April Issue 2002
Summit One Gallery in Highlands, NC, Presents an Exhibition of Flowers
les Fleurs de la vie
will open the 2002 Exhibition Season at Summit One Gallery in
Highlands, NC, on Apr. 20. The exhibition will continue through
May 22, 2002.
The multi-genre exhibition will include photography, clay, watercolors,
pastels, mixed-media and blown glass.
Ben Greig
Photographers exhibiting are Mary Kay Moore
and Ben Greig. Moore is a descendant of naturalist, John Muir,
her life's path in the area of photographing the natural world
was a gift she felt destined to. Like her ancestor, her hope is
to inspire the preservation and conservation of flora, green spaces,
and waterways for generations to come. Ben Greig has been photographing
since 1930, when he used a small Brownie camera. He has traveled
the world photographing flowers. His eye for a "good still-life"
is well developed and his approach carries a freshness, and a
unique, larger than life, view of the flowers he captures. Greig,
like Moore, is largely self taught in the arts. His work
demonstrates a life of careful observation, developing his own
twist on vernacular visual conventions as demonstrated by his
photographs.
Kathie Blozan
Kathie Blozan's watercolors are imaginative
but are based on strong design and careful observation. Many of
her paintings possess an unusual composition style and lyrical
color palette. Among her favorite subjects are the wildflowers
of the mountains, the mountain laurel and rhododendron. Having
moved to the mountains from the Washington, DC, area, where she
was active in the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Washington Watercolor
Assc. and the Potomac Valley Watercolorists, she is now active
in the Watercolor Society of North Carolina and teaches at Southwestern
Community College.
Vicki Ferguson is a wildlife artist, scientific illustrator, and
research entomologist. She holds a doctorate in entomology and
plant pathology. She creates a type of shadow box preservation
and illustration using preserved flowers in their natural form
along with all the detail of the scientific information and illustration.
The result is an amazingly beautiful, and educational work of
mixed media art.
One Eared Cow Glass
(Tommy Lockart & Mark Woodham)
Tom Lockart and Mark Woodham of One Eared Cow
Glass in Columbia, SC, continue to bring a new creativeness to
glass. Using techniques and tools that date back thousands of
years, each of their pieces is hand crafted from 2300 degrees
molten glass. Watching Lockart and Woodham work together is like
watching choreography unfold. Its mesmerizing! - to see the shapes
and colors come to life and form. Their blown glass flora is reminiscent
of their successful work, "The Emtripitus Series". That
series had a very organic feel, the abstract colors and forms
of nature. The flora series captures a truer form, yet still very
creative and contemporary.
Evie Averbach's primary choice of clays when she began the self-study
of ceramics was porcelain, as she had a desire to use color. Many
of her pieces are painted with color under the glaze and then
kiln fired again with a clear glaze. Her porcelain sunflower sconces
are partially made on the potter's wheel and then finished with
various handbuilding techniques. Her gardening experiences with
sunflowers, especially the Russian Mammoth varieties inspired
her to recreate them in porcelain. These energetic flowers with
their unique expressions are truly an inspiration for many artists.
To acquire the intricate and varied textures of flowers, Susan
Jaeger-Cornell uses pastels on sand paper. The result is a realism
not generally seen in painting. Jaeger-Cornell hails from Ohio,
but graduated (Summa Cum Laude) from Florida International University,
and is now living and painting in Franklin, NC.
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