With a more progressive sound on From Dayton With Love, Morella's Forest gives every indication they are a band that will be around for a few more albums. The Asbury Art Gallery kicked off its 1998-99 academic year with the opening of Mixed Media by Libby Barnes. Barnes recently completed degree work for her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky. She and her husband own The Alternative Jewelry Shop in Nicholasville. Works currently on display in the Asbury Art Gallery iclude Jesus, Jesus, a 1993 work, Wheel of Fortune, a work from 1997, and Recovery Bags, which includes numerous small items in a range from clay pieces to old silverware to buttons and clothespins, plastic and copper wire.
Mixed media is the substance of the display with works varying in shapes, color and size.
The exhibit is contemporary in the sense that it goes beyond the older methods of using just one form of media. She has much control of the media she is using. As part of her artist's statement, Barnes says her art is a journey of self-evaluation and a process. It is an art of investigations and mixed meditations. They changed my relationship with God and my art.