Category: Exhibitions

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May 2021: Charles Hahn, Katherine Mahler

Artworks Gallery Presents:
Charles Hahn: Complexities, and Nuances of the Human Spirit
(solo show)
Katherine Mahler: Wayfinding
(solo show)

Exhibition dates: May 7-30, 2021

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  • Katherine Mahler, At The Mouth
  • Katherine Mahler, Bridges
  • Katherine Mahler, Charting
  • Katherine Mahler, Moving Through
  • Katherine Mahler, Crew of One
  • Katherine Mahler, Emerge
  • Katherine Mahler, Escarpment 2
  • Katherine Mahler, Flow
  • Katherine Mahler, Past As Present Indicator
  • Katherine Mahler, Safety Net
Charles Hahn | Complexities, and Nuances of the Human Spirit
Charles Hahn, “An Easy Life and Other Lies”

Charles Hahn’s current project, “Complexities, and Nuances of the Human Spirit,” concentrates on characterizing the striking aspect of each person’s sensibility and inner self. The artist’s goal is to capture, in engaging black and white photography, the essence of an individual while letting the environment play second fiddle to the images of vibrant sentient beings. This body of work celebrates the subjects as individuals with their distinct souls, a center of being with a human quality to be appreciated. The way time moves on and things disappear; the photographs capture a moment in the past that one experiences in the present. Therefore, every photograph is ultimately about the passing of time, while preserving the spirit of the moment.

Since his youth, Charles Hahn spent untold hours in the darkrooms at school and at his home. It was during these early years that he cut his teeth on black and white film developing and processing. Early on he embarked upon a journalistic essay by photographing Chippewa Street, a seamy street in his hometown of Buffalo, NY, documenting in photography a world that would soon cease to exist. This first foray into street photography would be the predecessor of future projects, including work done in Winston-Salem where he currently resides. Although the people and places are different, the storytelling is eerily similar telling the stories of people who are usually overlooked. 

Katherine Mahler | Wayfinding
Katherine Mahler, “Crew of One”

The work presented in “Wayfinding” by Katherine Mahler draws upon memories of time spent on the Great Lakes and Niagara River, serving as a metaphor for navigating the pandemic. This series began as a way to remember places and times from the artist’s childhood in the Buffalo-Niagara region of New York and Ontario, Canada. Memory and maps, along with other wayfinding inspiration, speak to how we learn to find our way, literally and metaphorically and the guideposts and markers we need to navigate successfully from place and time.

The work for this show represents ideas about what becomes essential to know, what details are important to pay attention to, observations about the cultural abandonment of collective action in favor of individualism, and trusting your instincts amid chaos. This series of work emerged in the winter of 2021 and is still evolving. 

Katherine Mahler is an art educator and holds a BA in Studio Art from Kenyon College, a BFA in Art Education from Michigan State University, and is an MFA candidate at Lesley University.

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101. Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

May Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday 11-5 Sunday 1-4
Open for Gallery Hop: May 7, 2021, 7 – 9 pm (Meet the Artists Reception)
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org

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April 2021: Chris Flory, Susan Smoot

Artworks Gallery Presents:
Chris Flory: All Fall Down (solo show)
Susan Smoot: Roadside Compositions (solo show)

Exhibition dates: April 2-May 2, 2021

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  • Susan Smoot:Day Comes to a Close
  • Susan Smoot: Done for the Day
  • Susan Smoot: Double Hinged
  • Susan Smoot: Electric Shop
  • Susan Smoot: Flint Hill Sheds
  • Susan Smoot:Forgiven
  • Susan Smoot: Green Thumbimb
  • Susan Smoot: Harris Lane
  • Susan Smoot: Log Load
  • Susan Smoot: Off Tom Hill Road
  • Susan Smoot: Poplar Street Access
  • Susan Smoot: Sheltering
  • Susan Smoot: Still Holding
  • Susan Smoot: The Bright Side
  • Susan Smoot: Trip to Bailey
  • Chirs Flory: Breath One
  • Chris Flory: Breath Two
  • Chris Flory: But Is It Safe?
  • Chris Flory: From the Very First
  • Chris Flory: Is It Worth Trying?
  • Chirs Flory: It Depends How Black the Blackness Is
  • Chris Flory: It Isn’t Getting Any Easier
  • Chris Flory: It Might Take A Long Time
  • Chris Flory:More Walls To Bang Your Head Against
  • Chris Flory: Still Boxed In
  • Chris Flory: What Were We Thinking
Chris Flory | All Fall Down
Chris Flory, “More Walls to Bang Your Head Against”

Chris Flory was born in Philadelphia. She has a BFA in Printmaking from Philadelphia College of Art, now University of the Arts (1972), and an MFA in Painting from UNC-Greensboro (1992). She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1993. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband and two cats.

