New artwork by the 22 local artists at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts. The five year old gallery is owned and operated by 23 local artists and features painting, metal sculpture, photography, blown glass, kiln-formed glass, jewelry, turned wood, handcrafted furniture, pottery, mosaics and fiber arts. Winter hours: M-Sat 11-6, Sun 1-4. Opening Reception: February [...]
Two solo exhibitions, “Structure vs Spontaneity” (David Kessler) & “Reaction” (Juie Rattley), & a group show featuring the unique art of 22 artists from Artworks Gallery explore multiple connections through works in multiple mediums. Also on view, “Celebrating Rowan County’s Young Artists,” a rotating exhibition showcasing artwork from Salisbury-Rowan County’s public, independent, & home-schooled students. [...]
Opening Reception: February 17, 2012, 7:00-9:00pm. Featuring an indoor garden party, jazz combo, refreshments, cash bar, and admission to the main floor of the historic house. Contact: Sharyn Turner sturner@wfu.edu reynoldahouse.org
A new exhibition, You Can Have It All: A Group of One features selected works of contemporary artist Kenn Kotara. Kotara works in a variety of mediums and the exhibition will feature works on canvas, Mylar, suspended screen sculptures and ceramic sculpture. Contact: Kenn Kotara kenn@kotarastudio.com www.kotarastudio.com
Colorida Galleria de Arte (Colorida Art Gallery) in Lisbon, Portugal features North Carolina abstract artist, Karen Banker, in an international solo exhibit entitled, Karen Banker USA. Known for her vibrantly colored and mesmerizing paintings, the artist was selected for her use of saturated color and multiple layers of textures that culminate into passionate, emotionally driven, [...]
This juried exhibition features the work of Winthrop’s Fine Arts and Design undergraduate students. Our juror this year is Karen Ann Myers, the new Assistant Director at the Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, and formerly the Executive Director of the Redux Art Center, both in Charleston, S.C. The Galleries are open 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. The Galleries [...]
The exhibition Conjoined Opposites reflects Indrani’s thoughts on migration, identity, loss, memory and displacement. Her personal life’s journey from her native India to different geographical regions has made her aware of these issues. By combining two dimensional with three dimension and time-based media, color with absence of color; perfect forms of spheres/circles with deformed or [...]
Bekah Haslett, will be our Guest Artist for February/March. Bekah enjoys painting large, colorful works in oil. Her main focus is landscapes, flowers and oversized vegetables and fruits. She is a current Member of Wake Forest Area Artists. Opening Reception: February 10, 2012, 5:00-9:00pm. We hope you’ll join us for light refreshments and wine and view all the [...]
Featuring the work of Spencer Herr, Karl Mullen, Bruce New, Liz Sullivan, Lucy Hunnicutt, Kent Ambler, Stacy Lambert, and others. Small size creates an intimacy between an artist and media; a certain delicacy of brush or finger to clay.This concentration filters distraction and intensifies thought. The resulting artwork is packed with passion. American Folk’s focus [...]
Original series of LOVE poems by Robert Indiana. Robert Indiana (b. 1928) is an American pop artist known for his LOVE theme series of paintings, sculptures, and prints. The love theme and its many outgrowths got started in 1958 in a series of what Indiana calls “sculptural poems” when he first used the hyper-famous LOVE [...]
Flora comes from an idea of bringing the highest quality vase work and ceramics to Rock Hill just in time to surprise that special someone for Valentines Day. Plus, as an added perk, Up will also provide the “flora” for those patrons purchasing a vase during the opening reception. Both Jenni Brant and Jennifer Mecca [...]
Internationally acclaimed Texas-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images. This exhibition features new and selected works executed across a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, [...]
LIGHT Art+Design will celebrate their one-year anniversary with the opening of ILLUME. ILLUME will play on different facets of light and feature new work from principal LIGHT artists as well as newcomers to the gallery. Photographers Soleil Konkel, and UNC professor, Susan Harbage-Page, will have work in the show. Photography uses the chemical action of [...]
This exhibition features a selection of work from one of the newest acquisitions to the collection. The Artine & Teddy Artinian Self-Portrait Collection is a major collection of well over two hundred and fifty paintings, drawings, and mixed media work, which was originally gifted to the Appalachian Cultural Museum. The Turchin Center holds the Music [...]
The 9th annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPC) is a program of Appalachian’s Outdoor Programs in partnership with the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. The AMPC has become a prominent regional competition, attracting the work of amateur and professional photographers from across the country and allowing them the [...]
Fine artist and painter Mario Prisco has been painting professionally for more than six decades. Some of his recent paintings recall his early years growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930′s and 40′s. Mario’s work is influenced by his large, extended family of first-generation Americans and the Italian-Jewish neighborhood in which he was raised. His [...]
