JULY 2, 2009 ISSUE
Gallery News
Frederick Lane Marshall Featured at Great Train Robbery Saturday and Sunday
“Evening Colors I” is among works in an ongoing series titled Through the Darkness by Frederick Lane Marshall. His work will be featured in this weekend’s Fine Arts and Crafts Show at the Great Train Robbery.
Artist Frederick Lane Marshall is a featured artist during the Saturday and Sunday, July 4 and 5, Fine Arts and Crafts Show hosted by Mountain Top Promotions at the Great Train Robbery in Banner Elk. The show will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Marshall will also be featured at the upcoming Banner Elk Fine Arts and Master Craft Festival, taking place Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19.
Marshall, who resides in Yadkin County, has been painting since 1984. From humble beginnings in a small art store, his talents developed from impressionism to photo-realism. He is largely self-taught in both oil and watercolor. His work has shown in galleries and shows throughout the South, and several of his original works have been reproduced as limited edition pieces.
With major health problems including an amputation in recent years, Marshall has lost most of his vision except for approximately 10 percent in his right eye. He now relies solely on mental images. This inability has developed into a new genre of paintings, forcing the artist to develop new styles and techniques in order to continue his work.
The ongoing series titled Through The Darkness is based on the fact that Marshall only sees through a small pinhole of vision. Utilizing a single tool—the painter’s palette knife—is mainly how this series evolved.
For more information, click to www.fredericklane.com.
Art & Antiques co-owner Judi Russell stands with a sculpture by William Stronach. Art & Antiques is a new gallery in Blowing Rock.
New Gallery Opens in Blowing Rock
A new contemporary art gallery, Art & Artifacts, will open this summer in Blowing Rock. The gallery is the brainchild of Winston-Salem artist Judi Russell and Blowing Rock Realtor Lynn Hill.
The two entrepreneurs first met a year ago when Hill was searching unsuccessfully for an office to house her newly formed real estate company. Russell had a vacant building and, in a slowed economy, no real prospects for rental. The result was a partnership—office space for Hill’s new company and renovations to create Russell’s long-desired gallery.
“Desperation is the mother of creativity,” Hill said. Russell agreed, saying, “I had hoped to have a gallery in 10 years or so, and instead I’m about eight years ahead of plan.”
Art & Artifacts, which will have its grand opening reception Friday, July 17, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., features about 20 artists in all media, from sculpture, watercolors and oils to wood, glass, photography and jewelry. Its location on Sunset Drive is just around the corner from Blowing Rock’s busy shopping mecca on Main Street.
Russell, who lives in Winston-Salem, founded The Russell Agency, an advertising agency, in 1979 and sold it several years ago. Since then, her work has appeared in national publications and has been recognized by a number of arts groups. Because she is an artist, Russell has worked with Hill to create an artist-friendly environment at Art & Artifacts with a favorable commission structure.
Hill, who has been a top producer in the High Country real estate market for several years, has a long-standing love affair with contemporary art and artists. From the 1960s, when she and partners opened the first Piedmont Craftsmen Inc. shop in Old Salem, contemporary art has been her passion. Hill is the gallery manager and owner of Blowing Rock Gallery of Homes and Land, the real estate portion of the gallery.
For more information, call 828-414-9400.
Watauga Arts Council Call for Entries
Deadline Is September 1
Watauga Arts Council announces a call for entries for “MEMORY through, from, was, is, to, and, upon, created . . . APPALACHIA,” a juried exhibition developed to allow regional artists to compete and display work at the Jones House Community Center main gallery during October 2009.
The call for entries is open to all artists 18 years and older who reside in Watauga or adjoining counties. Entries must be original works and created within the past two years. Works may be created in any medium, but must be two-dimensional in orientation, and must not exceed 40 inches in any direction. Pieces must be framed or gallery wrapped with hanging wires and ready to hang. The entry deadline is Tuesday, September 1.
Download an entry form and prospectus from www.watauga-arts.org or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Watauga Arts Council, PO Box 366 D.T.S., Boone, NC 28607.
Noyes Capehart will jury the exhibit. Capehart began exhibiting at the local, regional and national level in 1958 and has participated in more than a hundred competitive exhibitions and a number of invitational shows. His work has been represented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Greenville Museum of Art, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte.
Watauga Arts Council galleries are sponsored in part by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Grassroots Funds of the North Carolina Arts Council. The WAC offices and galleries are located in downtown Boone at the Jones House Community & Cultural Center, owned by the town of Boone.
Beech Mountain Art Show and Sale July 11
The Beech Mountain Club Art Guild cordially invites the public to its 6th Annual Art Show and Sale to be held on Saturday, July 11, 2009 from 9am to 4:30pm. This event will take place at the Beech Mountain Club Recreation Activity Room at 103 Lakeledge Road. Cash or checks only please. For more information, call 828-387-4208.
Avery Arts Council Awards Hood-Sherrill Scholarships
One of the most fulfilling roles performed by the Avery Arts Council is the annual scholarship awarded to a deserving Avery High School student. This year, thanks to generous donors, the award was increased substantially. Chuck Hood and Paulette Sherrill, longtime supporters of the arts in the High Country, made the scholarship fund their particular focus. As a result, the Arts Council was able to award $1,000 scholarships to three students: Shaun Creech, Naomi Tatum and Jordan Taylor.
Creech will major in physical therapy with studies in theatre. He will attend East Tennessee State University in the fall. Tatum intends to study journalism with a minor in photography. Tatum also plans to attend East Tennessee State University. Taylor will study music education with the stated goal of becoming a teacher of music. He will attend Appalachian State University.
For more information about the Avery Arts Council, call 828-898-4292.
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