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November Issue
2008
Appalachian State University in Boone,
NC, Offers New Exhibitions for the Fall
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, will present several new ex2hibitions at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts including: Andy Warhol: A Photographic Legacy Recent Gifts to the Turchin Center Permanent Collection, on view in the Main Gallery East Wing, on view from Nov. 7 through Feb. 7, 2009; Robert Motherwell Lost in Form, Found in Line, on view in the Mezzanine Gallery from Nov. 7 through Feb. 7, 2009; Tyler Deal, An Alumna Shares Her Recent Work, on view in the Catwalk Community Gallery, East Wing, from Nov. 7 through Feb. 7, 2009; and Ancient Philosophy/Contemporary Art, Asian Artists from China, Japan, Korea and the United States, on view in the Mayer Gallery, Galleries A & B, West Wing, through Nov. 15, 2008.
Marking its 20th anniversary, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts established The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program to broaden access to the artist's photographic work. The foundation donated more than 28,500 original Polaroids and silver gelatin prints to college and university museums and galleries throughout the United States. The TCVA is proud to be a recipient of 104 Polaroids and 50 black-and-white photographs, forming the bulk of the exhibition, Andy Warhol: A Photographic Legacy Recent Gifts to the Turchin Center Permanent Collection.
According to the Warhol Foundation, "While the Polaroid portraits reveal Warhol's profound and frank engagement with the personality in front of his lens, the gelatin silver prints point to his extraordinary compositional skill, his eye for detail, and his compulsive desire to document the world around him. Taken together, these photographs survey the scope of Warhol's aesthetic interests and demonstrate the reach of his curious, far-roaming eye."
In addition to the photographs, the center has gathered other materials which celebrate the life and work of this important 20th century artist. Designed to be fun and informative, the installation plays off the larger-than-life persona that would surpass art world influence to become a mass media and marketing phenomenon.
The exhibition Robert Motherwell Lost in
Form, Found in Line explores Robert Motherwell's working process
and spirit that existed in the ambiance of his studio. Most who
view any artist's work have no visual image or snapshot of the
artist's studio life. For Motherwell, his work environment was
a self-sustaining sanctuary, continually expansive, pregnant with
the possibilities of how a word, phrase or poem provided a whole
language of movements and reactions for the artist. This exhibition
paints a picture of this feeling and viewers will continually
engage in a constant journey through line and form. Included in
this exhibition are dynamic groupings of prints, unique prints
and monotypes, illuminating how this artist explored and experimented
with different mediums and relationships from one discipline to
another.
The TCVA collaborated with Charlotte, NC's Jerald Melberg Gallery
and partnered with Motherwell's Dedalus Foundation to bring this
exhibition to ASU.
Tyler Deal, An Alumna Shares Her Recent Work is on view in the Catwalk Community Gallery, East Wing. Deal, who began her undergraduate education at the University of Montana, earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from ASU in 2004 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Art Institute in 2006, returned to Boone where she continues to create. This exhibition provides an opportunity to see how the artist's work and concepts evolved during her graduate studies. She has placed a growing number of works in private collections and is focusing on expanding her exhibition resume. In much of her recent work, Deal breaks away from the two-dimensionality of the canvas to experiment with mixed media and non-conventional approaches. This is the most recent exhibition featuring students or alumni from ASU's Department of Art.
And if you haven't experienced it yet, there's still time for the continuing international exhibition Ancient Philosophy/Contemporary Art, Asian Artists from China, Japan, Korea and the United States. TCVA's staff worked with international artist and educator Kichung Lizee and Korean doctoral student Kim Jue-Whe to curate this exciting exhibition with more than 25 artists presenting works influenced by traditional calligraphy and three philosophical principles: Yin and Yang - or unity in opposites; wabi sabi - or the art of finding beauty in imperfection, understanding in nature and accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death; and stillness/movement - or within stillness, there is movement and within movement, there is stillness.
The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts supports the mission of Appalachian State University through regionally significant exhibition, education and collection programs. Underlying the center's mission is the belief that the arts play vital roles in the development of creative and critical potential, and in experiencing, interpreting, understanding, recording and shaping culture. The center provides a place to investigate these roles by implementing programs that engender and strengthen Appalachian community participation in and ownership of the arts, and an emphasis is placed on partnerships with the university's academic areas. Through its programs and partnerships, the center supports the university's role as a key regional educational and cultural resource, and offers a dynamic space where participants experience and incorporate the power and excitement of the visual arts into their lives.
For further info check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call Hank Foreman at 828/262-3017 or visit (www.tcva.org).
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