Marion Adams, “Out of the Blue” and Seth Moskowitz, “Odds and Ends—The Covid Years”
Exhibit Dates: April 30 – May 27, 2023
Gallery Hop: Friday, May 5, 7-9 pm
Artists’ Reception: Sunday, May 7, 2-4 pm
Art Crush: Friday, May 19, 7-9 pm
“Out of the Blue” and “Partly Cloudy” by Marion Adams
Marion Adams looks to the sky for inspiration. Working with pastels as her medium, she captures ethereal effects of the ever-changing scene overhead. Adams’ intention is to capture the sky in its various moods, show the turbulence of clouds before a storm, haze drifting overhead on a moonlit night, and small points of starlight gradually appearing after sunset. The single acrylic painting, “Wonder”, stands alone among the pastels as a representation of her own quest seeking answers and, at times, the right questions.
“Celestial Sky” and “Haze Lifting” by Marion Adams
Marion Adams is a retired Middle School Science and Math teacher. She has taught art history, painting and drawing on the college level. She holds a master’s degree from Georgia State University. She has been a member of Artworks since 2015.
“Signs of Spring” and “Runnin’ Out of Time” by Seth Moskowitz
When Covid 19 made us prisoners in our own homes, Seth Moskowitz frequently found himself filled with fear and frustration. But despite the dramatic changes in almost every aspect of daily lives, Moskowitz also experienced intense gratitude for a life that remained healthy, happy, hardy and whole.
During “The Covid Years,” Moskowitz produced a constant stream of images that were never quite completed. To celebrate the many splendors of the Spring of 2023, Moskowitz decided to finish and free these images from the messy confines of his head. He hopes the viewer will find connection with some of the places and spaces he passed through during these sometimes seemingly interminable “15 Days to Slow the Spread.”
“What a Tangled Web II” and “Echoes” by Seth Moskowitz
Seth Moskowitz is a Winston-Salem based artist who creates and combines photographic images into artworks that rarely resemble photography or the images that they incorporate. After a challenging career in the corporate world, he began to create visual art in 2004 as an escape from the verbal cacophony of the workaday environment – a way to enter a peaceful, magical place that is literally, beyond words. He has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 2017 and a member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem since 2005.
Wiley Akers, “Post Covid – Post Modern” and Don Green, “New Paintings and Sculpture”
Exhibition Dates: April 2-30, 2023
Gallery Hop: Friday, April 7, 7-9pm
Reception: Friday, April 21, 7-9pm
Wiley Akers’ new work is an exploration of humans in an abstract style. With an empty mind and no preconceived ideas or plans Akers begins with pencil marks on the canvas of a human form, as if the image and artist is having a conversation on how to evolve. After studying the marks, one thing leads to another with paint. Some are quickly done to repress thinking while others are completed over days.
“The Light” and “Smile” by Wiley Akers
Wiley Akers has a BFA in painting and a MEd from UNCG. He has taught art to middle and high school students for 25 years.
Don Green is exhibiting new paintings and sculptures inspired by the natural landscape. His large-scale paintings reflect the Abstract Expressionist style of art representation. The source of inspiration is primarily nature: the land, rocks, streams, trees, etc. His sculpture is also influenced by the natural world: mountains, sky, trees especially distorted or odd shaped trees with more character.
“Untitled Bronze 1” and “Reynolda Greenway” by Don Green
Don Green received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin in 1966, his BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois in 1964, and an Advertising Art Degree from the American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois in 1956.
“Grit” is the name of a new exhibition open during the month of March at Artworks Gallery in downtown Winston-Salem. The show is a combination of the work of two artists under a single theme, focusing on overlooked moments and objects found in urban landscapes. In addition, the gallery will be transformed into a setting that captures the frenetic nature of looking for beauty in unintended places, whether on the ground or in the sky.
In addition to the work itself, certain pieces have QR codes for additional narration by the artists explaining the motivations behind their work. There are also flyers posted throughout the exhibit with music suggestions so you can have a private listening party while you view the art. Bring your earbuds!
Julian Silverman is a photographer from New York City who has recently relocated to Winston-Salem. His work focuses on the unintended beauty and narratives coming though stolen moments in time.
Elliot Strunk is a collage artist who uses discarded items in his work. His compositions highlight items of visual interest often discarded once their original use has been exhausted. A throughline of his work is what we all consume in terms of food, time and information.
Alix Hitchcock is exhibiting new hand colored and hand pulled dry-point prints. These one of a kind monoprints are based on initial drawings from shadows of trees and foliage.
