Students display three-dimensional talents in NW exhibit
by Lauren Crider, reporter

    A room full of talent exhibited the work of three winners of the spring 2001 NW Campus Visual Arts show.

    Kikki Ford took first place in two-dimensional and honorable mention in three-dimensional categories. Lynn Arnold won second place and Lopa Dave won third place in the three-dimensional category. The three winners filled the NW visual arts gallery with about 30 pieces of art.

    Included in the show, running through Dec. 8, are paintings, monoprints, drawings and sculptures. Most are for sale, with prices up to $300.

    Ford has only recently been involved in art. She has a degree in occupational therapy, but intends to pursue art.

    She is showing almost 20 paintings, monoprints or drawings and one sculpture. She first took a monoprinting class at the Modern Art Museum and has continued art classes at TCC.

    Ford is exhibiting, among other pieces, a series of monoprints called Piano Quintet in E Flat Major.

    A concert she attended inspired her so much she said she could not get it out of her head and based this entire series on it.

    Ford does not have a favorite piece.

    “I don’t mean to sound egotistical, but I think they’re all good,” she said.

    Dave’s interest in art started much earlier.

    “I was always an art lover,” she said. “I did art in high school, took one class then got really interested.”

    Dave has a degree in engineering.

    “I’m absolutely technical, she said, but “I wanted to change.”

    Dave does not intend to pursue art outside of recreation.

    “I’m just doing it for fun,” she said.

    Dave’s favorite piece, Prabha, is of a woman leaning back in a difficult yoga position. She explained why she chose that subject.

    “I do yoga myself, and I’m hoping one day I can do that,” she said.

    Dave showed five pieces, all sculpture.

    “I do paint, but it’s very little,” she said.

    Dave suggested artists try many different mediums rather than settle on one too early.

    Arnold showed one painting, Copy of Picasso’s, and four sculptures. One sculpture, Picasso Chair, immediately draws attention with its large chair-like hand holding different Picasso-like pieces.

    Arnold’s first facial sculpture, Harvest Goddess, is also on display. Arnold said she used actual grape leaves to help mold the clay on part of the sculpture.

    She said the hardest part on this piece was the eyes. This is her first sculpture class, and she is self-taught in watercolor.

    “Mike’s really a great teacher,” she said of Michael Pavlovsky, NW art instructor.

    Since her mother is a sculptor, Arnold grew up around art. Now retired from Hewlett Packard, she sees a large contrast between her job and her fellow students’ technical jobs and their love of art.

    “It’s against our personality, but I work to make a living,” she said.

    Arnold has also recently become involved with art.

    “When you work, you don’t have time to explore your creative side,” she said.

    All three are enrolled in Pavlovsky’s sculpture class.

    Pavlovsky, an internationally known sculptor, has not only taught at TCC for 10 years, but also attended the NW Campus before getting his master’s in fine arts.

    Among his artistic honors, Pavlovsky’s sculpture was chosen for the Martin Luther King Center in Tennessee and the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens last summer.