A Butler County Community College graduate has created an art exhibit to raise awareness of violence against women.
Nick Kahle created a 15-work public exhibit, his first, called “Solace in the Abstract,” which opens Aug. 26 at the Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery on BC3’s main campus.
The 27-year-old Clarion resident returned to his alma mater in April to create the centerpiece of the exhibit- “Societal Corruption of the Feminine.”
Kahle says he’s a survivor of abuse himself, and that the process of painting “is a release.” Once open, the show will run through Sept. 20.
“When I first started painting it, I did start to feel a lot of emotion on the heavier side of the spectrum,” Kahle said. “There was a point where I didn’t get depressed, but I felt the oppression of the topic. It started coming over me when I was painting it.”
He adds, “painting is just as much a release for me as it is in trying to bring a release to the service for someone else. During that time that I am creating, emotions inside of me from my past build up. And I start to get tension that I need to put down.”
The Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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