Artists Joana Wardell, Karen Simpson and Shug Lockett exhibit new works in acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. Opening Reception: February 04, 2012, 4:00-6:00pm. Contact: Karen Simpson kaceys@earthlink.net karencrandallsimpson.com
Featuring artists Debby Kline and Janet Garber. Regular gallery hours are 12:00-3:00pm, Monday – Saturday. Opening Reception: February 03, 2012, 4:00-6:00pm. Contact: Pam Griner artistleague@windstream.net www.artistleague.org
A juried photography exhibition featuring the work of CVA members. Cash awards will be given out at the opening reception. Opening Reception: February 03, 2012, 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Kristy Thomas kthomas@greensboroart.org www.greensboroart.org
Join Charlotte Fine Art Gallery as we celebrate the woodcarvings of Terrell Crowley from Matthews, NC. Crowley is an award-winning artist in juried competitions. He is also a member of the Charlotte Woodcarvers Guild and the Florida Woodcarvers Guild. Gallery Hours: Tuesday, 10-4; Wednesday – Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-2 , closed Sundays and Mondays. Opening Reception: [...]
Ranging from modestly scaled pots to figurines to large sculptures, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations among fine art, craft, and outsider practices. Collectively they suggest that clay appeals to basic impulses, starting with the delight of building form, coupled with the anxiety of completion. All of the works in the exhibition appear [...]
In 1999, the year I turned twenty, I bought a Polaroid camera second-hand. Polaroid stopped making the instant film in 2008, the same year I turned twenty-nine. The immediate, alluring Polaroid film parallels a twenty-something experience-that wild spontaneity with changing responsibility; of losing and creating relationships, habits and ideas. A turbulent, emotional experience is translated [...]
Exhibit of Art to Wear items in the Davis Gallery at Sawtooth School for Visual Art. Participating Artists include; Patrick Burger- fused glass jewelry, Ian Dennis-fabric sculpture headgear, Karen Fridy-cold-dye garments, Pat Mauck-woven garments, Denni McCann-refashioned thrift-store finds, Brittney Sondberg-metal jewelry/bodywear, Mary Bailey Thomas-dyed & photo transfer garments, and Joanna White-hand-painted garments. These artists explore [...]
Angie Renfro’s impressionistic oil paintings capture the quiet, unassuming beauty of everyday objects and landscapes that are often overlooked. Julie Covington creates high-fired functional pottery with the intention of returning ritual to the table and kitchen. Opening Reception: February 03, 2012, 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Sandy Snead info@larkandkey.com www.larkandkey.com
Featuring: Vicki Essig, Heather Gordon, Paul Rousso and Merrill Shatzman This exhibition presents four artists whose work investigates relationships between printed texts and our contemporary visual environment. Through a variety of mediums including collage, weaving, printing and drawing, these artists create a system of symbols, icons, and readable and undecipherable written forms that may be [...]
Gateway Gallery Photography Showcase will feature a variety of photographic styles and subject matter by the Artists of Gateway Studios and guest artists Katie Chasteen, Evan Hawkins, Brent Lafever, Liz Simmons and Dan Simonson. Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Friday, 12:30-4:30p.m. and by appointment. Opening Reception: January 27, 2012, 5:00-7:00pm. Live music during the opening reception will [...]
An exhibition in partnership with the Catherine J. Smith Gallery The Department of Art’s Catherine J. Smith Gallery and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts collaborate to present this exhibition of new work from the faculty of Appalachian State University’s Department of Art. Faculty exhibitions provide a great opportunity for students to view and [...]
Tom Dimond received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and his MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is now emeritus professor of art at Clemson University. He has exhibited his works at Clemson, Furman and Lander Universities, as well as numerous galleries including McDunn Gallery (Greenville), Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, Ala.), [...]
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011 focusing on the work of painter Pat Passlof, an accomplished Black Mountain College alumna, member of the New York School and under-recognized figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will open at the museum [...]
Converge features renowned Knight artists Quisqueya Henriquez and Sonya Clark and the pieces they created while in residence at the Center. Exploring themes of identity and inclusion, the work showcased in the exhibition will represent a convergence of art, history and diverse cultures. Cuban-born Quisqueya Henriquez incorporates collage and drawing over appropriated and often distorted [...]
This nationally-displayed exhibit features 1,500 video exchanges in which the contributors serve as subjects and interviewers. Question Bridge simulates a stream-of-consciousness conversation between 150 black males, weaving their ideas together to form a mass dialogue surrounding issues of contemporary existence. Topics such as love, family, community and violence are all examined by the participants, who [...]
This exhibit focuses on the work of painter Pat Passlof, an accomplished Black Mountain College alumna, member of the New York School and under-recognized figure in the development of abstract expressionism. A collaboration between WCU and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the exhibition will occupy space in the two venues simultaneously. The [...]
