The Boys Will Get Hungry If They See Fruit
You won’t find many portraits of women in Colorado artist Carly Owens Weiss’ most recent series. But you will find close-ups of plump breasts,…
2024 Jean Claude Roy Private Artist Dinner
You should never stare directly at the sun. Unless, of course, you are French-born artist Jean Claude Roy. In the late 1980s, Roy was…
Reopening the RAD
The River Arts District is a mile-long neighborhood situated on the banks of the French Broad River. But to Sue Dolamore, a painter who…
All Creatures
Mark Harmon began painting lichen before Hurricane Helene flooded his studio on the top floor of Riverview Station. But these resilient organisms feel more…
18 x 14
It’s said that Zeuxis, an ancient Athenian artist, once painted a still life of grapes so realistic birds swooped from the skies, eager to…
Flocking Together
Several weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall, Swannanoa resident Melanie Wilder was sitting outside when she noticed geese flying overhead. “I started to wonder…
“Neighbors Helping Neighbors”
Henderson County painter Cynthia Wilson was out of town when Hurricane Helene unleashed her fury. Four days later, when she and her husband finally…
Peace, Love, and Art
As a child growing up in Buffalo, New York, Diane Dean would always feel so happy when she saw buttery yellow daffodils peeking out…
From the Lowlands to the Highlands
Modernist Will Henry Stevens (1881-1949) was born in Vevay, Indiana. But it was the time he spent in the Louisiana Bayou and the Appalachian…
18th Annual Lynn Boggess Exhibition
Many landscape painters tend toward what is pretty and picturesque. But not West Virginia artist Lynn Boggess. As explained by his wife, Jennifer, Boggess…