Sean Pace of Asheville, North Carolina & Robert Sulkin of Roanoke, Virginia are imaginative engineers in the studio. Sean Pace creates mixed-media sculptures that often have a complex network of motors and gears. With human intervention they can be set into motion and facilitate surprising activities such as painting an abstract picture of shooting a rubber chicken. Robert Sulkin concocts elaborate ready made sculptures and then photographs them as still lifes in black and white, some with mathematic formulas and other notations superimposed on the final image. These document the musings of a fictional inventor trying to devise solutions for the world’s complex problems. To different ends, the fantastical machines of Pace and Sulkin invoke absurdity and conjure magic.

RELATED EVENTS:

Public Reception Thursday, February 7 6-8pm

Robert Sulkin Lecture at Emory & Henry College 3/26 @ 7:30pm-Board of Visitors Lounge at E&H’s Van Dyke Center

Sean Pace Lecture at ETSU 3/27 @ 3pm in the Art Annex

Download the Gallery Guide here.

Quilt National: The Dairy Barn Arts Center Biennial

Opening Reception March 7, 2013 from 6-8pm

March 8 through July 14, 2013

United-Legard Galleries

For more than three decades, the biennial Quilt National exhibit at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, has showcased the best and most exciting contemporary art quilts being created around the world. More than 1,000 works were submitted by artists from 46 states and 22 foreign countries. The mission remains the same for this 17^th biennial installment: to select works that honor the quilting tradition while embracing new forms of expression through innovative uses of new techniques and materials.

the virginia dulcimer: 200 years of Bowing, Strumming & Picking

Opening Reception Thursday, February 7, 2013 6-8pm

The dulcimer is one of the most popular symbols of mountain music. This exhibition explores the dulcimer’s long journey from northern Europe, to the mountains of Appalachia, and eventually into the hands of folk musicians across the nation. Join us for the Public Reception: Thursday, February 7, 6-8pm, and check out our calendar for related events.