Oct 2021: Green, Hitchcock, Nations
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Don Green, Recent Wood Sculpture; Alix Hitchcock, Opening Up; Diane Nations, Pausing Between Two Mysteries
Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 30, 2021
Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2-4 pm
Don Green, “Untitled Oak Sculpture”
Don Green | Recent Wood Sculpture
The recent works by Don Green from the past two or three years are all various hardwoods – cherry , oak, cedar, maple, magnolia, and plywood. The artist has become greatly concerned with the history of the tree from which the logs were cut, the pattern of the grain, especially at stress points where the tree was growing around branches, the expansive growth at the very base of a large tree, the knots where branches were growing off the main trunks, and the holes and rotted opening where branches had earlier been broken off or were sawed off. In a sense, Green feels like he is performing an autopsy of the remains of a noble old tree creature, thus growing in admiration for other living organisms, especially our old friends and servants: trees.
Don Green taught art for 12 years at Methodist College (University) and worked in advertising and design, and construction. Additionally, he has had many sculpture commissions throughout his career. Green holds degrees from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Green has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1994.
Don Green, “Untitled Cherry Sculpture”
Alix Hitchcock | Opening Up
Alix Hitchcock’s colorful art on paper works are gelatin monotype prints with the theme of human figures or birds as silhouette shapes in an abstracted environment of tree-like structures or forms from nature. They are created by printing on “gelatin plates” using stencils with water-based printmaking inks, some with additional hand-coloring with colored pencils. Hitchcock wants to communicate with the viewer a sense of awe in the presence of the natural world, and bring the viewer into each artwork’s composition of movement and mystery.
Alix Hitchcock received her MA in painting from New York University, and her BFA in printmaking and painting from the Univ. of NC at Greensboro. She was an Instructor in Drawing at WFU for 23 years and has also taught art at several institutions, including Salem College, UNCSA, Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, ECU, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and Weatherspoon Museum of Art. Alix Hitchcock was the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year in 1998 and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery.
Alix Hitchcock, “Opening Up”
Diane Nations, “Mysterious Journey”
Diane Nations | Pausing Between Two Mysteries
“Pausing Between Two Mysteries” is a collection of oil paintings, mixed media collages, along with digital collages, completed by Diane Nations between October 2019 and September 2021. Drawing inspiration from Carl Jung’s quote, “Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that yet are one.” Nations looks to myths and archetypal images as thresholds to new dimensions of meaning and life’s interconnectedness. She is a local artist, who has exhibited in both local and national exhibitions.
This is her third exhibition at Artworks.
Diane Nations, “Wisdom Tree”
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 30, 2021
Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2-4pm
For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org
Sept 2021: Marion Adams and James Gemma
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Marion Adams: Colored Pencil Compositions
James Gemma: Exploring Abstract Relationships in Shape and Color
Exhibition dates: August 29 – September 25, 2021
Gallery Hop: Friday, September 3, 7-9 pm
Marion Adams, Oops 
Marion Adams, A Seat at the Table 
Marion Adams, Blue and White 
Marion Adams, Apples on Blue Willow 
Marion Adams, Catch 
Marion Adams, Dribble 
James Gemma, Color Wall 
James Gemma, Arrangement in Red ,Blue and Green 
James Gemma, Color Crossings 
James Gemma, Color Diamond 
James Gemma, Color Sphere 
James Gemma, Color Stripe l 
James Gemma, Color Stripe 2 
James Gemma, Color Wall 2 
James Gemma, Color Weave 
James Gemma, Moonlight 
James Gemma, String Theory
Marion Adams, “Blue and White”
Marion Adams | Colored Pencil Composition
Marion Adams reflects, “It is interesting where a year can take you, especially if you physically have no place to go!” She took the time to enjoy countless hours researching artists, both contemporary and traditional from the sanctuary of a laptop while in lockdown. The paintings of artists Janet Rickus and Jeff Larson inspired Adams to try my own. Although their paintings are in acrylic and oil, she tried something similar with a favorite medium: colored pencil.
