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…
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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…
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…
Her Future as an Artist was Lurking in the Cards
byCathy Nichols knows pigs can’t fly. But when confronted with a life-sized sow doused in a glitter veneer and suspended by a bright red…
What Expressing Yourself in Summer 2020 Feels Like
byAmong the local artists who’ve switched to Zoom and other kinds of online art initiatives during the COVID era is James Love, featured last…
When Your Work Demands You Literally Go With the Flow
byIf you look at a trumpet, you’ll notice it only has three valves. For those who don’t play the trumpet, that can be a…
Fifty Cents Says You’re on the Right Side of the Tracks
byThree-dozen creatives in almost as many genres call Trackside Studios their artistic home. All of them have to work shifts in the gallery as…
No Method is More Effective Than Your Latest Mood
by“Sometimes I dance when I paint, and some days I am very personal and I put that feeling onto canvas,” reveals Waynesville artist Sun…