Eleanor Davy Carmack Portraits, Now – March 1
Painters, photographers, sculptors and other visual artists are kind of like the people who win the technical Oscars at the Academy Awards. You know their work, but you probably don't have a clue what they look like. Longtime artist Eleanor Davy Carmack wants to remedy this by introducing you to a few of her "behind-the-canvas" friends in the exhibit Portraits of Tulsa Artists and Their Art.
"My approach to a portrait is that the eyes tell all," Carmack says. In this series, she painted each portrait around a photograph of the subject's eyes, creating the illusion of a mask on the face. Next to each portrait will be a work created by that artist. Those works will be for sale, but the portraits will not. Participating artists include, Mazen Abufadil, Kristy Lewis Andrew, Kevin Byrne, Ron Fleming, Mark Lewis, Nathan Opp, Byron Shen, Laurie Spencer, Linda Stilley and Steve Tomlin.
Carmack holds a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Graphic Design from the University of Tulsa. For 35 years she taught art at Holland Hall, serving as head of the school's visual arts department and coordinator of its Holliman Gallery. Her work is in the collections of Philbrook Museum of Art, the University of Tulsa, Bank of Oklahoma and other corporate and private collections in Tulsa and throughout the United States. She won the Grand Prize at Tulsa's 2008 Mayfest Invitational.
The PAC Gallery, located at 3rd and Cincinnati, is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and during Chapman Music Hall events. Gallery admission is free. The Tulsa Performing Arts Center is a department of the City of Tulsa. Kristy Lewis Andrew stands next to her portrait by Eleanor Davy Carmack Mark Lewis and his portrait by Eleanor Davy Carmack