First, traditional crockery became the subject, later followed by blue willow china. Months later, the minimalist styles of pottery by Giorgio Morandi and Sophie Cook inspired her works.
Marion Adams, “Monstera”
Adams was very much at peace this year while creating art, which provided a type of daily mediation and an escape from the constant chatter of the outside world. Making art offered a retreat into a space of quietness and peace. Maia Gambis, “Why Making Art is the New Meditation,” explains that making art is a tool for coping with overwhelming emotion. “Happiness is more a matter of nurturing a space that provides stability and a constant connection to our true selves.”
Marion Adams has had a 30-year career teaching Science, Math, and Art. She holds a Master’s Degree from Georgia State University and undergraduate degrees in education and art. She works in colored pencil, acrylics, and makes 3-dimensional pieces using polymer and paper clay. She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 2015.
Marion Adams, “Ooops”
James Gemma, “Moonlight”
James Gemma | Exploring Abstract Relationships in Shape and Color
James Gemma’s abstract art is an exciting visual and conceptual exploration of the artistic relationships that may be created among and between colors and shapes. In this exhibition, many of the works use geometric elements as support for these explorations, while others take a more expressive approach. Some of the works have a formal appeal, with arrangements of bold colors and shapes. Others are arranged with softer, more subtle color/shape relationships. Finally, some are just freer, but still with an underlying coherence. Despite its conceptual nature, the art in this collection has a strong aesthetic and energizing appeal. All work in this show is limited edition, original digital art, created with archival paper and ink.
After graduating with advanced degrees from The Ohio State University and careers as university professor and consumer research professional, James Gemma studied art and printmaking at Salem College, and at Wake Forest University. He also has participated in multiple art workshops at Penland School, the Huntington Museum of Art, and the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art. Gemma served four years as board member of Associated Artists of Winston Salem. As Marketing Chairperson of that group, he created the Practicing Artist Series of lectures and critiques, bringing the participation of nationally known artists to Winston-Salem. He is currently a practicing artist, and has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 2009.
James Gemma, “Color Wall 1”
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Open for Gallery Hop: Friday, September 3, 7-9 pm
Exhibition dates: August 29 – September 25, 2021
For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org
AUGUST 2021: Mary Blackwell Chapman and Mona Wu
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Mary Blackwell Chapman: Time in the Pandemic
Mona Wu: Leaf Dreaming
Exhibition dates: August 1 – August 28, 2021
Gallery Hop: Friday, August 6, 7-10 pm
Meet the Artists Reception: Sunday, August 8, 2-4 pm
Mary Blackwell-Chapman, “Cave Art”
Mary Blackwell Chapman | Time in the Pandemic
Mary Blackwell-Chapman’s current show, Time in the Pandemic reflects her response to the worldwide COVID pandemic of the past year and a half in ceramic and fiber. Some artists found increased energy during this time, but some, like Blackwell-Chapman, felt an emptiness and lack of direction. She realized renewed interest and focus in family history, natural beauty, and quiet work with new forms of expression in clay and with a material new to her: fiber.
Her works in the “Homeplace” series reference personal family history and the broader, varied stories of how all of our families came to live in this country and have found, or not found, a home. Fiber is a medium particularly connected to the home, family, community, and history.
Her ceramic work shows an interest in surface treatment and glaze/slip finish that is also new to her. These changes in style and technique reflect her reaction to the profoundly altered state of the world. The world has felt very new and different, and she responded by picking up new tools, new images, and new concerns.
Mary Blackwell-Chapman is a sculptural artist from Forsyth County, North Carolina. She earned a BA in English Literature from Goucher College, and an MA in Motion Picture from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has studied sculpture, both ceramics and book arts, at Penland, UNC-G, Arrowmont, Shakerag, the Calligraphy Centre, and the Sawtooth Center. Her works are in numerous collections. She has been a member of the artists’ collective, Artworks Gallery, since 1992.
