Vol. 15, No. 3 March 2011 - Carolina Arts

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Be sure to check out ourmany Spring Classes.We have a great selection ofadult, kid and big kidart classes!!Blue Ridge Art Center Calendar of EventsThrough March 4, 2011 20th Annual Open Juried ShowsMarch - The Market at Keowee Town MarketFeaturing Kevin PopeMarch 18 -April 15, 2011 SDOC STUDENT EXHIBITOpening reception – March 18 th 5:50 to 8:30 p.m.April 14 - May 6, 2011 - POP Pickens, Oconee & Pendleton Open Studio Tour ExhibitPOP Open Studio Tour: Saturday, April 30 th 10 to 6 p.m.Sunday, May 1 st 12 to 5 p.m. Opening reception at World Of Energy(WOE) April 14 th 5 to 7:30 p.m.April 22 – May 13, 2011: POSTCARD ART EXHIBIT - Opening reception – April 22 nd5:50 to 8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Seneca Downtown Go ’RoundMay 20-June 24, 2011: “METAL MANIA” EXHIBIT - Opening reception –May 20 th5:50 to 8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Seneca Downtown Go ’RoundJuly 15-September 2, 2011: MEMBERS’ SHOW 2011 Opening reception –July 15 th5:50 to 8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Seneca Downtown Go ’RoundSeptember 16 – November 3, 2011: “NEW LOOKS” Paper and Plastic ExhibitionOpening reception – Sept. 16 th 5:50 to 8:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Seneca Downtown Go ’RoundNovember 18 – December 17, 2011: HOLIDAY ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOWOpening reception – Nov. 21 st 5:50 to 8:30 p.m in conjunction with the Seneca Downtown Go ’RoundVisit us at our website for more details of these event and classes and off-site events.www.blueridgeartscenter.comAll exhibits are funded in part by:The Daily Journal • Max & Victoria Dreyfus FoundationOconee County Parks, Recreation & Tourism • Oconee County ATAX •Oconee County Arts & Historical Commission • Seneca Hospitality & Accommodations TaxAnd the South Carolina Arts Commissionwhich receives support from the National Endowment for the ArtsClasses for adults and kids year roundVisit our web site for art information and links to many upstate art organizations:www.BlueRidgeArtsCenter.com111 East South Second Street • Seneca, SC 29678 • (864) 882-2722www.blueridgeartscenter.com • office@blueridgeartscenter.comTurchin Center for the Visual Arts inBoone, NC, Hosts Spring ExhibitionCelebration on March 4, 2011Appalachian State University’s TurchinCenter for the Visual Arts is celebratingthe coming of spring a little early thisyear with their first of two Spring ExhibitionCelebrations on Friday, Mar. 4,2011, as a part of downtown Boone, NC’sFirst Friday Art Crawl. From 7-9pm, theTurchin Center will be open for all visitorsto come and celebrate three of the currentexhibitions on display, meet some of theartists, listen to live music and enjoy arefreshing beverage from the cash bar.These celebrations held at the TurchinCenter are a great way for the campusand community to participate in honoringthe extraordinary art exhibits that rotatethrough the center throughout the year.Exhibitions being celebrated on Mar. 4,are The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks! Griefand Celebration by Lowell Hayes, In theVoid: Sculpture by David Meyer and Children’sArt of the High Country.Work by David MeyersDavid Meyer is an artist whose workexplores many aspects of the human conditionand the physical world. His work,such as his current exhibition In the Void,ranges from installations and large-scaleoutdoor commissions to simple objectsthat compel the viewer to take a secondlook. Over the last decade, he has workedwith a breadth of materials such as steel,glass, insects, bacteria, fabric and flowers.Page 16 - Carolina Arts, March 2011Meyer has had solo exhibitionsthroughout the United States, and hasbeen in numerous group exhibitions, mostrecently in Washington, DC, at the UnitedStates National Botanic Gardens and theArt Museum of the Americas. He is anassistant professor of art at the Universityof Delaware.The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks! is ondisplay in the center’s Gallery B & MayerGallery, West Wing and In the Void can beseen in Gallery A, West Wing. Both exhibitionsare on display through Mar. 19,2011. Children’s Art of the High Countryis displayed in the Catwalk CommunityGallery, East Wing through Mar. 26, 2011.The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks! Griefand Celebration by Lowell Hayes celebratesthe beauty and mourns the imminentloss of the vast Eastern hemlockforest, which has been fatally attacked bysap-sucking insects called hemlock woollyadelgids. This exhibitionconsists of mixedmediacanvases andsome pieces measureas large as nine feet by19 feet.Born near old Butler,TN, Hayes, nowin his 70s, has beenpainting the