October Issue 1999
Here's a Carolina Arts Update! 7/22/05
erl originals gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, is now closed. The following is no reflection on the artist(s) mentioned in this article. They still deserve the historical fact that this exhibition happened.
Here is an excerpt from an article in the Winston-Salem Journal's Dec. 10, 2004, edition: "In late September, (2004) erl's owners, Peter and Lee Swenson, and the company they operate, Bogart Management Group, were foreclosed on by their bank. They were barred from their gallery at 480 West End Blvd. for being months in arrears on rent and utilities. Peter Swenson is facing numerous tax-fraud charges, as well as a growing number of civil lawsuits filed by creditors seeking to collect payments they say are long overdue".
e-r-l originals Features Works by Richard Jolley
Works by Richard Jolley, recognized as one of the leading glass artists in the United States, will be featured at e-r-l originals, in Winston-Salem, NC, through October 20.
Jolley's glass sculptures are created through a blown technique, whereby glass is heated in furnaces to temperatures in excess of 2000 degrees before being blown and shaped. Over the years he has studied the medium in a multiplicity of forms, making pieces ranging from blown vessels to complex sculptures.
In the 1980s, Jolley's sculptures consisted of simply modeled nudes with a flowing blue line on a translucent ground. By the 1990s, the hot-worked buses had evolved into totemic forms. Visual softness, the result of acid etching, an effect Jolley favors for its resemblance to skin, heightens the figurative images. A hot-forming process, an extension of the "hot bits" technique frequently used in the 60s and 70s, makes the images, which may be as tall as 17 inches. Several of his glass pieces have been cast in bronze, increased in size, and given a patina which paradoxically reproduces the mottled surface of stone.
Jolley's works are part of numerous public collections, among them the American Craft Museum in New York; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles; Coburg Museum and Kunstmuseum, both in Germany; Hokkaido Museum of Modem Art in Japan. and International Glasmuseum in Denmark.
A resident of Tennessee, Jolley has taught and lectured at numerous schools across the country, most recently at the Penland School of Crafts, in Penland, NC; the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte,NC; the Sculpture Objects Functional Art in Chicago; and the Sculpture Objects Functional Art in Miami. He attended Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN, and graduated with a BFA degree from George Peabody College a division of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN. He has also studied at the Penland School.
Jolley's glass is exhibited in galleries across the country as well as abroad. Recent shows featuring his art have been held at the Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta, the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, the Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, and the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte. His works are also frequently part of group exhibitions, most recently the Venezia Aperro Vetro 1998 in Murano-Venezia, Italy; the Hsinchu Cultural Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Glass Today by American Studio Artists, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Master of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; and the 25th Annual International invitational, Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, Michigan. In addition, he resided at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, in 1999, and in 1998, took part in the Israeli Cultural Artist Exchange in Israel.
e-r-l originals is an art gallery specializing in a wide variety
of original art and crafts, offering a diverse collection of more
than 900 paintings as well as glass, hand-crafted pottery, jewelry
and sculpture plus am extensive library of images. Founded in
Winston-Salem, NC, in 1981, e-r-l originals has grown steadily
and today has a staff of 10 professionals. The gallery provides
clients -- ranging from individual collectors to small businesses,
corporations and designers throughout the Southeast -- with personalized
art consulting services, art placement and commissioned works.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings
or call the gallery at 336/760.4373. In addition, many of the
items currently on display can be viewed on the gallery's website
at www.erloriginals.com.
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