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Mannequin Musings at TAG features Owens Daniels

THEATRE ART GALLERIES (TAG) of High Point NC is now showing “MANNEQUIN MUSINGS” in their main gallery. Open TUESDAY-FRIDAY from 12-5 PM. Masks are required. From TAG’s newsletter:

Mannequin Musings
Following last year’s exceptionally well-received exhibit of Paul Tazewell’s award-winning costumes (Hamilton, The Wiz), we were left with an inventory of 15 mannequins seeking new homes. The solution? We put out a Call to Artists to have them reimagined to reflect on 2020, look ahead to 2021, or just to find new life at the whim of the artist. The result is an exhibition featuring the work of 15 North Carolina artists finding new means of expressing turbulent times in original and creative ways. We will feature each of these highly personal creations in a series of emails and eventually in an online virtual exhibit. This is the fourth email in the series.

Mannequin Musings will be available for in-person viewing during regular gallery hours, Tuesday-Friday, noon til 5, through the spring. We will follow all CDC protocols and masks are required. Find more info at tagart.org

Untitled by Owens Daniels now featured in the Mannequin Musings exhibit

Artworks member Owens Daniels talks about his piece:

My photographic career started at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to this formal training, I worked for several years as a freelance photographer and extended my photographic career by fine-turning the art of visual storytelling and developing a distinctive, decisive and intimate photojournalistic signature style which has led to various opportunities  that include: Artist in Residences, Public Art Installations, Grants and varied other commissions.

I use the visual arts to express my 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. This objective can best be obtained with a focus on our commonalities which keeps us in the moment, and stops us from fretting about the future or regretting the past.  

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 that builds bridges, promotes cultural exchanges, and artistic endeavors  between organizations, institutions and the diverse communities they serve. 

Owens Daniels – Artist Statement
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Video Tour: Four Women Exhibit 02-2021

Please enjoy this virtual tour* of our current exhibits, “Four Women Show” in the Main Gallery and our Front Gallery “Members Exhibit”.

Read more about the Four Women exhibit, including information about each of the artists and samples of their work on the Four Women exhibit page. You can also shop this exhibit online in our Gallery Shop.

Exhibition dates: February 5 – 28, 2021
Visit the gallery in person Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm, or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org. Find more info about planning your visit here.

Video created by Artworks member Lea Lackey-Zachmann

*Please note artist Katherine Mahler’s name is misspelled in the title card. Apologies to Katherine.

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Artworkers Elsewhere: Jan 2021

Owens Daniels is featured in this short video talking about his role as a Creative Catalyst. Find Triangle Blvd on Vimeo to see more on this subject:

Owens Daniels :: Kenan :: Creative Catalyst from Triangle Blvd on Vimeo.

Barbara Rizza Mellin’s collage and dry point etching “Memories” is featured in Memoir Magazine this month. Visit memoirmag.com to read “Bereavement” by Lauren Teller. 

Featured Artwork: “Memories” collage and dry point etching by Barbara Mellin
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Artworks: February 2021

Four Women Show
Original Prints and Paintings by Alix Hitchcock, Lea Lackey-Zachmann, Katherine Mahler, and Mona Wu

Exhibition dates: February 5 – 28, 2021

Browse and shop this exhibit and our Front Gallery exhibit online in our shop! Take a video tour of this exhibit here.

Alix Hitchcock, “Fall Shifting”

 Alix Hitchcock

For this select show, Alix Hitchcock has worked with colored inks and waxy china markers using drawings from models or stencil shapes of human forms and foliage forms. These large format works intentionally create a somewhat chaotic vision, where the layering of forms with added gestural marks and calligraphic lines may belie gravity, or blur distinctions between foreground and background; figure and space.
 
Alix Hitchcock holds a MA in painting from NYU and a BFA in printmaking and painting from UNCG. She has been an instructor in studio art at WFU, Salem College, UNCSA, The Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, plus a number of additional esteemed institutions. She was selected as the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year in 1998, and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery. She has exhibited widely in numerous local and national galleries and centers for art. Her work is held in many collections, both private and public.

Lea Lackey-Zachmann, “Goldfinch Dream”

Lea Lackey-Zachmann

Lea Lackey-Zachmann often makes images that are not exhibited or shared with the public.  “I appreciate those personal and often meaningful processes,” says Lackey-Zachmann. “Each of these paintings arose from experiences like that years ago. They were made quickly and afterwards rolled up, only to be recently found after a studio move.” The Covid pandemic period presents the perfect time to rediscover and exhibit these refreshed and completed 20 year old paintings.

