Looking for a unique holiday gift or a fresh addition to your art collection? Artworks Gallery is thrilled to present our holiday show, featuring stunning creations by local artists.
We’re also proud to support Art SHAC, a nonprofit that provides affordable, gently used art supplies to the community. This holiday season, 10% of all holiday show sales will be donated to Art SHAC to promote sustainability and creativity.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9 , 2 – 4 pm
Open for DADA First Friday
Gallery Hop: November 1, 7 – 9 pm
And Art Crush: Friday, November 15, 7- 9 pm
Perviz Heyat is a multimedia artist living in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He began his art training at the age of six and his formal training at the age of 14 in Istanbul, Turkey. He had his first solo show at the age of 17 in Istanbul.
Heyat approaches his art with belief in complete freedom of expression. He believes that every person has art within them and that we all use art every day. The choices we make in our lives reflect the artistic direction of our existence, with a delicate balance of the opposing forces of rules and freedom. This balance of opposing forces is a necessary part of being human.
Perviz has travelled across the United States working in big cities and on Native American reservations throughout the past 35 years. His experiences are the subject matter of his paintings, which address the social unrest, inequality, and alienation inherent in a modern society focused on economic and technological progress.
Perviz had several exhibitions in private galleries in Istanbul before he moved to the United States in 1982. He has exhibited his paintings in galleries in Wheeling, West Virginia. His paintings were also featured in the Sony Pictures Classics release, Whatever, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. He had regular solo and group exhibits in Washington, DC at the Studio Gallery, and in Manhattan, New York, at the Phoenix Gallery between 2002- 2011.
Perviz moved to Winston Salem in 2011 and started experimenting with new styles and discovering new techniques. Evolving from a realistic style, he painted in “pop art” style for several years until he adopted the abstract expressionist style he employs in this exhibit.
His current show called the “The Industrial Revolution” represents the abstract expressionist force behind this revolution and is influenced by the American masters from the fifties and sixties.
Artworks Gallery, the longest-running cooperative art gallery in Winston-Salem, is thrilled to announce its 40th-anniversary exhibition. In addition to its regular group show, all member artists will create unique, small, framed artworks available for purchase at a special anniversary price of $40 each. All proceeds from these sales will go directly toward supporting the gallery’s daily operations, ensuring that it continues to be a pillar of the local arts community for years to come.
An opening reception and party will be held on Sunday, October 6th, from 2–4 pm. All are welcome to join in the celebration, including a champagne toast at 2:30pm.
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, September 29th –Saturday, October 26th, 2024
DADA Gallery Hop: Friday, October 4th, 7 – 9 pm Art Crush: Friday, October 18th , 7- 9 pm Closing Party: Saturday, October 26th, 2-5pm
Artworks Gallery Presents a three-person exhibition:
Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman, Alix Hitchcock and Lea Lackey-Zachmann
Exhibition Dates: July 28-August 31, 2024 Artist Reception & Gallery Talk: Sunday, August 11, 2-4pm, talk begins at 2:30
Also open for: Gallery Hop: Friday, August 2, 7-9 pm Art Crush: Friday, August 16, 7-9 pm
Alix Hitchcock received her MA in painting from NYU, and her BFA in printmaking and painting from UNC Greensboro. She is a retired Instructor in Drawing at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC after 24 years. She was the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year in 1998, and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery. Her current exhibit consists of one-of-a-kind prints with colored pencil additions exploring themes of nature.
Alix Hitchcock, “Spring Breeze”
Lea Lackey-Zachmann has lived in Winston-Salem for many years. Her love of nature, gardening and wild habitats makes living right across from the 70-acre Washington Park always an interesting place to live. She holds an MFA in painting and art history and a graduate teaching degree in art education from UNC Greensboro. She is retired from teaching at High Point University for 29 years, Salem College for 10 years and other regional schools in Virginia and South Carolina. She is a founding member of Artworks Gallery and has exhibited there each year since 1985. The subject matter of most of her work concerns the nature of consciousness. This new work shows a realism concerning the idea that the consciousness of a cell might retain the memory of having been once a part of a butterfly, a snake, or anything physical.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann, “Cellular Memory: Frog”
Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman received a BA in English Literature from Goucher College and an MA from Northwestern University in Motion Picture. She has attended studio art classes at UNC Greensboro and several workshops at Penland, and Arrowmont. In addition to raising three children with her husband, she has worked as a Montessori teacher, a dance instructor, and a yoga teacher. Her current exhibition presents abstract landscapes painted on linen and silk with soy milk and natural pigments. They are evocative, subtle works that may give feelings of quiet and peace, of connection of the natural world.
Betti Pettinatti-Longinotti: “Celebrating Women Artists”
Exhibition Dates: October 4 – 29, 2023
Artist’s Reception and Gallery Talk: Sunday, October 22 from 1:30 – 3:30 pm. Talk begins at 2:00.
Also open for: Gallery Hop: Friday, October 6, 7-9 pm Art Crush: Friday, October 20, 7-9 pm
“Celebrating Women Artists” presents 145 portraits, vitreous paintings on glass. This installation is a ‘Gestalt’ in that the sum of these women artists is greater than all their contributions combined. The installation of these portraits serves as an archive of women artists completed gradually over the last 12 years. It honors artists that are varied geographically and of local, regional, national, international, and historical reputation.
Betti Pettinati-Longinotti works in drawing, painting and glass. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and her MA from the University of the Arts/ Philadelphia, in Art Education with a studio major in Glass; an MFA in Visual Arts through the Lesley University College of Art and Design.
Her work has been shown internationally. Betti is a juried member of Artworks Gallery, Piedmont Craftsmen, Studio Montclair Gallery and also holds membership in the American Glass Guild.
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 – 564 N. Trade St.
Open Hours – Tues.–Fri., 11 am–5 pm & Sun., 1 pm–4 pm
Holiday Card Making: Fri., Dec. 6, 11:30 am–1:30 pm
Vision Collage Boards: Sat., Jan. 4, 1 pm–3 pm
