May-2025
April 2025
Artworks Gallery Presents
Marion Adams: “Piedmont Wildlife”
And
Betti Pettinati Longinotti: “Cradling the Divine: A Tree Study”
Exhibition Dates: March 30 – April 26, 2025
Artist’s Reception: DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, April 4, 7-9 pm
Open for Art Crush: Friday, April 18, 7 – 9 pm
Marion Adams has returned to her favorite subject matter: wildlife. Her gardens and woods teem with creatures. Larger animals are predictable and easy to spot. Bluejays arrive in pairs to feed off the hollies. Robins come in large groups, usually five to eight at a time. Squirrels and chipmunks scurry thru the landscape to take advantage of the various feeders. Possums and fox arrived when they think no one is looking. From overhead, a red shouldered hawk instructs her young how to hunt for prey.
Wildlife has always been a passion and inspiration. “This collection of work focuses on animals I love, even though they destroy my lettuce, take the earliest of tomatoes, make a mess around the feeders and even sting if I accidentally invade their territory. Living together in the same habitat is give-and-take. It’s a small cost to plant more lettuce or give up a few tomatoes.”
Colored pencil has been the medium of choice because it allows for sharp detail and blending to produce a richness of color.
Marion Adams is a retired Middle School Science and Math teacher. She has taught art history, painting and drawing on the high school and college levels. She holds a Master’s degree from Georgia State University and is a member of Artworks Gallery and Associated Artists in Winston-Salem, NC. She has won two Best in Shows and is featured in Ann Kullberg’s book “Colored Pencils: Secrets of Success” (Northlight Books, 2009).
Betti Pettinati Longinotti shares a series of gel transfer prints of her “Cradling the Divine: Tree Study”, a contemplative exploration. “I love and enjoy nature – flowers, trees, plants, and see the face of God in these created items. I consider myself a co-creator with our Creator.”
Betti Pettinati Longinotti loves the rhythm of nature in sunsets and sunrises and often records and shares them. She enjoys spiritual contemplation in nature, loves trees and her individual perception, perspective and focus of these living creations. Reflecting on these photographs in her digital inventory, she brings these to new life for this show. She uses gel transfer prints within a mixed media exploration. This technique shows up often, as well within the paintings produced.
Betti Pettinati Longinotti works in drawing, painting, and glass. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and her MA from the University of the Arts/ Philadelphia, in Art Education with a studio major in Glass, an MFA in Visual Arts through the Lesley University College of Art and Design. Her work has been shown internationally. Betti is a juried member of Artworks Gallery, Piedmont Craftsmen, Studio Montclair Gallery and holds membership in the American Glass Guild.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
March 2025
Mar.1 – Mar. 29
Artworks Gallery Presents RETROSPECTIVE
Paintings, Prints, Drawings, 3-D Paintings and Video by
Exhibition Dates: March 5 – 29, 2025
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, March 16, 2 – 4 pm
DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, March 7, 7-9 pm
Art Crush: Friday, April 4, 7 – 9 pm
In addition to the exhibit at the Artworks Gallery location, there will be an informal showing of these topics at Studio 434, on Brookstown Ave. in Winston-Salem from March 21-28 between 4:00 and 6:00 pm.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann has lived in Winston-Salem for many years. The natural world has been a focus of her art since childhood. Her love of nature, gardening and wild habitats makes living next to the 70-acre Washington Park a constant influence on her work.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann’s retrospective exhibit includes paintings, drawings, three-dimensional paintings, and short videos made over the past 40+ years. This exhibition showcases art that was inspired by plants, trees, earth, water, and air. These subjects have been visited and revisited over the years, as she found more ways to explore and appreciate these forms of life on our physical plane.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann holds a BA in Art from Winthrop University and an MFA in painting and art history with Graduate Teacher Certification in Art Education from UNC Greensboro. She retired from teaching Art at High Point University for 29 years, Salem College for 12 years and other regional colleges and universities for shorter terms. She is a founding member of Artworks Gallery and has exhibited there each year since 1985.
The formal exhibition of her retrospective work will be at Artworks Gallery. In addition, there will be an informal showing of these topics at her studio, located at Studio 434, on Brookstown Ave. in Winston-Salem from March 21-28 between 4:00 and 6:00 pm.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
February 2025
JUST-U.S.
