“Industrious and enterprising are the first words that come to mind when seeing Woodie Anderson’s solo exhibition at Artworks Gallery. … Anderson is a talented, resourceful artist whose specialty is printmaking, and her exhibition “Tooth and Nail: Fragments” leaves no doubt she’s been busy. She’s also clearly had a lot on her mind.”
Bird Girl, Woodie Anderson, Screen print and mixed media on bed sheet.
“There are of course no real knives in sight, and nothing else potentially dangerous, but if close attention is paid, this exhibition promises to sharpen eyes and minds.”
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 20, 2021
Artworks Gallery Presents: Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments (solo show)
Exhibition dates: June 3-26, 2021 Gallery Hop: June 4, 2021, 7-9 pm (Meet the Artist Reception)
Woodie Anderson, “Sharpen Your Knives”
Woodie Anderson | Tooth and Nail: Fragments
Working with original drawings and text, found images, historical snippets, and the fever-dreams of an exhausted soul, Woodie Anderson continues her “Tooth and Nail” series exploring the tenacity of the human spirit. This exhibit features new work, including screenprints on paper and reclaimed fabrics, watercolors, and mixed media. A pop-up gift shop featuring Anderson’s popular hand-printed tea towels, note cards, HankiePankie Art Hankies, and patches will also be on-site.
Woodie Anderson, “Can We Be Us In The Middle Of All This”
While studying fine art and graphic design in college, Anderson began experimenting with the tensions between fine art and commercial applications of visual language–areas she continues to explore in much of her work through the use of text, infographics, and other collected graphic materials. Often starting with well-worn household fabrics, she employs a variety of processes including stitching, dyeing, screen-printing, and drawing to build layered, textural pieces that are full of life. Letterforms and texts–including original and appropriated writings–are integral to much of her work.
Her current series, “Tooth and Nail,” is formally inspired by banners and pennants dating from the Middle Ages, while its content centers on identity, self-protection, and self-projection. Found images of unidentified women and the accouterments of battle are also an inspiration for this in-progress series.
Woodie Anderson, “Home Studies 3”
Anderson lives and works in North Carolina, where she also teaches printmaking at the Sawtooth School and participates in the Art-o-mat® (Clark Whittington’s vintage cigarette vending machines repurposed to dispense original artworks). Anderson’s work is featured in The Art-o-mat® “Unpacked” Book and in “Art Quilts at Play” by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston. She a member of Artworks Gallery, the longest-running cooperative gallery in Winston-Salem, and has exhibited at regional and national venues including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, SECCA, and The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at ASU.
These ‘Mater Cards and Flour Sack Towels designed by Woodie Anderson are among the items that will be available in the pop-up gift shop featuring Anderson’s popular hand-printed tea towels, note cards, HankiePankie Art Hankies, and patches.
Artworks Gallery extends visiting hours in June with the addition of Thursday hours! June Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4 Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
“Tefft’s work encompasses a variety of mediums, and much of it relates directly to the Mueller Report and Donald Trump’s presidential administration, which chose the passages to be redacted. Like many contemporary artists, Tefft is not a fan of the outgoing president, as is clear from her work on view here.”
“Anderson’s festively colored prints on cloth and paper are charms against inertia and hopelessness — icons of strength, endurance, and abiding energy. The thematic gist of her stylized imagery is reflected in the titles of individual pieces — “Eyes,” “Fire,” “Mindful,” “Comfort.” Inspiration is the name of the game.”
“…Lea Lackey-Zachmann employs a darker and more subdued, earth-based palette in her five-part series of mixed-media monoprints. She’s a resolute nature abstractionist, whose work typically has a neo-pagan undercurrent. … Leaving aside the titles, on their own as evocative markings on paper, these pieces extend Lackey-Zachmann’s ongoing project of visualizing natural forces. It’s a theme both limitless and imaginatively challenging.”
Open Limited Hours: Thurs. – Sat., 12 – 3 pm, or by appointment
Woodie Anderson, Protection, Serigraph on cotton
The new works by artist and designer Woodie Anderson employ printmaking, drawing, sculpture and written language to explore the areas where identity, personal history and society intersect. “Weary Heart” shares work from her ongoing series, “Tooth and Nail,” about the fight for love and community, as well as the struggles of identity, self-protection, and self-projection. These prints, presented on paper and fabric, will delight and engage viewers with fresh, meaningful messages.
Jessica Tefft, Harm to Ongoing Matter, Fabric Collage
Jessica Tefft, Peace, Digital Collage
Lea Lackey-Zachmann, When We Accept, Monotype with Pencil
Woodie Anderson, Protection, Serigraph on cotton
Jessica Tefft May Cause Ongoing Harm
Woodie Anderson Weary Heart
Lea Lackey-Zachmann Still Standing Like The Trees
Exhibition dates: Thursday, November 5 – Saturday, November 29, 2020
Open Limited Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12 – 3 pm Or By Appointment
Come visualize through works by Jessica Tefft what happens when information is intentionally obscured. She says, “I got the idea for this show when I read the Mueller Report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. It felt as though I could not read two sentences without some part being blacked out – redacted – so the public couldn’t read it. But I kept looking at all the redactions. And I noticed the little black bars were often embellished with the words “May Cause Ongoing Harm.” If so many things could cause “ongoing harm,” I wondered, shouldn’t the American people know?”
Visitors will see many imaginings of ongoing harm caused by willful obfuscation conveyed through a variety of multi-media art. Many employ tongue-in-cheek commentary of the social, political, personal, world we live in.
The new works by artist and designer Woodie Anderson employ printmaking, drawing, sculpture and written language to explore the areas where identity, personal history and society intersect. “Weary Heart” shares work from her ongoing series, “Tooth and Nail,” about the fight for love and community, as well as the struggles of identity, self-protection, and self-projection. These prints, presented on paper and fabric, will delight and engage viewers with fresh, meaningful messages.
Lea Lackey-Zachmann endeavors to bring you into the realm of awareness and sensing she extends to all living beings. “Still Standing Like The Trees” is a collection of images, started before the California fires this year. The artist says, “As their process towards completion continued they began to reflect the possible methods in which a conscious living being might respond to extreme circumstances. The trees, like all Nature have much to teach us.” These impressive new works, rendered in monotype with pencil, suggest viewing trees as sentient beings.
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.