Working instinctively, Hitchcock considers the art process an unpredictable visual journey that starts with a structural set up but with much left for accidental results and evolving responses. Her work communicates a sense of awe in the presence of Nature, and brings the viewer into each art work’s world of mystery, as well as portraying a type of “emotional abstraction”, as the artist Arthur Dove said of his art.
Hitchcock received her MA in painting from NYU, and her BFA in printmaking and painting from UNC-G. She is a retired Instructor in Drawing at WFU. She was the W-S Artist of the Year in 1998, and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery. She has exhibited widely in N.C., and in shows in Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, New York City, and Wyoming.
A large ink drawing of banana leaves by Lea Lackey-Zachmann is one of four graphite, ink and acrylic works in this exhibition. Three dimensional paintings and large colored pencil drawings complete her showing.
The similar shapes and forms in trees, leaves and feathers common in our natural environment are subjects in this exhibition. An appreciation for the complexity and similarities in these natural forms provides an avenue for understanding and appreciating the commonalities with all living beings and the natural world.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann holds an MFA in painting and graduate teaching certification from UNC-G and a BA from Winthrop University. She is retired from teaching art at High Point University and prior regional colleges. She has shown her works throughout the southeast and is a founding member of Artworks Gallery. Gardening is her passion along with her husband, two dogs and their cat, Be.
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Alix Hitchcock discusses her workLea Lackey-Zachmann discusses her work
Update! From now until the end of Mona Wu’s show on January 28, all remaining artwork is 50% off the listed prices. This includes both framed and unframed work as well as original printing blocks.
Don’t pass up this unique opportunity to own some of her beautiful work!
(Please note that cards on the racks and work in baskets are not included.)
In this special solo exhibit Mona Wu is showing over 40 framed works and close to 200 unframed prints, made in her nearly 30 years of Printmaking career. All methods in Printmaking are presented: woodcut, linocut, lithograph, etching, and monoprint. On view are also some carved and cancelled wood boards Wu so lovingly and laboriously produced for edition printing.
Because of her large-scale studio-downsizing, these prints, proofs, editions, as well as many of Wu’s old carved wood boards will be for sale at prices in every collector’s budget. This is your opportunity to own and/or gift a beautiful Mona Wu original print.
Viewers who browse through the show may appreciate the artist’s artistic as well as technical progress and stylistic changes over the years. Yet as the underlying thread throughout her work, Wu still retains her Asian heritage and sensibility in all manners of Printmaking.
A native of China, Mona Wu immigrated to 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 as an auditor from 1997-2014. Wu has taught classes and workshops in Chinese art and Printmaking at Salem Community courses, Reynolda House of American Art, and Sawtooth School of Visual Art and has been a member of Artworks Gallery for many years.
I work in various mediums, choosing what I feel best suits the emotional connection I want my audience to experience when viewing my work.
How have you changed as an artist over the years?
I have transitioned from being a student to a professor and am now a full-time Artist. I have taught art at the college level for more than 30 years. I have been exposed to various art forms and feel grateful that I’ve had experiences engaging with my students as they learn to express themselves through art. At this point in my life, I am practicing what I’ve preached and engaging with life through an artist’s eyes.
What artists have influenced your work?
There are so many I couldn’t possibly name them all. I am influenced by art and life from many different perspectives. I have always been drawn to the drama and mystery in Caravaggio’s Baroque lighting. More recently, I have engaged with the women artists of the Abstract Expressionist phase of the mid-20th century, especially Joan Mitchell.
Do you have a favorite medium?
I enjoy choosing, using, and experimenting with a variety of mediums. I have been formally trained as a painter, printmaker, and photographer, and I often combine these mediums in my work. I have recently engaged with oil painting, which I have not practiced for decades, although I have taught painting for many years.
What does making art mean in your life?
Making art is ingrained in my soul. I choose to live artful life every day. Art, Life, Love…all merge together.
Anything else you think is important?
“Life is short”, as the saying goes. I believe life is an exciting journey filled with adventures to embrace. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. My philosophy is to live an authentic life and take care of ourselves and others as we can.
Artworks Gallery Presents: Wrapping Up 2021 All Members Show for the Holidays
Exhibition dates: November 28 – December 26, 2021 Gallery Hop: Friday, December 3, 7-9 pm
Many giftable art pieces on display!
To wrap up another momentous year, Artworks Gallery Members are pulling out all the stops with a grand collection of works, created by all members. Excitement for a new year ahead will be celebrated with a wide variety of original art, all very giftable!
