The Beautifully Strange World of Wayne Sides
The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present 鈥淭he Beautifully Strange World of Wayne Sides鈥�. Artist and UNA Professor Emeritus, Wayne Sides, describes this exhibition as 鈥渢hree shows in one. It鈥檚 a little bit of a strange retrospective in the sense that it borrows work from different periods of my career, 3D and 2D, but also includes new work too.鈥�
In the artists words, 鈥淢uch of the work hasn鈥檛 been shown in this state or this country and some, not at all. What鈥檚 never been seen before has a lot to do with what I鈥檝e been creating since I was a child. It鈥檚 the work that basically saved me, grounded me, and allowed me to push forward in my life and eventually, my career.鈥�
鈥淚t served as a type of substitute for my inability to comprehend written language, otherwise known as dyslexia. As a child growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, the words, 鈥榣earning disability鈥� was never a part of the lexicon of the south and was something I didn鈥檛 learn until I was an adult. [鈥 I never had any art classes until I was an adult, but it was a gift that was given to me, and I was lucky to recognize it.鈥�
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The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts is pleased to present 鈥淭he Beautifully Strange World of Wayne Sides鈥�. Artist and UNA Professor Emeritus, Wayne Sides, describes this exhibition as 鈥渢hree shows in one. It鈥檚 a little bit of a strange retrospective in the sense that it borrows work from different periods of my career, 3D and 2D, but also includes new work too.鈥�
In the artists words, 鈥淢uch of the work hasn鈥檛 been shown in this state or this country and some, not at all. What鈥檚 never been seen before has a lot to do with what I鈥檝e been creating since I was a child. It鈥檚 the work that basically saved me, grounded me, and allowed me to push forward in my life and eventually, my career.鈥�
鈥淚t served as a type of substitute for my inability to comprehend written language, otherwise known as dyslexia. As a child growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, the words, 鈥榣earning disability鈥� was never a part of the lexicon of the south and was something I didn鈥檛 learn until I was an adult. [鈥 I never had any art classes until I was an adult, but it was a gift that was given to me, and I was lucky to recognize it.鈥�
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