Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3 pm, or by appointment
Woodie Anderson, Protection, Serigraph on cotton
The new works by artist and designer Woodie Anderson employ printmaking, drawing, sculpture and written language to explore the areas where identity, personal history and society intersect. “Weary Heart” shares work from her ongoing series, “Tooth and Nail,” about the fight for love and community, as well as the struggles of identity, self-protection, and self-projection. These prints, presented on paper and fabric, will delight and engage viewers with fresh, meaningful messages.
Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3 pm, or by appointment
When We Dream
When We Express
When We Fire Dance
When We Muse
When We Accept
When We Breathe
When We Experience
Lea Lackey-Zachmann endeavors to bring you into the realm of awareness and sensing she extends to all living beings. “Still Standing Like The Trees” is a collection of images, started before the California fires this year. The artist says, “As their process towards completion continued they began to reflect the possible methods in which a conscious living being might respond to extreme circumstances. The trees, like all Nature have much to teach us.” These impressive new works, rendered in monotype with pencil, suggest viewing trees as sentient beings.
Take a short video tour of Still Standing Like The Trees by Lea Lackey-Zachmann.
Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3 pm, or by appointment
Hurrican Dorian
What We Worship
Whistle Blower
My Button is Bigger
Grab Them By The Pussy
Squid
Pro Crow
Harm to Ongoing Matter
Squid Pro Crow
Columbine
Come visualize through works by Jessica Tefft what happens when information is intentionally obscured. She says, “I got the idea for this show when I read the Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It felt as though I could not read two sentences without some part being blacked out – redacted – so the public couldn’t read it. But I kept looking at all the redactions. And I noticed the little black bars were often embellished with the words “May Cause Ongoing Harm.” If so many things could cause “ongoing harm,” I wondered, shouldn’t the American people know?”
Visitors will see many imaginings of ongoing harm caused by willful obfuscation conveyed through a variety of multi-media art. Many employ tongue-in-cheek commentary of the social, political, personal, world we live in.
Jessica Tefft, Harm to Ongoing Matter, Fabric Collage
Jessica Tefft, Peace, Digital Collage
Lea Lackey-Zachmann, When We Accept, Monotype with Pencil
Woodie Anderson, Protection, Serigraph on cotton
Jessica Tefft May Cause Ongoing Harm
Woodie Anderson Weary Heart
Lea Lackey-Zachmann Still Standing Like The Trees
Exhibition dates: Thursday, November 5 – Saturday, November 29, 2020
Open Limited Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 3 pm Or By Appointment
Come visualize through works by Jessica Tefft what happens when information is intentionally obscured. She says, “I got the idea for this show when I read the Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It felt as though I could not read two sentences without some part being blacked out – redacted – so the public couldn’t read it. But I kept looking at all the redactions. And I noticed the little black bars were often embellished with the words “May Cause Ongoing Harm.” If so many things could cause “ongoing harm,” I wondered, shouldn’t the American people know?”
Visitors will see many imaginings of ongoing harm caused by willful obfuscation conveyed through a variety of multi-media art. Many employ tongue-in-cheek commentary of the social, political, personal, world we live in.
The new works by artist and designer Woodie Anderson employ printmaking, drawing, sculpture and written language to explore the areas where identity, personal history and society intersect. “Weary Heart” shares work from her ongoing series, “Tooth and Nail,” about the fight for love and community, as well as the struggles of identity, self-protection, and self-projection. These prints, presented on paper and fabric, will delight and engage viewers with fresh, meaningful messages.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann endeavors to bring you into the realm of awareness and sensing she extends to all living beings. “Still Standing Like The Trees” is a collection of images, started before the California fires this year. The artist says, “As their process towards completion continued they began to reflect the possible methods in which a conscious living being might respond to extreme circumstances. The trees, like all Nature have much to teach us.” These impressive new works, rendered in monotype with pencil, suggest viewing trees as sentient beings.
We are excited to open with limited hours and social distancing. We ask everyone to wear a face-covering in accordance with the NC Department of Health and Human Services to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Special October 2020 Hours: Thurs. – Sat. Noon -3 pm and by appointment. Contact us at shop@artworks-gallery.org for viewing appointments outside of our current gallery hours.
Artworks Gallery Presents Almost Normal: Artworks Gallery Opens Its Doors
We are excited to open with limited hours and social distancing. We ask everyone to wear a face-covering in accordance with the NC Department of Health and Human Services to slow the spread of COVID-19.
ON EXHIBIT: New Works by Four Members of Artworks Gallery Chris Flory Betti Pettinati-Longinotti Susan Smoot Mona Wu
October 8 – 31, 2020
Hope
Honor
Follow Your Instincts
Blessing
Fragmented Heart
Half-past There ( Left)
Half-past There ( right)
Mon Mont Sainte-Victoire
Old
So Broad That its Meaningless
Regardless
Crookneck Squash
Korean Melon
Tools of my Trade
Birds of Paradise
Requiem of the Victims: COVID 19
Prayer over Pandemic: Coronavirus
Harper with Rudy
Chris Flory
Chris Flory’s body of work consists of large-scale graphite drawings, evocative of another time and place. Using imagery and imagination, she brings her works to life through value, perspective and her accomplished lens of art-making.
