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Asheville
Downtown Galleries Association
Current Exhibitions |
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16 Patton
16 Patton features original
contemporary fine art by
southeastern artists
including paintings,
sculpture, glass, ceramics
and fine craft presented in
an intimate classic gallery
setting.
Contemporary Visions: Portraits and
Still Lifes
May
3 – June 8; reception Saturday, May
3, 6 – 8 pm
Figurative Allusions
June 14 - July 27; reception
Saturday, June 14, 6 – 8 pm
Escapes: Day to Night – Cityscapes
and Nightscapes
August 2 – September 14; reception
Saturday, August 2, 6 – 8 pm
Landscapes: Of Hope and Glory
September 20 – October 26; reception
Saturday, September 20, 6 – 8 pm
The professional artist organization
Plein Air Painters of The Southeast
November 1 – November 15; reception
Saturday, November 1, 6 – 8 pm
Miniatures and Pochades
November 22 – January 3; reception
Saturday, November 22, 6 – 8 pm
Contact the gallery for special
events
and exhibition programming.
Contact: Danna Anderson
828.236.2889
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Aesthetics
6 College St.
Opening Spring 2008 |
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Lucy
Hunnicutt
Fisherman
Stacy
Lambert
Cupid
Postcard |
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American Folk Art
and Framing
64
Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
828. 281.2134
www.amerifolk.com
American
Folk Art & Framing represents
contemporary folk art, including
painting, wood fired pottery, found
object sculpture, wood carving and
jewelry. Providing innovative solutions
for the preservation and presentation of
fine art.
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Appalachian Craft Center
Come share our love of authentic
mountain handicrafts. Beautiful pottery,
face jugs, quilts, mountain-made toys
and handmade rugs await your pleasure. |
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Ariel Gallery
A
contemporary craft cooperative featuring
handmade work of renowned local artists.
Enjoy original works in clay, fiber,
furniture, glass, metal, jewelry and
book arts. Meet local artists selling
their own work |
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Asheville Area Arts Council's Front Gallery
The Front Gallery, owned and operated by the Asheville Area Arts Council, provides exhibition space for established and emerging local artists. The Front Gallery is located at 11 Biltmore Avenue with hours Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm and some Saturdays 12-5pm.
For further information,
contact Gallery Manager.
828.258.0710 ext. 108
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Asheville Art Museum
Explore exceptional special exhibitions, the Museum’s outstanding collection of the very best of 20th and 21st century American art and inspiring public programming for visitors of all ages.
Current Exhibitions:
Common Ground:
Searching for Self in the Permanent Collection
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Asheville Gallery of Art
A partnership of 29 professional, regional artists offering original two-dimensional works from representational to abstract.
16 College Street at Pritchard Park,
Asheville, North Carolina.
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.,
Sundays: 1 pm - 4 pm
Phone: 828.251.5796 /
www.ashevillegallery-of-art.com
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Synergy
Acrylic
on canvas
24" h x
36 " w |
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Pick-up
Sticks
Martin
Kremer
4" h x
16" w x 16" d
Labyrinth
Martin
Kremer
39"
h x 24" w x 22" d
Saskatoon
Jeremy Newman & Allison Ciancibelli
15" h x
8" w x 8 d" |
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The Bender Gallery
Asheville’s
largest gallery as well as the region's, devoted exclusively to
studio glass art.
The Bender Gallery in their third year
has
grown from 15
artists to over 100 in the gallery at
this time. We have become what a studio glass
art gallery should be, "a feast for the
eyes" and something for almost everyone.
Please stop in and enjoy the vast array
of glass art in what has been described
by many of our clients as one of the
best and most diverse glass collections
in the country. The Bender Gallery,
always evolving.
Current
Exhibition
“Focus”
New work by
Martin Kremer
May 1 - July 31
Lower Gallery
Jeremy Newman & Allison Ciancibelli
"Visions of Fields"
Upper Gallery
NEW ARRIVALS
This premier gallery is also home to the
largest collection of Vernon Brejcha’s
work, one of the pioneers of the
American Craft Arts Movement. Brejcha,
one of Harvey Littleton’s first
students, also went on to teach some of
today’s top glass artists. Brejcha’s
glass art is included in major museum
collections, significant private
collections as well as corporate
collections around the world.
57 Haywood Street
Monday-Thursday 10:30am - 6pm
Friday & Saturday 10:30 - 7pm
Sundays 12 - 5pm
www.thebendergallery.com
for info call 828.225.6625
The region's largest studio glass arts
gallery |
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Black Mountain
College
Museum + Arts
Center
An exhibition space dedicated to exploring the history and legacy of the world’s most acclaimed experimental educational community, Black Mountain College. An exhibition, Ideas + Inventions: Buckminster Fuller and Black Mountain College, exploring the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller through two- and three dimensional works.
