American Made: Paintings and Sculpture from the DeMell Jacobsen Collection
byIf you snoozed through art history in college and can’t recognize American Regionalism if Grant Wood’s dour couple smacked you in the face, here’s…
Openings
Charity-Based Shows at Philip DeAngelo Studio and Gallery
byIn 2008, contemporary painter Philip DeAngelo was ready for a change. While successful as both a painter and a gallery owner, his soul was…
North Carolina Glass Center Holiday Market
byGrowing up in New England, Max Trainque never colored with crayons. Instead, he would press his Crayola art supplies against cast-iron water heaters and…
Hometown Christmas
byHayden Wilson grew up watching his father blow glass in the South Toe River Valley of Yancey County. But it wasn’t until 2007, after…
New Shows at Momentum Gallery
byaint Nick is a magical man capable of many amazing feats, but shoving triptych paintings, life-sized sculptures, and other gargantuan pieces of art in…
Handcrafted Holiday Market at TACS
byAt the beginning of the century, Tryon fiber artist Ellen Davison fell in love with silk — more specifically, painting on it. Ever since,…
Holiday Market at Trackside Studios
bySome nature-centric artists capture snowy summits, others sunlit shores. But Swannanoa painter Peggy King prefers a more peculiar subject: apes quaffing goblets of vino….
Celebrate the Blues
byIsoprene may not sound beautiful. However, when this colorless gas emitted by trees reacts with sunlight, it gives the Blue Ridge Mountains their eponymous…
Winter Exhibition
byPotter and sculptor Leonid Siveriver is a well-traveled man. After a childhood in Ukraine, he pursued his BFA in ceramics from the renowned Bezalel…
Staying Strong
by“It’s just heartbreaking,” abstract painter Kevin Andrew says of the catastrophic flooding that occurred in the River Arts District as a result of Hurricane…