to abstract.
While all works are based on the human figure, each captures and reflects a drastically different and totally unique perspective on the topic.
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The artists featured in this display include:
- Nancy Abeles, Washington DC
- Walter Bartman, Braddock Heights, MD
- Laura Era, Cambridge, MD
- Peter Eide, New Windsor, MD
- Sara Knox, Hagerstown, MD
- Elaine Lozier, Bethesda, MD
- Devin Mack, Towson, MD
- Deborah Nell, East Berlin, PA
- , Ellicott City, MD
- Nick Wenderoth, Westminster, MD
One piece, by artist Laura Era was commissioned by loved ones of Anna Ella Carroll, of the family for which Carroll County was named. The piece is a re-rendering of Francis B. Carpenter’s “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln”, painted in 1864.
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In the original artwork, an empty chair in the foreground is draped with a red shawl and maps, similar to the ones worn and carried by Miss Anna Ella Carroll. According to the written piece presented with the display, many historians speculate that the items on the chair represent a quiet honor to Miss Carroll as an unrecognized member of the cabinet.
In the Era’s version of the painting, the overall composition remains the same; however she has painted Miss Carroll into the chair, wearing the red shawl. Era entitled her painting, “Maryland’s Version of the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation”.
To see this painting and the other life-inspired and life-acclaiming works, visit the Carroll County Arts Center at 91 West Main Street.
The show opened on Oct. 6 and will run through Nov. 16. The Gallery is open Monday through Wednesday and Friday, Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Thursday 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
A Gallery Talk will be held Thursday, Oct. 20 at noon and 7 p.m.