“Byrds” of a feather, flock together . and show paintings.
Cameron and Jennifer Jones Byrd are displaying paintings in Slocumb Galleries from Nov. 18-27, with a reception to be held on Nov. 22 from 7-9 p.m.
Cameron Byrd is a candidate for the bachelor’s of fine arts in painting. His paintings focus on a reoccurring theme in his work: tools.
“Tools are subjects which I keep coming back to in paintings and drawings,” he said. “There is just something about the shape and exact mechanical nature that I can’t break free from.”
The works are executed with a variety of materials ranging from watercolor, ink and silverpoint.
Jennifer Jones Byrd, also a bachelor’s of fine arts in painting student, focuses her paintings on female sexuality. “My current body of work,” Jones Byrd said, “embodies a sexual awakening, a manifestation of the validity of beauty and sensuality that has evolved over the past year and a half in my life.”
“Female figures coupled with imagery that is stimulating and female in nature embellish ideas of female sexuality being celebrated as legitimate and visually pleasurable,” she said.
Her works give glimpses of the figure along with sensual imagery such as ripe fruits, lipsticks and chocolate.
The galleries, located in Ball Hall, are open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, call 439-5315.

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