Current Exhibitions

65 Union Street South, Concord, NC

10 am - 4 pm, weekdays

704-920-ARTS(2787)

Current Exhibition

Multi-Tasking

An exploration of multi-talented artists who create their work in more than one medium.
Join us for the Art Walk on Friday, August 27 from 6-9 pm. See the map.

Robert Crum is an oil painter and muralist who lives and works in Salisbury. He works in a classical style and creates still lifes, portraits, and figurative work. He also creates plein air landscape works during his travels. Upon returning to the studio, he uses these paintings to create larger scale works. He has studied throughout his life with teachers Tony Griffin for landscapes, Charles Kapsner for still life and Ben Long for murals and large scale frescoes. He assisted Ben Long on four of his North Carolina frescoes. He has studied mosaics under a number of British, Italian, and American artists including Enzo Aiello and Giuseppe Semeraro. His mosaics include “Smoke and Steel,” a 110-foot mural containing over 100,000 porcelain tiles in downtown Salisbury as well as creations in Costa Rica, Phoenix, Myrtle Beach and Charlotte. He has a BA from Bradley University in Illinois.
www.robertcrumfineart.com

George Handy creates large public art pieces as well as paintings, ceramics and etched glass. His public art and paintings are influenced by the forms of Willem de Kooning and the pallette of Richard Diebenkorn. One of his outdoor installations is a motorized sculpture for the Western North Carolina Nature Center on which a gray wolf changes into a red wolf as the piece rotates. His ceramic work draws inspiration from old Chinese bronzes, Mayan architecture, African textiles, and the dreamlike animal fetishes of Inuit artifacts, but he says his greatest source of inspiration is the clay itself as he finds surface pattern and design inherent in the material. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Handy is an adjunct professor of art at Warren Wilson College. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, RJ Reynolds Corporation and UNC Justice Center, and in the private collections of Alan Alda, Neil Simon, and Frank Stella. His public art is in many venues including the Western North Carolina Nature Center, Duke Power Corporate Headquarters, Charlotte Area Transit System, and the North Carolina Zoological Park.
www.georgehandy.com

Paul Keysar creates classical, representational oil paintings of landscapes and still lifes. He has a passion for the land and is intrigued with the interaction of man and nature. His goal is to show “the beauty of the land and man’s dependence on it.” In his still lifes, he usually focuses on one or two objects and likes to minimize the field using natural light. His greatest artistic influences have been the art of Homer, Corot, and Constable. Contemporary influences include Jacob Collins and Randall Exton. He is also known for his drawings. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and also completed a year of study under nationally known portrait and landscape artist Carolyn Egeli of Valley Lee, Maryland. He has won numerous painting and drawing awards throughout the East Coast. He teaches workshops and classes in oil painting, plein air painting, and figure drawing.
www.paulkeysar.com

Julie Olson is a full-time teacher and studio artist who produces Raku pottery and white stoneware and also works in metal, paper, woodworking and stained glass. Her work is influenced by spiritual and ritual themes. Olson creates mixed media shrines to hold the ashes of beloved pets. She also makes lidded ceramic boxes that represent the unknown. Each box and lid is thrown, then altered in shape and assembled. After the final firing, the hinges, chains and glass beads (all made by Julie) are added. She teaches advanced pottery at the Crafts Center at N.C. State University. An alumna of Olympic College in Washington, she has a life-long passion for classes and continues to enjoy learning from such great instructors as Mark Hewitt, Robert Pipenberg, Tom Turner, Michael Simon, Suze Lindsey, Cynthia Bringle, and Nick Joerling. She has received numerous awards and grants including the 1987 Best of Show Award at Raleigh Oktoberfest, an Emerging Artist Grant from the NC Arts Council, and 2 grants from Wake County United Arts. She has assisted Ben Owen III in his teaching at Penland and has work in numerous public and private collections.
www.whiteoakartworks.com

Whitney Peckman is truly an artist who works in multiple media. She began as a tapestry artist. After 25 years, she began working with gourds and creating paintings. She also has worked with paint, pencil, handmade paper and photography, all separate and all mixed. “The act of creating comes as a result of the creator opening the self,” Peckman says. “When we do this we allow for the unexpected, the spontaneous, the immediate and unadorned to enter, and the restrained, fearful and rehearsed to fall away. To live the artist's life, one's greatest struggle is not the medium, nor the workspace, nor the income. Rather it is the effort required to open one's self to the unconscious vision.” She studied English at the University of Iowa and University of Texas and lives and works in Salisbury where she shares her studio with her husband, glass artist Syed Ahmad.
www.whitneypeckman.com

Anthony Ulinski is a woodworker and painter. He was born in Bandung, Indonesia, the son of a foreign service officer, and spent his childhood in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. His woodworking ranges from the functional to the sculptural and reflects his diverse background. In his series of reliquaries and urns, he adapts imagery and ideas from the ceremonies and rituals of different cultures as a way of looking at the role of ritual in contemporary American culture. His furniture and sculpture have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Fair, Funeria in San Francisco, and the John Elder Gallery in New York. He studied painting with Elizabeth Lentz, Beverly McIver, Jacob Cooley and Margie Stewart. He had his first solo show of paintings in 2001 and has had solo shows every year since. He also participates regularly in juried and invitational shows. He teaches both painting and woodworking and has taught at East Carolina University, Penland, Arrowmont and Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey.
www.anthonyulinski.com