June 5 – July 29, 2012

Artist Reception Thursday, June 7, 6-8 p.m.

The indirect process of transferring an image from a printing plate to a piece of paper almost always provides a somewhat unexpected outcome. This series of prints speaks to the act of making art, of thinking through a theme. Each step is illustrated until the story is complete. The imagery is not realistic or traditional, intentionally. I have created a kind of dream space, a new place, where no one has been.

Kathy Gibian studied fine arts at Auburn University, in her home state of Alabama.  Throughout her career, she has continued her education through private study and at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arrowmont and Penland School of Arts and Crafts. She currently holds the position of Director of Education at William King Museum.

                On Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12, we’ll be hosting a garage sale in the white building directly behind the museum from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. We have a variety of things that will be for sale, including but not limited to: furniture, office furniture, electronics, holiday decorations, and home décor.

                We’ll also be taking donations through Friday, May 4. Do you have things sitting around that you’d like to get out of the way? All you have to do is drop them off at the museum with one of our donation forms. You can download the form ahead of time on our website or we’ll have some ready when you drop the donations off. We ask that you include an inventory of donations and some general contact information. We’ll also be able to provide tax letters with the help of the forms.

For information on the garage sale and all other events at William King Museum, please visit us on the web at www.WilliamKingMuseum.org or give us a call at 276-628-5005. The Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday; and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors. Members, students and children are free.

William King Museum is located at 415 Academy Drive, off West Main Street or Russell Road, in Abingdon. The Museum features five exhibition galleries, resident artist studios, a museum store and outdoor sculpture garden. Educational programs in the visual arts are offered year-round for both children and adults, and school audiences are served by in-house and outreach programs. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the William King Museum is a partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and a member of the Virginia Association of Museums and is funded in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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GEOSCAPES

Kathy Gibian, Abingdon, VA

June 5 through July 29, 2012

Opening Reception, Thursday, June 7 from 6-8pm

The indirect process of transferring an image from a printing plate to a piece of paper almost always provides a somewhat unexpected outcome. This series of prints speaks to the act of making art, of thinking through a theme. Each step is illustrated until the story is complete. The imagery is not realistic or traditional, intentionally. I have created a kind of dream space, a new place, where no one has been.

Kathy Gibian studied fine arts atAuburnUniversity, in her home state ofAlabama.  Throughout her career, she has continued her education through private study and at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arrowmont and Penland School of Arts and Crafts. She currently holds the position of Director of Education atWilliamKingMuseum.

Perry Johnson, Abingdon, VA

July 31 – September 2, 2012

Opening Reception, Thursday, August 2 from 6-8pm

This body of work is an inquiry into our stewardship of humanist ideals. What have we achieved and what of our humanity? Work that engages our faculties and satisfies our senses is a blessing not afforded us all. For every fulfilled and actualized worker, there are a multitude of button pressers, lever pullers, and pencil pushers.

Perry Johnson received his MFA in painting and printmaking fromEastTennesseeStateUniversity. He has served as adjunct faculty for VI College, ETSU,NortheastStateCommunity College, andSouthwestVirginiaCommunity College. In addition, he has worked professionally as a web developer focusing on user interface design and database development.

Reflections of Self

Curated by Mary Malone, Johnson City, TN

September 5-30, 2012

Opening Reception, September 6 from 6-8pm

The idea for ‘Reflections of Self’ became highly relevant when looking at my fellow artists work and coming up with a theme. The idea of “self” can be examined externally or internally by yourself or those around you. We all respond to particular things, people, or ideas, which then influence the kind of person we are or will become.

Reflections of Self features portrayals of self by both current and graduatedEastTennesseeStateUniversity art students. The show’s curator, Mary Molony, is a BFA graduate from ETSU, where she concentrated in sculpture and printmaking while pursuing metal smithing and painting on the side.

Mira Gerard, Johnson City, TN

October 2-28, 2012

Opening Reception, October 4 from 6-8pm

My work attempts to fuse a reflection of the desirous ‘object of desire’ with specific passages of memory and fantasy. Images culled from media sources and my own staged photo/video shoots loosely reference cinematography, catastrophe, literature and history.

Mira Gerard Singh grew up in a secluded Ashram inNew Hampshire.  Her parents, both artists, encouraged her work from an early age.  She went on to receive a BFA fromIndianaUniversityinBloomington,Indianaand an MFA from theUniversityofGeorgiainAthens,Georgia.  She lives and works in southern Appalachia and is a painting professor atEastTennesseeStateUniversityinJohnson City,Tennessee.

Jeffrey Stoner, Kingsport, TN

November 1 –December 2, 2012

Opening Reception, November 8 from 6-8pm

I remember going outside on a sunny winter morning. There had been a freezing rain during the night and when I looked into the trees, I saw sunlight glistening on ice covered branches. I had never seen anything like that; it was amazing. I remember wishing I had a camera to capture that moment. My wish for a camera came true when I was ten and my love of photography began.

Stoner’s images have appeared in numerous publications, including Black & White Photography Magazine, Shutterbug, Pennsylvania Magazine, A! Magazine for the Arts, Alyson Stanfied’s Art Marketing and Barney Davey’s Art Print Issues. He is represented by galleries inNew Jersey,North Carolina,Pennsylvania,Tennessee, andVirginia.

Art Instructors of Northeast State Community College

December 4, 2012 – February 3, 2013

Opening Reception, December 6 from 6-8pm

Through different methods and media, each artist is consciously and/or unconsciously exploring aspects of what it means to be an artist and a professor in this region.

