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"Whiskey, Wine and
Women: Paintings of the Delta Blues
Masters," features works by artist
Karen Hollowell. Her paintings have
an unusual story behind their creation.
After learning that some of her loved
ones were terminally ill, the artist
retreated to her studio where she cranked
up her favorite blues music and began
painting tenaciously. A longtime blues
fan born in
Detroit, she suddenly connected to
the music in new and deeper ways. When
the paint finally dried, she had 10
portraits of Willie Dixon, B.B. King,
Big Joe Williams, Son House, Lightning
Hopkins and other Delta blues legends
hanging on her studio walls.
"I feel like my canvases are
going to their rightful home in the
Mississippi Delta -- where the blues
began," says Vancouver-based
Hollowell.
"Whiskey, Wine and Women: Paintings
of the Delta Blues Masters" is
Hollowell's first North American
museum show.
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