Delectable | Special Opening Reception

Dalton Gallery | Exhibition Dates May 1 - June 14, 2015

Reduce your stress and relieve the negative effects of your daily life at a special opening reception on Friday, May 1, 6 PM, at the Center for the Arts. Join in the conversation during a panel discussion with the artists, Malewska and Pafford, hosted by Friday Arts Project’s Executive Director Kirk Irwin. The Fat Face Band from Charlotte, NC will keep the energy high with their eclectic blend of New Orleans Jazz, polka and Mariachi music. Sample savory treats by Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken, Culina and sweet treats that feature the smoky flavors of bacon.

Tickets: $10-$15

RECEPTION SPECIAL | 20% discount on artwork - available only during the reception on May 1.

Brent Pafford (Winthrop University, Clemson University) seeks to create a body of work that raises questions surrounding an object’s history, meaning, and potency in daily life by reproducing everyday utensils and tools used daily in the kitchen from porcelain. In doing this, the objects are exalted, preserving moments of use in time and space. The tool becomes idiosyncratic, loses practicality, and becomes a reference to the effort, labor and intended task for which the object was designed.

Monika Malewska’s (University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Manitoba) works combine the formal elegance of design with the recognizable banality of bacon, along with the surreal and absurd accompaniment of other decorative elements such as flowers, bees, butterflies, and fruits. The arrangements are playful and whimsical in a rococo fashion, but also grotesque. Her work draws subtle parallels between a decadence and frivolity evident in certain historical genres and our contemporary consumer culture.

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