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

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