Arabesque: The Art of Stephanie Pogue

Opening Reception: October 16, 2008, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Curated by the Center’s Curator-in-Residence Dr. Adrienne Childs, the exhibition will examine Pogue’s artistry from the 1970’s to the 1990’s.  Pogue mastered the technique of color viscosity etching through which she created images with, multidimensional surfaces in vivid colors. Often highly decorative, her work reflects her interest in nature, spirituality and Eastern themes and motifs. Throughout her career as an artist she revisited the theme of the female body as universal and particular. Her work intersects with the Pattern and Decoration as well as the feminist art movements in American art of the 1970s and postmodernist sensibilities in the 1990s.

Stephanie Pogue Untitled (yellow circle), 1968 Color Viscosity Etching	Stephanie Pogue Jonah in the Whale, 1972 Color Viscosity Etching and Collagraph	Stephanie Pogue Cabbages, 1975. Woodcut
Stephanie Pogue Waiting, 1978 Color Viscosity Etching	Stephanie Pogue Aaron's Meadow, 1977 Color Viscosity Etching	Stephanie Pogue Arabesque, 1977  Color viscosity Etching
	Installation Views

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Center collaborated with Art Enables, a Washington, DC, arts-entrepreneurial program for adults with developmental and/or mental disabilities.  The Art Enables’ artists created works inspired by the art of Stephanie Pogue. Ten works are exhibited at the Driskell Center.

For more information about Art Enables please visit:

www.art-enables.org

Raymond Lewis Watercolor, colored pencil, Sharpie marker Vanessa Monroe Sharpie marker on wood Michael Schaff Oil-based markers   Images from the Opening

Gallery Interior	Art Enables Display	Gallery Interior

Dr. James F. Harris, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities	Dr. William Pogue	Pogue Family

	Professor Patrick Craig, acting Chair of the Department of Art, with Ashley McClenon. Winner of The Stephanie E. Pogue Memorial Award