Artworks Gallery Presents:
Don Green, Recent Wood Sculpture; Alix Hitchcock, Opening Up; Diane Nations, Pausing Between Two Mysteries
Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 30, 2021
Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2-4 pm
Don Green, “Untitled Oak Sculpture”
Don Green | Recent Wood Sculpture
The recent works by Don Green from the past two or three years are all various hardwoods – cherry , oak, cedar, maple, magnolia, and plywood. The artist has become greatly concerned with the history of the tree from which the logs were cut, the pattern of the grain, especially at stress points where the tree was growing around branches, the expansive growth at the very base of a large tree, the knots where branches were growing off the main trunks, and the holes and rotted opening where branches had earlier been broken off or were sawed off. In a sense, Green feels like he is performing an autopsy of the remains of a noble old tree creature, thus growing in admiration for other living organisms, especially our old friends and servants: trees.
Don Green taught art for 12 years at Methodist College (University) and worked in advertising and design, and construction. Additionally, he has had many sculpture commissions throughout his career. Green holds degrees from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Green has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1994.
Don Green, “Untitled Cherry Sculpture”
Alix Hitchcock | Opening Up
Alix Hitchcock’s colorful art on paper works are gelatin monotype prints with the theme of human figures or birds as silhouette shapes in an abstracted environment of tree-like structures or forms from nature. They are created by printing on “gelatin plates” using stencils with water-based printmaking inks, some with additional hand-coloring with colored pencils. Hitchcock wants to communicate with the viewer a sense of awe in the presence of the natural world, and bring the viewer into each artwork’s composition of movement and mystery.
Alix Hitchcock received her MA in painting from New York University, and her BFA in printmaking and painting from the Univ. of NC at Greensboro. She was an Instructor in Drawing at WFU for 23 years and has also taught art at several institutions, including Salem College, UNCSA, Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts, ECU, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and Weatherspoon Museum of Art. Alix Hitchcock was the Winston-Salem Artist of the Year in 1998 and is a founding board member of Artworks Gallery.
Alix Hitchcock, “Opening Up”
Diane Nations, “Mysterious Journey”
Diane Nations | Pausing Between Two Mysteries
“Pausing Between Two Mysteries” is a collection of oil paintings, mixed media collages, along with digital collages, completed by Diane Nations between October 2019 and September 2021. Drawing inspiration from Carl Jung’s quote, “Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that yet are one.” Nations looks to myths and archetypal images as thresholds to new dimensions of meaning and life’s interconnectedness. She is a local artist, who has exhibited in both local and national exhibitions.
This is her third exhibition at Artworks.
Diane Nations, “Wisdom Tree”
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 30, 2021
Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2-4pm
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