Join us on Saturday, July 20, 10AM - 3PM for an Exhibition Reception & Trunk Sale:
Vellum Architecture + Design
231 S Liberty St, Asheville, NC 28801
Exhibition on view through summer, 2024
On view July 13 – August 24, 2024
Margaret Curtis' solo exhibition "This, too." is on view at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City through November 9, 2024.
Join us in the gallery for an artist talk and exhibition walkthrough with Nava Lubelski whose exhibition Things We Think We Know is on view through June 8.
ANALOGUES: NORTH & SOUTH
Photographs by Tema Stauffer
"Upstate" & "Southern Fiction"
June 9 - August 30, 2024
Opening Reception with Artist Talk: June 9, 2:30-4:30pm
"Two Artists, Two Journeys | Heather Hietala and Nava Lubelski"
Work from Jade Dowkow's Freshkills series is included in the group exhibition:
"Art at Work: Sanitation & Social Practice" | May 4 - 30, 2024 | Reception: Saturday, May 4, 6 - 9 pm
All Street Gallery: 119 Hester Street, New York, NY
The group exhibition celebrates public sanitation art, and features Lily Cox-Richard, Jade Doskow, Brian Hutsebout, Kimberly Lakin, sTo Len, Hilary Pfeifer, Francesca Pfister, Slinko, Mike Suri and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The show brings together for the first time works made by artists-in-residence at municipal sanitation departments and waste facilities in four different U.S. cities—New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Portland, OR—between 2000 and 2020.
Kirsten Stolle will be an Artist in Residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from April 29 - May 12, 2024
Congratulations to Nava Lubelski who has been awarded a 2024 WNC Artists in Residence. Each resident receives a $10,000 honorarium and 8 weeks in a shared space at the Center for Craft in downtown Asheville, NC.
Congratulations to Tema Stauffer who has been awarded a Summer Research Award from the ETSU College of Arts and Sciences Internal Research and Creative Activity Council for the production of her new body of work WONDERLANDS.
"As it Was Give(n) to Me"
April 11 - May 11, 2024
CC Projects
17 Allen Street Floor 2
New York, NY 10002
"A landscape longed for: The garden as disturbance"
March 1 - April 20, 2024
Curated by Laura Novoa and Adler Guerrier, this exhibition of 15 artists explores the motif of the garden in its relation to the cultivation and expression of beauty and knowledge.
Spring 2024
For 40 years, Ucross has been giving space and time to artists who come from all disciplines, including literature, visual arts, music, choreography, film, performance, and multidisciplinary art.
Inside Out
An exhibition of works from Asheville, NC collectors, Ray Griffin and Thom Robinson
February 20 - July 14, 2024
"Interwoven: Unearthed Stories of Slavery" opens to the public March 23, 2024
Last summer, the Brownsburg Museum commissioned Würfel to photograph the remaining slave dwellings in Brownsburg, VA. These images will be on view in the exhibition along with work from her series "Plantation Still Lifes"
Many different parties were involved in creating the exhibition: the Museum Team, the African American community of Brownsburg, Lecturer Dr. Emilie Johnson and her students from the Critical Curatorial Practices course at the Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia, and students from the African American Studies course at Rockbridge County High School and Mountain Gateway Community College.
Pulp & Bind: Paper & Book in Southern Appalachia
January 26, 2024 – June 2, 2024
Pulp & Bind brings together 18 artists working across the diffuse region of Southern Appalachia who are deeply engaged with the mediums of paper and book as a form and a concept. The structural potential of paper, its emotive qualities and familiar insinuations, and the alternately highly-refined and visibly handmade possibilities of the material are just some of the recurrent themes across this exhibition. Bringing together this diverse group of objects, bound by a seemingly humble, familiar medium, reflects our region’s heterogeneity and challenges assumptions about Craft and Appalachian creative production at large.
Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist March 12-13
Exhibition Du Quotidien (2017 - 2024) on view January 21 - March 14, 2024 at Hershberger Art Gallery
About the work: Du Quotidien was created during two, 2-day sessions with faculty, staff, and student participants from the Studies in Arts and Cultures Program, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger (November 2018) and the School of Art + Design, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, U.S. (January,2019). During each session, participants were invited to sit for an individual portrait and provide a significant hand-held object for documentation. They were asked to briefly describe their object and how they saw themselves as an artist in their community.
For the first time as affiliated institutions, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art present a shared exhibition between both spaces, bringing awareness of global artists to audiences across our state. Examining place and theology from North Carolina to eastern Texas, From Alpha to Creation: Religion in the Deep South incorporates photography, video, and sculpture to survey various iconography and rituals throughout our landscape.
Weightlessness and Color
"Experience the sensation of weightlessness that hammocks offer. Randy Shull explores how he communicates this feeling through his masterful use of color and materials, transforming the ancient Pre-Hispanic form into abstract artworks."
Smith's large-scale photograph Erwin, TN was acquired this winter by the Asheville Art Musuem.
"In Feast or Famine"
January 20 - April 7, 2024
Bringing together the work of twenty-four artists, In Feast or Famine presents drawings, paintings, printmaking, photography, sculpture, collage, installation, and video. Artists consider our connections with food within the contexts of history and memory; identity and community; food equity, agriculture, and our environment.
Luke Whitlatch: Where the Fear Has Gone There Will Be Nothing
On view October 25 - February 9, 2024
Wyoming native Luke Whitlatch is a painter and musician inspired by the natural beauty of the American west. Now set within the mountains of North Carolina, he absorbs another region’s aesthetic. His undeniably western abstract style flirts with an air of Appalachian cool. And, his original High Plains palette proves a harmonious contrast with those lush tones usually associated with the Blue Ridge. His subjects are vague by design.
October 5, 2023 – January 28, 2024
Dawn Roe uses photographic methods as observational tools, responding to sites and situations where human and more-than-human lives entangle, often drawing on grief and despair as generative modes of being. Combining a documentary approach with direct intervention, Roe’s process incorporates multiple reproductive methods including analog and digital imaging, film, and video.
Exhibition on view: September 2, 2023 - April 6, 2024
The Weatherspoon is pleased to announce the 47th presentation of Art on Paper. A time-honored museum tradition, the exhibition features the work of artists who demonstrate the breadth of ways in which one can deploy the humble medium of paper to extraordinary ends. From layering colorful strips as one might on a piñata, to precisely cutting through an elongated page until its image appears as if made by lace, to densely coating giant sheets with shellac and walnut ink until they appear as weighty as stone, these artists harness the seemingly infinite ability of paper to take on myriad forms. Simultaneously, they use those forms to explore a rich array of topics–from the links and tensions between humans and the natural environment, to the beauty found in the often overlooked materials of our daily lives, to the complexity of heritage tracked across centuries of global migrations.
Exhibition on view August 21 - October 6
Reception with the Artist | September 7, 5:30-7PM
Artist in Converstaion with Leslie Walker Bickford, Associate Professor of English | September 21, 6PM
Tema Stauffer’s Southern Fiction traces the literary landscape of the American South investigating sites that were formative to canonical fiction writers of the region such as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Alice Walker and Flannery O’Conner, among others. Large-format color photographs depict the domestic settings, vernacular architecture, and rural landscapes significant to the history of these iconic writers. Through this series, Stauffer explores the beauty, mystery and complexity of the South. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at East Tennessee State University. Her work has been exhibited at Sasha Wolf, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, and Jen Bekman galleries in New York, as well as galleries and institutions internationally.
Laura Letinsky (Canadian, b. 1962, lives and works in Chicago) is a lens-based artist whose still lifes have transformed the medium in the 20th century. Inserting the aftermath and the human presence into her layered, symbolically-charged still lifes, Letinsky interrogates both the meaning of domestic space and women’s role in it, and the indexical and representational power of photographs. Letinsky is a Guggenheim Fellow, and her work is held in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum; the Getty Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and has been exhibited internationally.
