Whimsical art exhibited in South show

   The Darker Side of Whimsy, an art exhibit in The Carillon Gallery on South Campus, offers an array of diversity in all the pieces.
   The exhibit includes works by Jon Fontenot, Bill Haveron and Allison Hester.
   Haveron used several mediums to complete his pieces.
   You’re Square shows an elongated man with a monkey face smoking a cigarette and playing a guitar, which is made out of wood covered in bottle caps.
   The top of the painting says “You’re Square,” and another area says “Dig It” and “Far Out.”
   This piece uses wood, plastic and paint and has a three-dimensional effect.
   Another of his pieces, Van Gogh Pole, is in an unusual shape of wood. At the top is printed 1853 Vincent Van Gogh 1890 and the quotation “But then they will hear me thunder ‘go to hell,’ and I shall say, you deserted me when I was in trouble, friend. I don’t know you, go away; you are standing in my light.”
   Underneath this quote are three items with smaller painted visions beside them.
   The board includes a bottle of Pepto Bismol and a painting of a graduate wrapped as a mummy.
   Next to the graduate is an Ex-lax advertisement including the box of Ex-lax.
   To the right of this is a bottle of Viagra 100mg and a small painting of a large woman smoking a cigarette, pointing at a man holding flowers and a gift with a star above him.
   The painting comes down into a shelf-type system that holds eight separate painted images, four on each side with a row of images in the middle.
   The images are painted on wooden shapes alternating between the shape of a house and the shape of Texas.
   The free show ends tomorrow in the Carillon Gallery in the Performing Arts Center. The gallery is open until 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday and until 5 p.m. Friday.