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.
