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Confronting Harlequins Hawthorne Gallery opens in new space with a provocative exhibition of 33 mixed-media works by a local legend
Although its name remains the same, Hawthorne Gallery is no longer on South Hawthorne Road in Ardmore, its original home. Last November the gallery and Idlewild House, the interior-design firm with which it is affiliated, moved into a restored historic home on West Fourth Street.
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Plainly Outstanding Works by unschooled African American artists present an astonishing display of vision, ingenuity and energy
Roofing tin, wire fencing, old clothes, used rugs, uprooted trees and bits of costume jewelry have been reclaimed from the scrap heap and transformed into visually powerful works of art in a formidable exhibition that opened early this month at Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
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Of Fame and Phantasms Trade Street gallery showing works about pop-culture icons; WFU teacher's intriguing studies are on exhibit in High Point
Brian Sieveking resurrects dead American pop-culture icons and sports heroes for portrayal alongside real and mythical beasts, with living-legend celebrities occasionally joining the proceedings. Such imagery is the focus of Sieveking's solo show, "Age of Miracles," at 5ive & 40rty. It has 16 paintings and seven drawings that play with society's propensity for according mythical status to famous entertainers and athletes, especially after they're dead.
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A Dazzling Display Green Hill Center's exhibition of works by N.C. printmakers is monumental in size, comprehensive in coverage of the medium
GREENSBORO -- You would think that 2008 had been formally declared the "Year of Printmaking," given the focus on printed art in several exhibitions on view or opening soon in the Piedmont Triad. An "Invitational Printmaking Exhibition" opens Monday in Salem College's Fine Arts Center Gallery, and an international print show goes on view March 6 at 5ive & 40rty. Those shows will have a long way to go to outdo the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art's "PRINTED: Contemporary Prints & Books by North Carolina Artists," which opened in mid-January.
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Pulling No Punches Forceful, unsettling exhibition at WhiteSpace Gallery confronts 'racism, oppression and privilege' head-on
Racial issues are never far from the surface of American life, as evidenced by racially charged exchanges among the candidates and their surrogates campaigning in the recent South Carolina presidential primaries.
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Contrasting Moods Two-man show at Wake Forest presents striking differences in the colors they chose for their figural expressionistic works
Pairing Irv Marcus' drawings with those of Gianni Cestari makes sense to the extent that both artists can be characterized as figural expressionists. But comparing their coinciding solo exhibitions at Wake Forest University's Hanes Art Gallery reveals the considerable breadth within that designation.
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Show Instead of Tell Show of works by teachers at city's five colleges and universities worth a visit to two of the galleries in the Sawtooth Building
Although not often described as a college town, Winston-Salem is home to five colleges and universities. All of them offer formal instruction in visual art, and over the years their teaching artists have contributed significantly to the city's strong cultural reputation.
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Creation to Revelation Collection of 60 religious works by folk and outsider artists make for interesting viewing at Hickory Museum of Art
HICKORY -- Winged angels, pitchfork-wielding devils, Jesus, Adam and Eve and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are among the biblical figures who appear repeatedly in "Silent Preachers and Bringers of Light," a reverent but lively exhibition at the Hickory Museum of Art.The show consists of about 60 "Gospel Works from the Huffman Collection of Contemporary Folk & Outsider Art," as it's subtitled.
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Photographic Interaction Married couple explore relationships, mortality, vulnerability in an engaging exhibition of their works at a downtown gallery
Doug Bohr and Julianna Foster, artists and former Winston-Salem residents, have known each other for 13 years and been married for about eight years. Their relationship directly or indirectly informs all of the color photographs and related works in their joint exhibition at 5ive & 40rty.
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The Year inVisual Art SECCA news looms large in '07 review
The Triad's big visual-art story this year was the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's change in status. SECCA went from an independent, nonprofit arts center to a branch of Raleigh's N.C. Museum of Art --a major shift that will likely have significant implications for the future of visual art in the region.
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The Year in Performing Arts Music lovers were treated to a banquet
This year was unusually eventful in local classical music and dance. Midori, the famed violinist, worked with both professional and amateur musicians during a five-day residency involving both the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Winston-Salem Youth Orchestra. Van Cliburn soloed with the symphony in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Robert Moody led a symphony presentation of Messiah, ending the Mozart Club's monopoly on full-length or nearly full-length performances of Handel's beloved oratorio.
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Potter and Her Proteges Delta Arts Center showing works by a renowned ceramicist and 10 of the artists she influenced as a teacher and mentor
For more than 30 years, ceramic artist Winnie Owens-Hart has maintained a dual interest in preserving the traditions of her art and nurturing new generations of ceramics innovators.
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Artworks Up for Grabs Cooperative's members exhibit a variety of offerings that are priced to appeal to holiday shoppers
You'd never know it from the recent record-breaking high temperatures, but it's that time of year.
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A feast for photo lovers Works by contemporary North Carolina photographers are exhibited in two companion shows at SECCA
In 2003 the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh began an effort to build a significant collection of contemporary photography -- a worthy if belated endeavor -- including works by some of the state's more outstanding, solidly established photographers. The museum now owns 105 works by 10 contemporary North Carolina photographers.
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Studies in Female Identity Artist's meticulous egg tempera works at SECCA reflect an impressive grasp of traditional drawing, painting techniques
Until about 100 years ago, the ability to precisely and accurately render the human body and other natural imagery in drawings and paintings was a requisite for any seriously aspiring artist. Those skills became less important in the 20th century with modernism's emphasis on abstraction, expressionism and concept.
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