Appalachianlandscape andits people for 40 years.He has a BA fromLynchburg College and a BD from theUniversity of Chicago. Earlier work wasincluded in a touring exhibition by theNational Museum of American Art, andmore recent pieces hang in the Universityof North Carolina complex and at the TennesseeState Museum. He currently livesin nearby Valle Crucis, NC.Children’s Art of the High Country iscontinued above on next column to the righta juried exhibition that features worksof art by children (infants – 8th graders)in Ashe, Avery, Watauga and Wilkescounties in NC. Juried by a small groupof local artists, Christy Chenausky, LoraDavis and David Modler, this exhibitionincludes a variety of creations from paintingsto sculptures.Work by Zea MartyUNC Asheville is presenting, StealingStories, an exhibition of new large-scaledrawings by Patricia Bellan-Gillen, onview in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallerythrough Mar. 22, 2011.The competition received nearly 100submissions of artwork. This exhibitionshowcases 63 works by 40 children thatthe jurors felt revealed originality, authenticity,self-direction, and self-expression.They considered work in age-specific categoriesand looked for creative examplesof the type of art that kids of that specificage group tend to make.This exhibition is coordinated by TheChildren’s Playhouse, a nonprofit children’smuseum in Boone whose missionis to provide children from birth to ageeight with an enriching, educational playenvironment while offering their parentsand caregivers friendly support in theimportant job of raising children.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listings, call theCenter at 828/262-3017 or visit (www.tcva.org).UNC Asheville in Asheville, NC,Offers Works by Patricia Bellan-GillenWork by Patricia Bellan-GillenBellan-Gillen’s work often incorporatesanimal figures, and combines imagerygenerated through study and researchwith an approach that is felt, intuitive, andenigmatic.Bellan-Gillen is the Dorothy L. StubnitzProfessor of Art at Carnegie MellonUniversity in Pittsburgh, where shereceived the Ryan Award for excellence inteaching. Her paintings, prints and drawingshave been exhibited in more than 35solo shows across the US. Her work hasbeen included in group shows in museumsand galleries, including the Hudson RiverMuseum and the Chelsea Museum of Artin New York, the Tacoma Museum of Artin Washington, and the Frans MasereelCentre in Belgium.The gallery has produced a 40-pagecatalogue documenting the exhibition,which will be available for purchase at thegallery.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listings or callthe UNC Asheville’s Art Department at828/251-6559.You can contact us by calling 843/825-3408 or by e-mail at - info@carolinaarts.com
MARCH 8 - MAY 7, 2011 TUES-SAT 10-5West FraserA SouthernPerspectiveLate Summer on the Chattooga River38x50 inchesWILLIAM JAMESON WORKSHOPS2011Saluda Winter WeekendJanuary 14 - 15Saluda - Painting LargeMarch 10 - 12Seabrook & Kiawah Islands, SCApril 14 - 16Spring on the Blue Ridge, Saluda, NC May 16 - 20Tuscany, ItalySept. 22 - Oct. 1Fall on the Blue Ridge, Saluda, NC October 26 - 30Tide Lines. Oil on Canvas.Will Henry StevensConvergence:Objective andNon-objective WorksGo to WWW.WILLIAMJAMESON.COMfor more detailed info or call 828.749.3101.My workshops are limited in size to 12participants and early registration isencouraged. Beginners to advanced arewelcome and materials lists, directions andschedules will be sent to all registrants.In keeping with today’s economy I havechanged the rates on some of my workshops.Greenville Technical College in Greenville,SC, Features Exhibit of Textiles WorksGreenville Technical College in Greenville,SC, will present the juried exhibit,Textiles in a Tube, at the RIVERWORKSGallery, located at Art Crossing at RiverPlace, along the Reedy River, on viewfrom Mar. 4 through Apr. 15, 2011. Anopening reception and awards presentationwill be held on Mar. 4, from 6-9pm.Autumn Leaves, by Susan LenzTextiles are on the banks of the Reedyonce again. Yesterday’s bolts of cotton,no, but an exhibition of unique textileart. Textiles in a Tube is 15 works of artcreated by 10 artists from New York toCalifornia and as far away as Budapest,Hungary. The exhibition is the result of ajuried competition after an internationalThe Haywood County Arts Council inWaynesville, NC, will present the exhibit,Reflected Light: Scenes of HaywoodCounty, featuring works by Luke Allsbrook,on view in Gallery 86, Mar. 2 - 26,2011. A reception will be held on Mar. 4,from 6-8pm.This exhibition of oil paintings bycall for entries. Artists were invited toreinvent and/or expand the definition oftextiles and then to squeeze their reinventioninto a 3” x 36”mailing tube.The exhibition includes