NOVEMBER 5, 2009 ISSUE
Gallery News
Downtown Boone Art Crawl
The monthly Downtown Boone Art Crawl takes place this Friday, November 6. Receptions at several downtown art galleries begin around 6:00 p.m. and continue throughout the evening. The Downtown Boone Development Association sponsors the Art Crawl. For more information, call 828-262-4532.
225° F: Encaustic Encounters is the first exhibition focused entirely on encaustic painting to be featured in the Turchin Center. Encaustic painting traditionally involves combining heated wax with pigment, then applying the mixture to a prepared surface, such as wood or canvas.
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
423 West King Street
828-262-3017
The Turchin Center celebrates six exhibitions with its Fall Exhibition Celebration this Friday, November 6, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. as part of the Downtown Boone Art Crawl. This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Three exhibitions (225° F: Encaustic Encounters, Collective Dialogues and Brush & Palette: Artists Unmasked)
will open for the first time this Friday. Artists will be in attendance to meet the public and discuss their work, and live music will be provided by local band The Lucky Strikes.
In the Main Gallery, 225° F: Encaustic Encounters is the first exhibition focused entirely on encaustic painting to be featured in the Turchin Center. Encaustic painting traditionally involves combining heated wax with pigment, then applying the mixture to a prepared surface, such as wood or canvas. While the wax is warm, artists work with the material using various tools to create the desired effect. 225° F: Encaustic Encounters explores naturalistic themes from the work of artists who challenge the established traditions of encaustic painting.
Peter G. Oakley’s stone carving of a 1906 Corona IV typewriter will be included at the Turchin Center exhibition beginning on Friday, November 6. The exhibition will show through February 6, 2010.
Collective Dialogues: New Work from The Collective on Depot
is located in the Mezzanine Gallery. The Collective on Depot, located on Depot Street in downtown Boone, is an active work and studio space for local artists and musicians. The exhibition is the result of members' efforts to challenge one another, experiment with new ideas and investigate alternate directions within each artist's work through a collaborative endeavor.
Brush & Palette: Artists Unmasked
is in the
Catwalk Gallery. The Brush and Palette Art Club is a member organization of 36 actively exhibiting regional painters and sculptors whose works range from oil and watercolors to ceramics, collages and fabric paintings.
An original partner in establishing the Caldwell County Arts Council in nearby Lenoir, the group organizes and participates in many art education and art charity projects and has established the Brush & Palette Art Gallery, through which they present art education programs.
In Gallery B will be the posters of artist and ASU alumnus Chris Williams, owner/operator and head designer for Plastic Flame Press in Raleigh. Williams has produced more than 200 screen-printed posters to date.
SAQA: 12 Voices will be on display in Gallery A. Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit international organization that works to promote the art quilt—a contemporary quilt that incorporates elements of the whole range of visual arts.
The Mayer Gallery will feature nearby Sugar Grove native Olivia Pendergast, who now paints full time in the Utah mountains. Inspired by a recent trip to Malawi, a densely populated, rural nation in southeast Africa, Pendergast has developed a suite of large-format, figurative paintings that will be presented for the first time at the Turchin Center.
The luscious and vibrant oil paintings of Alex Reeves are featured at ArtWalk in November.
ArtWalk
611 West King Street
828-264-9998
ArtWalk is home to many artists, each working in a variety of media and coming from varied artistic backgrounds. Some studied for years, some learned from friends and some, like painter Alex Reeves, taught themselves after ultimately pursuing a lifelong desire. He indulges his creative side with luscious and vibrant oil paintings capturing the beauty of his surroundings.
Growing up in the foothills of North Carolina, he spent a lot of time in the Blue Ridge Mountains. His paintings reflect his passion for nature as represented in the rugged mountains, peaceful valleys and rapidly changing weather patterns that envelop the High Country. The changing colors of the seasons, heavy snowstorms, icy conditions and the fast-moving streams found along the Blue Ridge Parkway are the inspiration for most of his subjects.
Reeves resides in Hickory with his wife, three children and three dogs. He graduated from Wake Forest University and works in the furniture industry as a merchandising and sales manager. His occupation takes him to all corners of North America, giving him more imagery and beautiful scenery to paint.
Reeves is a self-taught artist. He believes his ability to paint is a gift from God, and therefore he puts a cross in every painting.
Jones House Community Center
634 West King Street
828-264-1789
The Watauga Arts Council will participate in the Art Crawl this Friday, November 6, with a reception from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Jones House that is free and open to the public.
In the Mazie Jones Gallery will be the juried exhibit “Memories of Appalachia,” where you will see the first, second and third place winners as well as three honorable mentions. First place is Micah Branch for his oil and wax on canvas titled “Two Sisters.” Second place is a digital photo titled “Horse Training” by Carole Usdan. Third place went to Cathy Taylor for her collage titled “Winter Frost.”
The three Honorable Mentions were Kyle Keeter for “A Southern Still Life,” Joe Burleson for “Nanny’s Chicken House” and Gary Nemcosky for “Christmas Tree House 2.”
The Jones House will be closed after this reception for Christmas decorating and will reopen on Friday, November 27, at noon.
In the Open Door Gallery will be a Hospitality House Exhibit in honor of Homelessness Awareness Month in November. Hospitality House is a nonprofit crisis intervention agency in Boone that provides shelter, food and other services to the homeless in our community.
The Arts Council is providing a venue for some of these talented people to display their artwork. They have expressed themselves in several media, including paint, Crayola, woodworking, poetry and more.
In preparation for the holiday season, the Jones House will collect canned goods for the Hospitality House at the reception. Any donations will be greatly appreciated. For more information about Hospitality House, click to www.hospitalityhouseofboone.org or call 828-262-3461.
Watauga Arts Council galleries are sponsored in part by Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff and Grassroots Funds of the North Carolina Arts Council.
The GreenHouse
164 South Depot Street
828-268-5022
The GreenHouse will showcase work by several children who are involved in the Western Youth Network’s programs. Each piece of art will be framed and sold for $15, with all the proceeds going to support WYN’s services for 5th through 10th grade youth in the High Country.
Nthº Gallery and Studios
683 West King Street
During the Art Crawl, the Nthº Gallery and Studios will display its annual Halloween night exhibition, HalloweeNth XI: The Nth is People, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The exhibition features an open hanging of artwork by various artists in the community.
The Nth Degree Gallery is located at 683 West King Street, across from the Post Office and above Loretta’s Vendetta. For more information, email nthdegreegallery@gmail.com or call 828-773-0895.
The Collective on Depot
125 South Depot Street
artists@thecollectiveondepot.com
Artists of The Collective on Depot will showcase their latest works—collectively titled, Collective Dialogues: New Works from The Collective on Depot at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts opening at a reception this Friday, November 6, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and on display through February 6, 2010.
Following the reception at the Turchin Center, artists of The Collective of Depot will open their studio doors to the public for more celebrations (around 9:00 p.m.).
Located on Depot Street in downtown Boone, through the doors left of Black Cat Burrito, The Collective On Depot is a work and studio space for local artists and musicians who contribute to the operation and management of the space. Collective members bring different media and perspectives to the group and foster a constant dynamic for collaboration, interaction and inspiration.
Current members are Brook Bower, Jamie Carroll, Chris Curtin, Travis Donovan, Dan Kaple, Brian Knox, Sean Matthews, Virginia Nuckolls, Peter Oakley, Uijin Park, Melissa Reaves and Christian Smith. In addition to being an active studio space, The Collective on Depot is also a gallery and performance space for regional and nonregional artists and musicians and has been in operation since 2007.
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