Arkansas Arts Center presents Horizons Interrupted

Little Rock , Arkansas -- 22 December 2011

(LITTLE ROCK, AR) –The Arkansas Arts Center presents the exhibition Horizons

Interrupted on view January 13 – March 11, 2012, in the Sam Strauss, Sr. gallery.

Horizons Interrupted is the “Curator for a Day” Tabriz auction item purchased by Arkansas artist Norwood Creech of Lepanto, Ark. Curator for a Day allows the purchaser to work with Arts Center curatorial staff, select works from the permanent collection and title the show, creating a complete curatorial experience of creating an exhibition.

Creech thoughtfully selected a group of works in which the horizon line is a critical element of the composition. Creech finds that this element transfers to other genres, including still-life and abstraction. Whether high or low, for Creech the line in these works provides an important grounding spatial reference.

“As much as we may think we are viewing the true horizon, when we look out at a sunset, what we see is not the true horizon. The true horizon follows the contour of the earth and is the true horizon is beyond that which we can see before us,” says Creech.

“The true horizon is obscured and interrupted by all of the physical manifestations, from front to back, left to right, up and down, between us and it.”

The exhibit includes work by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Arthur Davies, Hayley Lever and more.

For more information, call 501-372-4000 or visit www.arkarts.com.

About Arkansas Arts Center :

GENERAL INFORMATION Contact: 501-372-4000 Location: Arkansas Arts Center – 9th and Commerce, Little Rock, AR 72202 Free Admission. Gallery Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday Closed Monday & Major Holidays Arkansas Arts Center programs are supported in part by: the City of Little Rock; Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.