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January Issue
2010
Haywood County
Arts Council in Waynesville, NC, Features Works by Artists of
CURVE Studios
Greg Vineyard
The Haywood County Arts Council in Waynesville, NC, will present the exhibit, CURVEilinear, Selected Works from CURVE Studios, curated by Greg Vineyard, on view in Gallery 86 from Jan. 11 through Feb. 6, 2010.
Jenny Mastin ----------------------------------------- Maria
Andrade-Troya
Artists represented in the show are: CURVE Studios & Garden complex owner Pattiy Torno, quilts and eclectic clothing; primary tenant Constance Williams, encaustic painting; primary tenant Maria Andrade-Troya, functional, decorated ceramics; primary tenant Sutherland weavers Barb Butler and Karen Donde; Kyle Carpenter, wood-fired pottery; Meagan Cheney, mixed media sculptural clay; Cynthia Lee, decorative, functional clay; Jenny Mastin, world culture-inspired ceramics; Cassie Ryalls, hand built ceramic figurative sculpture; Holly de Saillan, organic sculptural forms; Greg Vineyard, ceramics for contemplation & connectivity; and Fran Welch, illustrative clay figures.
Additional artists who show in Constance Williams Studio & Gallery are also participating: Patty Bilbro, illustrated functional ware; Steve Hauger, oil painting; Mystery Masiello, earth crystal and silver jewelry; Kelly Prestwood, metalworks for home & garden; and Cynthia Wynn, industrial steel furniture.
The show title, CURVEilinear, is all about what people see and feel when they walk through the doors of the three historic brick buildings in Asheville, NC's River Arts District: the flow of the horizon in an encaustic landscape, the vibrant colors in the fabric blocks of a larger-than-life quilt, the black-eyed pea glaze design on a teapot, drawings and carvings on clay surfaces, a sinuous twist in a rebar candle holder... there is a sense of history and chronology which seems to attract a certain quality in the artists who take up residence, resulting in a splendid variety of creations.
The exhibition will give you a taste of the CURVE Studios & Garden working studio experience where seven days a week locals and tourists encounter artistic lines, shapes, colors and textures at 6, 9 and 12 Riverside Drive in Asheville. With a synergistic communication amongst the group nurtured by artist-owner Pattiy Torno's desire to incubate a creative community, along with extensive collaboration by Constance Williams, the energy is palpable, and every day new works with interesting lines and edges and surfaces take shape.
This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Arts Council
at 828-452-0593 or visit (www.haywoodarts.org).
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