Mary Blackwell-Chapman, “Leaf Candelabra”
Mona Wu | Leaf Dreaming
Mona Wu’s new show, Leaf Dreaming, consists principally of images printed on fabric, and then embellished with hand stitching on unused cloth napkins. Botanical imagery is the theme in most of the work, although some were produced with simple woodcut, monoprinted, then hand-sewn into small wall hangings.
In addition to the wall hangings, there are twelve cocktail napkins with gel prints of single leaf outlines and overlaying leaf veins and ferns within; eight dinner napkins with more complex compositional components and various top stitches.
This series is a vast departure from Wu’s previous work of prints on paper. Instead of paper, the artist works with fabric and thread. It is a new art form and a fresh look at familiar objects expressed in new materials, sewn entirely by hand.
A native of China, Mona Wu immigrated to the US in 1970. She studied Chinese painting and calligraphy in Hong Kong then received her BA in Art History from Salem College in 1996. She also studied Printmaking at WFU from 1997-2014.
In 2003 Wu was selected as Sawtooth School of Visual Art Winston-Salem Artist of the year. She teaches Printmaking and Collage at Sawtooth. Wu is currently a member of Artworks Gallery, an artist co-op art gallery in downtown Winston-Salem.
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Open for Gallery Hop: Friday, August 6, 7-10 pm
Meet the Artists Reception: Sunday, August 8, 2-4 pm
Exhibition dates: August 1 – August 28, 2021
For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org
PRESS: Owens Daniels’ exhibition a highlight of local Juneteenth celebrations
Artworks member Owens Daniels exhibit featured in the Winston-Salem Journal Sunday June 27 with a review by Tom Patterson: Long time coming: A highlight of local Juneteenth celebrations, Owens Daniels’ exhibition remains on view at the Milton Rhodes Center
Studio portraiture, street photography, content-charged texts and digital technology make for a potent combination in the work of Owens Daniels.
Daniels has been producing powerful, text-augmented photographic pieces for several years. Recently he has compiled a strong body of work documenting local street protests. Prolific and persistent, he has exhibited his work in a number of local shows.
His art emphasizes African American culture and identity, so it’s fitting that it was highlighted in this month’s local celebration of Juneteenth, marking the anniversary of slavery’s end in the United States in 1965.
Daniels’ exhibition “When the Revolution Comes” opened in mid-June at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. It brings together selected pieces from at least four bodies of work, including several images he has shown locally within the past two years. These range from proud portraits of ordinary people to more journalistic shots of protesters and police on the streets.
Those insensitive or hostile to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and so-called “critical race theory” aren’t likely to give the show much of a chance. But I suspect most viewers will sympathize with the artist’s socio-political point of view. In addition to its thematic aspect, Daniels’ work also carries a purely visual charge. The combination is crucial to what is evidently his primary aim — stimulating thoughts that extend beyond the image.
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 27, 2121
Press: Artist Seth Moskowitz finds that “wow” pattern
Read an interview with July’s featured artist Seth Moskowitz by Fran Daniel in the Winston Salem Journal: Once Winston-Salem artist finds that “wow” pattern, the digital manipulations really begin
Artist Seth Moskowitz, who lives in Winston-Salem, takes a lot of pictures but doesn’t consider himself a photographer.
“The pictures that I do take, I wind up playing with and using in artworks that I produce and are made from multiple pictures that very rarely look like photography,” Moskowitz said.
Through July 31, Artworks Gallery on North Trade Street in the Downtown Winston-Salem Arts District will present Moskowitz’s “NEWds — New Interpretations of the Female Form” exhibit along with Karen Moran Kopf’s “Memories Downtown” exhibit.
In their shows, Moskowitz’s artwork focuses on nudes to create pieces that use many of the same compositional elements in different ways in different pieces. Kopf’s exhibit depicts people and locations the artist either observed or events in which she participated.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the beauty of organic forms and how the interplay of shapes, and the mosaic of hue, tone and texture, affect the emotions evoked by my interpretations of the human body and the natural world,” Moskowitz said.
