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Asheville
Downtown Galleries Association
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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.
Please check our website regularly
for special upcoming programs and
events.
Contact the gallery for special
events
and exhibition programming.
Contact: Danna Anderson
828.236.2889 |
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Alexander & Lehnert
Fine Jewelry
1
Page Ave. #126
828.254.2010
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Kyle
Carpenter
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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
Located
at 19 Biltmore Ave.
828.236.2660 |
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Asheville Area Arts Council
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.
Mon - Fri 10am-5pmSat 12-5pm.
For further information,
contact Gallery Manager
828.258.0710 ext. 108
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Surrounded Islands
Miami,
Florida,
1980-83.
Photo: Wolfgang Volz.
©1983
Christo
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Asheville Art Museum
Museum Open Free to the Public
Every First Wednesday of the Month
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The Asheville
Art Museum is the only nonprofit visual
arts museum serving the 24 counties of
Western North Carolina. Incorporated by
artists in 1948, the Museum collects,
preserves and interprets American art of
the 20th and 21st
centuries with a focus on work of
significance to the Southeast.
Centrally located in downtown
Asheville on Pack Square, the Museum is
open 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday and
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. The
Museum is open every Friday until
8:00 p.m. Special docent-guided tour packages are available for groups
and students.
Admission to the Museum is $6.00 for adults and $5.00 for
seniors, students with ID and for
children 4-15 (children age three and
younger are admitted free). Members are
admitted free to the Museum.
The Asheville
Art Museum is accredited by the American
Association of Museums and receives
general operating support from
businesses, foundations and individuals,
as well as from the North Carolina Arts
Council, an agency funded by the State
of North Carolina, and the National
Endowment for the Arts, which believes
that a great nation deserves great art.
Additional support is provided by the
City of
Asheville
and Buncombe County.
The Asheville Art Museum asks when
reprinting images, please keep all
artwork at their original proportions;
please do not crop them or alter them
disproportionately. Provided image
credit information is mandatory and
images are not for resale. |
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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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"Murrini Cone"
6" h x 12" w x 6" d

Hemisimi
6" h x 8" w 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 going into their
fifth year
has
grown from representing 15
artists to over 100 at
this time. Artists are from across the
country as well as from around the
world. 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.
NEW ARTISTS & NEW
WORK
57 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
828.225.6625
Mon - Sat 10:30 - 6
Sun 12 -
5
Plenty of parking available
www.thebendergallery.com
The region's largest glass art
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Black Mountain
College
Museum + Arts
Center
From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years
of Ray Johnson (1943-1967)
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts
Center (BMCM+AC) is presenting the
exhibition From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary
Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967) through
June 12th, 2010. In addition, we are
hosting related programs, including Dr.
Beatty’s lecture. An exhibition
catalogue is available for purchase.
A seminal Pop Art figure, Ray Johnson
has been called the most significant
"unknown artist" of the post-war period,
a "collagist extraordinaire" who
influenced Pop artists such as Andy
Warhol and Keith Haring, as well as a
generation of contemporary artists.
Since his death, however, Johnson has
emerged not only as a key member of the
1960's generation but also as a major
artistic innovator of the second-half of
the 20th century.
Black Mountain College—in particular,
Johnson’s first teacher, Josef
Albers—was a critical factor in
Johnson’s development as an artist.
Indeed, Johnson’s time at the college
can be viewed in retrospect as a
platform from which he dove into
Manhattan and its vibrant art world. Our
exhibition will explore the ways that
many of Johnson’s early tutelary
influences, both the people and the
places, helped create his unique vision.
Throughout his career, Johnson always
found ways to engage those around
him—mentors, friends and strangers
alike—in a correspondence “dance” of
collage, letter writing and interactive
performance art. Following in Marcel
Duchamp’s footsteps, Johnson, as one art
critic put it, “introduced life into
art.”
Through a carefully selected group of
paintings, collages and early
correspondence, From BMC to NYC: The
Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson will
explore the early transitions in
Johnson’s career—in particular his
graduation from high school in Detroit
to his three years of serious study at
Black Mountain College to his immersion
in the Manhattan art scene of the 1950s
and 1960s. From BMC to NYC, curated by
writer and collage artist Sebastian
Matthews, will trace a circle around
roughly two decades of Johnson’s early
art, creating a spotlight on his
explosion from talented painter and
master collagist to, by the 1960s, Grand
Dean of Dada & Postal Art. The
exhibition will provide an interactive,
playful presentation of Johnson’s
“tutelary” work, highlighting the people
and places that influenced Johnson’s
creations in order to give the viewer a
roadmap of Johnson’s creative process.
