This year’s 51st Delta Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center will close November 16. The exhibit surveys the recent activity of artists throughout the Mississippi Delta region, basically all the states sharing a border with Arkansas. The show is always exciting and typically includes a wide variety of media. This year is no different with drawings, prints, photographs, neon, collage, basketry, embroidery floss among other mixed media and found objects, crocheting, a variety of painting and small to modestly sized sculpture.
The work of Memphis artist, Niki Johnson, is rather compelling since it is the only cross-stitched work framed in pie pans dealing with such timely subject matter as the election in the exhibit. There are many other works to see and, if you go, don’t miss Neal Harrington’s wood cut, Neptune’s Dilemma, and Meredith Beau’s photo, CONSUME!
above: Niki Johnson, The Great American Bake-Off, embroidery floss and bake-ware, three 9” rounds, 2008, detail below.
