Art normally seen in the homes of several Waco art collectors will hang on Art Center Waco’s gallery walls for the next few weeks, offering examples of their tastes in contemporary and Waco art. “Art Tapas,” named after the small-portioned dishes and appetizers often found at Spanish bars and restaurants, draws from seven private art collections in Waco. ACW board member and artist Andrea La Valleur-Purvis has both her creations and pieces from her personal collection in the show.
The exhibit’s collection from collectors doesn’t fit into neat categories, although most is contemporary, colorful and small- to medium-sized work. “There isn’t (a common theme), and that is the beauty of it,” she said. “The exhibit gives us an opportunity to see the diversity that inspires their collecting.
” The approximately 30 works, mostly prints and paintings, include high-quality reproductions of works by Pablo Picasso (from his “Circus” series), Marc Chagall (“Candlestick”) and Willem de Kooning (“New York”), but Texas and Waco artists predominate. Painter Winter Rusiloski’s “Ethereal Passage” represents the artist’s characteristic abstract style. Waco artist Cade Kegerreis' "Riding West.
" Among the Waco painters represented in the show are Cade Kegerreis (“Riding West”), John Storm (“Big Macaroni”) and Baylor University painting professor Winter Rusiloski (“Ethereal Passage,” an abstract painting that’s the exhibit’s largest work). Thos.
