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NC Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount,NC, Features Works by Richard WilsonNC Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount,NC, will present the exhibit, EnduringMoments, including pastel paintings andportraits by African American artist RichardWilson of Greenville, NC, on view in theDunn Center’s Mims Art Gallery, from Nov.4 through Dec. 18, 2011. A reception will beheld on Nov. 4, from 7-9pm.Work by Richard WilsonWilson has gained the status of masterpastel artist by peer acclaim amongprofessional artists and his pastel paintingsalso have strong popular appeal, given theuniversality of his subject matter. His narrativepaintings frequently feature his ownfamily and in particular his children in thosespecial moments that only children haveMore than 850 guests celebrated the culminationof more than ten years of planningat the Grand Opening of the Blowing RockArt and History Museum (BRAHM) on Saturday,Oct. 1, 2011. Located in the heart ofdowntown Blowing Rock, NC, at the cornerof Chestnut and Main streets, BRAHM willhost exhibits, educational programs andclasses that promote the visual arts, historyand heritage of the mountains of westernNorth Carolina.On view through Mar. 2012, will be threeexhibits including: Elliott Daingerfield:His Art and Life in Blowing Rock, featuringworks by the turn-of-the-century Americanpainter Elliott Daingerfield, who spent 46summers in Blowing Rock; The BlowingRock: A Natural Draw, highlights westernNorth Carolina’s most famous rock outcropping;and The Historic Hotels of BlowingRock, explores the grand resorts thatemerged as tourism expanded.while growing up. Wilson’s artistic strengthis his capacity to select those momentsthat transcend the personal and can reach abroader audience. Some paintings are nostalgic,some express those human connectionsthat are only found within the family,and some express the challenge; in all hispaintings there is warmth and discretion.The artist does many commission portraitsas well, and has that uncanny capacity to extractpersonality and depth from his subjectsfaithfully represented in his realistic style.Wilson has produced an impressivetwenty year career as a productive professionalartist, freelance and corporate graphicdesigner, and teacher at Pitt CommunityCollege. He has artworks in numerouscollections, public and private, but is mostproud of his official portrait of GeorgeHenry White, the last former slave to servein Congress, and the fact that Wilson is thefirst African American artist to have a portraitpublicly displayed in a North Carolinacourthouse.During his career Wilson has receivednumerous local, national and internationalawards; in 2002 he received the prestigiousNational Arts Club Award. Amongst hismany shows, competitions and accolades,in 2005 he also won First Place in “The Bestof North Carolina” Juried Publication and in2006 Pastel Society of New Mexico Awardat the Pastel Society of America 34th AnnualArt Exhibit, National Arts Club, NYC.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery listings, call the galleryat 252/985-5268 or visit (www.ncwc.edu/Arts/Mims/).Blowing Rock Art and HistoryMuseum in Blowing Rock, NC,Offers Inaugural Exhibitionsample storage space.The theme of the Grand Opening is“What Drew You Here?” which reflects onthe various forces that have been drawingpeople to the mountains of western NorthCarolina for hundreds of years, includingbeauty, recreation, adventure, good healthand the temperate mountain climate.These have remained constant since themid-1800s, when the tourism industry beganto thrive in the region. BRAHM’s threeopening exhibits will explore this overarchingquestion.Table of Contentscent to the BRAHM grounds. His third andfinal Blowing Rock home, which he named“Westglow” for the beautiful sunsets thatcould be viewed from the front porch, wasan impressive Greek Revival mansion thatindicates the level of professional successthat he enjoyed. Today it is the WestglowResort and Spa, one of the world’s premierdestinations for those seeking relaxationand rejuvenation, just as its first owner didwhen he arrived in town 125 years ago.Work by Elliot DangerfieldElliott Daingerfield: His Art and Life inNorth Carolina was curated by Asheville,NC, resident J. Richard Gruber, formerDeputy Director of the Morris Museum ofArt in Augusta, GA, which has a significantcollection of Daingerfield work and ephemera,and founding Director of the OgdenMuseum of Southern Art in New Orleans.While at the Morris, Gruber served as curatorfor