Hours: Wed. - Saturday 12:00-4:00pm
Free to BMCM+AC members
$3.00 non-members (free on Wednesdays)
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Suzanne Stryk |
Blue Spiral 1
Blue Spiral 1 presents contemporary
Southeastern fine art and crafts
through 30 annual exhibitions in a
stunning 3-level, 14,000 square foot
setting. Paintings are shown alongside
objects in clay, glass, wood, steel
and fiber from nearly 100
artists. Blue Spiral 1 also represents
the estate of Will Henry Stevens
(1881-1949), an early 20th century
master.
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Crucible Glassworks
”Asheville’s Hot Spot”
Watch hot glass
demonstrations as you browse our gallery
of fine
handmade glass art. |
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Grove Arcade Arts & Heritage Gallery
Grove
Arcade ARTS & Heritage Gallery Features
Ceramic Artists
Paul Frehe and Laura Reese
On
Friday, June 27, the Grove Arcade ARTS &
Heritage Gallery will open a two person
exhibition featuring new ceramic work
from artists Paul Frehe and Laura
Reese. An opening reception will take
place on June 27 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
and the exhibition will remain on view
through August 10. Both artists share a
strong interest in surface design and
create colorful, engaging work.
Paul
Frehe has been working as an artist for
more than 35 years, using clay as his
primary medium. Growing up in southern
California, he studied art at both
University of California San Diego and
Long Beach State Universities. In the
1970’s he established a business making
hand-thrown stoneware pottery. He was
eventually sidetracked into a different
line of work but returned to ceramics
upon moving to Asheville in 1993.
His
current work ranges from the whimsical
to that which is socially or politically
motivated. It is fun and decorative and
incorporates unusual shapes, colors and
humorous expressions. His figurative
sculpture explores aspects of personal
lives and inner conflicts as well as the
human connection to the natural world.
Laura
Reese’s work consists of hand-built,
carved, porcelain tiles framed in wood
that are increasingly sculptural. Reese
uses the graphics program Photoshop to
create her own decals which she fires
into her handmade tiles. “Through my
work, I strive to bring together a sense
of structural permanence with the
concept of transformative nature,” says
Reese. “Orthogonal tiles present a
structure upon which images of the
natural world traverse. The challenge
to achieve beauty and harmony in this
interplay of framework and freedom is
what inspires me to explore my
visions.” In April Reese was awarded
Best in Show at Greenville’s
Artisphere Festival.
The
Grove Arcade ARTS & Heritage Gallery,
located in Suite 115 on O. Henry Avenue,
is open to the public Monday through
Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
and Sundays from noon to 5:00 p.m.
Information about the gallery can be
accessed through the
www.grovearcade.com
or by calling 828.255.0775.
The
Grove Arcade is located at One Page
Avenue at the heart of the Battery Hill
neighborhood of downtown Asheville and
offers unique shopping, dining and
regional crafts in one of Asheville’s
architectural jewels. A downloadable
building tour is available on the
website. Visit
www.grovearcade.com
for additional information or call
828.252.7799.
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Beetle
Pagoda
Laura
Reese
ceramic
tiles in handmade wooden frames
Moth in
Sunset
Laura
Reese
ceramic
tiles in handmade wooden frames
Circumcision
Paul
Frehe
ceramic
sculpture
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Clayton
Santiago
The
Rhythm and Transformation
60” x 81”
mixed media
Rich
Nelson
River #4
30” x 40”
oil on linen
Susan
Finer
Pastorale
30” X
40” acrylic/mixed media on canvas
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The Haen Gallery
The
Haen Gallery, located in downtown
Asheville, NC will present a group
exhibition of new work by Susan Finer,
Rich Nelson, and Clayton
Santiago. The exhibition will open
on Thursday, July 10th with an artists’
reception and continue through August
7th.
Susan Finer, Rich Nelson, and Clayton
Santiago were all born in other parts of
the country but each artist has settled
in the Southeastern region. Susan Finer
has been a local Asheville artist since
2006 and incorporates her past
experience with textile art into her
current series of work. She paints in
vibrant and colorful abstraction,
evoking the texture and appearance of
fiber. Rich Nelson is a Tryon, NC
artist and is known for his portraiture
but also enjoys landscape and still
life. This new series will feature
Plein-air landscapes done around Pisgah
Forest, rich with lush summer color and
flowing rivers. Clayton Santiago lives
and works in Atlanta, GA and explores
the natural and spiritual worlds in his
mixed media pieces. Through a process of
layering epoxies, gold leaf, paint and
tar, he brings to life elements of his
southern heritage with depth and
complexity.