The works in the “All Fall Down” exhibition are all graphite on paper, drawn in 2020. Most are about the anxiety and frustration which Chris Flory has been experiencing in Covid times. The “Breath” series is loosely based on some pastel drawings from 1995.

Chris Flory, “But is it Safe?”
Susan Smoot: Roadside Compositions

From the heart of North Carolina, Susan Smoot studied fine art at Appalachian State University, earning a BA in Painting. After years in the corporate world of advertising, she has returned to making art as her primary focus. She has studied with locally and nationally recognized artists to further her talent and add to her skills to develop a straightforward painting style, elevating the commonplace to art. Smoot is an award-winning artist who teaches classes when possible. In addition to watercolor, the artist also works in pastel, acrylic, and fiber art.

“Roadside Compositions” is Susan Smoot’s collection of original watercolor paintings. The works focus on long-standing architecture of utility. Farmhouses, sheds, barns, are depicted, showing evidence of their usefulness and the disrepair of time. These rural scenes and buildings, observed locally, were rendered to celebrate the details of age, tarnish, patina, and rust on these witnesses of the past.

The artist says, “As a child, I always wondered about the abandoned farmhouses and barns I spotted while traveling through rural areas. I pictured, in my mind, walking through and around them. I wanted to understand more about their stories. By painting their images I intend to know them better and interpret their pasts – or make up my own version.”

Susan Smoot, “The Bright Side”

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March 2021: Akers, Daniels, Rizza Mellin

Three Solo Shows:
Wiley Akers: I Don’t Know Mind
Owens Daniels: Digital Protest 2020
Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria, Carborundum Mezzotints

Exhibition dates: March 5-March 28, 2021

Shop these exhibits online in our Gallery Shop.
  • Owens Daniels: US
  • Owens Daniels: BLM
  • Owens Daniels: Stand for Something
  • Owens Daniels: Silence is not an Option
  • Owens Daniels: Sermon on the Mount
  • Owens Daniels: I Am Not A THREAT
  • Owens Daniels: Police
  • Wiley Aikers: Two Birds with a Tear
  • Wiley Aikers: Chin Warmers
  • Wiley Aikers: MaskedWiley
  • Wiley Aikers: Hungry Ghost
  • Wiley Aikers: Green Hair Makes Me Smile
  • Wiley Aikers: Shakyamuni in the Forest
  • Wiley Aikers: Two Faces
  • Wiley Aikers: Absences is Made Visiible
  • Wiley Aikers: Inside and Outside are One
  • Wiley Aikers: Unkown Plant
  • Wiley Aikers: Purple Man
  • Wiley Aikers: Green Space
  • Wiley Aikers: Tiger Plant
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 51: Faith in the Future
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 59: Glowing Daydreams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 64: Soul of Moonbeams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 52: Bouquet of Moonbeams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 63: Moonbeam Necklace

Wiley Akers, “Chin Warmer”

Wiley Akers

Wiley Akers calls the work in his show an expression of “I Don’t Know Mind,” saying, “the best art that I have created in the past came about, for the most part, because I didn’t know what I was doing. So with an empty mind and no preconceived ideas or plans I start making pencil marks without looking at the canvas.” Upon the artist looking at the marks he determines if it wants to “become something.” Akers process allows one thing to lead to another; some quickly done to repress thinking, while others taking days.

Wiley Akers has a BFA and a MEd from UNCG. He taught art to middle and high school students for 25 years. In addition to his shows at Artworks Gallery he has exhibited at ASU, WCU, UNCG, and Delurk Gallery.


Owens Daniels, “BLM”

Owens Daniels

Owens Daniels uses the visual arts to express his interpretation of the world, and photography to open unexplored spaces between the subject and viewer exposing them both to a world of opportunities and experiences. “Digital Protest 2020” in a narrow sense is “Social Realism Art,” a term used for works by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to socio-political, equity and social justice conditions of the working class.  This work also operates as a means to critique the power structures that produce the environment and culture for these conditions. 

2019 Duke Energy Grant and Z Smith Reynolds Lead Artist for the Presence Absence Project awardee, Owens Daniels is a visual artist/photographer, educator and the face behind ODP Art+Design Bold, Creative and Innovative Artwork. In addition to formal training at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, Daniels has worked as a freelance photographer and served as Artist in Residences, participated in Public Art Installations, and been the recipient of grants and varied other commissions.


Barbara Rizza Mellin,”Lunaria 65 Garden Lanterns”

Barbara Rizza Mellin

Barbara Rizza Mellin’s “Lunaria,” showcases in black and white, the delicate beauty of the unpretentious plant, sometimes called Honesty or Money Plant. The exhibit of carborundum mezzotints is made up of two components: a wall installation of 48 6-inch-square mezzotints, as well as 16 framed mezzotint print images, each with an original haiku.  As an art historian, Mellin likes to reinterpret traditional media and techniques, using less toxic materials for modern audiences. 

