Artist-run co-op gallery in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem since 1984
Take a video tour of the Artworks 2020 November Front Gallery Member Exhibit
November 2020 Front Gallery show of Artworks member work including easily-giftable art in all shapes and sizes.
Exhibition dates: Nov. 5 – 29, 2020
Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3pm
Or By Appointment
Video by Lea Lackey-Zachmann
Take a video of Lea Lackey-Zachmann’s current exhibit: “Still Standing Like The Trees”
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.
Exhibition dates: Nov. 5 – 29, 2020
Gallery Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3pm
Or By Appointment
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.
Take a short video tour of Still Standing Like The Trees by Lea Lackey-Zachmann.
Artworks Gallery Presents:
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.
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.
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
Limited Gallery hours are:
Thurs. – Sat. 12-3pm and by appointment
shop@artworks-gallery.org
For information about this press release, contact sssmoot@triad.rr.com
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.
NOW SHOWING: New Works by Four Members of Artworks Gallery featuring Chris Flory, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti, Susan Smoot, and Mona Wu | On exhibit: October 8 – 31
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.
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.
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, 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.
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 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 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 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.)
Participating artist and Artworks member Owens Daniels talks about the project in this WXII Channel 12 interview: Winston-Salem debuts Artistic Bus Shelter Program
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.
“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).
