Portrait of the Artist as a Restless Survivor
byAmar Stewart knew Asheville was an art-centric town, but when he relocated from Brooklyn in 2019, he quickly learned a couple of things. “I…
Painting
Mirror Mirror
byContemporary Art from the Collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull Through May 28 (by reservation/appointment) Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull, founders of the Pink…
New Gallery Descending a Staircase
by(While Also Climbing the Downtown Arts Scene) Evoking a scene from a big-city art gallery, visitors to Citron enter through a glass door at…
Thousands of Pastel Sticks Were Exiled Along the Journey
byLucy Cobos graduated with high honors from the New England School of Photography and helped establish the first photography department at an NBC-TV affiliate…
Place and Presence
byBender Gallery “My favorite metaphor for abstract painting,” reveals artist Linda Gritta, “is that it’s like jumping off a cliff and fashioning a net…
A Reverence for Rabbits
byT.S. Eliot said that “April is the cruelest month,” but for those of us who emotionally connect with rabbits — and have aged out…
The Persistence of Memory, Pyromaniac-Style
byNabil El Jaouhari says growing up in the mountains outside of Beirut, Lebanon, he was the child who stayed inside to doodle. In the…
Dana Brown Solo Show
by“I’ve done a lot of paintings of architecture and machinery and locomotives,” says encaustic painter Dana Brown of Topsail Beach, NC, “and now I’ve…
Tonalities
byTrackside Studios closes only two days a year (Thanksgiving and Christmas), and the large windows overlooking the namesake train tracks let in lots of…
The Makers of Main Street
byWhen Judith Kolva says 2022 will be a “banner year,” she doesn’t mean it idiomatically. Kolva is chair of ArtScape Hendersonville, an annual public-art…