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June, 2024

Works from Moskowitz and Daniels

Artworks Gallery Presents a two-person exhibition:

Owens Daniels: “Something Bold: The Art that Broke the Mold”
and Seth Moskowitz: “Sounds of Spring”

Exhibition Dates: June 2-29, 2024

Also open for:
Gallery Hop: Friday, June 7, 7-9 pm
Art Crush: Friday, Friday, June 21, 7-9 pm
Artists’ Reception and Gallery Talk: Sunday, June 9, 2-4 pm

Freedom. That is what art is, it’s the something inside of everyone given the chance will break the rules, stand out and boldly go when you would dare not.  Owens Daniels’ new collection of works, “Something Bold: The Art That Broke the Mold”, has the ability to provoke, uplift, and transform. It is Daniels’ intention to ignite a sense of curiosity and wonder in those who encounter it.

Uncle Remus artwork

Owens Daniels, “Uncle Remus”

Ultimately, Daniels’ artistic journey is about pushing boundaries, embracing vulnerability, and celebrating the limitless possibilities of creative expression. In a world that often demands conformity, this new work stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of courage and the profound impact of daring to be different.

Owens Daniels, “Body and Soul”

Owens Daniels’ photographic career started at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to his formal training, he continues to work as a freelance photographer with a distinctive and intimate photojournalistic signature style in visual storytelling which has led to various opportunities that include Artist in Residences, Fellowship of American Art, Public Art Installations, and Grants and varied other commissions.

Seth Moskowitz calls his show, ‘Sounds of Spring,’ but you won’t hear any music, birdsong or any of the other sounds you might associate with spring. Unless you have synesthesia, a condition that causes some people to see shapes or colors when they hear music, or taste foods when they read or see shapes or patterns.


Seth Moskowitz, “Who Let the Dogs Out”

None of that happens to the artist. However, this spring Moskowitz noticed that the splendor of the world reawakening from winter filled him with the same type of emotions and sensations experienced when he was captured by music. This work represents an effort to recreate some of what he felt while wandering around Winston experiencing the season in bloom.

Seth Moskowitz, “Ta-da!”

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. He made a living for more than four decades immersed in a constant chatter of written and verbal communications. Seth began to create visual art in 2004 as a way to enter a peaceful, magical place that is literally, beyond words. He has been a member of the Artworks Gallery since 2017, and a member of Associated Artists of Winston-Salem since 2005. Since his retirement in 2019, he has devoted himself full-time to appreciating the beauty of the natural world, exploring and creating art, and helping to encourage, nurture and promote the growth of local artists and their artwork.

This exhibit is free and open to the public.

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July, 2023

Owens Daniels Featured Image

Owens Daniels, “A.I. Art Innovation”

Exhibition Dates: July 2-29, 2023

Gallery Hop: Friday, July 7, 7-10 pm

Art Crush: Friday, July 21, 7-9 pm

Artists’ Forum, “A Conversation on A.I.”: Sunday, July 23, 2-4 pm
(See details below.)

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and Adobe Photoshop’s new release, Generative Fill, are both technologies that play a role in the creative process. As creatives, we coexist and collaborate with these tools, but ultimately, it’s the work we produce that receives praise or criticism. When using these technologies, it’s important to focus on the work rather than the tools themselves.

AI art is undoubtedly impressive, as it can create imaginative and captivating worlds. However, without a human connection, it lacks depth, feeling, and passion. Ultimately, it remains nothing more than lines, shadows, and colors, like an elaborate pen without a hand, or a paint brush without an artist’s eye.

“Body & Soul” and “Joe Cool”

Owens Daniels is a photographer based in Winston Salem, North Carolina who happens to be a creative visual artist. He received a 2021 Kenan Institute Creative Catalyst Fellowship at Reynolda House of American Art and was the awardee for the 2019 Lead Artist for the Presence Absence Project.

His vision is to create artwork that builds bridges, promotes cultural exchanges, and artistic endeavors between organizations and institutions that speak to the diverse communities they serve.

