Art Briefs: Artist uses wide variety of techniques

Artist uses wide variety of techniques

Trenton Doyle Hancock's "We Done All We Could and None of it's Good" exhibit will open with a free artist talk and preview from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro, 500 Tate St.

The Texas artist's exhibit features new and select works that combine comics, horror movies, visionary art, Biblical stories, surrealism and abstract expressionism. It includes paintings, drawings, collages and the performing arts in a mythological world populated by characters in conflict.

The exhibit will run from Saturday to May 6. Reservations are required for the opening-night lecture and a maximum of two seats per person can be reserved.

For information and to make reservations, call (336) 256-1450 or see http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu.

What to wear to 'Art to Wear'?

The "Art to Wear" exhibit opens Friday in the Davis Gallery in the Sawtooth School for Visual Art, 251 N. Spruce St. The exhibit runs through March 9.

The exhibition will feature garments made by Joanna White, Pat Mauck, Denni McCann and Ian Dennis, and jewelry made by Brittany Sondberg and Patrick Burger.

An artists' runway-style reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Models will "walk" at 6 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free to the public.

Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

For information, call (336) 723-7395 or see www.sawtooth.org/about-us/gallery.html.

Art Crawl features new exhibitions

Six new exhibitions will open as part of Downtown Boone's First Friday Art Crawl from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Appalachian State University's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, 423 W. King St.

The exhibitions are part of the school's winter exhibit celebration and include Robert Goodnough's "Abstract Expressionism & Beyond"; "Senegal: A Window into Francophone West Africa"; the 2012 Department of Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition; the Artine and Teddy Artinian Self-Portrait Collection: Selections from the Permanent Collection; the Ninth Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition; and "Padre e Figlio: Father and Son Works" by Mario Prisco and Richard Prisco.

"Abstract Expressionism & Beyond" is in the center's Main Gallery, East Wing, and the Ninth Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition is in the Mezzanine Gallery, East Wing. Both exhibitions are on display until June 2.

"Senegal" is displayed in the Community Gallery, East Wing, through March 31, and the 2012 Department of Art Faculty Biennial is in Gallery A, West Wing. The Artine and Teddy Artinian Self-Portrait Collection is in Gallery B, West Wing, and "Padre e Figlio" is on display in the Mayer Gallery, West Wing, through March 24.

A special donors-only preview will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Friday.

The Turchin Center is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Friday. The center is closed Sundays and Mondays, and observes all university holidays.

For information, call (828) 262-3017 or see www.tcva.org.

Naturalists in the South topic of talks

Gallery talks on "Wonder and Enlightenment: Artist-Naturalists in the Early American South" will be at noon Feb. 9 and Feb. 15 at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road.

On Feb. 9, Phil Archer, exhibition curator and director of public programs, will lead the discussion. Betsy Towns, artist and professor of art history at UNC School of the Arts, will lead the talk Feb. 15.

Admission is free for students and members, and $5 for nonmembers. There is no additional charge to attend the talks. For information, call (336) 758-5150 or see www.reynoldahouse.org.

'She-roes' on a mission at Salem arts center

The Betti Pettinati-Longinotti exhibit "She-roes" will be on display from Feb. 9 to March 16 at Salem Fine Arts Center, 601 S. Church St.

"She-roes" embraces the mission of the Guerrilla Girls, a feminist art group fighting for the rights of women artists, past and present. The works include oil paintings and compositions in glass.

Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Call (336) 917-5313 or see www.salem.edu/events.

Marcus Green