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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.
Please check our website regularly
for special upcoming programs and
events.
Contact the gallery for special
events
and exhibition programming.
Contact: Danna Anderson
16
Patton Ave
828.236.2889
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Alexander
&
Lehnert
Fine Jewelry
1
Page Ave. #126
828.254.2010
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American
Folk Art and Framing
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.
64
Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
828. 281.2134
www.amerifolk.com
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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
19
Biltmore Ave.
828.236.2660 |
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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.
2 So. Pack Square at Pack Place
828.253.3227
www.ashevilleart.org |
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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
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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Atelier
24 Lexington
Speaking in Tongues
Paintings by Ursula Gullow
July 1- July 30
Artist reception Saturday July 9th
6 – 8pm
Atelier 24 is proud to present
Speaking in Tongues, an overture of
figurative and still life paintings
produced in the last year by Ursula
Gullow.
Known for her gestural narratives and
abstract paintings, Gullow’s Speaking
in Tongues series depicts
manufactured products and smatterings of
people that interact within an implied
backdrop. Whether it’s a bundle of
embroidery threads, or a group of kids
at play, the subjects of Gullow’s
paintings are extracted from their
original situation and placed into an
impartial setting of shifting color
fields.
A resident of Asheville, NC Gullow has
been exhibiting her oil paintings
nationally for nearly a decade. Her work
has hung in Western North Carolinian
venues such as PUMP Gallery, The
Fayetteville Museum of Art, Satellite
Gallery and Bobo Gallery.
In 2008 Gullow received a Regional
Artist Project Grant from the Asheville
Area Arts Council, and she was awarded
an artist residency with the Gil Society
of Akureyri, Iceland in 2006. Currently
her paintings are on display at Atelier
24 and Downtown Books and News in
downtown Asheville. She teaches painting
and design classes at A-B Tech Community
College.
24
N Lexington Ave • 828.505.3663
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The Bender Gallery
Asheville’s only gallery as well as
the region's largest collection, devoted exclusively to
studio glass art.
Representing
over 100 established and emerging artists from across the country
as well as from around the world. 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.
Toland
Sand
&
James Breed
NEW ARTISTS & NEW
WORK
NEW LOCATION
12 S Lexington Ave
Tue - Sat 10:30 - 5
Sun
& Mon by Appointment
Plenty of parking available
www.thebendergallery.com
The region's largest glass art
collection
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Neodymium Opticurve
Toland
Sand
11" h x
18" w x 5" d
cut,
ground, polished, laminated, crystal,
dichroic glass
Farmscape
James Breed
10" h x
23" w x 9" d
hot-sculpted, cold-worked, acid etched,
cold assembled
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On the Road, 2000
Oil on linen
30 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Pat
Passlof in her studio, Oct. 2010
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Black Mountain
College
Museum + Arts
Center
Pat Passlof: Selections 1948
- 2011
January 27 - May 27, 2012
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts
Center is pleased to announce the
upcoming exhibition, Pat Passlof:
Selections 1948-2011 focusing
on the work of painter Pat Passlof, an
accomplished Black Mountain College alumna,
member of the New York School and
under-recognized figure in the development
of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition
will open at the museum in downtown
Asheville on January 27, 2012 with a
reception from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. A companion
show will open at Western Carolina
University's Fine Art Museum the night
before. This collaboration between the two
museums will enable us to show a significant
number of works by Passlof, from her early
work made while a student of Willem de
Kooning at BMC to her final paintings made
in 2011. Ms. Passlof recently passed away at
the age of 83.
The simultaneous exhibitions will be
accompanied by a catalogue with color
reproductions of the work, an essay by
celebrated art critic Eleanor Heartney, and
a selection of Passlof’s writings and
correspondences.
Eleanor Heartney is a Contributing Editor to
Art in America and Artpress and has written
extensively on contemporary art issues for
many publications.
Pat Passlof was a student at Black Mountain
College during the Summer Institute of 1948,
when she studied closely with Willem de
Kooning, Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller,
M.C. Richards and Merce Cunningham.
Passlof's time at BMC was central to her
development as an artist. After BMC, she
continued her studies with de Kooning as his
private student in New York City.
In some circles, Pat is known first for her
role as the wife of painter Milton Resnick,
an association which has, to some degree,
eclipsed her own prolific career as a
painter. However, before the beginning of
her relationship with Resnick, Passlof’s
influence on the New York School was strong.
She was a driving force behind the
cooperative exhibitions of the Tenth Street
galleries, organizing collective outreach
efforts and galvanizing collaboration. A
regular at the “Club,” Passlof quietly
absorbed the constant dialogue of its
members and continued those discussions with
her contemporaries. To create a space for
this second generation of voices, Passlof
founded a junior Club on Wednesday nights,
which was quickly ousted upon the discovery
that their numbers had grown to over fifty
in just three short weeks. Despite
challenges such as these, Passlof persevered
and left her mark as a practicing painter,
teacher and writer–a path that she continues
to forge today.
Selections1948-2011 will honor
Passlof’s lifelong commitment to painting
and provide much-needed recognition of her
work as a teacher and writer about art. The
show will feature a selection of 50-60
paintings by Passlof, representing over 60
years of her career, from her time at Black
Mountain College to her most recent work.
The exhibition will occupy two NC venues
simultaneously, featuring Passlof’s work
both at the Black Mountain College Museum +
Art Center's storefront museum in downtown
Asheville and at Western Carolina
University’s Fine Art Museum on their
Cullowhee campus.
