May Issue 2000
Hodges Taylor in Charlotte, NC, Presents Three New Exhibitions
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, proudly presents three exhibitions, running from May 5 through June 27. The exhibits include: Melvin and Mark Lindquist: Master Woodturners, Thomas Sayre: gunshot paintings, and WOOD and FORM, featuring the work of eight nationally known woodturners. The exhibition will be housed at the Studio at Kothe Howard, 200 N. Tryon Street for the month of May. Hodges and Taylor curated and is "manning" the show there. The wood show will merge at Hodges Taylor Gallery by May 20.
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Mark Lindquist is one of the founders and most influential members of the contemporary studio woodturning movement. Born in 1949, in Oakland, CA, son of woodturning pioneer Melvin Lindquist. Mark grew up working with his father. After completing a BA in sculpture and a two-year apprenticeship in ceramics, Mark returned to woodturning in the early '70s, with the goal of expanding the expressive capabilities of the medium by transcending its accepted boundaries. Josephine Gear, former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, has commented that Mark Lindquist's majestic wood-turned vessels of classical shape have earned him a reputation as one of the nation's most highly regarded master craftsmen of woodturned objects. Jeannine Falino, Assistant Curator, American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, credits this artist with having gone beyond the vessel form to blur the distinction between turning and sculpture. His many adventurous departures from the traditional woodturned objects have dramatically changed the overall configuration of turned vessels.
The Mint Museum of Craft + Design, in Charlotte, enjoys owning Silent Witness #4 / Gepetto, a monumental sculpture that stands 85" tall and serves as an elegant statement for the work of this artist. Other public collections include: American Craft Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Mobile Museum of Art; Greenville County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; The White House; and Bank of America, Charlotte.
WOOD and FORM, is an exhibition of the work of eight nationally known woodturners including: Christian Burchard, Clay Foster, Mike Hosaluk, Todd Hoyer, William Moore, Merryll Saylan, Betty Scarping and Hayley Smith. A portion of the proceeds from this exhibition will be given to Community Link, a non-profit agency whose mission is to assist those who may be homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, in regaining self-sufficiency.
Please join the artists at the gallery during the weekend of May 19 to 21, when they are participants in the Collectors of Wood Art Forum and guests for the opening of Turning Wood into Art: Masterworks from the Arthur and Jane Mason Collection at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design.
The exhibit, Thomas Sayre: gunshot paintings will also be on view at Hodges Taylor through June 27. These paintings come out of a spontaneous reaction to the violence we encounter in almost every corner of our society. Inevitably, this violence runs through all of us. It is not just the folks over there - across the tracks. We all must own it.
The making of the paintings was a way to face this violence in general, and gun violence, in particular. The work uses the physical effects of gunfire (mostly shotguns) to generate complex surfaces, shapes, and forms. Using the gun as a tool, the work balances between randomness and control. Out of the markings made by bullets, the paintings paradoxically embrace the powerful violence we are a part of, and the redemption of their transformation into a kind of beauty.
gunshot paintings is part of a citywide exhibition, TROUBLE SHOOTING gun violence. A week-long effort to bring attention to gun violence during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Convention scheduled to take place in Charlotte, May 19-21. The exhibition is being staged by the Charlotte Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings or call Hodges Taylor Gallery at 704/334-3799.
TROUBLE SHOOTING gun violence, is a city wide exhibition of visual statements addressing the issue of gun violence May 15 - 23, 2000.
Artists have been invited to exhibit works addressing the issue of gun violence in several locations throughout Charlotte the week of May 15 - 23. Works include various media such as painting, drawing, fine prints, photography, video, performance, and sculpture. Both nationally known and emerging artists are participating.
The intention of the exhibition is to bring attention to the widespread use of guns and gun related imagery and language in our everyday culture. The exhibition is scheduled in response to this year's national convention of the National Rifle Association being held in Charlotte, May 19 - 23.
TROUBLE SHOOTING gun violence is supported by private donations and is collaborating with other organizations in forming Charlotte Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. This collaboration advocates a peaceful awareness of the extent of gun violence in the United States and North Carolina. Efforts will be made during the week of May 15 - 23 to bring attention to the general public and media of the concern felt by myriad groups both local and national to the issue of gun violence.
A list of participating artists plus venues and their hours will be forthcoming.
Additional artists wishing to collaborate with the exhibition should contact June Lambla at Hodges Taylor Gallery.
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