Exhibitions

EMILY STOKES: TENDING TOWARD GRAZING

Gallery 121 (Belmont University) / 1900 Belmont Blvd. September 24, 2018 - October 25, 2018

Emily Stokes

Emily Stokes is an artist-educator living in a largely Reformed pocket of Iowa. Her work addresses narrative and recurrent iconography to investigate the rural vernacular culture that shapes our country's identity. Stokes uses symbols, such as haystacks or lambs, to tell the stories of a landscape that is faced with political, religious, and demographic shifts, but also resourceful in its response. This exhibition includes sculptural and two-dimensional prints that have been mounted onto shaped wood, as well as imagery that meshes acrylic painting with digital imaging.