Cura! Cura! Cura!

The Bath House Cultural Center presents Cura! Cura! Cura!, an exhibition featuring mixed media artwork by eight artists from the DFW area, August 25-September 29, 2012. An opening reception with the artists will be held on Saturday, August 25, from 7 to 9 PM. Both the exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Cura! Cura! Cura! marks the kick-off of the new Curate. Collaborate annual exhibition series, which pairs up two curators, who, through a creative partnership, bring together innovative artists, stimulating ideas, and refreshing artistic visions. DallasArtsRevue.com publisher, photographer and art critic J R Compton and exhibiting artist, scenic artist and former art professor Terry Hays curated this first show.

The show brings together eight of North Central Texas' most intriguing, young, medium- bending visual artists into a startling mix of divergent art forms, ideas and installation styles. Artists include Kim Alexander, Ashley Bryan, Bernardo Cantu, Sam England, Tim Harding, Sedrick Huckaby, Diane Sikes and Sunny Sliger.

The title of the exhibition comes from the at-first glib subject line for many of the more than five hundred emails between the curators, so far. In Latin, the word cura means "to know," and in mutual discussions and studio visits, the collaborating curators have learned intriguing facts about the remarkable artists they have selected.

Pictured: "The Serpent's Reach" is mixed media artwork by Sam England.