Barbara Rizza Mellin is a printmaker, painter, and writer, who has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 2017.  She is also a member of several local and national professional organizations including AAWS, AFAS, the DADA Collective, the International Mezzotint Society and Winston-Salem Writers. 

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street, Winston-Salem, NC  27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890
March Gallery Hours: Friday 12-3 Saturday 11-5 Sunday 1-4
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org

Find more info on visiting our gallery here.

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Mannequin Musings at TAG features Owens Daniels

THEATRE ART GALLERIES (TAG) of High Point NC is now showing “MANNEQUIN MUSINGS” in their main gallery. Open TUESDAY-FRIDAY from 12-5 PM. Masks are required. From TAG’s newsletter:

Mannequin Musings
Following last year’s exceptionally well-received exhibit of Paul Tazewell’s award-winning costumes (Hamilton, The Wiz), we were left with an inventory of 15 mannequins seeking new homes. The solution? We put out a Call to Artists to have them reimagined to reflect on 2020, look ahead to 2021, or just to find new life at the whim of the artist. The result is an exhibition featuring the work of 15 North Carolina artists finding new means of expressing turbulent times in original and creative ways. We will feature each of these highly personal creations in a series of emails and eventually in an online virtual exhibit. This is the fourth email in the series.

Mannequin Musings will be available for in-person viewing during regular gallery hours, Tuesday-Friday, noon til 5, through the spring. We will follow all CDC protocols and masks are required. Find more info at tagart.org

Untitled by Owens Daniels now featured in the Mannequin Musings exhibit

Artworks member Owens Daniels talks about his piece:

My photographic career started at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to this formal training, I worked for several years as a freelance photographer and extended my photographic career by fine-turning the art of visual storytelling and developing a distinctive, decisive and intimate photojournalistic signature style which has led to various opportunities  that include: Artist in Residences, Public Art Installations, Grants and varied other commissions.

I use the visual arts to express my interpretation of the world, and photography to open unexplored spaces between the subject and viewer exposing them both to a world of opportunities and experiences. This objective can best be obtained with a focus on our commonalities which keeps us in the moment, and stops us from fretting about the future or regretting the past.  

2019 Duke Energy Grant and Z Smith Reynolds Lead Artist for the Presence Absence Project awardee Owens Daniels is a visual artist/photographer, educator and the face behind ODP Art+Design bold, creative and innovative artwork that builds bridges, promotes cultural exchanges, and artistic endeavors  between organizations, institutions and the diverse communities they serve. 

Owens Daniels – Artist Statement
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Video Tour: Four Women Exhibit 02-2021

Please enjoy this virtual tour* of our current exhibits, “Four Women Show” in the Main Gallery and our Front Gallery “Members Exhibit”.

Read more about the Four Women exhibit, including information about each of the artists and samples of their work on the Four Women exhibit page. You can also shop this exhibit online in our Gallery Shop.

Exhibition dates: February 5 – 28, 2021
Visit the gallery in person Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm, or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org. Find more info about planning your visit here.

Video created by Artworks member Lea Lackey-Zachmann

*Please note artist Katherine Mahler’s name is misspelled in the title card. Apologies to Katherine.

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Artworks: February 2021

Four Women Show
Original Prints and Paintings by Alix Hitchcock, Lea Lackey-Zachmann, Katherine Mahler, and Mona Wu

Exhibition dates: February 5 – 28, 2021

Browse and shop this exhibit and our Front Gallery exhibit online in our shop! Take a video tour of this exhibit here.

Alix Hitchcock, “Fall Shifting”

 Alix Hitchcock

For this select show, Alix Hitchcock has worked with colored inks and waxy china markers using drawings from models or stencil shapes of human forms and foliage forms. These large format works intentionally create a somewhat chaotic vision, where the layering of forms with added gestural marks and calligraphic lines may belie gravity, or blur distinctions between foreground and background; figure and space.
 
Alix Hitchcock holds a MA in painting from NYU and a BFA in printmaking and painting from UNCG. She has been an instructor in studio art at WFU, Salem College, UNCSA, The Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, plus a number of additional esteemed institutions. She was selected as the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year in 1998, and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery. She has exhibited widely in numerous local and national galleries and centers for art. Her work is held in many collections, both private and public.

Lea Lackey-Zachmann, “Goldfinch Dream”

Lea Lackey-Zachmann

Lea Lackey-Zachmann often makes images that are not exhibited or shared with the public.  “I appreciate those personal and often meaningful processes,” says Lackey-Zachmann. “Each of these paintings arose from experiences like that years ago. They were made quickly and afterwards rolled up, only to be recently found after a studio move.” The Covid pandemic period presents the perfect time to rediscover and exhibit these refreshed and completed 20 year old paintings.

