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The drawings and paintings of Carolyn Cárdenas will be on exhibit until Dec. 10 at the OSU Museum of Art. 

Cárdenas' exhibit "Small Worlds" displays the world from a very miniature sense, but with great detail. 

The drawings and paintings of Carolyn Cárdenas will be on exhibit until Dec. 10 at the OSU Museum of Art. 

Cárdenas' exhibit "Small Worlds" displays the world from a very miniature sense, but with great detail. 

Issues of “gender, age, violence, and beauty” (Ross, 2022) are the subjects of artist Carolyn Cȧrdenas’ work. 

The OSU Museum of Art (MOA) will be exhibiting the drawings and paintings of Cȧrdenas until Dec 10. This collection is filled with intricate art, highlighting a wide variety of cultural aspects, depicting life, women, and childhood with a brush and a mixture of egg yolk and pigment. 

Cȧrdenas is unique from other artists in her use of egg/oil tempera, rather that other traditional mediums such as oil or acrylic paint. Beginning with a simple mixture of egg yolk and black pigment, she builds her foundation, followed by layers of colored pigment to bring life to the image. Cȧrdenas uses small detail brushes to add intensive detail to every aspect of her work, depicting each individual blade of grass, each bristle on a broom, and each page in a book. No matter how distant an object is in the perspective of the painting, it is created with great detail. 

Over the past 30 years, Carolyn Cȧrdenas has been working on an artwork that will “only be done when I’m dead”. Her piece,  "West of Eden," is to be bigger than her. It is a three part painting, made up of all of Cȧrdenas’ favorite styles and depictions. With room to spare across her canvases, she continues to add new details and images as time progresses, along with her artistic style. 

The OSU Museum of Art is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Museum hosts many other exhibits, including “Contradictions” by Bobby Ross and artwork from the George R. Kravis II Collection. Along with exhibits, the Museum also hosts many events throughout the semester. On Oct. 1 beginning at 1:30 p.m., the MOA will be hosting “Veni, Vidi, Scripsi: I Came, I Saw, I Wrote!”, an open mic event where the public is given the opportunity to share short stories, poetry, songs, and any art with their community. For more information on all events and exhibits, visit museum.okstate.edu .