The gallery Gals invite you to a special show featuring Elizabeth Darrow, Kim Kesterson Trone & Zoot! You won’t want to miss this very interesting Lunch and Learn with Terry Zash AKA Zoot! He will be demonstrating his unique technique of reverse painting on glass. Great for designers to come see what wonderful commissions Zoot [...]
The Show will feature Floral and Landscape paintings in Watercolors and Oils by local artists Margo Matarese and Martha Tournas. Opening Reception: May 06, 2012; 2:00-5:00pm. Contact: Pam Grier artistleague@windstream.org www.artistleague.org
Exhibition featuring the artwork of Damon Hood, Mykell Gates, and Amber D. Watts. Opening Reception: May 04, 2012; 5:00-7:30pm. Contact: Cathy McCoy office@caldwellarts.com www.caldwellarts.com
Invisible Man showcases recent works by the 2011 All Member Juried Exhibition winner, artist Maurice Moore, in his first solo gallery exhibition. Fueled by observation and personal experiences, Moore says, “Drawing for me is discovering a way to make oneself visible. To reveal ones identities coupled with the shameful truths that inevitably follows with that [...]
Fine Art Oils by Guest Artist: Bibi Bowman and Special Event: Plein Air Paint Out Participants Exhibit Opening Reception: May 04, 2012; 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Adrien Montoya localcolor@gmail.com www.localcoloraleigh.com
Cary Art Loop Final Friday: Two Featured Artists to see: Wendy Musser, “North Carolina Outdoors,” works in oils and pastels. Perceptions of scenic NC from en plein air to the studio. Jayne Cluggish with her “Inner Visions” expressed aptly in clay. Opening Reception: April 27, 2012; 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Wendy Musser info@carygallery.org carygalleryofartists.org
Wendy Musser, ” North Carolina Outdoors,” works in oils and pastels. Perceptions of scenic NC from en plein air to the studio. Jayne Cluggish with her “Inner Visions” expressed aptly in clay. Opening Reception: April 27, 2012; 6:00-9:00pm. Contact: Wendy Musser info@carygallery.org carygalleryofartists.org
Jewelry by Arianna Bara, fiber art by Ali Givens, photography & turned wood by Pat Lloyd, painting & jewelry by Kim Wheaton. Owned & operated by local artists, the 5 year old gallery features painting, sculpture, photography, glass arts, jewelry, turned wood, handcrafted furniture, pottery, mosaics & fiber arts. Opening Reception: April 27, 2012; 6:00-9:00pm. [...]
The NEW Enfield Masonic Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is about to debut its visual art branch with EMPAC CONTEMPORARY Gallery and an exhibition by remarkable artist, Lee Johnson. Lee Johnson is a classically trained figurative painter, whose allegorical work is exquisitely painted and innovative. His beautiful, fascinating paintings occupy a middle ground between the strictly [...]
The DAC is excited to announce three solo shows for our upcoming exhibits. Sixteen Slices of Love by Peter Filene will be on view in the Allenton Gallery. The Salvage Series by Marty Edmunds and Transluclandia by Darryl Halbrooks will be showing in the Semans Gallery. The exhibits are part of the Durham Arts Council’s [...]
This mid-career retrospective of works by Roy Nydorf will present an overview of four decades of artistic production and reflect the artist’s dedication to a humanist perspective and the evolution of his figurative style. Over 300 examples of Nydorf’s production as print maker, painter, carver and draftsman will be on display. The son of artist [...]
Four Decades, the first major survey of the work of Roy Nydorf constitutes a mid-career retrospective of this Greensboro artist whose works figure in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Honolulu Academy and the Weatherspoon Art Museum among others. This exhibition will present Nydorf’s investigations and mastery of several [...]
The Museum of Anthropology showcases recent donations to its permanent collection with this exhibit featuring archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from cultures around the world. Highlights include intricately decorated personal adornment from Papua New Guinea, Tang Dynasty ceramics from China, and saddle rugs from the Salgo Collection. Admission is free. Contact: Sara Cromwell moa@wfu.edu www.wfu.edu/moa
Attracted to bold patterning throughout his career, Henri Matisse explored in both prints and paintings the decorative possibilities of simplified forms and areas of flat surface design mixed with volumetric representation. Matisse’s proliferation of patterning served to unify his compositions-and also inspired a succeeding generation of artists. Following the French master’s precedent, the artists featured [...]
What do you get when you ask over sixty Asheville-area artists to respond through their art to a Van Gogh painting? A lively art conversation in the form of an exhibit titled, Waking Up With Van Gogh. Guest curator and artist Moni Hill invited her fellow artists to respond to Van Gogh’s iconic Bedroom in [...]
Eighteen artists in North Carolina were awarded the distinctive honor of being named the 2010-2011 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards. The awards were in the categories of choreography, craft, film and video and visual arts. In the spring of 2012, sixteen of these artists will be featured in the Turchin Center galleries with [...]
An Installation by Bryant Holsenbeck A project in partnership with the Catherine J. Smith Gallery and other campus partners, funded in part by Appalachian’s Sustainability Council Competitive Arts Grant. The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and the Catherine Smith Gallery partner with environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck to create an installation project that will encourage [...]
Appalachian State University students had the opportunity to explore photography and printmaking in Costa Rica in June of 2011 as part of a study abroad opportunity organized by Scott Ludwig, Associate Professor of Printmaking, Department of Art and Dr. Garner Dewey, Associate Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts and Associate Professor of [...]
Chris Hondros: A Retrospective presents the first gallery exhibition chronicling over a decade of conflict photography from the late Chris Hondros. Hondros was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated phtotojournalist who died in April 2011 while on assignment in Misurata, Libya. Born in New York City to immigrant Greek and German parents, both survivors of World War [...]
Lark & Key presents Memory & Metaphor, new works by Honora Jacob, Duy Huynh & Jennifer Mecca. While each artist is inspired in their own way, by personal memory, collective experience and visual symbolism, there is a common thread in their pieces brought about by a strong use of color and feminine influence. Rich in [...]
While most recognized for his large scale, multi-media assemblages, Thornton Dial’s drawings are his most prolific body of work, spanning from the early 1990s into the present. Organized by the Ackland Art Museum, Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper will feature 50 of Dial’s earliest drawings from 1990-1991, a pivotal moment in his artistic career. The [...]
Looking Closely: Art Quilts by Christine Hager-Braun, will be shown in the Durham Arts Council’s Ella Fountain Pratt Legacy Gallery. Christine Hager-Braun is a two-time Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant Recipient (2007-2008 and 2011-2012). Her abstract art quilts and fabric compositions often explore emotions, their effect on individuals and their influence on relationships. In [...]
Featuring Photographic work by: DANIEL KARIKO, School of Art and Design, Area Coordinator for Photography “Storm Season: Louisiana’s Disappearing Wetlands” This series of photographs represents a long-term investigation of disappearing wetlands and barrier islands in south Louisiana, due to human and natural activity. I started photographing in Barataria- Terrebonne National Estuary in South Louisiana in the [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
