Dennis Millsaps and Beverly Noyes
February 4 – March 1, 2014
Meet the artists at the Gallery Hop,
Friday, February 7, 7 – 10 pm
Artworks Gallery presents a two-person exhibit by Dennis Millsaps showing new acrylic paintings of fruit presented in surrealist fashion, and by Beverly Noyes showing new watercolor paintings inspired by the prairie landscape, where the expansive space of a natural environment meets an endless sky.
Dennis Millsaps is a Winston-Salem native. His art education includes high school art classes and two years of adult continuing education in Fine Art at Davidson Community College from 1976-1978 with Katherine Montgomery, Instructor. He has attended workshops and personal classes with Sterling Edwards, Jean Carbonette, Mona Wu, and Pat Spainhour as well as a five day figure drawing workshop with Roger Allen Nelson. He was a member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem 2000-2011, and has been an Artworks Gallery member since April 2013.
Beverly Noyes, a native of Minnesota, earned an MFA from the University of NC at Greensboro and a BS in Art Education from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Noyes taught painting at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts in Winston-Salem throughout the 1990’s, is an exhibiting member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, and has been an exhibiting member of Artworks Gallery since 1989. She has worked in various media over her career, including large oil paintings of still life and landscapes, charcoal drawings from nature, and collage pieces of urban landscapes. Watercolor has been her media focus for over the last 10 years. Her work has been on exhibit in the Triad area, around the state and the country for the past 30 years.
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Dennis Millsaps, "Wild Cherries", acrylic on canvas, 3' x 4'
Beverly Noyes, "The Prairie- City in the Snow", watercolor, 20" x 24"