The offerings include original prints, paintings, glassworks, sculptures, collages, hand-made books, wearables and more. Come peruse and help wrap up 2021.
Since 1984, the longest-running artist cooperative gallery has made unique, local art accessible in Winston-Salem’s Arts District. Entering its 38th year, Artworks Gallery is full of optimism for a better 2022.
The paintings of Wendell Myers are abstract landscapes, based on memories of the places he’s lived and visited; the great plains, north woods and lake country of his youth, the Carolina mountains and seascapes of adult life, and the desert Southwest where he has frequently vacationed. The works in this show, “Enchanted Forests” are inspired by the countryside of Poland, where he and his wife have spent a great deal of time over the past 15 years. The series is also influenced by the works of Wolf Kahn and Mark Rothko, referring to it as a “Rothkovian lozenge of color.”
Wendell Myers holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Early In his career, he worked as a studio potter, selling directly to the public out of his studio, at art fairs and shows in the Midwest and Northeast. Eventually, accompanying his wife, Pamela Howland, to Winston-Salem, he earned his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine. He has been a practicing radiologist in the area for over 25 years. 12 years ago Myers returned to making art, this time choosing to focus on acrylic painting.
Wendell Myers, “Enchanted Forest”Lea Lackey-Zachmann, “Dogwood Knows Temporary and Perpetual”
Lea Lackey-Zachmann | Dogwood Knows Temporary and Perpetual
The large paintings in this exhibit depict trees Lea Lackey-Zachmann walks past daily. The central painted rectangle in each work represents a tree as we might view it. The smaller painted rectangles above, below, and beside, represent the tree abstractly or symbolically. Most of the artist’s painting career has focused on the tension between Realism and Abstraction. Asking which best expresses the tree’s true nature? All these depictions are a visual language that seeks to evoke a feeling or insight into the identity and nature of the trees shown here.
The artist reveals, “This exhibit was inspired by my knowing that trees are essential to our life and happiness on earth. Our appreciation of them helps determine our future.”
Lea Lackey-Zachmann holds an MFA in painting from the University of NC at Greensboro, along with a graduate teacher’s certificate in Art Education. She received a BA in Art from Winthrop University and is now retired after having taught at High Point University for 29 years and Salem College for 10 years. She has been an instructor of various classes at WFU, Guilford College, and Elon University as well as having taught and served on the board of the Sawtooth Center for Visual Art. She is dedicated to community arts endeavors of all kinds. Her paintings, prints, and drawings are in various collections on the east coast of the US. She is a founding member of Artworks Gallery.
Kimberly Varnadoe’s current work represents a passage through conflicting times. She reflects, “We all have had to adjust to a different way of life during 2020-21. Some of us have gone or are going through other adjustments that are more personal.” These works reflect thoughts, memories, stress, and therefore are a bit chaotic. They are personal to Varnadoe, yet they speak to what many of us think and feel during life’s tumultuous changes. These works were created with a wide variety of media throughout each piece. The meshing together of these materials is a reflection on the many layers of overlap we experience emotionally as we adjust to challenges faced day to day, embracing the complex and contemplative.
Kimberly Varnadoe received her BFA in Painting from the University of South Alabama and her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Memphis. She works with experimental photography and a variety of printmaking techniques, often combining the processes. She enjoys experimentation and feels that art is most alive during the art-making — the final work of art is the record of the art process. She has been a member of Artworks Gallery, in Winston-Salem, since 2003.
Kimberly Varnadoe, “After Life”A piece by Jessica Tefft inspired by Pamela Howland’s music.
Tribute to Pamela Howland
The artists of Artworks Gallery will be paying tribute to the wife of one of their own, who died in September. Gallery members will show a unique collection of tribute works created to honor the music of pianist Pamela Howland. She was the wife of Artworks’ member Wendell Myers. As an accomplished pianist, she taught for many years in the Wake Forest University music department. Howland also recorded 19 albums consisting of composers Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel. She performed nationally and internationally, was a Steinway Artist, a 2017-2018 Fulbright Scholar to Poland, and a Chopin specialist. A percentage of sales will go to the Poland Fulbright Assistance Fund at https://en.fulbright.edu.pl/support-us/
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4 Exhibition dates: October 31- November 27, 2021 Reception: Sunday, November 14, 2-4 pm
The exhibit is free and open to the public. For information about this press release, contact pr@artworks-gallery.org