Victorian Visionary: The Art of ElliotDaingerfield and contributed an essay to theexhibit catalog. For the BRAHM exhibit, heselected more than 80 pieces and a plethoraof artifacts, supplementing the Museum’spermanent collection with loans from anumber of private collectors and museums.The exhibit presents a brief overview of theartist’s childhood in Harper’s Ferry, WestVirginia, and Fayetteville, NC, and his earlycareer in New York City, but its focus is onthe time he spent in Blowing Rock.A second exhibit, The Blowing Rock: ANatural Draw, highlights western NorthCarolina’s most famous rock outcropping,which gets its name because of the fiercewinds that blow up the cliffs. The BlowingRock is so distinctive that it was among theregion’s first “natural” tourist attractions,rewarding those who made the long trip upthe unpaved Linville Turnpike and daredto scramble to its edge with a jaw-droppingIn an important collaborative effort,Flood Gallery & Fine Arts Center, locatedat Phil Mechanic Studios in Asheville, NC,and Bold Life Magazine bring togethernine outstanding contemporary artistsfrom Western North Carolina. Buncombe,Haywood, Henderson, Madison, Polk, andTransylvania counties all put forth theirbest in cutting edge, contemporary art. Theexhibit, Uncharted Waters, will be on viewin the Flood Gallery, from Nov. 6 - 30,2011. A reception will be held on Nov. 5,from 7-10pm.View of Main Gallery featuring exhibit of worksby Elliot DangerfieldThe main exhibit is devoted to turnof-the-centuryAmerican painter ElliottDaingerfield, who spent 46 summers inBlowing Rock. Elliott Daingerfield: HisView of the frint of the new MuseumArt and Life in Blowing Rock, which isfunded in part by underwriting from theThe Museum was designed by local North Carolina Arts Council and the Bonniearchitect Steve Price and the Winston- and Jamie Schaefer Family Foundation, isSalem, NC, firm Calloway Johnson Moore a fitting topic for an opening exhibit; theand West (CJMW) and built by Boone scenery and people of the mountains playedConstruction Company. It includes neutral a prominent role in the artist’s work and,colors, rustic features and mountain buildingconversely, he was a great influence on thematerials - such as 16-inch Douglas fir town. Not only was it a proposed gift oftimbers bound by iron banding, river stone Daingerfield work that inspired the idea forand cedar siding so that it blends with the a museum in Blowing Rock, but his workenvironment that surrounds it. The state-ofthe-art,and homes also continue to play a signifi-23,000-square-foot facility will both cant role in the town’s identity.fulfill the Museum’s current needs as well Saint Mary of the Hills Episcopal Churchas its long-range goals with its six galleries is named after his mural Madonna of thetotaling 4,500 square feet; 1,350-squarefootHills, which he donated to the church andmulti-purpose community meeting still adorns the altar today. His first homeroom and adjacent conference room; 1,500 and studio, the quaint Edgewood Cottage,square feet of educational space; orientation sits across the street from the church, adja-theatre; gift shop; administrative offices and continued above on next column to the rightPage 38 - Carolina Arts, November 2011vista overlooking the Johns’ River Gorge3,000 feet below. It was so popular that thesmall village that emerged less than a mileaway became known by the same name.More than a hundred years later, the townof Blowing Rock continues to be one ofthe most-visited destinations in the stateof North Carolina, as is the Blowing Rockitself.The Blowing Rock: A Natural Drawuses vintage postcards, old photographsand memorabilia to explore the history ofthe rock, including its geological formation,meteorological anomalies, myths andlegends and role in the development of tourismin the region. Curated by historian andBRAHM Board of Trustees member NevaJ. Specht, along with the Museum’s exhibitscommittee, the exhibit – located on the mainlevel in Gallery 3 – will be a dynamic, interactiveexperience. The exhibit was madepossible in part by underwriting supportfrom Anne and Alex Bernhardt.The third opening exhibit, The HistoricHotels of Blowing Rock, explores the grandresorts that emerged as tourism expanded.As the limited occupancy of the earlyboarding houses quickly proved insufficient,a number of hotels were establishedaround the turn of the century, includingthe Watauga Inn (1888), the Blowing RockHotel (1889), the Green Park Hotel (1891)and the Mayview Manor (1922). While thehotels were built in response to the growingnumber of