Museum of Mystery: A thirty-year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies

Museum of Mystery: A Thirty-year Bannerline of Paintings by Glen C. Davies opens on Monday, October 5. The reception for this show will be on Thursday, October 15, 6-8pm with a Gallery Talk given by Mr. Davies at 7pm.  Music will be provided by The Parkland College Guitar Ensemble.  An additional Artist Lecture will be given on November 3, at 1pm in room D244.

Highly influenced by his experience of traveling with circuses and carnivals in the 1970s, Mr. Davies' current retrospective focuses on his series of Bannerline paintings. "Bannerline" refers to the style of artwork influenced by the special form of advertising in which banners are hung on clothesline that can be easily put up and taken down for a traveling show. This artistic style has allowed Mr. Davies to express his mysterious narratives through a personal visual language. In his response to the loose canvas format, he brings to mind signage commonly associated with carnival attractions, fraternal lodge rituals, and medieval religious pilgrimages; the artist thus relates life experience as a moral drama, played out in a public forum.