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts
Center is an exhibition space and
resource center in downtown Asheville
dedicated to exploring the history and
legacy of the world's most acclaimed
experimental educational community,
Black Mountain College. Over the course
of its 24 year history, Black Mountain
College attracted and created maverick
spirits, some of whom went on to become
well-known and extremely influential
individuals in the latter half of the
20th century. Even now, decades after
its closing in 1957, the powerful
influence of BMC continues to
reverberate.
Citation:
Ray Johnson
Untitled (Donkey Boy Moticos), 1958,
note: probably mounted later, ca.
1970s-80s
collage on cardboard panel
13 x 8.5 inches
Ray Johnson Estate, Courtesy Richard L.
Feigen & Co.
CLOSING NIGHT POETRY READING
Saturday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Earl Braggs teaches creative writing and
African-American literature at the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
He is the author of five collections of
poetry, including Hat Dancer Blue and In
Which Language Do I Keep Silent: New and
Selected
Poems.
Keith Flynn is the founder and editor of
the Asheville Poetry Review. His fourth
book of poems, The Golden Ratio, and his
first book of nonfiction, The Rhythm
Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To
Make Your Poetry Swing, have garnered
Flynn national attention.
$7 / $5 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID
Support for this project has
been generously provided by: the North
Carolina Arts Council, Asheville Area
Arts Council, Henco Reprographics and
many generous individual sponsors.
Hours: Wed. - Saturday 12:00-4:00pm
Free to BMCM+AC members
$3.00 non-members (free on Wednesdays)
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Blue Spiral 1
Blue Spiral 1 is a 15,000 square foot
gallery specializing in Southeastern
fine art and craft. Located at 38
Biltmore Avenue, Blue Spiral 1 is in the
heart of downtown Asheville. The
gallery is open from 10 am to 6 pm, Mon
– Sat. For further information please
call 828-251-0202 or visit the gallery’s
website at
www.bluespiral1.com. |
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Julie Mixon

Aspen Hochhalter
Triptych
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Castell Photography
Castell Photography, owned by internationally
recognized artist Brie Castell, is a unique
photographic Salon & Gallery dedicated solely to photo
based media. We Showcase one-of-a-kind and 19th
century print processes, and offer a range of
personalized photographic services. The gallery
features the work of Brie Castell, and also hosts
several rotating exhibitions each year of other
talented photographers.
Current Exhibitions:
The
gallery is now featuring the work of owner Brie
Castell. As a photographic artist for more than a
decade, Brie has created a range of works that explore
the concepts of identity, self, and the intimate
relationships of her personal life. See images that
span 10 years, and showcase her ability to use a
variety of photographic methods, mixed media, and
surface alteration. The exhibition features two major
bodies of work, REFLECTion and
Performances.
Hochhalter's series, The Reclamation of Silver, is
an aesthetic exploration of the remnants of her own
production as a photographer working with wet
processes. The artist is interested in exploring how
traditional photographic processes as well as
experimental processes can be utilized to create a
richer translation of digital imagery by imbuing it
with a sense of materiality.
Mixon's work goes beyond mere representation of the
subject at hand--the presentation is often constructed
in such a way that it creates an alternate context for
both the objects and places in which she photographs.
Mixon also uses a great deal of symbolism in her work
to represent things, feelings, or ideas that are not
visible or tangible in reality.
www.castellphotography.com
2C
Wilson Alley off Eagle Street
828.255.1188
C A S T E L L p h o t o g r a p
h y
www.castellphotography.com
For The Latest Updates, Please Visit:
www.castellphotography.blogspot.com
828.255.1188
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The Haen Gallery
The Haen Gallery, located in downtown
Asheville, NC will present its latest
exhibition Larry Gray: New Paintings 2010.
The exhibition will open on Saturday, May 29th
with an artist’s reception from 5:30-7:30pm,
and will run through June.
