March Visiting Artist: Helen Kwiatkowski
The Fayetteville Underground is pleased to welcome visiting artist, Helen Kwiatkowski, during the month of March. The opening reception will be Thursday, March 7th, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Her work will be exhibited until Saturday, March 30, 2013.
About Helen Kwiatkowski
Professor, Art Department, University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton Texas (since 1998)
MFA East Texas State University, Commerce Texas 1986
Solo Exhibitions include Central Texas College (Killeen TX), Howard Gallery (Cultual Activities Center, Temple TX), Arla Rae Gallery, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton TX)), and Art Center of the Ozarks (Springdale AR). Group Exhibitions include 2009 Texas Biennial: An independent survey of contemporary Texas Art, Austin Texas (juried by Michael Duncan, Art in America); Croft Gallery (Waco TX) and Kingfisher Gallery (Elgin TX)
The works in this exhibition will include paintings from an ongoing series entitled “The Little Helens”. Begun in 1990, the initial group of paintings were all done using old family photographs, and reflected my personal experiences and recollections as a child. Over time, this series has steadily evolved to includes a broad range of narrative scenarios that now hover somewhere between fact and fiction. Each painting reflects a moment, frozen in time, which serves to help me make sense of things both large and small.