Lea Lackey-Zachmann has a BA in Art Education, a graduate teaching certificate in Art Education and an MFA in painting. Also a founding member of Artworks Gallery, she taught art at the college level for over 30 years and continues to paint, make prints and explore video. The Natural world has been a focus of her art since childhood. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, two dogs and a cat.

Katherine Mahler, “Depth Finder”

Katherine Mahler

Combining printmaking and painting techniques, Katherine Mahler explores identity through the use of layers, shared symbols and maps. Drawing from her experiences living around the country and traveling globally her art reflects the commonalities and connectedness of the human experience.
 
New Artworks Gallery member, Katherine Mahler has a BA in Studio Art from Kenyon College and a BFA in Art Education from Michigan State University. Mahler is currently applying to be an MFA candidate. She has been teaching art to students of all ages for the past 20 years, including in Texas, Michigan, Louisiana and North Carolina.

Mona Wu, “Homeward Bound, Swallows”

Mona Wu

Mona Wu is exhibiting her unframed prints in large format, mostly monotypes, both old and new works. Comprised of botanical subject matter, these prints are the product of Wu’s love and appreciation of natural beauty ever present locally, in the state of North Carolina.
 
A native of China, Mona Wu immigrated to the US in 1970. She studied Chinese painting and calligraphy in Hong Kong, then later received her BA in Art History from Salem College and studied Printmaking at WFU. In 2003, Wu was selected as Sawtooth School Winston-Salem Artist of the year. She joined as a member of Artworks Gallery that same year. Wu currently teaches Printmaking and collage at Sawtooth School of Winston-Salem.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours and other info about the gallery can be found on our Visit page. Shop for artwork from gallery members in our Online Shop.

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Artworks: JAN 2021

Embracing a New Year Winter Group Exhibit

Exhibition dates: January 2 – 31, 2021

With 2020 in the rearview we all inhale a hopeful breath and embrace 2021. Artworks Gallery looks forward to an exciting New Year filled with original art by our member artists.

2021 is the 37th year Artworks Gallery has delivered unique, contemporary pieces as Winston-Salem’s longest-running artists’ cooperative. What a great way to welcome the New Year!

This Winter Group Exhibit features a selection of works by all members, including prints, photography, painting, collage, sculpture and more.

Some work from this exhibit is available in Artworks Gallery’s online shop.

  • Daybreak
  • Morning Glory, Springdale
  • Welcome to Earth Vll
  • Broken Angel
    Broken Angel
  • Tamarind Fire
    Tamarind Fire
  • Convergence
    Convergence
  • Little Bird Blue
  • Swimming Frogs
  • Sunset
  • Divergent
  • Pink Face
  • Jardinsans Plantes
  • Winter Sky Night
  • Refresh
  • Golden Autumn
  • Music Tree

www.Artworks-Gallery.org

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

January Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm,
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
Closed New Year’s Day

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101. Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

For information about this press release, contact: pr@artworks-gallery.org

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HeArt Works 2020

Artworks Gallery presents:
HeArt Works 2020
An All Member Group Show

Exhibition dates:
December 4 – 27, 2020

  • Daybreak
  • Morning Glory, Springdale
  • Welcome to Earth Vll
  • Broken Angel
    Broken Angel
  • Tamarind Fire
    Tamarind Fire
  • Convergence
    Convergence
  • Little Bird Blue
  • Swimming Frogs
  • Sunset
  • Divergent
  • Pink Face
  • Jardinsans Plantes
  • Winter Sky Night
  • Refresh
  • Golden Autumn
  • Music Tree

Artwork created from the HeArt. Join Artworks Gallery in joyfully bidding adieu to 2020!

With optimism, celebrate the end of 2020 with original art from the longest established artists’ cooperative.

Artworks Gallery is offering a stunning variety of work in its all-members exhibition called “HeArt Works 2020.” Each of us has dealt with heart-rending issues this year. In this show viewers will see a number of ways in which the artist members are showing their HeArts and the art created during months of lockdown.

Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and more will be available to the visitors just in time for the holidays.

www.Artworks-Gallery.org

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

December Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
We are closed on Christmas day.

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

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Video Tour: Front Gallery Member Show NOV 2020

Take a video tour of the Artworks 2020 November Front Gallery Member Exhibit
November 2020 Front Gallery show of Artworks member work including easily-giftable art in all shapes and sizes.

Exhibition dates: Nov. 5 – 29, 2020
Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3pm
Or By Appointment

Video by Lea Lackey-Zachmann