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created a 400-pound drum by pouring seven bags of Quikcrete into a cardboard PRINTMAKER tube used for footings. He rolls his prints out on his basement floor.) Neal Harrington, 40, and his wife, When you go to the 2014 Delta, you’ll Tammy, “like a couple of geniuses,” he said, got the same graduate degrees — in see another Harrington, the 32-by-24-inch art, from Wichita State University in Kanwoodcut and India ink wash “Delta Orasas — but lucked out. Neither had to give cle.” The oracle is a nude woman risup art to maintain the marriage: Arkaning from a fiery still; the bootlegger has sas colleges had a place for both. He’s at been knocked back by the vision. Nudes, Arkansas Tech and she’s at stunned men — is this what University of the Ozarks. Warren Criswell’s work Neal Harrington is a printwould look like if he took maker, using both linoleum to making woodcuts? “He’s and woodcuts, and his style a hero of mine,” Harrington is exaggerated and linear, said, if not a muse, and Harjumping off from graphic art rington said he’s careful not into fine art. As an underto look at his stuff, which he graduate, he wanted to do described as “a lot of ladies doing supernatural” things. cartoons, which he said was a “dirty word” when he (Harrington and Criswell SELF-PORTRAIT went to college. “It was kind are friends and fellow memof a scarlet letter.” You can bers of the Arkansas Printstill see influences of R Crumb in his narmaking Society.) Harrington’s work can rative series, such as his “Hard Working be played to music — American roots, Man” and “Bootlegger Series.” If you went Preservation Hall jazz, bluegrass, murto the 2013 Delta Exhibition at the Arkander ballads. “I want to bring this visually sas Arts Center, you saw a work from the to people,” Harrington said, by portraying Bootlegger series, “Snake Shaker’s Shack,” “the human condition — just being alive, and two of what he calls his “giant naked the love and hate in those songs, jealousy, ladies.” (“The Abduction of Europa” is drinking, fornicatin’ — I want my art to 89 by 48 inches. Like Delita Martin, Harbe a visual representation of the music.” rington has to improvise to work big: He Cantrell Gallery represents Harrington.
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