Lea Lackey-Zachmann has a BA in Art Education, a graduate teaching certificate in Art Education and an MFA in painting. Also a founding member of Artworks Gallery, she taught art at the college level for over 30 years and continues to paint, make prints and explore video. The Natural world has been a focus of her art since childhood. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, two dogs and a cat.

Katherine Mahler, “Depth Finder”

Katherine Mahler

Combining printmaking and painting techniques, Katherine Mahler explores identity through the use of layers, shared symbols and maps. Drawing from her experiences living around the country and traveling globally her art reflects the commonalities and connectedness of the human experience.
 
New Artworks Gallery member, Katherine Mahler has a BA in Studio Art from Kenyon College and a BFA in Art Education from Michigan State University. Mahler is currently applying to be an MFA candidate. She has been teaching art to students of all ages for the past 20 years, including in Texas, Michigan, Louisiana and North Carolina.

Mona Wu, “Homeward Bound, Swallows”

Mona Wu

Mona Wu is exhibiting her unframed prints in large format, mostly monotypes, both old and new works. Comprised of botanical subject matter, these prints are the product of Wu’s love and appreciation of natural beauty ever present locally, in the state of North Carolina.
 
A native of China, Mona Wu immigrated to the US in 1970. She studied Chinese painting and calligraphy in Hong Kong, then later received her BA in Art History from Salem College and studied Printmaking at WFU. In 2003, Wu was selected as Sawtooth School Winston-Salem Artist of the year. She joined as a member of Artworks Gallery that same year. Wu currently teaches Printmaking and collage at Sawtooth School of Winston-Salem.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours and other info about the gallery can be found on our Visit page. Shop for artwork from gallery members in our Online Shop.

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Artworks: JAN 2021

Embracing a New Year Winter Group Exhibit

Exhibition dates: January 2 – 31, 2021

With 2020 in the rearview we all inhale a hopeful breath and embrace 2021. Artworks Gallery looks forward to an exciting New Year filled with original art by our member artists.

2021 is the 37th year Artworks Gallery has delivered unique, contemporary pieces as Winston-Salem’s longest-running artists’ cooperative. What a great way to welcome the New Year!

This Winter Group Exhibit features a selection of works by all members, including prints, photography, painting, collage, sculpture and more.

Some work from this exhibit is available in Artworks Gallery’s online shop.

  • Daybreak
  • Morning Glory, Springdale
  • Welcome to Earth Vll
  • Broken Angel
    Broken Angel
  • Tamarind Fire
    Tamarind Fire
  • Convergence
    Convergence
  • Little Bird Blue
  • Swimming Frogs
  • Sunset
  • Divergent
  • Pink Face
  • Jardinsans Plantes
  • Winter Sky Night
  • Refresh
  • Golden Autumn
  • Music Tree

www.Artworks-Gallery.org

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

January Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm,
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
Closed New Year’s Day

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101. Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

For information about this press release, contact: pr@artworks-gallery.org

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HeArt Works 2020

Artworks Gallery presents:
HeArt Works 2020
An All Member Group Show

Exhibition dates:
December 4 – 27, 2020

  • Daybreak
  • Morning Glory, Springdale
  • Welcome to Earth Vll
  • Broken Angel
    Broken Angel
  • Tamarind Fire
    Tamarind Fire
  • Convergence
    Convergence
  • Little Bird Blue
  • Swimming Frogs
  • Sunset
  • Divergent
  • Pink Face
  • Jardinsans Plantes
  • Winter Sky Night
  • Refresh
  • Golden Autumn
  • Music Tree

Artwork created from the HeArt. Join Artworks Gallery in joyfully bidding adieu to 2020!

With optimism, celebrate the end of 2020 with original art from the longest established artists’ cooperative.

Artworks Gallery is offering a stunning variety of work in its all-members exhibition called “HeArt Works 2020.” Each of us has dealt with heart-rending issues this year. In this show viewers will see a number of ways in which the artist members are showing their HeArts and the art created during months of lockdown.

Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and more will be available to the visitors just in time for the holidays.

www.Artworks-Gallery.org

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

December Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday 12-3 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
We are closed on Christmas day.

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

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Artists and creatives: We’re Thankful

Lea Lackey-Zachmann, a founding Artworks Gallery member, shares what she’s thankful for this season, in this Winston-Salem Journal article, “Artists and creatives in Winston-Salem share the things they are thankful for”. Here’s a quote from Lea: 

“…it’s still the season for giving thanks, and local artists and creatives are sharing what they are thankful for.