visitors, the owners and theiremployees worked to make them destinationsin and of themselves, treating guests tobeautifully appointed interiors, fine dining,elegant entertainment and a wide selectionof activities to occupy their time in themountains.The exhibit uses furniture from thehotels, photos and memorabilia to visuallytell the story of these “Grand Dames,” asthe Green Park Hotel was once called. Textpanels will explore the identities and motivationsof the financiers, owners, employeesand patrons of the resorts; the impact theymade on the community; the reasons behindtheir gradual decline and the efforts to preservethe historic structures.For further information check our NC InstitutionalGallery listings, call the Museumat 828/295-9099 or visit (www.blowingrockmuseum.org).Flood Gallery & Fine Arts Centerin Asheville, NC, Features Exhibit ofContemporary Artists of WNCWork by Margaret CurtisWerner Haker was born in Hamburg,Germany. He spent his childhood in NewYork City. And at age 17, he apprenticedas draftsman with Manuel Pauli, a leadingarchitectural firm in Zurich, Switzerland.Between 1965 and 1972, Haker servedinternships with Philip Johnson, Architect,New York City, and with various Zurichfirms. And between 1970 and 1974, hetraveled extensively, studying art andarchitecture in Italy, Greece, Turkey, India,Japan and Brazil. Haker has been living inBrevard, North Carolina since 1995 wherehe has established residence. For the lastdecade, Haker has worked full time as anartist.Margaret Curtis was represented for 10years by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City.Her work has been exhibited at the BrooklynMuseum of Art and The Andy WarholMuseum in Pittsburgh. She was includedin The Figure: Another Side of Modernismat the Snug Harbor Cultural Center andBad Girls at The New Museum in NewYork and other major group shows. Shehas also shown at Zolla Lieberman Gallery,Chicago, The Huntington Beach Art Centerin California, and Salama Caro Gallery ofLondon. She taught painting at the Schoolof Visual Arts in Manhattan. Curtis is therecipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship,Yale Summer School of Art andthe Predmore Award from Duke University.Curtis currently lives with her family, inTryon, NC.Timothy Jacobs was born in Canton,NC. He earned a full scholarship and anundergraduate and Masters degree in Artfrom Western Carolina University. Jacobsspent the next three decades workingfor the University. He opened ChelseaGallery at WCU, where he was Director ofthe University Center. Jacobs has shownhis work regionally, and with the SpringMills Juried Traveling Exhibition duringwhich his work was exhibited in 15 galleriesacross the country. His work is in thepermanent collection of Western CarolinaUniversity, Spring Mills, Inc., and theUniversity of North Texas. Jacobs currentlylives in WNC.Melissa Terrezza is an undergraduatecontinued above on next column to the right
Flood Gallery in Asheville, NCcontinued from Page 38research scholar from the University ofNorth Carolina at Asheville. She has shownwork regionally, as well as with Sloss Furnaces,Birmingham, AL; and Iron and Ice,Vail, CO. As a visiting artist, Terrezza haslectured at the Odyssey School in Asheville,has performed at the Black Mountain CollegeMuseum’s popular Re-Happening, andwas a recipient of the Arrowmont Scholarship.She has also been a model for LarkBooks. She currently works from her studioin the Phil Mechanic Studios Building inAsheville’s River Arts District.Work by Daniel SmithLaszlo Hamori was born in Budapest,Hungary in 1963. At the age of seventeenhe fled Communist Hungary and lived inItaly, immigrating to Toronto, Canada, andeventually, to Hendersonville, NC. He studiedArchitectural Technology & Visual Artat George Brown and Seneca Colleges inToronto. He later studied at the InternationalAcademy of Art & Design, completing hisprogram in Interior Design. He moved toNorth Carolina in 1999. Hamori’s work hasbeen exhibited at the Circle Gallery, Toronto,Canada; Art 4 AIDS Benefit, Toronto,Canada; Dinner with the Stars for F.A.C.E.Aids, Toronto, Canada; Museum of ModernArt, Miami, USA; and the National Museumof Art, Budapest, Hungary.Daniel Smith grew up travelling with hisfather who was in the Air Force. A selftaughtartist, Smith spent twenty-five yearsin graphic design and design production.After visiting a friend at Penland, he movedto Hendersonville and became a full timeartist. He has been a featured artist for theAppalachian Artisan Society and has exhibitedhis work at the Cazbah in Greenville,SC; the Anderson