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November Issue 2007
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC, Offers Fall & Winter Exhibitions
The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC, will be offering continuing exhibitions from Hollis Chatelain, Antiques to Abstracts; Mel Stanforth, Reunion: These folks ain't company!; and Prints! Pow! Wow! A Conversation in Print, all ending Jan. 19, 2008, and new exhibits including: On the Mark!; Past Presence . . . A Continual Journal: An Exhibition of Jewelry and Objects From Mark Ebendorf, and Ronnie Beets: Recent Work.
New for the TCVA and helping kick-off the Fall & Winter season is Family Day, on Nov. 3, 11am-3pm. Bring the entire family for a full day of art, fun activities and live music. All events are free and open to the public.
"We're very excited to launch our latest exhibitions and encourage families to join us for a day full of art-y surprises," says Director and Chief Curator Hank Foreman. "Whether it's through exploring our new shows, listening to great music, eating a hot dog, making your own masterpiece at one the art creation stations, having a laugh with a clown, or getting your very own Turchin Center tattoo, we think everyone will find a perfect sampling of different approaches to experiencing the arts."
On the Mark! raises various aspects of drawing from formal concepts to the use of unusual materials and approaches. This exhibition, which runs through Feb. 1, 2008, in the Main Gallery, East Wing, focuses on contemporary artists for whom drawing is a major emphasis of their work. While researching this exhibition, the TCVA staff was inspired by the diversity of work - from the more explorative and experimental to the materials and techniques with which the staff was more familiar. Throughout the research, TCVA was constantly pleased to find skilled and creative artists continuing to make drawing a vital and dynamic approach to image making. Join the TCVA staff for a Lunch and Learn on this exhibition, Nov. 14, 2008, at noon.
Past Presence - A continual Journey: An Exhibition of Jewelry and Objects From Robert Ebendorf, runs through Feb. 1, 2008, in the Mezzanine Gallery, East Wing. A Lunch and Learn will be held at noon, Nov. 28, 2008.
For the past 25 years, Ebendorf has reemployed existing materials by devising ingenious uses for what has been discarded. Known for jewelry that includes everything and anything he has found, Ebendorf continues his ongoing investigations into "Representations". His conceptual approach to jewelry-making, which questions the nature of adornment itself, explores alternative concepts and materials. The creativity of his jewelry lies not simply in the intellectual repositioning of familiar objects, but in more physical transformations of material.
Ebendorf, who holds BFA and MFA degrees, received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the State School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Norway. He taught at the University of Georgia (1967-1971) and State University of New York at New Paltz (1971-1988). In 1995, he was awarded the American Craft Council Fellowship for his achievement in the crafts and commitment to the craft movement. Ebendorf is co-founder and past president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths and represented in many worldwide collections including the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum (England), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, NC, Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, National Museum of Wales, and Schmuck Museum, Pforzheim, Germany, to name a few. He currently serves as the Belk Distinguished Professor in the Art at East Carolina University.
Ronnie Beets: Recent Work will hang in the Catwalk Community Gallery, East Wing, through Feb. 1, 2008, was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, and grew up in Knoxville, TN. Adopted as an infant, the artist credits his family and upbringing in a nurturing atmosphere that allowed him to become an artist. Of his work Beets says, "Painting is the most centered place I can be. It is meditation and perfect solitude in an often confusing world. It has become a religion of sorts for me."
"A safe place to ask questions and find my own answers, each painting gives me an intimate glimpse of my own being and that of divine nature which connects us all," Beets continues. "These are powerful tools against the seeds of fear and doubt all too often planted in our lives."
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