Artist-run co-op gallery in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem since 1984
“Unique and Universal Etchings and Artist’s Books of World Culture”
Exhibition Dates: May 29th – June 25th, 2022
Open for Gallery Hop: Friday, June 3rd, 7 – 10 pm
Reception and Gallery Talk: Sunday, June 12th, 2:30 – 4 pm
Dates: March 30th – April 30th, 2022
Gallery Hop: Friday, April 1st, 7 – 10 pm
Reception: Sunday, April 3rd, 2 – 4 pm
Jazz and Blues, Owens Daniels Photography, &“Spring to Life” all member’s exhibition
Dates: April 1 – 30, 2022
Gallery Hop: Friday, April 1st, 7 – 10 pm
Reception: Sunday, April 3rd, 2 – 4 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 30th – February 26th, 2022
Gallery Hop: Friday, February 4th, 7 -9 pm
Triad City Beat writes about Barbara Mellin’s exhibit Lunaria: Carborundum Mezzotints and Original Haikus
“With glowing daydreams, translucent lunaria brighten my morning.”
Winston-Salem artist Barbara Mellin emphasizes her carborundum print images of the lunaria plant’s silvery, translucent seed pods by writing corresponding haikus for each image.
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Mellin began working on the project in January 2020. She didn’t work continuously, finishing just a few prints before taking a break at the beginning of the pandemic. At its height, she completed the rest of the images. For that, she calls the show a “quarantine creation.”Inspired by her love of mezzotints from the Baroque Period, Mellin used her own press in her home studio to create the carborundum print collection. She values printmaking because of the labor required to do it.
Traid City Beat, By Michaela Ratliff – March 18, 2021
The show available to view at Artworks Gallery until March 28. To learn more about Barbara, visit BarbaraRizzaMellin.com. Lunaria prints are available to purchase from Artworks Gallery’s online shop: artworks-gallery.org/shop
Read the full article at https://triad-city-beat.com/barbara-mellin-lunaria/
Wiley Akers
Wiley Akers calls the work in his show an expression of “I Don’t Know Mind,” saying, “the best art that I have created in the past came about, for the most part, because I didn’t know what I was doing. So with an empty mind and no preconceived ideas or plans I start making pencil marks without looking at the canvas.” Upon the artist looking at the marks he determines if it wants to “become something.” Akers process allows one thing to lead to another; some quickly done to repress thinking, while others taking days.
Wiley Akers has a BFA and a MEd from UNCG. He taught art to middle and high school students for 25 years. In addition to his shows at Artworks Gallery he has exhibited at ASU, WCU, UNCG, and Delurk Gallery.
Owens Daniels uses the visual arts to express his interpretation of the world, and photography to open unexplored spaces between the subject and viewer exposing them both to a world of opportunities and experiences. “Digital Protest 2020” in a narrow sense is “Social Realism Art,” a term used for works by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to socio-political, equity and social justice conditions of the working class. This work also operates as a means to critique the power structures that produce the environment and culture for these conditions.
2019 Duke Energy Grant and Z Smith Reynolds Lead Artist for the Presence Absence Project awardee, Owens Daniels is a visual artist/photographer, educator and the face behind ODP Art+Design Bold, Creative and Innovative Artwork. In addition to formal training at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, Daniels has worked as a freelance photographer and served as Artist in Residences, participated in Public Art Installations, and been the recipient of grants and varied other commissions.
Barbara Rizza Mellin’s “Lunaria,” showcases in black and white, the delicate beauty of the unpretentious plant, sometimes called Honesty or Money Plant. The exhibit of carborundum mezzotints is made up of two components: a wall installation of 48 6-inch-square mezzotints, as well as 16 framed mezzotint print images, each with an original haiku. As an art historian, Mellin likes to reinterpret traditional media and techniques, using less toxic materials for modern audiences.
Barbara Rizza Mellin is a printmaker, painter, and writer, who has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 2017. She is also a member of several local and national professional organizations including AAWS, AFAS, the DADA Collective, the International Mezzotint Society and Winston-Salem Writers.
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
March Gallery Hours: Friday 12-3 Saturday 11-5 Sunday 1-4
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Owens Daniels :: Kenan :: Creative Catalyst from Triangle Blvd on Vimeo.
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).
