A Certain Vulnerability is Set in Stone
byAmy Medford has two works of sculpture titled Metamorphosis, both male figures. One she carved from a block of white ordinario marble: a solid…
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Portrait Artist Gets Into Your Head
by“I just keep banging away until it seems to be what I was shooting for,” says Rich Nelson, painter and rock musician. “It really…
From Her Safe Space to Yours, With Love
byMary Farmer dwells deep in encaustic, a layered, two-dimensional (but sculptural) painting medium that uses beeswax and damar resin. Following a stay in rehab…
Point, Shoot, Infiltrate, Sculpt, Repeat
by“I like making things with my hands” isn’t exactly the way one would expect a conversation with a noted photographer to begin, but that’s…
The Man on the Moon Tends to Do His Own Thing
byIt was not a propitious beginning for a budding young artist. Michael Hamlin was in second grade when his art teacher gave her students…
Ralph Burns, A Time Before: Asheville and Beyond
byIf downtown Asheville seemed desolate this spring, just time-travel back to 1978 and consider the shadowy canyons of College, Haywood, Walnut, and nearby streets….
His Words Are the World’s Faces
byDustin Spagnola, an Asheville-based muralist of widespread acclaim, has never been shy about using art to address social issues. When protests erupted in Asheville…
Freedom’s Just Another Word for No Rules Left to Follow
byIsraeli-born Raquel Egosi had a lot of paths to choose from — and she followed many of them. “A city girl in the Tel…
Her Contemporary Oils Go Back Hundreds of Years
byLaKisha Blount, a self-described Affrilachian painter based in Gerton, NC, in Henderson County, focuses on visual documentation and preservation of Black, Southern, and Appalachian…
Furniture Maker Never Took Tradition Sitting Down
byDuring one extraordinarily difficult period in her life, Annie Evelyn lost her stepfather, her father, and got divorced in the span of two years….