Letinsky is the Museum’s 2023 Artist-in-Residence and will present a masterclass during her residency on how the camera shapes our understanding of the world.
The Artist-in-Residence program is generously supported by Mary Ann Schindler.
Rollins Museum of Art | April 8 - May 14, 2023
The 2023 Biennial Faculty Exhibition showcases multidisciplinary work produced by studio art faculty, Dana Hargrove, Audrey Hope, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons, within the College of Liberal Arts.
Exhibition Preview / Fri, April 7, 2023 / 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Gallery Talks / Tues, April 18 / 6:00 p.m.
Gallery Talks / Tues, May 2 / 6:00 p.m.
April 14 – August 21, 2023
Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller’s Plans to Save the Planet brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller (Milton, MA 1895-1983, Los Angeles, CA) to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fuller’s strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering.
April 5, 2-3:30PM | The Bascom 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC 28741
Gather with three practicing textile artists from Western North Carolina, walking through two current exhibitions (The Ravel and The Rest and Emergence) at The Bascom as they discuss works on display. Followed by a slide show and an open dialogue among the artist-practitioners and art students currently enrolled in the Professional Crafts – Fiber Program at Haywood Community College.
In this episode, Stolle talks with Matt Peiken about the seeds of her artistic inquiry, the heavy research fuelling her work and the line she straddles between artistry and activism.
Exhibition dates: March 10 - April 13, 2023
Tema Stauffer In Conversation with Lauren Rhoades
Friday, March 31 | 6pm
Bragg 103
Gesche Würfel's "Forests in the Anthropocene" has been shortlisted for the Felix Schoeller Photo Award in the "Sustainability" category. Nominees and the winner will be announced at the end or March, 2023
A selection of Jade Doskow's photographs from her work as the Freshkills Photographer in Recidence are included in the exhibition "Architecture Now: New York, New Publics," on view at MoMA through July 29, 2023.
"Too Much Is Just Right: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration" features more than 70 artworks in an array of media from both the original time frame of the Pattern and Decoration movement, as well as contemporary artworks created between 1985 and the present.
On view February 2 - May 29, 2023
The complete opus of Stacy Kranitz’s body of work "As it was Give(n) to Me" (2013-2021) will be presented as part of the inaugural 2023 TN Triennial: RE-PAIR
"Southern Fiction explores the history of the American South using its literary tradition as a road map, focusing on environments which have shaped the imaginations of 20th-century Southern writers during their formative years or throughout the course of their lives and careers. The images portray domestic settings, vernacular architecture, and rural landscapes that visually resonate with the history, culture, and atmosphere of the Deep South. From 2018 - 2021, she made road trips to Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to shoot large-format color photographs of settings associated with writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Richard Wright. The series depicts the former homes of some of these writers, sites that were relevant to their backgrounds and literary works, and the surrounding architecture and landscapes that shaped their fiction. By examining the roots of its greatest writers, the series investigates the richness and complexity of the South through the evocative settings that defined their experiences and voices."
Gallery artists included: Colby Caldwell, Hannah Cole, Margaret Curtis, Rachel Meginnes, Randy Shull, Burk Uzzle, and Gesche Würfel
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh has acquired Kirsten Stolle's Chemical Bouquet II (2016)
Using appropriation, wordplay, and humor, Kirsten Stolle co-opts advertising strategies used by agrichemical corporations to resurface and critique company history. For her exhibition, Only You Can Prevent A Forest, Stolle will create photo-based collages, visual poetry interventions, text-based sound animation, a neon wall piece, and her first site-responsive sculptural installation.
The 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition presents the nominated projects from this year’s shortlisted artists, Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ractliffe, Deana Lawson and Gilles Peress. Through June 12, 2022
Explore humanity’s relationship to the environment through an immersive, multimedia exhibition and outdoor sculpture installations in the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. Through video, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works, 14 contemporary artists focus on current concerns and offer new perspectives. They address urgent environmental issues, consequences of inaction, and opportunities for sustainable environmental stewardship and restoration. Also including work by: John Akomfrah, Olafur Eliasson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Allison Janae Hamilton, Richard Mosse, Jennifer Steinkamp, Christine Wertheim, and Margaret Wertheim, among others.
