January Issue 2002
Gallery 9 in Banner Elk, NC, Features Work by Wayne Trapp and Christine Schub
Gallery 9, located in Banner Elk, NC, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, is known for its large outdoor sculptures and fountains. This season the gallery has drawn great attention to its interior. Oil painters Christine Schub and Wayne Trapp have recently completed new works and have brought these pieces to the public through Gallery 9.
Schub has been a professional artist for over twenty years. Her paintings are inspired by a combination of archetypal memories of places visited both physically and through imagination. Her abstract work takes the viewer to futuristic cities and ancient landscapes. Her use of color and composition intrigue these viewers into long gazes and quiet conversation. "She has a beautiful way of creating balance in her paintings. I could look at them for days enjoying all the details and subtleties" says Nancee Pond, gallery director. Schub has exhibited her work in numerous solo shows all over the country. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections worldwide. She also has work at the Cooperstown Museum of Art in New York, the American Assembly of Art, and the Bruce Museum of Art in Greenwich, Connecticut. Schub is an award-winning painter and her new work shows viewers why.
Wayne Trapp's new abstract oils have quite a different voice. His colors are much more manipulated than Schub's. They move and blend and disperse themselves one into another. His palette, full of warm tones, gold and oranges and buttery whites find juxtaposition with rich blacks and phtalo blue. These paintings are alive with the artist's passion for life in all of its' adventures.
Trapp has been creating and exhibiting his work for four decades. He is known around the globe and his work hangs in corporate halls, museum walls and in collector's homes. His work always draws a lot of attention. You never know where he will take you next. Trapp has been quoted saying, "Everyone should have dreams, and then they should make them happen." If anyone has worked to see his or her dreams take hold in reality, Wayne Trapp has. Through his art, others can get a piece of his dream and wonderfully, a piece of the dreamer too.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings or call the gallery at 828/963-6068, e-mail at (info@gallery9.com) or on the web at (http://www.gallery9.com).
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