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Artist in Residence: Fred & Daily

by Janet Elizabeth... | December 15th, 2009
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So, about nine years ago, there was this party one night in Montevallo...  Lots of people were at the party, including some alumni who'd brought their kids.  Loud music was playing -- let's say it was Jonathan Fire Eater... or, no, wait -- maybe it was Pine Hill Haints.  The kitchen floor was wet and getting kind of gross from the condensation from a keg in a trashcan full of ice.  In the center of the soupy floor was a table topped with plates of chip and cookie crumbs, scraped out bowls of dip.  Suddenly through the house was the rush of those children, giggling with terror and Read more...

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Burning Records

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Why Should I Care

Artist in Residence - Spencer C Shoults

by Janet Elizabeth... | October 14th, 2009
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Spencer C Shoults is NOT an artist whose paintings draw the eye of the collector of quaint landscapes or sunny abstracts.  His art is neither quiet nor still.  Nor is it exactly loud and full of motion.  Instead, it is steady, persistent in its impressions, and full of layers that show his process.  He works dilligently and constantly with many different medium, elements, and ideas.  What is contiguous is his sense of humor and story - the viewer is party to an open ended dialogue with each piece.  Shoults plays with our sense of things, makes us uncomfortable without us exactly knowing why -- at least at first. 

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