The paintings of North Carolina-based artist Margaret Curtis have been called “curious collages of surreal symbolism.” Her images are visually rich and psychologically complex – the result of a challenging lifelong personal and artistic journey.
For the past 30 years, Curtis’ art has examined family, politics, and power through a feminist lens. Before returning to the South, Curtis taught and exhibited in New York. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been featured in Harper’s, Art in America, Art Forum, Modern Painters, and The New York Times.
February 8 - July 3, 2022
Jade Doskow's commissioned photo essay on Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood was featured in the New York Times. Article by Glynnis MacNicol.
By Eduardo Porter
Published 2/12/2022
BBC article by Andrew Dickson about the recent group exhibition American in Crisis at Saatchi Gallery, London
"What was until 2010 the largest oil spill in US history — and remains the largest terrestrial oil spill in the national record — lacked the spectacular optics of the Exxon Valdez’s despoliation of wilderness or the Deepwater Horizon’s underwater explosion, or even the temporary inconvenience of the transmission pipeline leak that closed Southern California beaches last October. “Discovered” by the Coast Guard in 1978, the slow seepage likely dates back to the origins of the oil industry in Greenpoint, Brooklyn."
Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk, VA
December 24, 2021 — May 29, 2022
In this A&T Talks episode, New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow talka about the painstaking process of developing longterm photo projects and the grit it takes to develop a career in photography. Her work ethic is incredibly aspirational and her experience serves as a learning opportunity for new and early photographers.
“FloodZone” is an expansive and ongoing photographic series, responding to environmental changes in America’s coastal cities, with a particular focus on Florida, where the artist has lived since 2016. Anastasia Samoylova (b.1984, Moscow, Russia) finds herself between paradise and catastrophe, but her record of climate crisis is less inclined to direct reportage than lyrical evocation.
We are pleased to announce that Margaret Curtis has been chosen as one of 15 artists to receive the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, which re-envisions the Foundation’s oldest program, the Painters & Sculptors Grants (awarded from 1994-2020), to deepen its investment in artists’ long-term success through a multi-year fellowship with related professional offerings. As an unrestricted award, artists make the decisions about how best to develop their work and careers.
"Earthbound Riches" centers on coal, the controversial resource turned commodity, and includes two contemporary artists, Stacy Kranitz and Caroline Hatfield, whose life experiences and creative works intersect with coal at different points.
Filmmaker Philip Shane follows architectural landscape photographer Jade Doskow on her 10-year quest to capture the monumental world’s fair echoes that remain worldwide.
September 16, 2021 | 7-8PM
Followed by Q&A with Jade Doskow and Philip Shane
Four paintings by Ralston Fox Smith were recently acquired by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
Rachel Meginnes: History Repeating
Baylor University in Waco, TX
Through April 1, 2021
Four of Meginnes' works from her series Catch Me Capture were acquired by the Martin Museum of Art in Waco, Texas. All four pieces can be seen in their current exhibition Rachel Meginnes: History Repeating through April 1, 2021
Seven images from Kranitz's series Fulcrum of Malice will be featured in an exhibition curated by Makeda Best, opening in the fall. The group exhibition explores War and American Landscape photography since 1970. The show is comprised of works by 53 artists including Robert Adams, Sheila Pree Bright, Joshua Dudley Greer, Lucas Foglia, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jin Lee, Susan Meiselas, Richard Misrach and Eli Reed.
Bronx Documentary Center
Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis
Kranitz's work from Fulcrum of Malice was featured in a group exhibition addressing former president Trump's overturning of decades of American environmental policy with work by Kadir van Lohuizen, Yuri Kozyrev, Katie Orlinsky, Bryan Thomas and Marcus Yam.
