NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - The new Argenta Gallery's opening exhibit will feature works by acclaimed Northwest Arkansas artist George Dombek. The gallery and exhibit open Friday, September 12, at 6 p.m. at 413A and 413B Main Street, downtown North Little Rock's Argenta Arts District.
A native Arkansan, George Dombek received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Master's of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of Arkansas and taught architecture at universities, in Arkansas, Ohio, Florida, Saudi Arabia and Italy.
His work has been exhibited in over 600 private, corporate and museum collections and more than 100 exhibitions including the Arkansas Arts Center, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Birmingham Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, Butler Institute of American Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Among his more than 80 awards are recognition from the Southern Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, the Florida Arts Fellowship,the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
The Dombek show will run Sept. 12 through Oct. 1 with gallery proceeds to benefit the Art Connection. Art Connection is a non-profit program for under resourced youth to achieve higher education, citizen leadership, and self-sufficiency through paid employment in the creative economy.
The Argenta Gallery will be a stop in the ACANSA Arts Festival Gallery Hop Sept. 25, when one wall will be hung with photographs by Heber Springs iconoclast Disfarmer; that exhibit will coincide with the Argenta Theater's production of Werner Trieschmann's play "Disfarmer."
Work by Ray Wittenberg will follow the Dombek show, from Oct. 16-Nov. 1.