silk, wool,plastic net fruit bags, even newspaper.Artists have utilized hand weaving,stitching, dying, painting, screen-printingand incorporated found objects. Severalof the works are sculptures. Just as eachwork was squeezed into a mailing tube,Riverworks presents a sampling of currenttextile art representing materials, processes,and thought from across the USand beyond.The juror, Terry Jarrard-Dimond, herselfan internationally exhibited textile artistfrom Clemson, SC, says, “The entriesdemonstrated a range of explorations andreinvention and I applaud everyone whoentered and perhaps stepped out of theircomfort zone to try something new.”RIVERWORKS Gallery is operated byand for the faculty and students from theDepartment of Visual and Performing Artsat Greenville Technical College.For further information check our SCInstitutional Gallery listings, call FlemingMarkel, Gallery Director at 864/271-0679or e-mail to (fleming.markel@gvltec.edu).Haywood County Arts Council inWaynesville, NC, Offers Works byLuke AllsbrookAllsbrook highlights landscape scenesfrom around Haywood County. The commontheme in all the paintings is water.There are scenes of Lake Junaluska, farmstreams, and the Pigeon River. Many ofthe pictures the artist painted on site whilestanding in the river. Others are largecontinued above on next column to the rightSAM is funded in part by The Arts Partnership and its donors,the County and City of Spartanburg, the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from theNational Endowment for the Arts, Walker Walker Higgins, Wells Fargo The Private Bank,The Spartanburg County Foundation, The George Ernest Burwell, Jr. Fund, The Jean Erwin Fund,The Lucile F. Kohler Fund for the Spartanburg Art Museum, and the 3rd Annual Art & Antique Show.scale versions painted in the studio. Thepaintings seek to capture a sense of placeas well as the abstract beauty of light andcolor reflected in water.Work by Luke Allsbrook200 East St. John St • Spartanburg, SC • (864) 582-7616www.spartanburgARTmuseum.orgAllsbrook received his BFA degreefrom Indiana University and his MFAdegree from the New York Academy ofArt. He has exhibited his work extensivelythroughout the eastern United States.Allsbrook’s paintings are included innumerous collections including the collectionof His Royal Highness the Princeof Wales, the US Department of State, theForbes Collection and the North CarolinaArboretum.Based in Waynesville, Allsbrook combinesmasterful technique with fine attentionto detail in his visionary approach tonature. He creates paintings that speak tothe spirit and seem to transport the viewerto another time and place. Critic andProfessor of the Arts, James A. Herbert,has compared Allsbrook to Lucien Freud,dubbing Allsbrook a “painter’s painter,an artist who deftly captures the elementsof realism and atmosphere in his compositions.”An artist who possesses manytalents, Allsbrook’s greatest gift may liein his ability to include the viewer in hisworld; making the observer an activeparticipant in the scenes and activities hebrings to life.Describing his work, Allsbrook states,“I try to let nature be my guide. The bestideas come like a gift. A painting mightbegin with a question as simple as, ‘If ILandscape. Pastel on paper.could create any painting in the world,what would it be?’ I categorize my workinto two parts - the smaller, plein air paintingswhere I go into nature and do quickjournal like sketches,and the larger, boldercanvases drawn frommemory that capturethe settings realistically.”The mission of theHaywood County ArtsCouncil is to build partnershipsthat promoteart and artists, explorenew cultural opportunities,and preserve mountain artistic heritage.This project was supported by theWork by Luke AllsbrookNorth Carolina Arts Council, a divisionor the Department of Cultural Resources.The mission of the North Carolina ArtsCouncil is to make North Carolina abetter state through the arts. The councilnurtures and supports excellence in thearts, and provides opportunities for everyNorth Carolinian to experience the arts.A division of the Department of CulturalResources (www.ncculture.com), the ArtsCouncil serves as a catalyst for the developmentof arts organizations and facilitiesthroughout North Carolina with grantfunding and technical assistance.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listings, call theHaywood Arts Council at 828/452-0593or visit (www.haywoodarts.org).The deadline each month to submit articles, photos and ads is the 24th of the monthprior to the next issue. This would be Mar. 24th for the Apr. 2011 issue and Apr. 24 forthe May 2011 issue. After that, it’s too late unless your exhibit runs into the next month.Carolina Arts, March 2011 - Page 17
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