BMCM+AC is organizing the show in
partnership with Western Carolina
University’s Fine Art Museum and installing
Passlof’s work at both venues, from January
26-May 27, 2012. The two exhibitions are
curated by Connie Bostic (BMCM+AC) and
Denise Drury (WCU).
The
Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center
preserves and continues the unique legacy of
educational and artistic innovation of Black
Mountain College for public study and
enjoyment. We achieve our mission through
collection, conservation, and educational
activities including exhibitions,
publications, and public programs.
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.
For additional information please call Alice
Sebrell at 828.350.8484
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. Blue Spiral 1 is in the
heart of downtown Asheville.
38 Biltmore Avenue
10 am to 6 pm Mon – Sat
Sun 12 - 5
828.251.0202
www.bluespiral1.com |
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Castell Photography
Castell Photography, established in the
spring of 2009, is a fine art gallery which
solely exhibits photo based works. As the
only photography gallery in Asheville, and
one of few in the region, Castell
Photography is committed to bringing work
which is representative of contemporary
photography to Western North Carolina and
beyond. The gallery is dedicated to
educating our clientele on the value and
importance of photography within the art
world.
Works shown are often times experimental,
which is seen both in concept and in
process. At the least they are playful,
quite often they are narrative, frequently
illustrating the idea of equivalents or
metaphor. They create a mood, they are
conceptually sound, and they are often
perplexing. While works are often non
traditional, they are always beautiful,
whether in a conventional or atypical
manner.
Gallery owner Brie Castell and Gallery
Director Heidi Gruner are a passionate team
who believe in the transcendence of the
works which are exhibited as well as the
artists who are represented. It is the
gallery's mission to exhibit artists who are
worthy of appreciation, to show images which
will inspire and excite, and to offer works
which will enrich your collection.
www.castellphotographygallery.com
2C Wilson Alley off Eagle Street
828.255.1188
For The Latest Updates, Please Visit:
http://castellphotography.tumblr.com
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Fine Arts
League
of the
Carolinas Gallery
Grove Arcade
O'Henry St Suite 115
828.254.3352
www.fineartsleague.org
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The Haen Gallery
The Haen Gallery,
located in downtown Asheville, NC will
present
"Wintertide 2012",
a group exhibition of outstanding works from
many of the The Haen Gallery artists such as
Lynn Boggess, GC Myers, Clayton Santiago,
Jane Filer, Mary-Ann Prack, Larry Gray,
Phyllis Stapler, Byron Gin, Marci Crawford
Harnden, Francis Di Fronzo, Kathryn Kolb,
Steven Seinberg, Brian Tull, Leigh Wen, and
Daniel McClendon.
This
rotating exhibition, running from January 21st
through the end of February, will showcase a
variety of beautiful and unique work.
The Haen Gallery is located at 52 Biltmore
Avenue between the City Bakery and ED
Boudreaux's.
There is a parking garage just up the
hill, as well as street parking.
Mon & Wed-Fri 10am-6pm
Tues & 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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Images (clockwise from
top-left):
"Snow Hare" by Phyllis
Stapler,
Acylic/Oil on panel, 24" x
24"
"6 November 2010" by Lynn
Boggess,
oil on canvas, 40" x
46"
"to be magnificent and
endure" by Clayton Santiago,
mixed media, 48" x 37"
"Hidden Heart" by GC Myers,
acrylic on canvas, 34" x 34"
"Green Bridge Plains" by Jane
Filer,
acrylic on canvas, 31.5" x
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Gallery Minerva
"A sophisticated gallery for the fine
art collector. Featuring an eclectic mix
of established local and museum
collected artists as well as presenting
exciting new talents."
Monday - Thursday: 11am-6pm
Friday - Saturday: 11am-8pm
Sunday: 12-5pm
8 Biltmore Avenue
828.255.8850
www.galleryminerva.com
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Chris Sedgwick, "Creation" , 69"x60", Oil on
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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 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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My Hearts
Delight
Digital/steel
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Woolworth Walk
From Pots to Paint
Opening Reception: Friday February 3 from 4
- 6
February 1-28
Gayle Ray: Paintings
Laura Loercher: Pottery
For
the month of February the F.W. Gallery at
Woolworth Walk will feature the work of
local artists Gayle Ray and Laura Loercher.
In Gayle Ray's paintings she likes to
explore how we are all connected to one
another. Gayle lost her mother early in
life, so exploring the mother daughter
connection is very revealing, both in
remembering the mother she lost and the
mother she is finding hidden for so many
years within herself. Whether she s painting
a mother with her child, trees dancing
together, or lovers intertwined they all
have a longing to connect with each other.
Laura Loercher made her first pot in a
fourth grade class and has loved making
ceramics ever since. She feels a huge
connection between pottery and our natural
world, often shaping pots into the likes of
leaves, pods, and scallops. Some are also
textured by using leaves and shells. All of
Laura's pots are food, fridge, microwave,
and dishwasher safe (to avoid thermal shock
in oven please preheat them). Her organic
ceramic pieces are inspired greatly by the
beautiful natural area surrounding us in
Western North Carolina. Come to the opening
reception on February 3rd from 4-6 p.m. to
meet Laura and Gayle and to view their new
works.
25 Haywood Street
Asheville, N.C.
28801
828.254.9234
Mon. through
Thurs.11-6 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 11-7
p.m., Sun. 11-5 p.m.
Convenient parking in the Rankin Street
Garage
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