Artworks Gallery Presents
Seth Moskowitz: “Poems and Pictures –
PhotoPoetic Explorations”
And
Cheryl Powell: “Bits & Pieces – Figurative Collage”
Exhibition Dates: June 4 – June 28, 2025
Open DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, June 6, 7 – 9 pm
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, June 8, 2 – 4 pm
Art Crush: Friday, June 20, 7 – 9 pm
Seth Moskowitz is a Winston-Salem artist who creates photographically based art that rarely resembles photography. He devotes himself full-time to what he calls “playing with pictures” since he retired in 2019 following a four-decade career in journalism and corporate public relations, both of which kept him constantly steeped in a world of words
A poet, guitarist and songwriter from his early teens through his mid-30s, a long creative-writing dry spell eventually led Seth to discover a long-hidden passion for visual art.
Armed with a compact digital camera and a laptop computer, in 2004, he began to combine and transform his photos into surprisingly interesting pieces of art. It proved to be the perfect escape from the constant cacophony of his workaday world – a way to enter a peaceful, magical place that is literally, beyond words. But old habits apparently do die hard.
Poems and Pictures – PhotoPoetic Explorations is Seth’s first exhibit that combines verbal and visual representations to present a “bi-lingual” expression of the sights that capture and stick in his mind’s eye. And quite oddly, for those familiar with his work, some of the images in this exhibit are “straight” photography, with little to no digital transformation.
Cheryl Powell received a BFA from the Carnegie Mellon University in Graphic Design and a MA from Syracuse University in Illustration. After a thirteen-year full time career as a graphic designer and illustrator, she transitioned to part time freelance work, making time for fine art.
Cheryl Powell has created a body of work for this exhibit that is rooted in her love of figurative art, found objects, and spontaneous creation. Inspired by everyday moments, she uses photos, sketches, and drawings as starting points for her collages. Her materials—gel prints, painted translucent paper, and drawings—are made without a set purpose. Fabric, magazine clippings, and photos are collected and held until the right piece calls for them. With acrylics and these elements, she intuitively explores value, texture, and color to complete each composition.
Cheryl Powell works in collage, gel printmaking, oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor and drawing. Her favorite subjects are figurative and architectural.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
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