SOLO EXHIBITION OPENS AT CATHERINE HICKMAN THEATER

Mixed media artist, Rose Marie Prins’ show opens February 3.

The exhibition, entitled War and Peace and The Height in Between, runs from Friday, February 3 to March 12 at the Catherine Hickman Theater, 5501 27th Avenue South in Gulfport. The artist’s reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. and will feature live music by Tracy and the Doctors of Thinkology and a poetry reading of A War Far and Near, a poem by American poet, Timothy Houghton whose fifth book, The Height in Between was published this month by Orchises Press in Washington, D.C. 

Of the nonrepresentational paintings, drawings and sculpture in the exhibition, most of which were created in 2011 and 2012, Prins states, “In this body of work I have incorporated soil and dried plants from Civil War areas of Virginia and Georgia. However, the war I evoke is not literal but an internal battle that is part of the process of human actualization.” Rose Marie Prins has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has taught painting in Eckerd College’s Program for Experienced Learners and at the Morean Arts Center for over a decade.

The theater gallery will be open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and during performances. For more information contact the Catherine Hickman Theater at 727-893-1070 or City of Imagination at 727-344-5443.