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November Issue 2007
The Gallery at Jules Antiques & Fine Art in Greensboro, NC, Features Works by Katy Allgeyer
The
Gallery at Jules Antiques & Fine Art in Greensboro, NC, is
presenting the exhibit, Not for Navigation, featuring works by
Katy Allgeyer, on view through Jan. 31, 2008.
Like the High Point realtors who sell and lease prime downtown property to furniture vendors for Market Week, artist Katy Allgeyer's contemporary landscape paintings are all about "Location, location, location". A recent transplant to High Point, NC, the artist relocated here after a decade in Los Angeles and a decade in New York City. She's found plenty of inspiration for her art in the Triad. The 25 new mixed media paintings currently on view in her one-woman exhibition reflect the artist's interest in her immediate surroundings.
Featured prominently in the show is the 4' x 5' painting High Point (View from a Window), that includes a rendering of one of High Point's water towers combined with a lush view of trees in Armstrong Park that can be seen from her art studio. She's even used Thomasville's big chair as the subject of one of her paintings. Still other works depict scenes from Maine and other places inspired by road maps and traveling.
Allgeyer's contemporary art is anything but your typical landscape painting. "I like combining representational figuration and landscape with abstract techniques and mixed media designs in one piece of art. I'm fascinated by road maps and nautical charts and I like to layer images," Allgeyer told us. The charts and maps peek through the paint as if one is glimpsing a treasure map or a clue to the artist's emotional location, adding texture, depth, mystery, and a contemporary edginess to her work. The artist often uses Bingo cards in her work, as well. "Numbers also play an important role in many of my art pieces," the artist said. "For me, they symbolize random luck, the passing of time, important milestones, and even pinpoint locations on maps."
Allgeyer is a recognized feng shui master as well as a fine artist and frequently combines the two practices. In 2003, Allgeyer's conceptual installation, WALL OF LOVE: The Art of Feng Shui, was featured in a solo exhibition in Berlin, Germany, where it was included in the annual Kunstkreuz art festival (the theme that year was Love & Peace). The installation consisted of 99 individual heart paintings that were painted using feng shui concepts of color, placement, and symbolism. Every component was infused with a powerful Peace Meditation to enhance feng shui and included directions on where to hang it within home or office to activate good chi (energy). Last year, the Wall Street Journal named Allgeyer as one of five top feng shui experts worldwide. "I feel my fine art practice and my feng shui practice are intertwined. Both let me help people beautify their living spaces."
Born and raised in Concord, NH, the artist attended art school at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After college, Allgeyer became a leading fashion designer for Liz Claiborne. Her knitwear design expertise ranged from fine gauge machine knit head-to-toe dressing to bulky handknit intarsia sweaters that were often likened to "wearable art". As a designer, she traveled to Asia more than 100 times on business trips. Extensive traveling influenced Allgeyer's global outlook and sparked an interest in exploring themes of location in her fine art work.
Allgeyer's award winning work has been exhibited in numerous galleries as well as in group shows at the Cornell Museum in Florida and the Coos Art Museum in Oregon.
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