His career started at the U.S. Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to his formal training, he continues to work as a freelance photographer with a distinctive and intimate photojournalistic signature style in visual storytelling which has led to various opportunities that include artist in residences, a Fellowship of American Art, public art Installations, grants and varied other commissions.

“Bass” and “Funky Drummer”

Owens 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. This objective can best be obtained with a focus on our commonalities which keeps us in the moment and stops us from regretting the past or fretting about the future.

Owens Daniels’ “A.I. Art Innovation” blends A.I. technology with human creativity.

This exhibition is free and open to the public.

“A Conversation on A.I.,” Artists’ Forum: Sunday, July 23rd, 2-4pm

“I don’t want to be on the ash heap of creativity… Therefore, I CHANGE!”

Owens Daniels speaks about the new works in his Artworks Gallery exhibition, “A.I.: Art Innovation.”

Come out and connect with new artworks exploring the relationship between technology and artist Owens Daniels. Daniels will lead a conversation with creatives Leo Rucker, Nathan Ross Freeman, Leo Morello, and many more artists and community friends!

These new creations represent Winston-Salem’s first Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) art exhibition with over 40 different works from the styles of Dali, Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton, and many other artists reinterpreting Jazz and Blues.

This event is free and open to the public.

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April 2022

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

Buffalo Soldier by Owens Daniels and Sunflowers by Barbara Mellin

Exhibition Dates: January 30th – February 26th, 2022

Gallery Hop: Friday, February 4th, 7 -9 pm

Art from the Heart
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PRESS: Owens Daniels’ exhibition a highlight of local Juneteenth celebrations

Artworks member Owens Daniels exhibit featured in the Winston-Salem Journal Sunday June 27 with a review by Tom Patterson: Long time coming: A highlight of local Juneteenth celebrations, Owens Daniels’ exhibition remains on view at the Milton Rhodes Center

Studio portraiture, street photography, content-charged texts and digital technology make for a potent combination in the work of Owens Daniels.

Daniels has been producing powerful, text-augmented photographic pieces for several years. Recently he has compiled a strong body of work documenting local street protests. Prolific and persistent, he has exhibited his work in a number of local shows.

His art emphasizes African American culture and identity, so it’s fitting that it was highlighted in this month’s local celebration of Juneteenth, marking the anniversary of slavery’s end in the United States in 1965.

Daniels’ exhibition “When the Revolution Comes” opened in mid-June at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. It brings together selected pieces from at least four bodies of work, including several images he has shown locally within the past two years. These range from proud portraits of ordinary people to more journalistic shots of protesters and police on the streets.

Those insensitive or hostile to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and so-called “critical race theory” aren’t likely to give the show much of a chance. But I suspect most viewers will sympathize with the artist’s socio-political point of view. In addition to its thematic aspect, Daniels’ work also carries a purely visual charge. The combination is crucial to what is evidently his primary aim — stimulating thoughts that extend beyond the image.

Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 27, 2121

Read the full article here and see more of Owens work here.

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March 2021: Akers, Daniels, Rizza Mellin

Three Solo Shows:
Wiley Akers: I Don’t Know Mind
Owens Daniels: Digital Protest 2020
Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria, Carborundum Mezzotints

Exhibition dates: March 5-March 28, 2021

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  • Owens Daniels: US
  • Owens Daniels: BLM
  • Owens Daniels: Stand for Something
  • Owens Daniels: Silence is not an Option
  • Owens Daniels: Sermon on the Mount
  • Owens Daniels: I Am Not A THREAT
  • Owens Daniels: Police
  • Wiley Aikers: Two Birds with a Tear
  • Wiley Aikers: Chin Warmers
  • Wiley Aikers: MaskedWiley
  • Wiley Aikers: Hungry Ghost
  • Wiley Aikers: Green Hair Makes Me Smile
  • Wiley Aikers: Shakyamuni in the Forest
  • Wiley Aikers: Two Faces
  • Wiley Aikers: Absences is Made Visiible
  • Wiley Aikers: Inside and Outside are One
  • Wiley Aikers: Unkown Plant
  • Wiley Aikers: Purple Man
  • Wiley Aikers: Green Space
  • Wiley Aikers: Tiger Plant
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 51: Faith in the Future
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 59: Glowing Daydreams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 64: Soul of Moonbeams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 52: Bouquet of Moonbeams
  • Barbara Rizza Mellin: Lunaria 63: Moonbeam Necklace

