
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 4, 1995                   TAG: 9504040080
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                  LENGTH: Short

PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES IN PULASKI EXHIBIT

Watercolors and sculpture by Dean Carter, former head of the Art Department at Virginia Tech, will be on display at the Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley throughout April.

The sculpted figures are striking in their recreation of the human form. "Some people wish I weren't always quite so accurate," Carter has said.

"But after standing with these forms for only a short time," said Fine Arts Center Director Michael Dowell, "one is struck by the faces, which are both pensive and sublime. Suddenly you want to talk to them, to tell them your woes in hopes that they can help you reach the inner peace they possess, to be as free and unfettered as they."

Art critics have praised Carter's sculpture for its straightforwardness. His subject manner has been likened to late Germanic medieval art with some shocking, and therefore memorable, messages.

Carter's sculpture can be found in collections throughout the world. He has worked in bronze, wood, stone and plaster.

In addition to examples of his work in those materials, the center will exhibit his watercolors as well. "These contain all the depth and charge of his three-dimensional works," Dowell said.

The center is at 21 W. Main St.

by CNB