This exhibition features the work of eight full time artists who also teach part time atNorthEastStateCommunity College. Artists include Brandon F. Harrell, Carol LeBaron, Charlesey Charlton , Donna Wilt, Dr. Janice Miller, Linda Brown, Russell Blankenship and Tony Henson

Alison Hall, Roanoke, VA

February 5 – March 3, 2013

Opening Reception, February 7 from 6-8pm

My surfaces are prepared with an ancient Italian recipe using gesso of Bologna and rabbit skin glue. This process creates an immediate relationship for me to the subject matter of the religious paintings I admire. Each panel has fourteen layers of this gesso and they are sanded between each layer. I kneel and sand for weeks. The dedication to this preparation reminds me of the repetitive mark making found in my drawings; from start to finish they have qualities of devotion, labor and silence.

Alison Hall currently divides her time betweenRoanoke,VirginiaandTodi,Italyas an Assistant Professor of Art atHollinsUniversity.  In 2004 she received her MFA fromAmericanUniversity.  Historically her work is made in plein air, but her most recent work explores the landscape from memory, inside the studio. 

Nancy Brittelle, Blowing Rock, NC

March 5 – 31, 2013

Opening Reception, March 7 from 6-8pm

I take everyday paper scraps and transform them into art pieces resembling precious metals. The series aims to bring together opposing elements of life as we know it; the East and the West, the contemporary and the ancient, the heavy and the light, the disposable and the permanent.

Britelle now lives and works in Blowing Rock, North Carolinaand has exhibited in many solo and group exhibits. In November 2009, her pieces “Heavy Metal: 10” and “Gridlock 2”were featured in the National Collage Society’s 25^th Annual Exhibit in Atlanta, with “Heavy Metal: 10” receiving an award for excellence. In 2011, her piece “Shield XI” was selected for the 27^th Annual Exhibit of the National Collage Society.

Secret Identities

Ray Slatton and David Dixon, Johnson City, TN

April 2 – 28, 2013

Opening Reception, April 4 from 6-8pm

The exploration of self can supply an array of multi-faceted expressions. In essence, we give form to the hidden identities with us through our figurative portraits.

Ralph Slatton and David Dixon are professors of graphic art in the Department of Art & Design at ETSU. While Slatton’s work consists primarily of traditional printmaking,Dixonutilizes both traditional and new media digital imaging techniques. 

Jenny Snead, Bristol, VA

April 30 – June 2, 2013

Opening Reception, May 2 from 6-8pm

Through these paintings I seek to develop and understand the theme of our closest relationships in a modern context. It is something that we think of as ageless, having been exhausted in literature, music, and movies. It seems to be taken for granted that the fundamentals are ageless.

Jenny Snead earned her MFA from Virginia Intermont and has been teaching art at Stonewall Jackson Elementary and Highland View Elementary since August 2011.

Roy Baugher, Roanoke, VA

June 4 – July 28, 2013

Opening Reception, June 6 from 6-8pm

By combining the pictorial and linguistic elements of a work, a chronicle is created to the viewer. The viewer is then invited to form their own connotations from this narrative.

Roy Baugher graduated fromRoanokeCollegewith a BA in Art. Baugher’s work has been featured at the Roanoke City Art Show and the Roanoke College Biennial Juried Exhibition. In 2009, he earned the second Place Award and a Purchase Award in the Roanoke City Art Show.

William King Studio Artists

July 30 – September 1, 2013

Opening Reception, August 1 from 6-8pm

These are the creative ones who enhance the visual experience in our facility. Communicating with the artist in his or her domain of creative clutter is the revelatory link between the work of the artist and the viewer.

Written and proposed by John Sauers, this exhibition will serve as a reunion for William King Studio artists past and present. John Sauers was a studio artist at William King off and on for almost a decade. 

Michael Polomik, Sylva, NC

September 5- 29, 2013

Opening Reception, September 5 from 6-8pm

These pieces fuse schematic mark-making with iconic figures and symbols, depicting an amalgamation of styles ranging from the renaissance methods of Caravaggio and Rembrandt to the connective cells and windows of Peter Halley to the densely layered abstractions of Julie Mehretu.

Polomik received his MFA from Western Carolina University and has participated in several notable exhibitions, most recent of which include ‘State of the Art / Art of the State’, Cameron Art Museum, curated by Susan Davidson of the Guggenheim Museum in NY

Brian Counihan, Roanoke, VA

October 1 – November 3, 2013

Opening Reception TBD in conjunction with opening of From These Hills ‘13

Once I learned to embrace the chronic intrusion of other artists’ influences in my work I began to enjoy the inter-textual play that occurs between the fragments. These accidental narrative elements often clash like mixed metaphors, sometimes igniting visual discordances, and on other instances imply lyrical harmonies.

Brian Counihan is an artist, founding faculty and humanities instructor at Community High School of the Arts & Academics in Roanoke, Virginia. He grew up in the Republic of Ireland and graduated from Crawford School of Art in Cork before attending Northwestern University where he graduated summa cum laude. His work has been exhibited in many public and private institutions.

Ed Dolinger, Roanoke, VA

November 5-December 29, 2013

Opening Reception TBD

I seek to purge sermonizing from content and to reveal the contradictions and competing opposites that are a constant in life. Curiously and happily not resolving anything. Gobs of information, but no apparent message.

Ed Dolinger is currently a lecturer in art and sculpture at Hollins University. A recent recipient of a painting fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Dolinger has also participated in numerous exhibitions at local venues. His two and three dimensional work can also be found in public and private collections around the country.

William King Museum is located at 415 Academy Drive, off West Main Street or Russell Road, in Abingdon. The Museum features five exhibition galleries, resident artist studios, a museum store and outdoor sculpture garden. Educational programs in the visual arts are offered year-round for both children and adults, and school audiences are served by in-house and outreach programs. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the William King Museum is a partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and a member of the Virginia Association of Museums and is funded in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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