SWEET DREAMS

September 14 - November 15, 2023

Sweet Dreams investigates contemporary surrealism, fantasy, and the universal human experience of dreaming. The show brings together the work of eight artists and one artistic duo to create an experience that is luscious, inviting, mysterious, and a little strange. The artwork featured in the exhibition stretches across disciplinary boundaries, with the creators using a variety of media to explore the surreal and the fantastical.

Altogether, the exhibition invites viewers to experience dreams as seen through the eyes of these very different artists—dreams informed by their various backgrounds, experiences, and locations. Their work comes to Bradbury Art Museum from Seattle and New York, from Chicago, from Norman, and from Cambridge. In return, BAM’s regional and campus audience are asked to come dream with them, experiencing the exhibition from all their different perspectives.

Artists included in the exhibition are Sarah Ann Banks, Amanda Besl, Cicely Carew, Kahn & Selesnick, Wesley Zakk Kramer, Morgan Nicolette, Peter Opheim, and Lana Stephens.

Exhibited concurrently with Sweet Dreams is Memento-Mori.

MEMENTO-MORI

September 14 - November 15, 2023

Memento-Mori is a solo exhibition of work by Little Rock-based sculptor Michael Warrick. It features narrative sculptural portraits exploring themes of transformation, angst, meditation, mentorship, identity, death, and memory as the key to understanding who we are and aspire to be. Warrick’s ideas about mentorship and its influence have been greatly shaped by his role as an educator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he taught for thirty-two years.

The artworks in Memento-Mori represent years of Warrick’s sculptural oeuvre, as well as his mastery over many different materials. He has created this body of work using aluminum, bronze, wood, porcelain, and Hydrocal—a multipurpose gypsum cement.

Click here to view the gallery handout for Michael Warrick.