Larry Gray’s oil landscapes are expansive in
depth and rich in color, providing
magnificent atmospheric studies of time,
light, and space. His paintings are windows
into the natural world. The viewer
perceives an exquisite translation of light
and shadow within the clouds and the great
expanse of the land below, as well as the
feeling and emotion each image evokes. This
new body of work in particular exhibits an
intensity and variety of emotion that
surpasses some of his earlier efforts.
Larry Gray resides in Pisgah Forest, NC and
his work has been shown and collected widely
from coast to coast. His paintings have
permanent residences in the collections of
MOMA in New York, The Art Institute of
Chicago, The Seattle Museum of Art, and the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others. This
will be Gray’s fifth exhibition at The Haen
Gallery.
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.
Mon & Wed - Fri 10am - 6pm
Tue &
Sat 11am - 6pm
Sun 12 - 5pm
For more info:
828-254-8577
www.thehaengallery.com
Gallery Contacts: Chris Foley, Director
Carol Bonds, gallery manager
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Angle of Incidence
66 x 39 x 5
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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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Gallery Minerva
We
currently have new work on display from
Anna Carll, Kenn Kotara, Grant Penny and
Mary Farmer.
www.galleryminerva.com
Call
828.255.8850
Gallery Minerva is located at
8 Biltmore Avenue.
Tue - Thur 11 -
6
Fri - Sat 11 - 7
Sun - Mon By Appointment |
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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 is a project of Mountain
BizWorks, a local not-for-profit
organization, and features the works of
regional artisans, writers and
musicians. Mountain BizWorks is a
non-profit organization that supports
the creation and growth of small
businesses throughout
Western NC by providing training,
financing, and opportunity to aspiring
entrepreneurs. The store, as well its
proceeds, will further support
entrepreneurial development in our
mountains.
For more information on this event
contact store manager
Melinda Knies
828-350-0307 or e-mail
Mtnmade807@aol.com
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Maude Boleman
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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 diffused 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
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Vadim Bora Gallery and Studio
30 1/2 Battery Park Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801
828.254.7959
www.vadimborastudio.com
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.
11 - 5 p.m.
sometimes later
the gallery is also open by
appointment
Also
introducing:
www.vadimbora.blogspot.com (for a
first peek at new works and
artist/gallery news)
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Kyle
Keller

Mystic
Searches for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
Justin
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Woolworth Walk
“Contrast” FW Front Gallery at Woolworth
Walk
Opening Reception: June 4, 2010 from
5-7p.m.
Show Dates: June 1- June 29, 2010
Artists: Kyle Keeler: Glass
Brenda McVey: Fiber
Glass artist Kyle Keeler and fiber
artist Brenda McVey will be featured in
the F.W. Front Gallery at Woolworth Walk
for the month of June. Kyle creates
gorgeous functional and decorative glass
pieces including but not limited to
jewelry, vases, perfume bottles, and
sculptures. Providing a delightful
juxtaposition to Kyle’s glass works are
Brenda McVey’s soft fiber pieces. Brenda
uses variegated yarns to help expand the
color palette and to create movement in
her work. She strives to create hand
woven articles which are artful in
design and elegant in function. Come
meet the artists and enjoy the opening
reception on June 4th, 2010 from 5-7p.m.
as well as the coinciding Art Walk that
runs from 5-8 p.m.
“Weathered and Feathered”
FW Front Gallery at Woolworth Walk
Opening Reception: July 2nd, 2010 from
5-7p.m.
Show Dates: July 1- July 30, 2010
Artist: Justin West: Painter
For the month of July in the F.W. Front
Gallery at Woolworth Walk local painter
Justin West will be showcasing his new
works in the show Weathered and
Feathered. Justin is a self- taught
artist whose approach to his work is
playful, soulful, and intuitive. The
subjects of his paintings span from
purely aesthetical to richly symbolic,
from dark to light, from simple to
chaotic. He paints on surfaces beyond
the canvas including jars, flasks,
glass, and wood. Through his artwork
Justin aims to explore and solidify the
many nuances of his experiences. Come
meet artist Justin West at the opening
reception July 2nd from 5-7 p.m.
Please contact me for more information
about the artist.
Megan Stone, info@woolworthwalk.com
(828)254-9234
Woolworth
Walk
25
Haywood Street
Asheville
NC 28805
828.254.9234
Gallery Hours:
Mon - Thur 11-6, Fri & Sat 11 - 7, Sun. 11-5
Convenient parking in the Rankin Street
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