Profile for Tom Patterson
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An artist's passionate vision
Roy Nydorf is an artist who is passionately engaged with his world and with the act of making images. That much is immediately evident when walking into the 40-year survey of his art at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art.
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Artists' creativity conquers gloomy economy
When the going gets tough, the creative get going.
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3 artists skew views of reality for shows
Works by three highly skilled local painters are on view in exhibitions that recently opened at three galleries, one in the Salem College Fine Arts Center and the others in the Arts District.
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Artist succeeds with creepy yet compelling works
In his big solo show at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Trenton Doyle Hancock conjures a chaotic wasteland where grotesque cartoon characters engage in relentless dramas of confusion, humiliation and violent destruction.
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Timberlake looks back at 7 decades of work
If you polled North Carolinians to determine the most popular artist in the state, Bob Timberlake, a Davidson County native, would surely win by a long shot.
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Different worlds come together in exhibit
An exhibition by Victor Faccinto and the late Howard Finster at Wake Forest University's Hanes Gallery makes for a fascinating view of the working friendship between two very different artists.
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Gems stand out in casual gallery
The loss of three downtown art galleries in the past year has left the city's visual-art audience — and many local artists — increasingly dependent on the handful of galleries that remain open. In this environment, the funky little Electric Moustache Gallery, aka EM Gallery, has become a more important venue.
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'Part 2' show features Wake Forest instructors
The best of the few new exhibitions that opened early this month in downtown Winston-Salem showcases works by 10 artists who teach in the art department at Wake Forest University.
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Artists worlds apart share common theme
As artists, Michael Gregory and Asya Reznikov inhabit two different worlds.
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Feminism takes fascinating forms in Salem college exhibit
Forty years after modern feminism emerged as a force in American politics and art, it apparently remains controversial. In some quarters, "feminism" is a dirty word.
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Reynolda show unites masters of mid-century Masters
If you haven’t yet seen Reynolda House’s exhibition “Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” add it to your holiday to-do list.
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Closing is another painful blow
Millicent Greason-Spivak's decision to close Urban Artware is easy to understand, but tough to take.
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Weatherspoon exhibit of six artists gets personal
Six contemporary artists from different parts of the world challenge prevailing notions about self and the nature of personal identity in a timely, thought-provoking show at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
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Green Hill show paints cities in varied hues of beauty, grit
In an era of renewed enthusiasm for central city living, it's appropriate that the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art is showcasing works by a dozen artists for whom city life provides inspiration and rich subject matter.
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Variety of style highlights show by three artists
The artists with works on view in Wake Forest University's Hanes Art Gallery this month — Beth Sutherland, Mary Ting and Joel Tauber — have little else in common. These works are configured so they clearly constitute separate solo exhibitions, each interesting for its own reasons.
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Exhibit offers refreshing variety
Creative populism has taken center stage at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art this summer in "The People's Biennial," a group exhibition in the center's Main Gallery through Sept. 18.
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Reynolds art donation has good, bad points
The Arts Council's announcement that it will sell 3,000 artworks recently donated by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. amounts to a mixed blessing for the city's visual-arts community.
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5ive & 40rty's closing is a dark day for City of Arts
The closing of 5ive & 40rty, a downtown gallery, appears to mark the end of an era for the city's Arts District.
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Show reflects artists' bleak view of America
What does the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's exhibition "American Gothic" have to do with Grant Wood's iconic painting of the same title?
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Extinguishers fuel flames of creativity I
t takes an imaginative artist to find inspiration in a pile of old fire extinguishers that have been tossed into a thicket of weeds.
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