El Centro College presenting JFK - 45 Years On - An Invitation to Consider

by PegNews wire

H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College in Dallas is proud to present JFK – 45 Years On – An Invitation to Consider, featuring work by the following artists: David M. Bacon, Janet Chaffe, Candice Chase, Kevin Curry, Val Curry, Andy Don Emmons II, Randall Garrett, Wayne Gilbert, Loretta Gonzales, Paul Greco, David Herman Jr., Benito Huerta, Marian Lefeld, Kathy Lovas, Carol McKay, Kelly Moran, Celia Munoz, Harmony Padget, Patty Rooney, Kurly Wells (aka weasel boy, PsychoTex).

The above artists were invited to create one work dealing with the impact, impressions, and feelings associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963. This will be the 45th year since that event took place and the H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery at El Centro College is located a block and half east of where this event took place. It is therefore fitting to have an exhibition examining this event that not only changed American but world history. What would America and the world be like if that event had not occurred or if President Kennedy had survived?

This was the first of many more assassinations of important social and political individuals, including President Kennedy’s brother, that took place during the tumultuous 60s. The Vietnam War was escalated, the country was literally being torn apart over civil rights, the war, and ideologies that were trying to hold the nation in the past instead moving forward to a hopefully better future. Not unlike the present, where we are currently grappling with another ineffective war, the every widening gap between the haves and have-nots, and another group of power elites dead set on the ideologies and policies of long outdated, tired structures and attitudes that have no relevance to the problems facing not only America but the entire planet.

Some of the artists had not been born and others may remember the day with vivid clarity, regardless, we have all inherited the results of this event. Their interpretations of this event is at the core of this invitational exhibition.

Works range from Traditional Media to Black Velvet Paintings, Collage, Digital Paintings, Digital Prints, Film, Installations, Mixed Media, Photography, and Unclaimed American Human Remains.

This exhibition is made possible by support in part from The H. Paxton Moore Memorial Art Fund. Promotional Support Provided in part by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, Deborah Marine, Director of Communications, http://www.jfk.org.

A reception will be held on Saturday, November 22, Noon – 2 pm., with a Gallery Talk at 12:30 pm., in the H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, located on the first floor of the Student and Technology building. The entrance is located at 801 Main Street at Lamar, Downtown Dallas.

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