Wiley Akers, “Chin Warmer”

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, “BLM”

Owens Daniels

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,”Lunaria 65 Garden Lanterns”

Barbara Rizza Mellin

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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Mannequin Musings at TAG features Owens Daniels

THEATRE ART GALLERIES (TAG) of High Point NC is now showing “MANNEQUIN MUSINGS” in their main gallery. Open TUESDAY-FRIDAY from 12-5 PM. Masks are required. From TAG’s newsletter:

Mannequin Musings
Following last year’s exceptionally well-received exhibit of Paul Tazewell’s award-winning costumes (Hamilton, The Wiz), we were left with an inventory of 15 mannequins seeking new homes. The solution? We put out a Call to Artists to have them reimagined to reflect on 2020, look ahead to 2021, or just to find new life at the whim of the artist. The result is an exhibition featuring the work of 15 North Carolina artists finding new means of expressing turbulent times in original and creative ways. We will feature each of these highly personal creations in a series of emails and eventually in an online virtual exhibit. This is the fourth email in the series.

Mannequin Musings will be available for in-person viewing during regular gallery hours, Tuesday-Friday, noon til 5, through the spring. We will follow all CDC protocols and masks are required. Find more info at tagart.org

Untitled by Owens Daniels now featured in the Mannequin Musings exhibit

Artworks member Owens Daniels talks about his piece:

My photographic career started at the U.S Army Photographic School of Cartography, learning the basics of photography and photo printing. In addition to this formal training, I worked for several years as a freelance photographer and extended my photographic career by fine-turning the art of visual storytelling and developing a distinctive, decisive and intimate photojournalistic signature style which has led to various opportunities  that include: Artist in Residences, Public Art Installations, Grants and varied other commissions.

I use the visual arts to express my 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. This objective can best be obtained with a focus on our commonalities which keeps us in the moment, and stops us from fretting about the future or regretting the past.  

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 that builds bridges, promotes cultural exchanges, and artistic endeavors  between organizations, institutions and the diverse communities they serve. 

Owens Daniels – Artist Statement
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Artworkers Elsewhere: Jan 2021

Owens Daniels is featured in this short video talking about his role as a Creative Catalyst. Find Triangle Blvd on Vimeo to see more on this subject:

Owens Daniels :: Kenan :: Creative Catalyst from Triangle Blvd on Vimeo.

Barbara Rizza Mellin’s collage and dry point etching “Memories” is featured in Memoir Magazine this month. Visit memoirmag.com to read “Bereavement” by Lauren Teller. 

Featured Artwork: “Memories” collage and dry point etching by Barbara Mellin
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Winston-Salem debuts Artistic Bus Shelter Program

Participating artist and Artworks member Owens Daniels talks about the project in this WXII Channel 12 interview: Winston-Salem debuts Artistic Bus Shelter Program

One of the artists, Owens Daniels, created a piece focusing on the theme of mass public transit with a subway feel. He used to exclusively ride city buses and says giving them an artistic makeover can give riders a refreshed sense of dignity and comfort.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —If you use public transportation in Winston-Salem or drive pass bus shelters through your day, chances are something new may catch your eye. The City of Winston-Salem is currently installing 12 new pieces of art meant to spruce up local bus shelters. Read more…

“I’m very proud to use my talents and skills to promote the artistry of my city,” Daniels said. “I want their takeaway to be a better experience. I want their takeaway to be a more convenient experience.”

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A WS Street Gallery Stroll

Artworks Owens Daniels on display, front and center.

Take a safe stroll/drive down 4th st. #dtws to see several #artworksgalleryws artists on display in @aperturecinema ‘s street gallery 💝 These works of art  were created as a part of a community art initiative curated by @seccacontempart to help fill the empty outdoor movie poster frames outside @aperturecinema during the COVID-19 Stay Home order. 🌼

ArtworksGalleryWS artist Woodie Anderson shares the love in her poster design around the theme of hope.

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