ELLISVILLE – A variety of Paulette Dove’s artwork, featuring rabbit heads on human bodies will be on display at the Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery on the Jones College Campus in Ellisville, through December 2. The show, “Paintings by Paulette Dove” is a collection of stories and the decisions people make. This art exhibit is open to the public free of charge. The JC Art Department will be hosting an “Art Talk” with Dove on Wednesday, November 16, at 1:30 p.m. in the Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery.
Dove’s preferences for creating her artwork include painting in oils, mixed media and clay. However, the rabbit figures and “opportunities” are themes found in all of her artwork currently on display.
“My paintings tell stories that make people question their purpose. An image is not only captured but it also challenges the viewer to seek out an understanding of the painting,” said Dove. “I use rabbit heads on human bodies with red balls as a metaphor placed indiscreetly in the paintings. It’s my way of presenting stories about people and their decisions with the red balls representing ‘opportunities.’”
Dove is currently working from her Side Door Studio in Biloxi. Her work is also on display at the Biloxi Visitors Center, the South Mississippi Art League at the Biloxi Greenhouse, and The Treehouse Gallery in Oxford.
The Biloxi native earned her B.F.A. and M.Ed. from The Mississippi University for Women and William Carey College. Throughout her 30 years as an educator, she has taught in Mississippi and West Virginia, as well as at Louisiana Tech University, Savanna School of Art, and Bascom Center for Visual Arts in North Carolina. Also, she has served as an educator at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.
For more information about the JC art show or to arrange a visit to the gallery
call 601-477-8401. The Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m., and by appointment only on Wednesdays. The gallery is closed during the holidays. If you want to know more about the Jones College Art Department, go to the JC Art Department’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/JCJCFineArts/ and on Instagram @artatjonescollege.