Seven of Kranitz's photographs from her series Fulcrum of Malice were acquired by Harvard Art Museums and will be included in the upcoming exhibition, "Devour the Land."
Henkel's photograph Sharing Cup, 2017 photograph is featured in Simone Ferracina's forthcoming book Ecologies of Inception. Designing Hyperobjects (Routledge, 2022)
Henkel is one of three featured artists for the Penland School of Craft's 36th Annual Benefit Auction.
McNair Evans' photograph Floodlight from his series Confessions for a Son accompanies the article Alone, Together by Kiese Makeba Laymon in the December issue of "Vanity Fair"
Doskow's new series on Freshkills, New York was featured in the New York Times
Nostalgia, 2020 featured in the article A Season to Set the House on Fire: On the End of a Marriage by Elaine Bleakney on Literary Hub.
Portrait of My Anxiety was featured in the Readings Section of the November issue of Harper's Magazine.
The Ice Sculpture, 2019 was acquired by the Asheville Art Museum during their Collector's Circle meeting in December. Curtis' work was selected along with work by Gina Adams, Jean Morrison Becker, Heather Carson, Chris Johnson, Bayard Wootten, Roberto Lugo and Judy Chicago.
Virtual conversation with gallery artist Margaret Curtis and the curatorial staff at Asheville Art Museum.
This is a museum member event. Tickets: https://www.ashevilleart.org/event/conversation-with-margaret-curtis/
Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to announce gallery artist Stacy Kranitz has been awarded a 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for her work in Photography. Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation.
Group exhibition shows paintings from a variety of current emerging artists. This exhibition highlights paintings within Contemporary North Carolina expressing invididuality and a vieriety of processes.
The exhibition will feature an iteration of her installation Growth.
A series of pieces focused on the appropriation of selling chemicals products within advertising. A new take of toxic chemicals with a pop art view.
A Diverse group exhibition of the 21 artists who recieved the 2018-2019 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship opens at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts.
Group exhibition at Florida International University where contemporary artists are taking a look at the history of the Hudson River School within culture, economy and environmental concerns in relation to what the world is currenly facing.
Colby Caldwell: Photographs
November 20th - December 20th
Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University
Solo exhibition of work by Colby Caldwell.
Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures
October 17, 2019 - March 15, 2020
Gregg Museum of Art & Design NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
Stolle's Miracle Grow wallpaper intervention and Chemical Bouquet II are included in this exhibition which is a visually stunning and thought-provoking exhibition aimed at raising awareness about genetic engineering, biotechnologies, and their consequences through the lens of art and design. Stolle will also participate in the panel discussion, "Biotechnology as Culture", moderated by Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University. Panel convenes from 2-3 pm on October 18th.
Extinction. The World Without Us
Published by Urbanautica, 2019
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers were selected by Urbanautica Institute. A portfolio of Dawn's images from Conditions for an Unfinished Mourning: Wretched Yew were selected for inclusion.
Through her large-format, full-color images of the site, the transformations — natural and unnatural, dynamic and incremental, seasonal and yearly — become visible. Combining within each picture the beauty and luminosity of the Hudson River School of landscape paintings with the jarring, surreal structural elements inherent to the site — methane wells, leachate plants, roads built for landfill operations that are still in use today — Doskow’s images offer a vision of a new and highly engineered concept of wilderness.
Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia
November 14, 2019
Asheville Art Museum Asheville, NC
Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia will be the inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Museum. The exhibition provides a regional snapshot of the art of our time—a collective survey of contemporary Southern Appalachian culture.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South
Through December 6, 2019
Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh, NC
and The Power Plant Gallery, Durham, NC
NC State’s Gregg Museum and Duke’s Power Plant Gallery have joined forces to show Southbound—Photographs of and about the New South, a joint mega-exhibition that seeks to reveal the South through the lenses of fifty-five contemporary photographers. Chosen by Mark Sloan and Mark Long of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, Southbound presents places and images they saw as indelibly and irrefutably “Southern.” This is the second stop for this traveling exhibition.
