{"id":4290,"date":"2017-04-01T22:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:38:29","slug":"local-artist-charles-everett-highlights-dsc-fine-arts-gallery-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/local-artist-charles-everett-highlights-dsc-fine-arts-gallery-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Artist Charles Everett highlights DSC Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Lavris
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Daytona State\u2019s Fine Arts Gallery welcomed local artist Charles Everett on March 2 for the opening reception of its exhibition which closed at the end of March. It was the first of what art instructors hope will be an ongoing celebration of local arts and artists in the gallery.
\n Everett\u2019s works are created using a wide variety of mediums and his subjects vary from portraits to abstract.<\/p>\n

The main focus of the gallery was Everett\u2019s mugshot series of paintings. The gallery lighting and art arrangement was set in such a way to give a feeling of isolation that drew attention to the paintings, which were housed in wooden boxes to simulate a prison cell.<\/p>\n

Everett has an intriguing reason for choosing mugshots as his subjects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mugshots really had started out as kind of a solution to a problem that I had, which was that I love to paint portraits and wanted to have an opportunity to paint a lot of different types of people, but didn\u2019t really want to paint my family. I didn\u2019t have time for modeling, I work full time,\u201d said Everett, whose day job is Director of Academic Effectiveness at Full Sail University in Winter Park.<\/p>\n

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Charles Everett presents his art pieces to visitors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt occurred to me that mugshots might be a great opportunity just to find faces to paint. I had no other real motivation aside from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other pieces in the gallery included paintings of Everett\u2019s family, sourced from snapshots discovered on his cell phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cCamera Snapshots paint something that means significance,\u201d said Everett. \u201cIntimate and informal moments say a lot about a time and place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everett spent time discussing art with the audience, including members of the Studio Rats students art club, who helped to set up the exhibit. At the end of the evening, Everett gave an hour-long group presentation discussing the history of his art and career.<\/p>\n

Viktoryia McGrath, an adjunct professor in the Studio Arts Department, says the process for finding work for the exhibits involves a call for artists. \u201cDifferent artists will apply to the call for artists and then we have the selection process with our fine arts faculty,\u201d said McGrath.<\/p>\n

The fine arts galleries are free and open to the public and occur on a monthly basis in building 520.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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