Page 15 from Larkin's work "The Ugly Vision"

"Brute Prophecy," an art exhibition featuring 28 paintings and drawings by UNC Asheville senior and honors student Larkin Ford, will be on display until June 18 in UNC Asheville's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. The exhibition is a culmination of Larkin's work toward a bachelor of fine arts degree at UNC Asheville. In the spring, Ford completed an interdisciplinary undergraduate research project, the production of a graphic novella, the pages of which are also on display in the exhibition.

The Taylorsville-native's works depict a mythical post-apocalyptic life in rural North Carolina. Ford's vision, expressed through charcoal drawings, oil paintings and comic book pages, "explores connections between religious and pulp treatments of horror, violence and the grotesquely supernatural." The characters, some based on Alexander County residents, inhabit a brutal world partly inspired by collapsing buildings and old houses on Piney and Sugar Loaf mountains.

UNC Asheville's S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, located on the ground floor of Owen Hall, is open from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. weekdays. Admission is free. For more information, call UNC Asheville's Art Department at 828/251-6559.