Current Exhibitions

65 Union Street South, Concord, NC

Monday through Saturday, 10 am-4 pm

704-920-ARTS(2787)

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Current Exhibition

Garden Party

March 26-May 17, 2012

Two-dimensional and three-dimensional works representing artists' visions of landscapes and garden materials, tableware and whimsies.

Join us for the Art Walk and Gallery Talks and demonstrations on Friday, March 30 from 6-9 pm.

Margaret Agner paints with dyes and resists on silk, illustrating her love of flowers, moths, and butterflies.

 

 

Stanley Mace Andersen creates functional earthenware clay pottery with opaque white glazes and exuberant hand-painted designs inspired by his garden.

 

Ann and Sandy Batton of Batton Clayworks make pottery in five distinct patterns with a wide range of shapes and functions.

 

Elizabeth Bradford illustrates her love and respect for her family's farm through her acrylic and oil paintings in a palette of jewel tone colors.

Joyce Bramwell used her photography for son Jeff's cookbook as a springboard for a new body of work featuring single flowers and vegetables as subjects.

Jim Carpenter is recognized throughout the bird carving community as a star. He carves the birds from wood and further reveals their beauty through his detailed and meticulous painting.

 

Walt Cottingham uses natural materials to create species appropriate birdhouses embellished with found materials.

Chery Cratty has developed her medium, pulp painting, into fine impressionistic works of art.

Bre Barnett Crowell is a lover of expressionistic color, represented by her exquisite pastel representations of the natural world.

 

B. Jane Doub's weavings use structure, color, and texture to create works inspired by nature. Jane is also President and CEO of Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc.

 

Mike Durham has a great sense of humor and an original way of looking at the world as evidenced by his large-scale found object sculptures.

April Flanders is a professor of art at Appalachian State and an environmentalist. She uses her layered and patterned prints to bring awareness of environmental concerns.

 

Mary Paul and John Garland are potters creating earthenware forms covered with highly detailed and colored naturalistic designs.

 

Michael Hamlin-Smith is a self-taught ceramic artist inspired by historical pottery shapes and the plants and flowers he grows.

Murray Johnston is known for her beautiful small scale quilted scenes depicting woods and trees. Her newest work is in the tree shape instead of a traditional square or rectangle.


Allison Luce is a ceramicist using natural shapes and forms to call attention to the environment, the soul, growth and temptation.

Holden McCurry's clay journey boats evoke a feeling of time, movement and memory. His painstaking construction mirrors our steps in building a life's journey.

 

Stephanie Neely wrestles with questions of divining order from chaos, beautifully expressed in her masterfully rendered oil pastel flowers.

Jay Pfeil's daily mountain hikes serve as inspiration for her etchings and engravings of North Carolina's natural beauty.

Susannah Ravenswing once again graces The Galleries with incomparable jewelry of gold, silver and uniquely marked stones. She refers to herself as a storyteller who uses jewelry as illustration.

 

Stuart Roper returns to The Galleries with his impressionistic paintings hoping to bring to viewers the oneness he feels with the natural world.

Joseph Sand's apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt paved the way for his pottery combining traditional southern alkaline glaze ware with an East Asian influence and his emergence as a rising star in North Carolina ceramics.

Yaffa and Jeff Todd craft spectacular and vibrantly colored flowers in glass, reflecting the surroundings of their Burnsville studio.

 

 

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