In its American premier, this exhibit examines transformations in contemporary Japanese society and landscapes over recent decades by providing an overview of the diverse photographic expression that emerged during that time period. The exhibit features text in English and Japanese. Admission is free. Contact: Sara Cromwell moa@wfu.edu www.wfu.edu/moa
The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to annually partner with the Asheville Area Section of the American Institute of Architects to sponsor the Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Students in grades 7 – 12 from across the 24 county region of WNC are invited to submit work for this special juried competition. The [...]
Jarod Charzewski’s site-specific installations examine landscapes and people, man-made structures among nature, and the sometimes static, often fluid designs that rise from dual environments. What Land Will Take is constructed from several tons of borrowed garments (from local thrift stores) and reflects nature’s response to man and mankind’s impact on the land. The artist views [...]
The recognition of photography as an art form has been among the medium’s dominant philosophical debates ever since its inception, due in part to its mechanical and chemical nature. Photographs considered documentary have further caused many to question the purpose and artistic merit of such efforts: are documentary photographs art forms or simply straight-forward recordings [...]
Screened: New Work by the Printmakers of North Carolina, will be showing at the Durham Art Council’s Semans and Allenton galleries. The exhibit of screenprints is organized by Judy Jones. The works are by the members of the Printmakers of North Carolina (PoNC), and are inspired by their observations and experiences of life in our [...]
Laboray’s studio practice is conceptually driven from experiences as an artist and archaeologist. He creates paintings and drawings, which are data-based and follow appropriated scientific rules. Within archaeology, much of the important knowledge is gained through the detritus of past culture. Laboray’s subjects stem from similar types of seemingly worthless material: pop culture, junk mail [...]
Gabriel Lovejoy unveils his newest series of “visual poems”. The theme for this body of work is carried throughout using symbolic and nostalgic images woven together with an illustrative style. Industrial, domestic, and natural elements are all present, interacting with each other to create a visual dialogue. Opening Reception: January 19, 2012, 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Gabriel [...]
An exhibition made possible by the David Ilya Brand and Daria Brandt Collection. Robert Goodnough (1917-2010) was an American abstract expressionist painter. He moved among the second-generation members of the New York School but at the same time stood apart. This exhibition continues the Turchin Center’s tradition of featuring historically important artists and their works. [...]
This exhibit explores the art and culture of Senegal, a country in Francophone West Africa. It is a culminating project of a month-long, French-speaking study and immersion experience of twelve graduate students of French, who traveled to rural and urban regions of Senegal in July 2011. The trip was funded by the U.S. Department of [...]
Focal Point Gallery celebrates Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday with the work of documentary and fine-art photographer Sonia Katchian, now a Chapel Hill resident. Ms Katchian traveled the world photographing the Champ starting in 1974 at the Rumble in the Jungle! The Gallery and photographer join the nation and the world in saying “Happy Birthday, Champ!” [...]
Photographer Richard Mosse has spent the last two years shooting a new series of work titled Infra in the eastern Congo. The artist is known for his restrained and highly aestheticized views of sites associated with violence and fear, such as his 2008 depictions of the war in Iraq, and his large-scale photographs of airplane [...]
Exhibit by Featured Artist Jill Eberle. Opening Reception: January 13, 2012, 5:00-8:00pm. Contact: Donna Slade dsladeart@gmail.com www.newbernartworks.com
Start 2012 with a generational look at beauty: James Denmark, the renowned artist and collagist and his grandson Dimitri join forces to fill the spacious gallery at ARTworks. James focuses on what is eternal and universal, and his work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Absolut collection in Stockholm. James’s career began [...]
Twenty-six artists from the Golden Belt Complex will exhibit their work at 311 Gallery. Opening Reception: January 06, 2012, 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Judy Jones jhjno13@gmail.com www.311galleriesandstudios.org
In recent years American craft artists have begun to embrace emergent technologies as credible and compelling subject matter and as new means of enriching artistic expression. The artists featured in this exhibition use new materials and processes such as digital video and audio, computerized design and other forms of communication technology in tandem with traditional [...]
Come experience the dynamic, soaring landscape paintings of Charlotte-based artist Paul Hastings at Seven Sisters Gallery this season. Hastings is a very versatile artist who has worked in other mediums, but his passion is oil painting. Whether the subject is an open sky or a fresh bouquet, each work invites the viewer to enter into [...]
North Carolina Landscapes by Gerry O’Neill. 31 oil paintings explore the backroads just beyond the Bull City-Durham, NC. Contact: Gerry O’Neill gerryoneill@mindspring.com gerryoneill.com/paintings
Josef Albers’s mid-century series entitled Homage to the Square consisted of hundreds of works that experimented with viewers’ color and spatial perceptions. Albers, and some artists before him, such as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, created art exploring the confines of a square format. Albers treated the square as an object; he used the square [...]
Ten finalists were selected for installation on the Appalachian State University’s (ASU) campus. All finalists, whose works are installed on campus, received a $1,000 honorarium. One artist was named as the Martin & Doris Rosen Award Winner and received a cash prize of $5,000 plus a weeklong residency with additional stipend, within ASU’s Department of [...]
