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August 2024

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.

Mary Beth Blackwell-Chapman, “Coastal Marsh”

This exhibit is free and open to the public.

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“Feathers, Leaves & Trees” A Two Person Exhibit by Alix Hitchcock and Lea Lackey-Zachmann

Exhibition Dates: January 29 – February 25, 2023

Gallery Hop: Friday, February 3, 7- 9 pm

Reception: Sunday, February 12, 2-4 pm

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.

Hitchcock Work

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 work
Lea Lackey-Zachmann discusses her work
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Meet Our Members

Q&A with artist Alix Hitchcock

How would you describe your work?

My art involves creating abstract compositions with images from natural objects (trees, plants) often combined with elements representing the human body. My mediums are ink, watercolor, and any drawing materials on paper, plus monotype printing with a press, or gelatin plate printing. I have also engaged in encaustic wax painting.

How have you changed as an artist over the years?

As an artist over time, I have learned to follow my instincts in art-making. I have learned how to maintain a steady studio practice, with occasional forays into new techniques or mediums at workshops. Teaching art has also helped me clarify for myself issues related to art-making. I do not work as large as I used to. And I still do not make art that is created for the sole purpose of being sellable to the public.

What artists have influenced your work?

I’m influenced by most of the artists of Art History, but especially Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Arthur Dove, Isabel Bishop, Lee Krasner collages, Brice Marden line ptgs, Sean Scully stripe ptgs, Eastern calligraphic brushwork, etc.

Do you have a favorite medium?

I work in all types of mediums that revolve around two-dimensional art-making, including printmaking and encaustic wax.

What does making art mean in your life?

Making art for me is meaningful as it provides an outlet for my need for visual expression and experimentation combined with incorporating my search for understanding life.

Alix Hitchcock
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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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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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