8 • ISSUE May 2013
Volume 19, No. 8
Fragments AMY FAGGARD, BRINGS VISION AMY FAGGARD’S ENTIRE is in fragments in her art, but her vision is whole. The 2012 winner of The Art Studio, Inc. Member Jurored Art Exhibition, or TASIMJAE, will open her solo show, “0913,” May 4, at The Art Studio, Inc. The show chronicles Faggard’s journey, from 2009 to 2013, while obtaining her master’s degree in art from Lamar University. The pieces range from a series of boots, self-portraits, a series of her hands, to her thesis, titled, “Fragmented Pieces.” “It is a discovery of myself and things around me,” she said. The first-grade teacher at Blanchette Elementary in Beaumont, said she can’t remember a time when she didn’t paint. “There hasn’t been a week I haven’t painted since I was about 12,” she said, “I can’t imagine not ever painting.” Faggard said that, of the pieces in the exhibition, the hand images are her favorites. “It started out with a horizontal hand holding a paintbrush,” she said. “I left the wrist kind of broken on each one, almost like a statue. The next one is the hand painting— that hand holding the paintbrush. “The third one is my hand, drawing the hand painting the hand. “I guess I like them so much because it’s so much a part of me. What would I do without my hands? I use them for everything. About a year after I painted the hands, I had to go to the doctor because my wrist started hurting. I’m wondering if I created that scenario — painting them with broken wrists and then that happened.” Faggard’s husband, Albert, is an adjunct art professor at Lamar State College-Port Arthur. “It’s so nice to be married to someStory by Kristen Stuck
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