December Issue 2000
Asheville Museum of Art Offers Juried Exhibition of WNC Art
Lisa Morphew
What better way to welcome in the new millennium
than with a celebration of the rich-ness and diversity of Western
North Carolina artists. The Asheville Art Museum in Asheville,
NC, presents 2000/2001 Endings and Beginnings: Western North
Carolina Millennial Juried Exhibition, a professional, broad
based juried art exhibition, which will be on view through Feb.
18, 2001, showcasing and promoting outstanding contemporary visual
art in all media from throughout the WNC region.
According to Pamela L. Myers, Executive Director of the Asheville
Art Museum, Endings and Beginnings, chosen by a single
juror and accompanied by a wide range of programs, augments the
Museum's ongoing commitment to collecting and interpreting American
Art since the 20 century of regional, national and international
acclaim by presenting an exhibition dedicated to assessing the
state of the arts in our area".
John
Snyder
This juried competition was open to all artists over the age of 18, living and working in the twenty-three counties that comprise WNC. Two hundred and forty five artists submitted up to three slides of their work to be juried by Guest Curator Matthew Drutt, Associate Curator for Research at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Drutt is renowned for his projects that have included: Inside/Outside William Daley: 1954-1994, Viola Frey: Wallpaper and Ceramic Sculpture/Jim Melchert: Taking the Heat, Glassworks: Installations by Contemporary Artists, Mediascape, Temple of Spirit: Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs for the Guggenheim Museum, Max Beckmann in Exile, Photography: An Expanded View and Amazons of the Avant-Garde; Six Russian Artists: Alexandra Exter Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova.
In reference to this exhibition, Drutt stated, "It was my first visit to Asheville. In fact, it was my first time in North Carolina altogether, and in spite of my past experience with panels and juries in other parts of the country, I was still unprepared for the range of work I encountered along the way."
Megan
Wolfe
After an intensive review by the curator, fifty artists were invited to meet with the guest curator at their studios or in the Museum, and twenty-eight exceptional artists were selected to be exhibited. These artists include: Heather Allen, Dusty Benedict, Chris Bower, Brigid Burns, Betty Clark, S. Tucker Cooke, Virginia Derryberry, Gwen Diehn, Robert Dunning, Barbara Fisher, Susie Ganch, Jenna Goldberg, Yoav Greenberg, George Handy, Michael Hatch, Marjorie Hellman, Nancy Herman, Kenn Kotara, Lisa Morphew, Mark Poteat, Kenny Pieper, Stephanie Pierce, Benjamin Porter, Mark Poteat, Dawn Rentz, Jon Riley, John Snyder and Megan Wolfe. Sixty-four works of these artists will be showcased in the exhibition.
The exhibition is documented with a full color, eighty-eight page illustrated catalog featuring the artists and works selected for exhibition. Copies of this catalog will be available for purchase at the Museum. Every artist who submitted work for consideration had the opportunity to have one of his or her images illustrated on the Internet through the Museum's new Cyber ArtSpace. The Artist Registry will be available on the Museum website at (http://www.ashevilleart.org). Additionally, slides and artist material will be permanently available to teachers, retailers, collectors and the public in the Museum's new Achilles Art Library. Several educational programs have also been developed to compliment this exhibition. Time and Place: Art in North Carolina Today, a panel discussion on the state of the arts in NC will take place on Dec. 2, starting at 1:30pm. Up for Discussion, a Friday evening (6-8pm) series of talks by participating artists will take place on Dec. 1 &8; Jan. 5, 12, 19, 26; & Feb. 2 & 9. There will also be visits to area schools by the artists.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the museum at 828/253-3227.
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