FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas Student Art Gallery, is pleased to present a solo exhibition by local Fayetteville artist Nick Shoulders. Shoulders uses an array of materials from found objects to warped modeling to create a second reality for the viewer's experience.

Drawing inspiration from rural decay and the supernatural, Shoulders investigates the physical connections with haunted corners of this world. Through use of wood, bones, rusty aluminum cans, and crumbled rock, he combines these materials as tribute to a bygone reality that has degraded in its physical properties and memorable importance. Shoulders' work functions as a seam between the past and present, presenting decomposed sculptural offerings to embody characteristics of things both eerie and unseen. The gallery, located at 1 East Center on the downtown Fayetteville square, will open to the public on Thursday, June 4, with a reception celebrating Nick Shoulders work from 6-8 p.m. The exhibition will be on display until Aug. 6 with open gallery hours to be determined. Additionally, Shoulders' work will be available for viewing via window display in addition to the open gallery hours.

Native to the Arkansas hills, Nick Shoulders is influenced daily by the rust and rocks that keep him company. In addition to creating installation works, Shoulders is widely involved with designing illustrations for places such as Fossil Cove, Smoke & Barrel, and Gnarkansas Skateboards. In other avenues of his work, Shoulders makes noise for Ghost Hollers, Dumptruck Boyz and Thunderlizards as he continues to stay active throughout the Fayetteville area.

The sUgAR gallery is an interdepartmental exhibition space featuring the visual research of students, faculty, and visiting lecturers from the Department of Art and Fay Jones School of Architecture representing the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design. sUgAR is made possible by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Art, the Fay Jones School of Architecture, and the University of Arkansas' Facilities Management.