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
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.
image credit: Japanerterna.se
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
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.
Seth Moskowitz, “Be Still”
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
“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.”
Bird Girl, Woodie Anderson, Screen print and mixed media on bed sheet.
“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
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.
Woodie Anderson, “Can We Be Us In The Middle Of All This”
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
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
Triad City Beat writes about Barbara Mellin’s exhibit Lunaria: Carborundum Mezzotints and Original Haikus
“With glowing daydreams, translucent lunaria brighten my morning.”
Winston-Salem artist Barbara Mellin emphasizes her carborundum print images of the lunaria plant’s silvery, translucent seed pods by writing corresponding haikus for each image. … Mellin began working on the project in January 2020. She didn’t work continuously, finishing just a few prints before taking a break at the beginning of the pandemic. At its height, she completed the rest of the images. For that, she calls the show a “quarantine creation.”
Inspired by her love of mezzotints from the Baroque Period, Mellin used her own press in her home studio to create the carborundum print collection. She values printmaking because of the labor required to do it.
The show available to view at Artworks Gallery until March 28. To learn more about Barbara, visit BarbaraRizzaMellin.com. Lunaria prints are available to purchase from Artworks Gallery’s online shop: artworks-gallery.org/shop
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.”
LEAD Girls of NC Inaugural LEADher Circle and 5th Anniversary Soiree featuring Original Art from Artworks Gallery Artists at Silent Auction
Winston-Salem, NC (March 9, 2021) — LEAD Girls of North Carolina will host their 5th Anniversary Soiree on Sunday, March 28 in a virtual celebration and awards ceremony honoring the hundreds of participants, supporters, and partners of LEAD Girls over the past five years. Four LEAD girls will be recognized for their accomplishments at 5:30 p.m. All details can be found at: www.leadgirls.org/2021-soiree/.
At 7:30 p.m., the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel will honor LEAD Girls with a pink and teal lighting of their building on Main Street to represent and celebrate the organization. The sponsors for the Soiree are: The Chronicle, Truliant Federal Credit Union, M Creative, Maynard & Harris Attorneys at Law, PPL, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, and CC Baller Creations, LLC.
In conjunction with the soiree, LEAD Girls has launched the LEADher Circle. This Circle – which is based on the belief that every girl deserves the chance to thrive – was created in partnership with three local leaders and friends of LEAD Girls: Natalie Broyhill, Mary Jamis, and Dr. Paula Wilkins. With a donation before April 1st, supporters can join the inaugural LEADher Circle.
To further support LEAD Girls, a silent auction fundraiser will run from March 15th until March 28th at 6:30 p.m. when the auction winners will be announced. The fundraising goal for this event – to sustain its programs such as Community LEAD, LEAD Academy, the Summer Fashion Entrepreneurship Camp, and three pilot programs that began this spring – is $50,000.
“We are grateful for our village who are committed to girls thriving,” said Joy Nelson Thomas, Founder and Executive Director of LEAD Girls. “We are now halfway toward our fundraising goal. We still need additional support to help us reach our goal and allow more girls to have access to LEAD.”
While this year’s soiree will look different from years past, the virtual celebration will bring together supporters of the organization as well as girls and their families as they celebrate their perseverance and dedication during 2020.
In addition to original artwork featured in the Silent Auction, packages will include Family Day Trips, Date Nights, Hotel Getaways, Parents’ Nights Out, a Car Care Kit, Relaxation Fun, Baby Presents Bundle, Mystery Boxes, and more.
Donations for the silent auction were donated by the following businesses and nonprofits: a/perture, AutoZone, Black Mountain Chocolate, Bookmarks, Brick Oven, Brookstown Inn, Camino Bakery, Canteen Still Life, Cyclebar, Dash Baseball, Duck Donuts, Fiddlin’ Fish, Finnigan’s, Fleet Feet, Flourish Fitness, Greensboro Science Center, Gwen of all Trades, Hampton Inn, Harris Teeter, Hip Chics, Home Depot, Innovative Photography, Kaleideum, Kendra Scott Jewelry, Kimpton Hotel, Living Aura Living Art, Lowes Foods, Marriott, Mast General Store, McCalls, Mellow Mushroom, Mixxer, Denise Moore, Oriental Trading Company, The Porch, Pure Barre, Rack Room Shoes, Raffaldini Vineyards, Reynolda House, River Birch, RiverRun International Film Festival, Rockin’ Jump, Salem Gymnastics, SHARP Cuterie Boards, Sheetz, The Sherwood, Starbucks, Sunny Shoes, Sunshine Beverages, Tanglewood, Trader Joe’s, Tweetsie Railroad, Urbn Grl, Village Tavern, Winston-Salem State University, Wise Man Brewing, and Younique.
About LEAD Girls of NC
Learning Everyday Accomplishing Dreams (LEAD) Girls of NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping every girl thrive because every girl can. Founded in 2015, LEAD Girls works to create a world in which young girls become well-equipped, active leaders. LEAD programs focus specifically on the social, emotional and leadership development of at-risk middle-school girls in Winston-Salem. Since its inception, LEAD’s school-time and summer programs have served more than 500 girls, providing them with critical resources and skills that foster empowerment and confidence. For more information on the 5th Anniversary Soiree or to make a donation to join the LEADher Circle, please visit www.leadgirls.org/2021-soiree/
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
