Exhibit: Alex Stock followed by Film: The Blood of a Poet

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Film starts at 8:30p
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Art Exhibit: the artwork of Alex Stock followed by Film: The Blood of a Poet by Jean Cocteau

Alex Stock is a self-taught, multi-media artist with a biology Master’s from the University of North Texas. Their work focuses on the often stifling dynamics inherent in social conflicts from the macabre lens of the natural world and its parallels in animalistic predator and prey relations. Alex works in many different mediums ranging from illustration to interactive artwork and large scale sculpture. http://alexstockart.com

Artist Statement for Alex Stock:
My art practice explores the macabre nature of the biological world. My work uses bright and pastel colored depictions of animalistic, and sometimes violent imagery. My work is influenced by my scientific and ecological background and biology Master’s from the University of North Texas. I use many different mediums in my work including anything from large scale sculpture to drawing and painting.

FILM starts at 8:30p
16mm screening
The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d’un poète)
On loan from the G. William Jones Film and Video collection at Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX

“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor and the relationship between art and dreams. One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3scPy9ohKDc

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