Artists Minding Their Business
Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
October 18 - December 6, 2019
How do you go from creative spark to creative business? An interactive multimedia exhibition and event series, Artists Minding Their Business takes us on the evolution from making art to making a living.
October 11, 2018 - January 11, 2019
Revolve Project Space Asheville, NC
Three person show including Stolle's Needled project and Grand Order of the Invisibles. Each artist in this exhibition disrupts the grand narrative, and offers their alien, or othered, point of view. By experiencing these works together in one place we can perhaps start to see that we are all aliens at one time or another, marked as outsider as our relationship to home, history, and our bodies change over time.
Curated by Anna Helgeson.
Coined in the South
October 10, 2019 - February 16, 2020
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The Young Affiliates, in collaboration with The Mint Museum, will host their fourth annual art show, Coined in the South, at Mint Museum Uptown. The title, Coined in the South, refers not only to The Mint Museum’s origins as the first branch of the United States Mint, but also to the act of inventing and/or devising.
Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida
The Loisaida Center, NY
October 2 - December 12, 2019
Activist Estates: A Radical History of Property in Loisaida is an exploration of buildings and properties in the Lower East Side that are celebrated sites of resistance. This exhibition curated and designed by the Architect Nandini Bagchee in partnership with Loisaida Center visualizes the narratives of a historic space-based activism via drawings, maps, models, photographs, manuals and posters.
Ken Abbotts recently received second place in the Toe River Juried Exhibit. Every year, a juror with many years of curating expertise, a discerning eye, and knowledge of our mountain community is selected to express his or her unique perspective. The juror this year was Mary Anne Redding. The exhibit is open to amateur and professional artists in every media from North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Bryan Graf: Landlines
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA
Through December 22, 2019
In Landlines, Graf continues his exploration across a varied range of photographic approaches and subjects. Finding equal importance in conceptual, visceral, and narrative approaches to the medium. The exhibition title, Landlines, is borrowed from landline telephones- which are in a fixed, specific location to communicate with someone. While we’re communicating from this place, there’s also the ambient sounds and beautiful static surrounding us.
Photo District News: Fine Art Careers: McNair Evans Learns the Value of Patience (And a Business Plan) by David Walker
"McNair Evans expected his career to flourish quickly after he graduated in 2011 from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. “I felt perhaps entitled to that. I felt that people ought to like my work,” the photographer says. It wasn’t long before he realized that to build a career, “the road is long, and it’s hard, and you’ve got to have patience.'"
Evans' image Crescent 13001, from the series In Search of Great Men (pictured) also appears on the cover of this issue.
Filter Photo Festival is an anual photography festival held in Chicago, each year the festival creates a schedule of workshops, lectures, artist talks, exhibitions, and more. Two exhibition proposals were chosen for this years festival, "The Universal" and "Seeing the Familiar for the First Time." Tracey Morgan Gallery is proud to announce that represented photographer, Dawn Roe, has been selected to exhibit her work in "The Universal." Both of these shows were curated by Gregory Harris of Atlanta's High Museum of Art, and will be open at the Filter Space, Chicago, starting Septermber 20. For more information on both shows please visit the Filter Photo Festival Website.
Rallston Fox Smith was one of three artists chosen to fabricate and install a large-scale sculpture for the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. The three works will be unveiled at the Asheville Visitor's Center on July 31, 2019 and remain on view throughout the year.
Asheville Made interviews Randy Shull about his most recent body of work, on display at Tracey Morgan Gallery and his buisness Pink Dog Studios.
The Terrain Biennial is a group exhibition that started in Springfield IL, with exhibition centers displaying work across the united states in Oak Park, Chicago, Evanston, Portland (Maine), Lubbock (Texas), Peoria, Springfield, Oakland, Los Angeles, Dhaka (Bangladesh), London (UK), and more. Work in the show is themed around the landscape and human interaction with the environment. Tracey Morgan Gallery is proud to announce that one of our represented artists, Kirsten Stolle, is featured as an exhibiting artist. The show opens on October 4, 2019. For more information on the show and a complete list of exhibition locations please visit https://terrainexhibitions.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=537006376054ca5eb7862f83a&id=a908513cab&e=c1a557426a.
