Exhibits Archive: 2008
Rebis: New Paintings by Virginia Derryberry
Rebis includes 17 paintings by Virginia Derryberry, an Asheville, NC artist and Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her large compositions fuse realism and portraiture with mythic content and alchemical symbolism. Her classically composed paintings include symbolic objects, colors, and narratives associated with alchemy but are ...
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Shaping the Earth: Iron Mountain Stoneware of Laurel Bloomery, TN
Iron Mountain Stoneware operated from 1965 to 1992 in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee. Workers formed the stoneware by hand, applying the glazes and decorations created by owner Nancy Patterson Lamb. In addition to a series of patterns Iron Mountain Stoneware produced, Sally Patterson painted one-of-a-kind pieces and Jim Kaneko created unique sculptural forms.
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Beyond • Aesthetics
This exhibition will shed light on art as a persistent religious inflection and also prompt us to literally view religion from an objective and artistic perspective. The emphasis of the exhibition is that level of tradition shared by each that binds them throughout history, in any media, in any culture, in any faith. The works in ...
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Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay
Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay celebrates the intricate relationship between this ceramic artist’s life and work – his humanity, his teaching, mentoring and support of artists, and his commitment to his family and community. This exhibition features a selected group of works spanning a career of more than 40 years. See a ...
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Furniture
The earliest furniture was made during the closing years of the 18th century and in the style of English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale. Despite the fact that early furniture was often made at home with little thought given to prevailing style, there was a market for fashionable furniture and trained cabinetmakers were here to supply it. Chippendale’s pattern book ...
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Pottery
Pottery-making was an important local industry as early as the last years of the 18th century and lasting throughout the 19th century. All sorts of ceramic containers were made: jars, crocks, churns, milk pans, pitchers, honey pots, jugs, water coolers and even ink wells. Rich clay found along the rivers provided the natural resources, but transportation was also a ...
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Textile
The decorative arts legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee developed against the backdrop of European settlement of Virginia’s frontier – really America’s frontier. Prior to the middle of the 18th century, the Blue Ridge Mountains formed a steep barrier to settlement of Virginia’s great valley that lay just beyond it. It wasn’t until the end ...
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George
A display of works by the late regional artist George Chavatel. This exhibition will include highlights from the many styles, media, and subjects with which Chavatel proved so masterful and prolific. It will serve as a regional celebration of the life and influence of a true art icon and mentor within our community.
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Surface, Identity, and Time: The Self-Portraits of Vaughn Garland
Vaughn Garland is a self-portraitist. True, the appearances of his paintings cannot instantly be recognized as being characteristic of traditional self-portraiture, but this is because Garland introduces elements of autobiography during the painting process. The finished piece is not intended to represent anything objective other than a two-dimensional plane holding various layers and colors of paint. ...
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Betsy K. White Cultural Heritage Gallery
The decorative arts legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee developed against the backdrop of European settlement of Virginia’s frontier – really America’s frontier. Prior to the middle of the 18th century, the Blue Ridge Mountains formed a steep barrier to settlement of Virginia’s great valley that lay just beyond it. It wasn’t until the end ...
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