Harding is known for having different activities for students and faculty members. Besides watching movies during chapel, attending football games and enjoying donut holes and music at the Student Center every Monday after chapel, this week you can also stop by the Stevens Art Galleries to see the \u201cExchanging Landscapes\u201d exhibit by David Mudrinich, an artist and art professor at Arkansas Tech University.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the time we have different exhibits at our gallery,\u201d said John Keller, gallery director at Harding. \u201cOur current show is Exchanging Landscapes by David Mudrinich. He is an art teacher at Arkansas Tech University. The exhibition runs through Friday, September 15.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExchanging Landscapes\u201d features drawings and paintings inspired by the beauty of the Ozark River Valley Region and the Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe artist demonstrated considerable skill in the use of several media, including oils, pastel, watercolor, charcoal and conte crayon,\u201d Keller said. \u201cIf you enjoy landscape painting, you will like this show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mudrinich was always intrigued by a sense of place \u2014 those various characteristics that make any particular location unique.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far back as I can remember, I\u2018ve enjoyed drawing. Though everybody in my family was fairly creative, I was the only one that pursued art and art teaching as a career,\u201d Mudrinich said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI currently live in the Ozark Arkansas River Valley region. Though I have lived here for nearly 20 years, the look of the landscape is still new and exciting for me, far different from the industrial steel town in western Pennsylvania where I was born. I continuously feel stimulated to understand and create work related to the ecological life of this region,\u201d Mudrinich said.<\/p>\n
Mudrinich first visited the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma 12 years ago. It provided a marked contrast of open space compared to that of the hilly Ozarks. This space expanded his perception and introduced a whole new world of light and color to Mudrinich\u2019s senses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese regions may have strikingly different features but they are both part of the Arkansas River watershed and share that common artery and connection of place. I try to find that unity within them and between them. In a way, I allow these landscapes to also serve as a metaphor of understanding in helping me to find common unity in the variety of people and cultures that all live within our world,\u201d Mudrinich said.<\/p>\n
Despite the fact that Mudrinich has visited Harding University in the past, this is his first exhibition on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think David Mudrinich can produce one of the most beautiful azure blue colors,\u201d sophomore Keti Kambarashvili said. \u201cThe exhibition at the Art center was wonderful. All of the paintings embodied warmth and nostalgia. I believe it was a high standard, beautiful exhibition, and I am very glad that I was a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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