Two local artists opened their exhibit with larger than life works at Mattress Max in Vienna Saturday night.

Rush Whitacre of Beverly constructed this Venus de Milo sculpture out of 800 rolls of toilet paper and painted this image of the life cycle of a rose.

John Crum of Noble County is also displaying paintings and drawings here.

"I started a series of paintings about shadows so I started just walking around taking pictures of different designs that I found- mostly walls," said Crum who is currently a senior majoring in fine arts and art education at Ashland University.

Rush Whitacre is a senior at Ohio University majoring in painting and fine arts who said "I have these new works I'm doing at Ohio University. They're dolls that are going to become drawing machines because of the graphite are going to be in the moving parts."

Whitacre used dow rods to make the arms and legs. He chose to make 101 dolls.

He said since they're machines and he can animate them they are fittingly called 101 dow-mations.

The exhibit will be up through February.