Not Just for U.S. But JUSTICE for ALL
Owens Daniels and Perviz Heyat
Exhibition Dates: February 2, – March 1, 2025
Reception and talk February 23rd 2-4 pm.
DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, 7, 7-9 pm
Throughout history artists have used their creative strength to draw attention to the divisive socio-political conditions of its community. Through a variety of two-and three- dimensional media, artists utilize their art to critique the power structures of culture, religion, and human rights. JUST-U.S. is a provocative exhibit by two artists that use visual arts and mixed media to examine this topic in different ways.
Owens Daniels uses photography and text to examine the lives of everyday people who choose to use their voices to create dialogue, build bridges, and promote cultural exchanges about these critical issues. Perviz Heyat works in the neo-expressionist style of painting to depict elements of social injustice and restriction of basic human rights and freedom, which leads to crime and imprisonment, affecting families in ways that create a vicious cycle of crime through future generations.
Owens Daniels’ photographic career started at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to his formal training, he continues to work as a freelance photographer with a distinctive and intimate photojournalistic signature style in visual storytelling which has led to various opportunities that include Artist in Residences, Fellowship of American Art, Public Art Installations, and Grants and varied other commissions.
Perviz Heyat is a multimedia artist and a professional photographer, currently lives in Winston Salem, NC. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, he received classical training from Professor A. Sumer of the Istanbul Academy of Art. He moved to the United States in 1982 and has exhibited his work in numerous locations in Virginia, Washington DC and New York. He moved to Winston-Salem in 2011 and started experimenting with new styles and discovering new techniques. He has been a member of Artworks Gallery for several years and exhibits regularly.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Support local artists while giving back to the community—it’s the perfect opportunity to find a unique holiday gift or add a new piece to your collection!
Looking for a unique holiday gift or a fresh addition to your art collection? Artworks Gallery is thrilled to present our holiday show, featuring stunning creations by local artists.
We’re also proud to support Art SHAC, a nonprofit that provides affordable, gently used art supplies to the community. This holiday season, 10% of all holiday show sales will be donated to Art SHAC to promote sustainability and creativity.
Learn more about Art SHAC: https://www.theartshac.org/
Event Details:
Artworks Gallery – 564 N. Trade St.
Open Hours – Tues.–Fri., 11 am–5 pm & Sun., 1 pm–4 pm
Free Drop-In Crafting Sessions:
Holiday Card Making: Fri., Dec. 6, 11:30 am–1:30 pm
Vision Collage Boards: Sat., Jan. 4, 1 pm–3 pm
(Start 2025 with creativity!)
All supplies provided—just bring your imagination!
November 2024
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Perviz Heyat: “The Industrial Revolution”
Exhibition Dates: October 27 – November 30, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9 , 2 – 4 pm
Open for DADA First Friday
Gallery Hop: November 1, 7 – 9 pm
And Art Crush: Friday, November 15, 7- 9 pm
Perviz Heyat is a multimedia artist living in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He began his art training at the age of six and his formal training at the age of 14 in Istanbul, Turkey. He had his first solo show at the age of 17 in Istanbul.
Heyat approaches his art with belief in complete freedom of expression. He believes that every person has art within them and that we all use art every day. The choices we make in our lives reflect the artistic direction of our existence, with a delicate balance of the opposing forces of rules and freedom. This balance of opposing forces is a necessary part of being human.
Perviz has travelled across the United States working in big cities and on Native American reservations throughout the past 35 years. His experiences are the subject matter of his paintings, which address the social unrest, inequality, and alienation inherent in a modern society focused on economic and technological progress.
Perviz had several exhibitions in private galleries in Istanbul before he moved to the United States in 1982. He has exhibited his paintings in galleries in Wheeling, West Virginia. His paintings were also featured in the Sony Pictures Classics release, Whatever, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. He had regular solo and group exhibits in Washington, DC at the Studio Gallery, and in Manhattan, New York, at the Phoenix Gallery between 2002- 2011.
Perviz moved to Winston Salem in 2011 and started experimenting with new styles and discovering new techniques. Evolving from a realistic style, he painted in “pop art” style for several years until he adopted the abstract expressionist style he employs in this exhibit.
His current show called the “The Industrial Revolution” represents the abstract expressionist force behind this revolution and is influenced by the American masters from the fifties and sixties.
The exhibits are free and open to the public.