Arts Center; The UrbanLoft, Asheville; and the Greenville, SC, ArtIn The Park. Smith currently works from hisstudio in Hendersonville.Sean Pace holds a Bachelor in FineArts degree from the University of NorthThe Haen Gallery in Asheville, NC, willpresent the exhibit, Fall of the Year, featuringnew works by Marci Crawford Harndenand Francis Di Fronzo, on view from Nov.5 through Dec. 9, 2011. A reception will beheld on Nov. 5, from 5:30-7:30pm.Carolina. His work has been shown at theMiami Art Basel, at the Southeastern Centerfor Contemporary Arts in Winston Salem,NC, and at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham,to name a few. Pace has lectured at the Universityof Colorado and Perdue University.He also was accepted at the Rhode IslandSchool of Design, and respectfully declined,and most recently received an invitationto bring his work to the Florence Biennale.Pace works from one of his studiosat the Phil Mechanic Studios building inAsheville’s River Arts District.Jimmy O’Neal holds a Masters in FineArts Degree from the Savannah College ofArt and Design. He recently completed alarge-scale commissioned installation at theCobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta,GA, entitled The Nine Muses. Alongwith O’Neal’s multiple group and soloexhibitions with the Bill Lowe Gallery inboth Atlanta and Santa Monica, CA, he hasexhibited widely throughout the East Coastat such respected institutions as the NexusCenter for Contemporary Art, the SouthEast Center for Contemporary Art and theRose Art Museum in Waltham, MA. O’Nealcurrently works from his studio in MadisonCounty, North Carolina.Work by Werner HakerNathan Green is a classically trainedcabinet-maker, designer and self-taughtartist, working in mediums ranging fromwood to Plexiglas. Over the past fifteenyears, Green has completed hundreds ofcommissioned works and installations forclients across the Southeast. After attendingGeorgia State University, where hepursued a degree in philosophy, he movedto Asheville in 1997 to apprentice with wellrenowned cabinet-maker Carl Giesenschlagat Wildwood Studios. His current worksinclude commissioned furniture, etchings inwood, polycarbonate, Corian as well as collaborativeinstallations. Green is currentlyadapting a vacant school in Alexander intostudios, exhibition and performance spaceand resides on a small farm in MadisonCounty, NC, with his wife and children.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery listings, call the Centerat 828/255-0066 or visit (www.philmechanicstudios.com).The Haen Gallery in Asheville, NC,Features Works by Marci CrawfordHarnden and Francis Di FronzoWork by Francis Di FronzoMarci Crawford Harnden is an accomplishedand celebrated artist from Dallas,TX, whose abstracted landscape work isgreatly influenced by the natural worldaround her. Harnden’s ethereal paintings areinhabited with the suggestion of twistingtree limbs, delicate leaves, hazy skies, andpockets of light. The surfaces of each paintinghave a distressed and aged feel to them,made richer by deep hues of reds, purples,greens, and blues.Francis DiFronzo, a California-basedartist, exhibits widely from coast to coastfrom Santa Fe to Philadelphia. His narrativelandscape paintings portray the physicalworld with a sense of nostalgia and mystery.His oil on panel work is rendered in intricatedetail, creating compelling imagery fromgrassy hillsides to abandoned buses.Although the paintings of Harndenand DiFronzo differ greatly from a visualstandpoint, they share a notably evocativedream-like quality.The Haen Gallery is pleased to presentthe thought-provoking new work ofthese two highly acclaimed artists as theleaves fall and the winter approaches in themountains.For further information check our NCCommercial Gallery listings, call the galleryat 828/254-8577 or visit (www.thehaengallery.com).Table of ContentsAsheville Art Museum Offers ExhibitFocused on Digital Impact on CraftsThe Asheville Art Museum in Asheville,NC, will present the exhibit, The New Materiality,on view in the Appleby FoundationGallery, from Nov. 18 through Mar. 18,2012.The exhibit expands beyond the boundariesthat currently exist between technology,art and craft. The artists in this exhibitionuse new technologies in tandem with traditionalcraft materials such as clay, glass,wood, metal and fiber, to forge new artisticdirections. According to Fo Wilson, thecurator of the exhibition, The New Materialitylooks at a growing development inthe United States towards the use of digitaltechnologies as a new material and meansof expression in the practice