August 26, 2019
Art Mag: Playfully Profound
By Allyson Sutton.
Larger-than-life stuffed animals knit with vibrant hues like magenta and turquoise. Brightly-colored paintings depicting beloved cartoon characters like Popeye. A giant wool bear. An eight foot painting of a toy pirate ship. These are some of the works that will be on display in Lake City, South Carolina this fall; the wool creatures in a show called Animalia: Needle Felted Works by Ryan Lytle, and the toy paintings in a show titled Not All Fun and Games by Rafael Barros.
And while both exhibitions are filled with some sense of childlike wonder, there’s a deeper meaning at play.
“These exhibitions are fun to a certain degree,” explains ArtFields Executive Director Jamison Kerr. “But that’s not where it ends.”