Talking about Ken Addington and his work

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Artist Ken Addington of Eureka Springs died Oct. 7. To commemorate his talent and prolific work there will be a showing and sale of Ken’s multi-media art.

The three-day event at MainStage at 67 N. Main starts with an opening reception Friday, Nov. 15 from 4 to 6 p.m.  The gallery opens at noon that day and will also be open Saturday from noon till 6.

A celebration of Ken’s life and art will close the exhibition on Sunday, with doors opening at noon, a reception catered by Jane Tucker at 1 and conversations about art and Ken’s work at 2.

Admirers of Ken’s work can purchase a piece at bargain prices, per Ken’s wish to make his art more available to local collectors. Buyers will be limited to one piece a day. To ensure more folks have a chance to see the collection, it is asked that purchased artwork be picked up at the end of the exhibit.

Ken studied at the Memphis Academy of Art, the University of Southern Mississippi Art & Theatre, Undergraduate, Mastered by Charles Hawthorne and William Merritt Chase, and studied with famed German artist, Henry Hensche, Master, at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Mass.,, where his love of portraiture and plein air painting took its root. Ken was a well-known and respected artist who found success in Eureka Springs, moving here in the early 1970s.

Pictured is “Hank Like Me” a 1984 charcoal and pastel, self-portrait