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Janaury Issue 2008
Davidson County Community College in Lexington, NC, Features Group Exhibition
Eleven North Carolina artists are the focus for Reality & Myth, the Spring 2008 art exhibit at Davidson County Community College in Lexington, NC. Their works include photography, sculpture, oils, watercolors, pastels, etchings and original prints. The show opens on Jan. 22 and continues through May 18, 2008, in the Mendenhall Building on the Davidson Campus.
The show will feature the works of nationally
known portrait sculptor Earline Heath King of Winston-Salem, NC.
Her subjects have included Sir Winston Churchill, former North
Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, Dr. Armand Hammer and Richard J. Reynolds.
Photographer and author Doug Butler of Crumpler, NC, will share
photos from his collection of photographs of the highest peaks
in each of the 50 states. He combined his love of mountain climbing
and photography to achieve his goal of identifying and photographing
these peaks. Butler's experiences have led him to write a book,
A Walk Atop America. In addition, his photos of Africa
will be on exhibit.
The nine other exhibiting artists and their media include: Melissa Day of Winston-Salem, NC, is an oil painter. She has created colorful canvases of still lifes and landscapes. Helen Etters, in her second exhibit at the college, is a photographer who captures the brilliance of images and forms. She is from Winston-Salem, NC.
Nelida Flatow, also of Winston-Salem, NC, who's printmaking captivates the imagination, also exhibits in charcoal and pastel. Alix Hitchcock of Mocksville, NC, is a printmaker and drawing instructor at Wake Forest University. She paints in an abstract manner with her collection of ink and watercolor works entitled Transparencies.
Pastelist Toni Lindahl of McLeansville, NC, uses a contrasting pattern of surfaces, movement and color to interpret the beauty of nature. Audrey Mayville of Winston-Salem, NC, is a figurative portrait sculptor whose main focus is capturing the personality of her subjects as well as the likeness.
Marsha Thrift of Winston-Salem, NC, is a pastelist whose vibrant strokes of color give energy to her artworks. Janet Warner of Creston, NC, depicts the warmth and movement of cats with her etchings and renders the form of trees and other animals with precision.
James C.
Williams
James C. Williams, whose infrared photography depicts the landscapes of Ireland with visual imagery of tree, shrubs and statuary, is a Winston-Salem, NC, resident.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings or call Teenie Bingham at 336/249-8186, ext.
239.
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