Sculptor Only Operates Under His Own Influence
byBy the time Richard Flottemesch decided to make art his life’s work, in his junior year at the University of Maryland, the Baltimore native…
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The Art of Staying Inside the Box
byJackson Martin is a contrarian: He believes rules beget innovation rather than stifle it. “Parameters are something I give my students all the time,”…
Artist/Activist Gets the Word Out in Visual Language
byMultimedia sculptor, painter, and all-around creative/community dynamo Tarah Singh believes artists have a responsibility to document history. She uses the term “herstorian” to describe…
About That Blue Period
bySeth Walker grew up in rural North Carolina and went to art school at East Carolina University before he discovered blues guitar and decamped…
Portraits of Imagination
byA collection from new members at Asheville Gallery of Art — Chris Bell, Bill George, Hyn Patty, and Patricia Veatch — takes portraiture beyond…
Helping Local Artists Make Sense of the Shadows
byZelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife and muse of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, lived as if she were weightless. In a high-school journal, she…
How to Ollie Into the Fine-Art World
byThe year 1989 was a kickflip to the ankle for lifelong skateboarder George Peterson. Stuck in his sleepy hometown of Bishop, California (population 3,747),…
Joe Zoeller + Element Tree Essentials
byFor the month of March, Woolworth Walk’s FW Gallery will feature local contemporary artist Joe Zoeller. Although Zoeller’s acrylic paintings do not conform to…
The Struggle is Real, But So is the Sculpture
byWhen Peter Dallos made his first metal sculpture, in 1998, the work’s welded and coruscated steel, battered but resilient, seemed to crystallize much of…
Art Helped Him Answer the Million-Dollar Question
byOnicas Gaddis taught himself to draw, and he learned how to paint from abstract expressionist Sarah Carlisle Towery, an alumnus of Black Mountain College…