of craft.Digital video and audio, computerizeddesign and other technologies are presentedas new materials to be exploited or manipulatedin order to enrich artistic expression.If we were to compare digital matter-zerosand ones-to materials like clay, glass, fiberor wood, does that force us to rethink thetraditional craft concern of “the hand versusthe machine”?The exhibition examines the impact ofdigital technologies on the world of contemporarycraft. Artists featured include BrianBoldon, Shaun Bullens, E.G. Crichton, SonyaClark, Lia Cook, Maaike Evers, DonaldFortescue, LawrenceLaBianca, WendyMaruyama, Christy Matson, Cat Mazza,Nathalie Miebach, Mike Simonian, TimWestern Carolina University in Cullowhee,NC, is presenting the exhibit, p(art)of the whole: Selections from the Collectionof Rob and Leigh Anne Young, on viewat the Fine Art Museum through Dec. 16,2011.Donald Fortescue and Lawrence LaBianca,Sounding, 2008, steel, rocks, dried aquatic floraand fauna, polycarbonate, zip ties and sound, 120x 48 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the Artists.Tate, Susan Working and Mark Zirkel.This exhibition was organized by theFuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery liastings, call theMuseum at 828/253-3227 or visit (www.ashevilleart.org).Western Carolina University inCullowhee, NC, Offer Collectionof Rob and Leigh Anne YoungWork by Jonathan LaskarThe exhibition features lithographs fromthe Tamarind Institute and contemporaryLatin American works. The exhibit alsoincludes a children’s section with a Latin-American theme.Rob Young is director of WCU’sProgram for the Study of DevelopedShorelines. Leigh Anne Milligan Young isfounder of Homegrown, the museum-sponsoredchildren’s art program at the JacksonCounty Farmers Market. The couples livein Webster, NC, with their two sons, Josieand Finn.A family member’s collection introducedthe Youngs to art collecting. Theyhave continued to add to the collection and,according to Denise Drury, interim directorof the Fine Art Museum, “have amassed acollection of artwork that not only is noteworthybut full of personality.”“Rob and Leigh Anne are not just artcollectors but agents of culture,” Drury said.“Creativity seeps naturally into every aspectof their family, social and work life.”The exhibit will be on display duringFall Family Day at the museum, from 10amto noon, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, at themuseum. That event is free and includesactivities, stories, music, snacks and prizes.For further information check our NC InstitutionalGallery listings, call the Museumat 828/227-3591 or visit (http://www.wcu.edu/museum/).Flood Gallery & Fine Arts Center inAsheville, NC, Offers Works by Will DickertThe Flood Gallery & Fine Arts Center,located at Phil Mechanic Studios inAsheville, NC, will present the exhibit,Will Dickert Ceramics: Solo Exhibition, onview in the Pump Gallery, from Nov. 5 - 30,2011. A reception will be held on Nov. 5,from 7-10pm.A native of Bristol, VA, Dickert nowlives and works in Asheville. He receivedhis undergraduate degree with a concentrationin ceramics from UNC-Asheville.Dickert then continued his educationthrough UNCA to receive a North Carolinateaching licensure for the Visual Arts. Inaddition to operating his business and studioin the River Arts District, Dickert teachesceramics at a local community college, areasummer camps and elementary after-schoolarts programs. The community aspect ofbeing a clay artist is a great resource andinspiration for Dickert, and his art thrives onpersonal relationships with family, friends,mentors and students.The exhibit will feature woodfired workof both stoneware and porcelain, and isreflective of a genuine love and intrigue forthe materials and firing process. Dickert’swork has an extreme connection to naturalform, temporal beauty and the interplaybetween design and utility. The result is thusa range of sculptural and functional pieceson which a variety of slips and glazes areapplied. A great effort is made to reveal thetrue nature and beauty of the materials, andthe transformations they undergo due to thedirect interaction of clay and fire. Points ofboth contrast and harmony in the artist’swork are evident through his use of formand function, as well as through the use ofapplied glazes and naturally occurring effectsof the firing process.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery listings, call the Centerat 828/255-0066 or visit (www.philmechanicstudios.com).Carolina Arts, November 2011 - Page 39
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