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January Issue 2005
Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, Features Group Show for Winter Blues
The Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, will present the exhibition, Color Therapy for the Wintertime Blues, from Jan. 7 - 28, 2005. The exhibit will feature the works of artists, Joan Bell, Nancy Ford, Kirk Gulden and Betsey B. Hampton.
Joan Bell
Joan Bell studied art at Oberlin College earning a BA degree in Studio Art and Art History. She and husband Michael live in Glendale Springs, NC. Bell currently is active in the Ashe County Arts Council where she has exhibited many times. She just recently returned to oil painting, she states "I find oils exciting demanding, rich and rewarding. My subject matter is broad, but linked by qualities of light and color. It is always the effects of light on a subject that compels me to paint it." Bell's colorful oil paintings will bring lots of life to the Arts Council's walls during January.
Nancy Ford, a self taught carver, was inspired by a shop "The Miscellaneous" in her hometown of Athens, OH. That was where her love for small animal carving began. After moving to North Carolina she began to collect Zuni, Navaho, Alaskan and Balinese animal fetish carvings. Ford has been a lifelong rock collector, the two loves evolved into a personal thrill upon releasing the creature from the stone. These tiny animal carving are fascinating to look at. The detail, Ford states, "is already in the rock you just have to bring to the surface". She changes the stone as little as possible to leave it natural. Ford has been experimenting with larger carvings and has found great success here as well. She has exhibited in many galleries in North Carolina.
Kirk
Gulden
Kirk Gulden a native of New Jersey and a resident of Wilkes County, NC, since 1980, has been a photographer for over 20 years. His creative architectural, flower and landscape images include those of local interest, Charleston, SC, other areas of the United States and several European countries. He has exhibited yearly since 1980 in the Wilkes Art Gallery's Blue Ridge Overview Juried Exhibition. From the colorful textures and sensuous lines of nature's floral creations, to the sharp edge and angular shadows of architectural themes, to the awesome structures and inspirational symbols of places of worship, Gulden's photography revels the vibrant simplicity and subtle complexities of our world. He has received many awards for his works, too numerous to note.
Betsey Barber Hampton of Davidson, NC, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art Education. She has exhibited in North and South Carolina. "As a painter, I use traditional subjects that are transformed by my personal vision and sense of design and color." Hampton's work is basically done in acrylics and collage using papers, foils and gold leafing. She uses female figures that import experience strength and knowledge and exist in a pallet of widely varying settings and moods. The viewer is prompted to invent a narrative of his or her own imagination. "I create a setting and figures that do not exist but are fragments, pieces and torn shapes that mysterious evolve into a painting that comes from the heart and a God given talent, " says Hampton. She has received many awards for her works too numerous to note.
For more information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Council at 828/754-2486, e-mail at
(info@caldewellarts.com) or at (www.caldwellarts.com).
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