A show of new work by Bryan Graf will open at Atlanta Contemporary on August 24, 2019 during the annual Art Party.
Tema Staufer's exhibition Upstate opens, August 10, 2019 at Historic Hudson Hall Opera House, in Hudson NY.
Randy Shull's work, Open Space has been acquired by the Asheville Art Museum. Open Space is an artwork that combines sculpture, painting and furniture into one, a hallmark of Shull's oeuvre.
PDN interviews McNair Evans about his work and the buisness practices of working as an artist
Stacy Kranitz was one of ten photographers, and the only American, to be nominated for the New Discovery prize category at the Les Rencontre d'Arles photography festival for her body of work As It Was Give(n) to Me.
Stacy Kranitz was one of ten photographers, and the only American, to be nominated for the New Discovery prize category at the Les Rencontre d'Arles photography festival for her body of work As It Was Give(n) to Me.
Stacy Kranitz was one of ten photographers, and the only American, to be nominated for the New Discovery prize category at the Les Rencontre d'Arles photography festival for her body of work As It Was Give(n) to Me.
Stacy Kranitz will present an installation of her series As it was Give(n) to Me at the 2019 Les Rencontre d"Arles Photography Festival.
Kranitz and the gallery were one of 10 projects shortlisted and the only presentation from the United States.
Kirsten Stolle has been one of several commissioned artists chosen to respond to work from the WPA / Depression-era as part of TOPIC's series, Federal Project Number 2. Stolle's direct influence for the project are the infamous killed neagtives of Roy Stryker, held within the archive of The Library of Congress.
The Asheville Art Museum’s Collectors’ Circle recently selected twelve works to add to the museum’s collection at their 15th Annual Year-End Acquisition Dinner at Celine and Company On Broadway.
The Museum’s Collectors’ Circle supports the proactive development, stewardship, and conservation of the museum’s collection. Over the years, its members have purchased over 160 works of art in all media for enjoyment by the Asheville community and its many visitors. The museum thanks all members of the Collectors’ Circle past and present. This year’s choices consist of art from a diverse array of perspectives produced in a variety of media, further informing the Museum’s educational initiatives and collecting priorities.
The Museum acquired the following two works by Jade Doskow. Montreal 1967 World’s Fair, “Man and His World,” Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome with Solar Experimental House, 2012, archival pigment print on paper, edition 3/5, 40 × 50 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by 2018 Collectors’ Circle Member Vito Lenoci and the Lenoci Family in honor of the Nat C. Myers Fund for Photography.
New York 1964 World’s Fair, “Peace Through Understanding,” New York State Pavilion (Fresh Paint), 2017, archival pigment print on paper, edition 1/5, 40 × 50 inches. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Nat C. Myers Fund for Photography.
Interview with painter and Tax expert for creative people, Hannah Cole.
Selective Memory examines the influence of agribusiness and biotech companies on our food supply. Using appropriation, redaction and manipulation, Kirsten Stolle critiques the popular narrative and explores the complex relationship between economy and ecology. Mining source materials such as 20th century medical books, 19th century botanical lithographs, USDA promotional videos and archival photographs, Stolle’s work responds to corporate propaganda and challenges industry narratives.
Kirsten Stolle is a visual artist working in collage, drawing and mixed media. Her research-based practice is grounded in the investigation of corporate propaganda, food politics and biotechnology.
Drawing together nearly 100 works from the museum’s Modern & Contemporary Collection, Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum is the museum’s first exhibition to focus on this dynamic, engaging medium. This technique, in which materials from different sources are cut, torn, and layered to create new meanings and narratives, experienced a renaissance after World War II, due in large part to Charlotte native Romare Bearden, whose work plays a special role in this exhibition.
