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Comics Journal #69

December 1981

Cover art by Daniel Coston

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Sara Mearns and Marcelo Gomes, New Adventures, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, October 2017. © Daniel Coston.

Gomes and Mearns looked good together, like a great onscreen couple. They had sizzle, and could communicate a melting romance but also, when called for, disappointment, conflict, and sexual need.

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📷: Daniel Coston

August 29, 2020

Charlotte Motor Speedway

Avett Brothers Drive-in Concert

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Sara Mearns and Marcelo Gomes, New Adventures, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, October 2017. © Daniel Coston.

Sara Mearns was, in her own way, an even bigger surprise. She is less experienced than Gomes in taking on outside projects, and the repertory of her home company, with its focus on Balanchine, calls for much less acting. And yet she proved perfectly able to emote, to hold a scene not only with her dancing but also with her posture and face. Mearns is no waif; she actually looks like a person onstage, and that helped her characterization as well. She’s dramatic, but she can be funny and tender and sly as well.

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The Avetts And Beyond: Episode 89 with Music Photographer Daniel Coston

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Avett photography by Daniel Coston via Matthew Morrison

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March 11 – May 7: Daniel Coston

The opening night reception for BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPHS, an exhibit of paintings by Arkansas artist, Daniel Coston, will be on Friday, March 11, 6-8:00. Please join us! It will be a great opportunity to visit with the artist while viewing his works. If you can’t make it that evening, the show will continue through May 7.

Artist Statement, BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPHS

“Every year I take a lot of reference snapshots of Arkansas that I add to an ever-growing archive. Many of the images are useless but a few remind me of things I saw as a kid in Southeastern Arkansas. Some even seem iconic to me, expressing something about the geography we call home.

So I work on these pictures...drawing the scenes until I think I can do something worthwhile. These photos evoke memories in me. I want to bring these memories back. At times, the memories could be about the sunlight on a particular day...the sky in December...the thunderheads boiling up over a field.

I call this show BEYOND THE PHOTOGRAPHS because the ideas for most paintings come from a snapshot. As I work up the painting, I have to expand the visual information in order to make it work. One thing I almost always do is to look into the shadows so I can understand what is hidden and bring those things into view. The photos are what I start with but they are not what I finish with.

I intentionally take snapshots because I don’t want to copy a wonderfully detailed photo. My goal is to take the visual information and build it up into the world I remember seeing last year or even when I was just a kid.”

Daniel Coston is a native of Monticello, Arkansas. He completed his BA in Art from Harding University in 1968. He predominantly paints with acrylic, but his style is influenced by Eakins, Hopper, and Wyeth. Coston has had solo shows at Cantrell Gallery (Little Rock) and Aerie Art (Rehoboth Beach, DE). His paintings are in numerous public and private collections and have been included in the Arkansas Arts Center’s Delta Exhibition. He lives and works in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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