August Issue 2001
Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, Features Works of Nathan Lerner
The Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Modernist Eye: The Art and Design of Nathan Lerner, from Aug. 9 through Oct. 28, 2001. The exhibition was organized by the Gallery of Art & Design, at North Carolina State University and will be presented in the Museum's Appleby Foundation Gallery.
Nathan Lerner has had a vast influence on countless Americans' lives through his work in product design. Yet, as an artist and designer, he remains less well known than he should be. Among his many designs is the Honey Bear Container, developed around 1955 and still found in many homes and most grocery stores. For more than fifty years, Lerner worked in an astonishingly diverse range of artistic forms, including documentary and experimental photography, product design, painting, drawing, filmmaking and architecture. Lerner, an acute social critic who held on to a utopian ideal of a more humane, modern and truly "inhabitable" world, created an amazing array of objects and artworks that truly have affected the nature of American's daily lives.
The Asheville Art Museum is also showing the
exhibitions, We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American
Civil Rights Era, through Sept. 9 and Buncombe County Folk
Pottery, through Sept. 2.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings
or call the Museum at 828/253-3227 or on the web at (http://www.ashevilleart.org).
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