The Billboard Creative connects artists with mass audiences on the streets of LA, bringing art into the daily routines of hundreds of thousands of Angelenos
New Southern Photography highlights the exciting and diverse breadth of photography being practiced in the American South today. The largest photography exhibition at the Ogden Museum to date, this exhibition will feature the work of twenty-five emerging, mid-career and established photographers.
“I paint the daily surroundings that normally go unnoticed—a glimpse of the bookshelf, the manhole cover I walk over on my route to the grocery store, my pliers hanging on a pegboard.
My paintings are at once rooted in the unique experiences of my own life, and in conversation with the larger history of American painting. If you’re an art nerd like me, you may notice some cheeky nods to our painting forefathers; Agnes Martin, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman. I make every mark by hand, without shortcuts. This practice is one part meditation, one part Yankee work ethic.”
The Admissions department at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL has acquired a photograph for their offices by gallery artist Dawn Roe. Roe is currently the Associate Professor of Art and department Co-Chair.
Roe teaches photography and digital imaging courses that align the practice and content of lens-based media. Her research focuses upon temporality, memory and perception in relation to the camera image. Roe's work is exhibited regularly throughout the U.S. and internationally.
The exhibition The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and other Fairy Tales brings together works of eight international visual artists whose work navigates on the intersection of art and long-term scientific research. While examining the relationship between nature, time and human intervention, and translating this in strong visual work, these artists generate new readings of our surroundings and possible perceived futures.
Collage is one of the most accessible artistic mediums. Requiring nothing more than paper and glue, it is easily achievable by people of all ages and skill levels. Often relying on found imagery, collage circumvents the need to generate new content and is a refreshingly non-intimidating form of self-expression. However, its seeming simplicity belies an influential, potent, and rebellious underbelly.
The 2018 edition of the Rollins Faculty Exhibition showcases new or recent work by Rollins College faculty artists Joshua Almond, Rose Casterline, Dana Hargrove, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons.
Acclaimed photographic artist and art professor Colby Caldwell will present a program on his career and work at the North and South Mills River Community Center, Sunday, February 25 at 3:00pm. The program is free and open to the public.
North Carolina native McNair Evans photographs the American cultural landscape, exploring themes of shared experience and identity as well as the forces of modernization and those individuals most impacted by these changes. His work presents personal, sometimes autobiographical, subject matter in unconventional narrative form and has been recognized for its literary character and metaphoric use of light.
Award-winning photographer, McNair Evans, will be speaking at Ball Hall Auditorium at East Tenessee State University in Johnson City. McNair will speak on his work which explores themes of shared experiences and identity by photographing the American cultural landscape amidst forces of modernizations.
12 x 12 gives artists from across North Carolina a public platform for continued artistic development and recognition in the place where they live and work, and beyond. Through this exhibition, SECCA seeks to give national exposure and recognition to artists in the region, as SECCA has done historically with the annual awards for the selected Southeast Seven contemporary artists and the Awards in the Visual Arts, recognizing national and international artists.
Collectors' Circle Selects Ken Abbott
The Asheville Art Museum has acquired Ken Abbott's work Silver Water Pitcher, from the series Useful Work, for their permanent collection. Each year the museum's Collectors' Circle selects works to add to the museum collection, and we are honored to be included in this year's acquisition.
Artists:
Sadie Barnette, Josh Begley, James Bridle, Ingrid Burrington, Harun Farocki, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Khaled Hafez, Mark Lombardi, Kirsten Stolle, Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman
Curated by Paolo Cirio
Evidentiary Realism features artists engaged in investigative, forensic, and documentary art.
The exhibition aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays and reveals evidence from complex social systems. The artworks featured explore the notion of evidence and its modes of representation.
Evidentiary Realism reflects on post-9/11 geopolitics, increasing economic inequalities, the erosion of civil rights, and environmental disasters. It builds on the renewed appreciation of the exposure of truth in the context of the cases of WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, the Panama Papers, and the recent efforts to contend with the post-factual era.
In profile of Tracey Morgan and Tracey Morgan Gallery.
Web feature on "Representing Place."
