SC - Carolina Arts

I-406466Western NC Area4412 Interstate Exit NumberThis map is not to exactGatlinburg,scale or exactTNdistances.It was designed to givereaders help in locatinggallery and art spaces inWestern North Carolina.FranklinGreat SmokyMountains281964Highlands441231062864Western North CarolinaI-40I-4019Cherokee23DillsboroSylva107Cashiers107107CullowheeWaynesville6417827276Brevard25I-2619232519Mars HillAsheville, NCHendersonville64Cedar Mountain276Marietta, SCI-401825Flat RockBurnsville25Black Mountain642319E96428Saluda176TryonMuseum & Gallery in Greenville, SCcontinued from Page 25 / back to Page 25ing 60 Years of the Museum & Galleryat Bob Jones University, and the highlyanticipated opening of the Russian iconexhibition, Rublev to Fabergé: The Journeyof Russian Art and Culture to America, onview at M&G’s satellite museum locatedon the Heritage Green cultural campus indowntown Greenville.See the collection that has inspired andenthralled hundreds of thousands of visitorsfrom the Upstate, South Carolina, theUnited States, and countries throughout theworld. This special exhibition commemoratessix decades of assembling a collectionthat has been a source of inspiration, educa-tion, and culture for people of all walks oflife from royalty to students, archbishops tohome educators, business professionals totourists.Adults celebrating their 60th birthdayduring 2011 receive free general admissionat both locations, M&G at Bob JonesUniversity and at Heritage Green, duringnormal hours of operation by showing theirID at the welcome desk. Make plans to stopby and enjoy the best of the “Best HiddenGem” in the Upstate.For further information check our SCInstitutional Gallery listings, call 864/770-1331 or visit (www.bjumg.org).Jonas Gerard Fine Art in Asheville,NC, Feature New Fluid WorksJonas Gerard Fine Art in Asheville, NC,is presenting the exhibit, Fluid Poetry,featuring a new series of works by JonasGerard, on view through Nov. 20, 2011.Jonas Gerard at workExpanding on his various ways of applyingpaints, Gerard experiments on a newpath. Fluid acrylic paints and pigmentedinks spill and slide onto the canvas, ebbingand flowing in freely chosen direction.Streaming in rivers and tides, this new combinationof mediums writes its own story,creates its own history. “Poetry withoutwords, rhyming colors on canvas”.Gerard has a continuous and impulsiveneed to search for new ways to dig within,PenlandSpruce PineLittle SwitzerlandMontreatChimney RockLandrum, SCdiscovering new paths to the cosmic reservoirof creative energy. His new series FluidPoetry shows the rich fruit of that search. Init he gives up the brush and allows the paintto join the canvas using water as a vehicle.This is not watercolor, but flowing fluidacrylic pigments applied with squeeze bottlesand cups directly onto either stretchedcanvas or open unstretched canvas, wherethe colors flow with the undulating curvesof their new home.Inspired by the pioneering work of PaulJenkins, the mission is one of introspectionand of discovering the amazing potentialand layers that exist within the psyche.Gerard views abstraction as the only freemethod to uncover those subtle layers,revealing the boundless cosmic potentialthrough absolutely astonishing colorfulvistas.“I remember how in the film Avatar, thecharacters could fly in and out of realms ofconsciousness. When I saw that I said tomyself, “I want to paint that transformation…I want to travel in and out of worldsof color, creating the illusion of 3D, 4Dand even more unlimited dimensions” saidGerard. “My aim is to focus the viewer’sattention into those realms and allow themto visit those inner planes.”Gerard uses gravity, forced air, curvedblades and even his own hands to channelthe fluid paint into motion… always listeningto the colors (that seem to have a mindof their own). The flowing paint mixes withcontinued above on next column to the right11I-26Table of Contents9226226Bakersville22622164I-40Rutherfordton Forest City7436 Columbus 2211117683919E221MarionLinville Falls22119ENewland194194 Banner Elk226Chesnee, SC221Spartanburg, SC184other wet layers creating explosions andimplosions of moods and visions.Work by Jonas Gerard64321Boone 221Blowing Rock226103I-85The work is done in a totally intuitive,deep listening, and nonintellectual frame ofbeing. The equilibrium between transparencyand opacity, between soft edge andhard edge, between light and dark, positiveand negative occurs with minimal guidanceas the painting paints itself.Gerard is basically a self-taught artist.321Lenoir64MorgantonShelby18181864321421I-4028618N. WilkesboroWilkesboroHickoryCarolina Arts, November 2011 - Page 277490I-8532116Lincolnton321321GastoniaToward CharlotteHe was born in Casablanca, Morocco in1941, of French and Brazilian ancestry. Hehas now established in a 5,000 square-footstudio and gallery in Asheville.Works by Gerard have been included inthe collections of Smithsonian Institution,The World Bank, Citibank International,The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, andThe University of California BerkeleyMuseum.Gerard’s work has been featured in soloexhibitions at Slater-Price Fine Art, Soho,NY, NationsBank Sky Gallery, DowntownMiami, FL, Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee,FL, Jeanine Cox Fine Art, Miami Beach,FL, Henri Gallery, Washington, DC, Arti-Zen Fine Art, Dallas, TX, Mary Bell Gallery,Chicago, IL, and Judith Wolov Gallery,Boston, MA.On Nov. 12 & 13, during the River ArtsDistrict Studio Stroll Gerard will offers aPainting Performance accompanied by thelive music of The Billy Sea, from 2-3:30pmeach day.For further information check our NCCommercial Gallery listings, call the galleryat 828/350-7711 or visit(www.jonasgerard.com).Town of Black Mountain, NC,Offers 3rd Annual Sculpture StrollIn Black Mountain, NC, a town of lessthan 10,000 at the eastern end of BuncombeCounty, arts and artists abound. For the thirdyear the Town of Black Mountain Recreationand Parks Department, the BeautificationCommittee and the Black MountainCenter for the Arts are co-sponsoring anoutdoor sculpture stroll of 3-dimensionalwork by local artists, on view through theWinter of 2012. Enticing visitors and localsalike to seek them out to enjoy, the piecesare installed at walkable locations close todowntown.Starting at the north side of the TownHall on Midland Avenue, which is justbehind the Black Mountain Swannanoacontinued on Page 28The Artist’s Coopon the squareAn Artist’s Cooperative113 East Laurens StreetLaurens, SC • 864-984-935910-5:30pm Tues. - Fri., 10-3pm Sat.www.laurensartistscoop.orgLaurensartistscoop@backroads.net73