Fran Daniel, Winston Salem Journal Sunday June 27th 2021
Read the full article here, read more about Seth’s current exhibit here, and shop Artworks Gallery online in our shop
Artworks 1,000 Cranes Collaboration with the FCHD
1,000 Cranes: Artworks Gallery is creating a public art project with the Forsyth County Health Department
We will turn the Covid-19 health forms into folded cranes that will be displayed at the Health Department building iat the end of the Summer.
The folding of 1,000 cranes comes from an ancient Japanese legend promising anyone who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted happiness, peace, and eternal good luck.
Want to be a part of folding the 1,000 cranes?
Come to the Gallery on these days and help:
Saturday, June 26, 2-4pm
Friday, July 2, 7-9 pm ( Art Hop)
Friday, August 6, 7-9 pm ( Art Hop)
Event is free and open to the public
Artworks Gallery, Inc.
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890
July Gallery Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
JULY 2021: Karen Moran Kopf and Seth Moskowitz
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Karen Moran Kopf: Memories Downtown
Seth Moskowitz: NEWds – New Interpretations of the Female Form
Karen Moran Kopf, The Earth Has a Memory 
Karen Moran Kopf, Local 27101 
Karen Moran Kopf,Trade Street Diner 
Karen Moran Kopf, Musicians on Trade Street 
Karen Moran Kopf, TheGBS 
Karen Moran Kopf, Senor Bravo 
Karen Moran Kopf, Dancing on Trade Street 
Karen Moran Kopf, Downtown Mellow 
Karen Moran Kopf, Endless Energy 
Karen Moran Kopf, Boundless Energy 
Karen Moran Kopf, Scaled 
Seth Moskowitz,Be Still 
Seth Moskowitz, Harlequin 
Seth Moskowitz, Mirror Mirror 
Seth Moskowitz, Nemesis 
Seth Moskowitz, Small Voice 
Seth Moskowitz, Come Hither 
Seth Moskowitz, Feelin Blue 
Seth Moskowitz, Goosed! 
Seth Moskowitz, Home Alone 
Seth Moskowitz, Torn 
Seth Moskowitz, Turning Point ll 
Seth Moskowitz, Turning Point 
Seth Moskowitz, Which One Is Me 
Seth Moskowitz, World’s Apart 
Seth Moskowitz, We’ll Always Have Paris
Exhibition dates: June 27 – July 31, 2021
Gallery Hop: Friday July 2, 7-9 pm
Meet the Artists Reception, Sunday, July 11, 2-4 pm
Karen Moran Kopf, “Dancing on Trade Street”
Karen Moran Kopf | Memories Downtown
Karen Moran Kopf received a BA in painting from Wagner College, NYC and studied in Austria and Spain. While she lived in Spain, she exhibited in various European locations. After returning from Europe she continued to paint, but primarily taught school for twenty years. Now that the artist has been painting full-time for several years, she has joined Artworks Gallery and has begun an exhibition schedule with this show.
Seth Moskowitz | NEWds – New Interpretations of the Female ForM
Most of Seth Moskowitz’s artwork focuses on nature and nudes, usually shown in combination. For this show, the artist focuses on nudes to create works incorporating many of the same compositional elements, used differently to different effect. This approach is similar to the printmakers’ practice of using recurring visual elements – perhaps a leaf, a fan, a bird, or a wheel – repeated in a series of images to elicit a kind of acknowledgment from the varying combinations. Moskowitz is fascinated by the beauty of organic forms and how the interplay of those shapes, along with hue, tone, and texture affect the emotions evoked by interpretations of the human body and the natural world. Most of the images in this exhibition employ a relatively small set of compositional elements in a variety of ways to create images that are, very closely related to one another but are very different in their ultimate appearance and impact.
