Artworks Gallery Presents:
Chris Flory: All Fall Down (solo show)
Susan Smoot: Roadside Compositions (solo show)
Exhibition dates: April 2-May 2, 2021
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Susan Smoot:Day Comes to a Close 
Susan Smoot: Done for the Day 
Susan Smoot: Double Hinged 
Susan Smoot: Electric Shop 
Susan Smoot: Flint Hill Sheds 
Susan Smoot:Forgiven 
Susan Smoot: Green Thumbimb 
Susan Smoot: Harris Lane 
Susan Smoot: Log Load 
Susan Smoot: Off Tom Hill Road 
Susan Smoot: Poplar Street Access 
Susan Smoot: Sheltering 
Susan Smoot: Still Holding 
Susan Smoot: The Bright Side 
Susan Smoot: Trip to Bailey 
Chirs Flory: Breath One 
Chris Flory: Breath Two 
Chris Flory: But Is It Safe? 
Chris Flory: From the Very First 
Chris Flory: Is It Worth Trying? 
Chirs Flory: It Depends How Black the Blackness Is 
Chris Flory: It Isn’t Getting Any Easier 
Chris Flory: It Might Take A Long Time 
Chris Flory:More Walls To Bang Your Head Against 
Chris Flory: Still Boxed In 
Chris Flory: What Were We Thinking
Chris Flory | All Fall Down
Chris Flory was born in Philadelphia. She has a BFA in Printmaking from Philadelphia College of Art, now University of the Arts (1972), and an MFA in Painting from UNC-Greensboro (1992). She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1993. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband and two cats.
The works in the “All Fall Down” exhibition are all graphite on paper, drawn in 2020. Most are about the anxiety and frustration which Chris Flory has been experiencing in Covid times. The “Breath” series is loosely based on some pastel drawings from 1995.
Susan Smoot: Roadside Compositions
From the heart of North Carolina, Susan Smoot studied fine art at Appalachian State University, earning a BA in Painting. After years in the corporate world of advertising, she has returned to making art as her primary focus. She has studied with locally and nationally recognized artists to further her talent and add to her skills to develop a straightforward painting style, elevating the commonplace to art. Smoot is an award-winning artist who teaches classes when possible. In addition to watercolor, the artist also works in pastel, acrylic, and fiber art.
“Roadside Compositions” is Susan Smoot’s collection of original watercolor paintings. The works focus on long-standing architecture of utility. Farmhouses, sheds, barns, are depicted, showing evidence of their usefulness and the disrepair of time. These rural scenes and buildings, observed locally, were rendered to celebrate the details of age, tarnish, patina, and rust on these witnesses of the past.
The artist says, “As a child, I always wondered about the abandoned farmhouses and barns I spotted while traveling through rural areas. I pictured, in my mind, walking through and around them. I wanted to understand more about their stories. By painting their images I intend to know them better and interpret their pasts – or make up my own version.”