The Haen Gallery is pleased to present
the exciting new work of these artists
for the summer. The opening reception
will be on July 10th, 5:30-8:30pm,
and all artists will be in attendance.
The Haen Gallery is located at 52
Biltmore Avenue between the City Bakery
and ED Boudreaux's. There is a paid
parking lot across from the gallery, a
garage just up the hill, as well as
street parking. The gallery is open
seven days a week,
11am-7pm, Sunday
11am-6pm. For more
info: 828-254-8577 or
www.thehaengallery.com.
Gallery Contacts: Chris Foley, director,
Carol Bonds, gallery associate. |
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Jewels
that Dance
Asheville's premier jewelry
gallery and working studio. Featuring
contemporary and classic fine jewelry. |
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Larson Porcelain & Design
Heirloom quality porcelain by artist-potters Julie and Tyrone Larson. Featuring wheel-thrown pieces by Tyrone hand-painted on site by Julie, etching by Jay Pfeil and birdhouses by Roger Hankins.
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Gallery Minerva
Gallery Minerva now exclusively
represents Dale Weiler, an
internationally collected stone wildlife
sculptor. Please come and see his
premier exhibit in the gallery featuring
both tabletop and oversize sculpture
hand carved in alabaster, steatite,
marble, and limited edition bronze.
Join us for an opening reception the
evening of June 6th in
conjunction with the June downtown art
Walk.
Gallery Minerva is located at 12 Church
Street off Patton Avenue. The Gallery
is open Monday-Thursday from 10-6,
Friday & Saturday 10-8, and Sunday 1-5.
For more information
please contact the gallery at
828.255.8850
or visit us online at
www.galleryminerva.com
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"Solitary"
Alabaster on Slate
11"w x 3"d x 12h
Gate
Keeper
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Maude Boleman
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Mountain Made
Featuring the work of over 80 Western
North Carolina artisans. Unique and
truly wonderful jewelry in silver, glass
and exquisite beadwork. Stunning wood
and pottery.
Mountain Made will be showing new work
from local potter Maud Boleman. Boleman
grew up near New York City and at a
young age was captivated by the city’s
numerous museums and the stunning art
they contained. Throughout the last 20
years, she has developed a style that is
a synthesis of the rustic and refined.
Her functional pottery is created in the
color of flowers such as peony,
marigold, periwinkle and lilac. Her new
collection features a microwave lidded
bowl that is offered in two sizes.
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Overstrom Studio
This architecturally significant gallery represents work by internationally recognized designer Michael Overstrom, who presents his original
hand formed jewelry designs that embrace the designer’s Scandinavian heritage and define Asheville’s elegant style.
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Pura Vida
Engaging Photography by Brett Ryabik,
"My Own Body,".
Please join us at 39 Biltmore Avenue
of works by Brett Ryabik. Brett has a BS in Biochemistry
and a Medical Doctorate in Psychiatry.
But his passion is nude photography,
often with a twist.
Artist Statement
Generally speaking, my work has
attempted to communicate complex themes
involving life struggles with
circumstance, relationships, addiction,
mental illness, psychological growth and
recovery through the vehicles of light,
shadow and form. Albeit admittedly
cryptic at times these media used in the
context of human nudity and corporal
expression can be a powerful metaphor
when trying to viscerally convey
intensely affect-laden material. Even
at their most basic level gentle curves
and diffuse light and shadows promote a
sense of calm and ease while more specular light and angular forms can
incite apprehension or anxiety.
The Pura Vida Gallery, is a 1,000
square foot exhibition space, located at
39 Biltmore Avenue, in the middle of
downtown Asheville. We are open
12pm-10pm seven days a week. For more
information please contact Charlie
Kesler at 828.439.5451 or
kesler.puravida@gmail.com.
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Vadim Bora Gallery and Studio
Vadim Bora Gallery & Studio
30 1/2 Battery Park Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
828.254.7959
www.vadimborastudio.com
"Warm Bodies
- Summerscapes and Figurative
Works"
June 6 - July 31
And ode to summer with figurative
works,
landscapes and seascapes, warmed
by the golden sun.
A spacious
second-floor gallery overlooking Battery
Park Avenue, Vadim Bora Gallery &
Studio is reminiscent of a
European style art-salon, showcasing the
works of international artists from
various geographical regions of
Russia, the Middle East, the
Mediterranean, Scandinavia as well as
North Carolina and other areas of the
United States. The gallery features
thematic exhibitions of painting,
sculpture, etchings, drawings, and mixed
media.
During the season, the studio is open
Tuesday-Sat.
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