Seth Moskowitz is a Winston-Salem based artist who creates and combines photographic images into artworks that rarely resemble the images they incorporate. Moskowitz made a living immersed in the constant chatter of written and verbal communications, working as a journalist for five years, followed by many years of corporate communications and issue management in a controversial industry. He began to create visual art as an escape from the verbal cacophony of the workaday world – a way to enter a peaceful, magical place that is literally, beyond words.
Artworks Gallery resumes full hours in July!
July Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Open for Gallery Hop: Friday July 2, 7-9 pm
Meet the Artists Reception, Sunday, July 11, 2-4 pm
Exhibition dates: June 27 – July 31, 2021
For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org
PRESS: Gnashing teeth and sharpened knives – review of Anderson solo exhibit
Check the Sunday, June 20th edition of the Winston-Salem Journal for an insightful review of our current exhibit, Tooth and Nail: Fragments featuring new work by artist and artworks member Woodie Anderson.
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“Industrious and enterprising are the first words that come to mind when seeing Woodie Anderson’s solo exhibition at Artworks Gallery. … Anderson is a talented, resourceful artist whose specialty is printmaking, and her exhibition “Tooth and Nail: Fragments” leaves no doubt she’s been busy. She’s also clearly had a lot on her mind.”
“There are of course no real knives in sight, and nothing else potentially dangerous, but if close attention is paid, this exhibition promises to sharpen eyes and minds.”
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 20, 2021
Read the full article: “Gnashing teeth and sharpened knives: Woodie Anderson’s solo show at Artworks Gallery reveals an industrious, enterprising artist with a lot on her mind” online here or in PDF form here. This exhibit is on display through June 26th, 2021, and you can read more about the exhibit here or shop some of the pieces in our online shop through the end of the month.
June 2021: Woodie Anderson
Artworks Gallery Presents:
Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments
(solo show)
Exhibition dates: June 3-26, 2021
Gallery Hop: June 4, 2021, 7-9 pm (Meet the Artist Reception)
Woodie Anderson, “Sharpen Your Knives”
Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments
Working with original drawings and text, found images, historical snippets, and the fever-dreams of an exhausted soul, Woodie Anderson continues her “Tooth and Nail” series exploring the tenacity of the human spirit. This exhibit features new work, including screenprints on paper and reclaimed fabrics, watercolors, and mixed media. A pop-up gift shop featuring Anderson’s popular hand-printed tea towels, note cards, HankiePankie Art Hankies, and patches will also be on-site.
While studying fine art and graphic design in college, Anderson began experimenting with the tensions between fine art and commercial applications of visual language–areas she continues to explore in much of her work through the use of text, infographics, and other collected graphic materials. Often starting with well-worn household fabrics, she employs a variety of processes including stitching, dyeing, screen-printing, and drawing to build layered, textural pieces that are full of life. Letterforms and texts–including original and appropriated writings–are integral to much of her work.
Her current series, “Tooth and Nail,” is formally inspired by banners and pennants dating from the Middle Ages, while its content centers on identity, self-protection, and self-projection. Found images of unidentified women and the accouterments of battle are also an inspiration for this in-progress series.
Woodie Anderson, “Home Studies 3”
Anderson lives and works in North Carolina, where she also teaches printmaking at the Sawtooth School and participates in the Art-o-mat® (Clark Whittington’s vintage cigarette vending machines repurposed to dispense original artworks). Anderson’s work is featured in The Art-o-mat® “Unpacked” Book and in “Art Quilts at Play” by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston. She a member of Artworks Gallery, the longest-running cooperative gallery in Winston-Salem, and has exhibited at regional and national venues including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, SECCA, and The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at ASU.
These ‘Mater Cards and Flour Sack Towels designed by Woodie Anderson are among the items that will be available in the pop-up gift shop featuring Anderson’s popular hand-printed tea towels, note cards, HankiePankie Art Hankies, and patches.
Artworks Gallery extends visiting hours in June with the addition of Thursday hours!
June Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org