NEWS
-LA RESIDENZA MUSICALE DI AHLEUCHATISTAS (U.S.A.)The Album Artwork di COURTENEY CHAPPELL
Museo MARCA di Catanzaro via Alessandro Turco n.63
dall'1 al 6 novembre 2011
-SHUCKED, an art exhibition
Opening reception FRIDAY, SEPT. 9th @ 6 p.m. Push Gallery, 25 Patton Ave., Asheville, NC
Installation, paintings, drawings and sculpture by five Asheville artists using mixed media and non-traditional approaches to art making.
The artists of SHUCKED utilize methods and materials as more than a means to achieve a final product. Here, the process manifests the art; mark making, paper cutting, gluing, binding, sewing and sketching all become expressive devices to examine socio/political anxiety or assimilate metaphysical points of view. The result is a collection of art pieces representing a creative "husk" of the artist who bore them.
Participating artists:
Courtney Chappell
Tara Jensen
Lisa Nance
Michael Ohgren
Lauren Whitley
Opening reception is Friday September 9th 6-10pm
Curated by Ursula Gullow
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Courtney Chappell responds to the Persian Gulf War with her sculptural installation of an imagined world where war zones are reduced to pixelated blocks of color and commercial slogans. “My experience of the war is mediated and incomplete," says Chappell. "it is constructed from partial narratives and a distorted picture of ostensibly real events.”
Animal masks and ceremonial garb by Tara Jensen were created as instruments of celebration and worn by the artist in 2010 at the Beltane Festival in the mountains of Tennessee. With them Jensen combines spiritual concepts of nature worship with pop and anime aesthetics, and gives a nod to the 60s and 70s psychedelic countercultures.
Lisa Nance recreates a life-size kudzu landscape in cut paper to serve as a fantastical sanctuary for viewers to interact with. “A landscape has a universal personality that all people can access,” says Nance."As I cut the paper ( a destructive act) the kudzu grows (a production.)"
Michael Ohgren’s ink drawings explore a disparate range of topics, from private career disappointment and familial concerns to political frustrations and societal detachment. “It is my hope that in placing these works together, both in their individual unit, and within the larger body of work, that I echo the way one constructs a private and public reality.”
Lauren Whitley has created a shelter using found materials, such as old homework assignments and other materials, for personal catharsis and as metaphor for rearranging outdated modes of thinking.
- Slump!
Sylva After Dark. Opening reception FRIDAY, MAY 6th @ 6- 9 p.m. 551 Mill Street, Sylva, North Carolina. A benefit for Friends of the Library.
- Disposable
An exhibition featuring photographs by
ten local artists. Opening reception on
FRIDAY, APRIL 1st @ 7- 9 p.m. at the
DESOTO LOUNGE, 504 Haywood Rd.,
Asheville, North Carolina.
- I Can See Your House From Up Here
Master's Thesis Exhibition at WESTERN
CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FINE ART
MUSEUM, FEBRUARY 21- 24th.
Opening Reception THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 21st from 4- 6 p.m.
-LA RESIDENZA MUSICALE DI AHLEUCHATISTAS (U.S.A.)The Album Artwork di COURTENEY CHAPPELL
Museo MARCA di Catanzaro via Alessandro Turco n.63
dall'1 al 6 novembre 2011
-SHUCKED, an art exhibition
Opening reception FRIDAY, SEPT. 9th @ 6 p.m. Push Gallery, 25 Patton Ave., Asheville, NC
Installation, paintings, drawings and sculpture by five Asheville artists using mixed media and non-traditional approaches to art making.
The artists of SHUCKED utilize methods and materials as more than a means to achieve a final product. Here, the process manifests the art; mark making, paper cutting, gluing, binding, sewing and sketching all become expressive devices to examine socio/political anxiety or assimilate metaphysical points of view. The result is a collection of art pieces representing a creative "husk" of the artist who bore them.
Participating artists:
Courtney Chappell
Tara Jensen
Lisa Nance
Michael Ohgren
Lauren Whitley
Opening reception is Friday September 9th 6-10pm
Curated by Ursula Gullow
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Courtney Chappell responds to the Persian Gulf War with her sculptural installation of an imagined world where war zones are reduced to pixelated blocks of color and commercial slogans. “My experience of the war is mediated and incomplete," says Chappell. "it is constructed from partial narratives and a distorted picture of ostensibly real events.”
Animal masks and ceremonial garb by Tara Jensen were created as instruments of celebration and worn by the artist in 2010 at the Beltane Festival in the mountains of Tennessee. With them Jensen combines spiritual concepts of nature worship with pop and anime aesthetics, and gives a nod to the 60s and 70s psychedelic countercultures.
Lisa Nance recreates a life-size kudzu landscape in cut paper to serve as a fantastical sanctuary for viewers to interact with. “A landscape has a universal personality that all people can access,” says Nance."As I cut the paper ( a destructive act) the kudzu grows (a production.)"
Michael Ohgren’s ink drawings explore a disparate range of topics, from private career disappointment and familial concerns to political frustrations and societal detachment. “It is my hope that in placing these works together, both in their individual unit, and within the larger body of work, that I echo the way one constructs a private and public reality.”
Lauren Whitley has created a shelter using found materials, such as old homework assignments and other materials, for personal catharsis and as metaphor for rearranging outdated modes of thinking.
- Slump!
Sylva After Dark. Opening reception FRIDAY, MAY 6th @ 6- 9 p.m. 551 Mill Street, Sylva, North Carolina. A benefit for Friends of the Library.
- Disposable
An exhibition featuring photographs by
ten local artists. Opening reception on
FRIDAY, APRIL 1st @ 7- 9 p.m. at the
DESOTO LOUNGE, 504 Haywood Rd.,
Asheville, North Carolina.
- I Can See Your House From Up Here
Master's Thesis Exhibition at WESTERN
CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FINE ART
MUSEUM, FEBRUARY 21- 24th.
Opening Reception THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 21st from 4- 6 p.m.