Lea Lackey-Zachmann, a visual artist and founding member of Artworks Gallery in Winston-Salem, will have fewer people over for Thanksgiving this year than in the past — just six people made up of immediate family and a neighbor.

“I am thankful for the acceptance of diversity as I see it in my life,” Lackey-Zachmann said. “For the past 40 years, my husband and I have invited at least eight to 10 people over for Thanksgiving dinner. Most of them are friends who aren’t enjoying Thanksgiving with family. They feel like family, and I appreciate the honor of having them join us. We actually talk about the two no-nos, religion and politics! We all come from different backgrounds and have divergent perspectives. The discussion is often heated but funny and easy.

“When one enjoys a full tummy and participates in a stimulating/inspired gathering with acceptance and respect, life can’t get much richer or better than that! This is so especially if you add a plate of music that includes at least some classical, jazz, old rock and some new sounds for a challenge.

“I’m very appreciative of the diversity of all that is. We live in such a wonderfully complex world and our diversity in thought, word and deed is staggering. We are living in a time when division and intolerance of differing opinions are rampant. I know that we can accept opposing opinions and live peacefully with one another because I’ve seen it at my Thanksgiving table for years. It gives me reason to hope and I’m thankful for it.”

Read a pdf version of the full article here.

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Artworks: December 2020

Artworks Gallery presents:
HeArt Works 2020
An All Member Group Show

Exhibition dates:
December 4 – 27, 2020

Artwork created from the HeArt. Join Artworks Gallery in joyfully bidding adieu to 2020!

With optimism, celebrate the end of 2020 with original art from the longest established artists’ cooperative.

Artworks Gallery is offering a stunning variety of work in its all-members exhibition called “HeArt Works 2020.” Each of us has dealt with heart-rending issues this year. In this show viewers will see a number of ways in which the artist members are showing their HeArts and the art created during months of lockdown.

Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and more will be available to the visitors just in time for the holidays.

  • Barbara Mellin, “Bottles and Lace”
  • Marion Adams, “Daybreak
  • Beverly Noyes, “Divergent”
  • Wendell Myers, “Golden Autumn”
  • Wiley Akers, “Pink Face”
  • Mona Wu, “Winter Sky, Night”
  • Jessica Tefft, “Broken Angel”

www.Artworks-Gallery.org

The exhibit is free and open to the public.

December Gallery Hours:
Friday, Saturday 12-3pm and Sunday 1-4pm
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
We are closed on Christmas day.

Artworks Gallery, Inc. 
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC  27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890

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Post-election: Critical reflections on the Trump era dominate three-artist show at Artworks Gallery

The Sunday, Nov 21, 2020 Edition of the Winston-Salem Journal has a review of our November exhibits by art critic Tom Patterson. Read the full article here. You can also read a PDF version of this review here. Thanks to Tom for this insightful review. A few quotes from the article below.

Jessica Tefft’s Work: Politically Charged

“Tefft’s work encompasses a variety of mediums, and much of it relates directly to the Mueller Report and Donald Trump’s presidential administration, which chose the passages to be redacted. Like many contemporary artists, Tefft is not a fan of the outgoing president, as is clear from her work on view here.”

– Tom Patterson, Special Correspondent, Winston-Salem Journal, Nov 21, 2020

My Button is Bigger – Jessica Tefft

Woodie Anderson’s Work: Printed Charms

“Anderson’s festively colored prints on cloth and paper are charms against inertia and hopelessness — icons of strength, endurance, and abiding energy. The thematic gist of her stylized imagery is reflected in the titles of individual pieces — “Eyes,” “Fire,” “Mindful,” “Comfort.” Inspiration is the name of the game.”

– Tom Patterson, Special Correspondent, Winston-Salem Journal, Nov 21, 2020

Woodie Anderson, Protection, Serigraph on cotton

Lea Lackey-Zachmann’s Work: Nature Nurture

“…Lea Lackey-Zachmann employs a darker and more subdued, earth-based palette in her five-part series of mixed-media monoprints. She’s a resolute nature abstractionist, whose work typically has a neo-pagan undercurrent. … Leaving aside the titles, on their own as evocative markings on paper, these pieces extend Lackey-Zachmann’s ongoing project of visualizing natural forces. It’s a theme both limitless and imaginatively challenging.”

– Tom Patterson, Special Correspondent, Winston-Salem Journal, Nov 21, 2020

When We Fire Dance – Lea Lackey-Zachmann

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