Chris Flory has a BFA in Printmaking from Phila. College of Art (1972) and an MFA in Painting from UNC-Greensboro. She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1993, and also makes art for Artomat machines.
Chris Flory; Old
The practice of graphite drawing on top of textured-layered oil painted surfaces has allowed Betti Pettinati-Longinotti conversation and intercession with the Divine, having many varied forms and senses of spirituality. Through which she has explored the pandemic upon us in our current world, the Coronavirus. “These paintings/drawings associate to a theophany and love of God, with visible prayer for others, as well as myself.”
Betti Pettinati-Longinotti
Betti Pettinati Longinotti, is an artist and art educator, instructing at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art and Forsyth Technical Community College. Pettinati Longinotti works in drawing, painting, mixed media and glass. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, an MA from the University of the Arts/ Philadelphia, in Art Education with a studio major in Glass, and an MFA in Visual Arts through the Lesley University, College of Art and Design. Betti is a juried member of Artworks Gallery and Piedmont Craftsmen, and also holds membership in the American Glass Guild.
Betti Pettinati-Longinotti; Requiem of the Victims: COVID 19
The textile works by Susan Smoot have been created in a mindful way as offerings to soothe our battered souls during this pandemic. Using treasured vintage linens and a selection of curated fibers and ephemera, collaged works were created. Hand-dyeing, eco-printing natural fabrics and other textile processes have been employed to alter and enhance the materials. Meditative sewing by hand and machine allowed time to consider the heartbreaking reality surrounding the coronavirus. Messages of healing adorn the work with thoughts, wishes, dreams, and aspirations for a better future.
Susan Smoot; Honor
Susan Smoot
Susan Smoot holds a BA in Art Marketing with a concentration in Painting from Appalachian State University. She is a juried member of Artworks Gallery and of the Watercolor Society of North Carolina.
Mona Wu
Mona Wu has taken advantage of the hiatus to create a collection of small watercolor paintings depicting common objects in and around her house. All work are dated in order to form a narrative highlighting a positive way in coping with the COVID lockdown.
A native of China, Mona Wu immigrated to US in 1970. She studied Chinese painting and calligraphy in Hong Kong. Mona received her BA in Art History from Salem College in 1996. She also studied Printmaking at WFU as an auditor from 1997 -2014.
Mona Wu; Birds of Paradise
Mona was selected as Sawtooth School Winston-Salem Artist-of-the-Year in 2003. She became a member of Artworks Gallery in the same year. Mona teaches Printmaking, collage, and Chinese painting at Sawtooth School of Visual Art.
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
OCTOBER Limited Gallery hours: Thurs. – Sat. 12-3 pm and by appointment (Contact us at shop@artworks-gallery.org for viewing appointments outside of our October Gallery hours.)
One of the artists, Owens Daniels, created a piece focusing on the theme of mass public transit with a subway feel. He used to exclusively ride city buses and says giving them an artistic makeover can give riders a refreshed sense of dignity and comfort.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —If you use public transportation in Winston-Salem or drive pass bus shelters through your day, chances are something new may catch your eye. The City of Winston-Salem is currently installing 12 new pieces of art meant to spruce up local bus shelters. Read more…
“I’m very proud to use my talents and skills to promote the artistry of my city,” Daniels said. “I want their takeaway to be a better experience. I want their takeaway to be a more convenient experience.”
Artworks artist Barbara Rizza Mellin is featured in High Shelf, Issue XX11 (magazine of literature and art). Rizza Mellin’s Freewheelin’ series is shown in an eleven-page spread in the literary magazine this month (pages 11-21).
highshelfpress High Shelf Issue XXII: Cover Art by Louis Fiorucci, images by: Dale Shank, Valyntina Grenier, Barbara Mellin, Greg Turlock, and Marieken Cochius Read some stunning poetry and a little satire when you check out more by these artists at: www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxiiBarbara Rizza MellinFreewheelin’ series is shown in an eleven-page spread in the literary magazine this month (pages 11-21).
Wendell Myers presents Autumn Visions Virtual Show for Fall 2020
Autumn Visions Virtual Show is an online-only show of recent paintings by Artworks artist Wendell Myers. A collection of recent paintings having to do with Autumn. You can see all of the paintings in detail at wendellmyers.com or on his Facebook artist’s page.
The video includes a short introductory video with the artist and includes many of the exhibit’s paintings, as well as beautiful music by Myers’s wife, Pam, “Field of Poppies,” from “Three Scenes from Poland.” You can see all of the images on Myers facebook artists’ page, or on wendellmyers.com.
Artworks member Owens Daniels is featured among 12 Winston-Salem artists in a “citywide art gallery by making art for bus stops from south on Peters Creek to north on University parkways, and from west on Country Club Road to east on Waughtown Street.”
The Artistic Bus Shelter Program was organized by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Art Commission to improve the experience of riding the bus for people who use the Winston-Salem Transit Authority.
“Intended as an experiment in socially distanced engagement, this installation was collaboratively designed by patrons and passersby of Bus Stop No. 47615. Community Design Studio (CDS) provided a blank canvas with an invitation for anyone to make their mark. …”
In a statement, the Community Design Studio folks explained what they are working on: “Spring and summer of 2020 have challenged us to explore new ways to engage our diverse community in placemaking. Our installation is as much about the process of creating public art as it is about the resulting artwork for the bus shelter.
