BLINN INSTRUCTOR TO DEBUT NEW BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM EXHIBIT

  

Blinn College Visual & Performing Arts instructor Doug Cason will showcase 10 paintings as part of Brenham Heritage Museum’s first art exhibit.

The exhibit, “F(r)actual Information,” opens Friday, April 3, with a free opening event at 6 p.m. The exhibit will run through May 2 in the New Munz Gallery.

Cason expects to eventually curate a more contemporary year-round exhibit.

“This is about bringing contemporary art to Brenham,” he said. “In this particular show, I’m taking ancient battles and overlap them with Civil War battles and presenting them to you as if it’s fact. But I never give you enough information to be certain what I’m putting forth to you is factual.”

Cason applies that concept through various media, including paintings, photographs and book manipulation, in which he blocks out the text of the book and creates an image on the cover to illustrate what he depicts to be the book’s central theme.

“I’ve always been interested in history,” Cason said. “As a kid I had two sets of encyclopedias. In one you’d find information that the other left out, or slightly different information in each one and I never understood that. So if there’s something I took interest in, I studied it quite extensively and it started to roll over into my artwork.”

Cason has held shows across the United States, and some of his work is held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

For more information, contact the Brenham Heritage Museum at info@brenhamheritagemuseum.org or 979-830-8445. Examples of Cason’s artwork can be seen at www.avisfrank.com.

Story Courtesy of Blinn College