February Issue 2002
Here's a Carolina Arts Update! 7/22/05
erl originals gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, is now closed. The following is no reflection on the artist(s) mentioned in this article. They still deserve the historical fact that this exhibition happened.
Here is an excerpt from an article in the Winston-Salem Journal's Dec. 10, 2004, edition: "In late September, (2004) erl's owners, Peter and Lee Swenson, and the company they operate, Bogart Management Group, were foreclosed on by their bank. They were barred from their gallery at 480 West End Blvd. for being months in arrears on rent and utilities. Peter Swenson is facing numerous tax-fraud charges, as well as a growing number of civil lawsuits filed by creditors seeking to collect payments they say are long overdue".
e.r.l. Show to Feature Wood Carvings by Stoney Lamar, Paintings by John Goodman, Animal Art by Natalie Schorr
Stoney Lamar, a nationally recognized sculptor and wood turner from North Carolina, and San Francisco Bay Area figurative artist John Goodman, know for his abstract landscapes and figurative paintings, will be featured in the main gallery of e.r.l. originals through April 2. Natalie Schorr's Animal Art for the Young at Heart will be featured in the studio's Gallery G.
Lamar,
who treats the lathe as a carving tool, uses multiple axes to
sculpt asymmetrical forms and create texture in his pieces. By
bringing together irregular and proportional elements in his work,
the figurative, architectural or abstract wood objects are imbued
with a sense of movement, balance and tension.
"A multiple axis approach also has allowed me to draw from a wider range of influences and to develop a more personal imagery and narrative," Lamar says. "As I adjust the work's axis and continue turning, new challenges and possibilities are constantly present, allowing a subtractive process to become an intriguing way of constructing an object."
A North Carolina native, Lamar graduated from Appalachian State University with a BS degree in industrial arts (wood technology). A friend's borrowed lathe led him away from his original goal to design and build furniture. He apprenticed with Mark and Melvin Lindquist at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. and later, worked for a year as an assistant to them at their New Hampshire Studio.
Lamar's works are in numerous public collections, among them the Yale University Art Gallery, Detroit Institute of Art, Mint Museum of Craft & Design (Charlotte), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s corporate headquarters (New York), the Smithsonian Institute's Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC), the American Craft Museum (New York), High Museum of Art (Atlanta), the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Chapel of Broken Vessel of the Episcopal Diocese (Lexington, KY). His works have also been part of numerous exhibits, most recently at the Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC; the Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.; and the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul. MN.
Lamar has received numerous awards, most recently the Purchase Award for Addicted to the Rhythm M#1 from the Decorative Arts Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Juror's Award for "Woodturning: Vision and Concept II" from the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. Lamar, who lives in Western North Carolina, also teaches and lectures at schools and universities across the nation and has had numerous articles published in a variety of arts-related magazines.
Steeped in the tradition of Bay Area figurative art.
John Goodman paints in a gestural style that reverberates between
abstraction and representation, most often working with a single
motif that he transforms into a succession of closely related
paintings. Bay Area Figurative Art dates back to the early 1950s
when a group of prominent young San Francisco-based painters turned
from abstract expressionism to a more figurative point of view,
still incorporating many of the gestural aesthetics of the avant-garde
art. Goodman traces his lineage through the tradition of this
movement.
Goodman often works with a single motif that is transformed in a succession of intensely worked canvases. Each painting resonates in a series as it elaborates and complicates the simple notion of landscape or portrait. Building layers of pigment into sculptural forms with palette knife and brush, Goodman describes the planes of a face in complex hues and volumetric forms.
A self-taught artist, Goodman has had numerous solo exhibits, most recently John Goodman: Recent Work at Café Borrone, Menlo Park, CA; John Goodman: The Language of Paint at Crossroads Café, San Francisco; Heads Beds and Landscapes: Anna Veyna Design, San Francisco; and Show for the California Arts Project at California State University in Hayward. He has also participated in many group exhibits, most recently, Talent 2001 and Talent 2000 at Allan Stone Gallery, New York; and Spirit of the Mountain and The Land Under a Foot at the Bradford Gallery in San Anselmo, CA.
Goodman, who holds a BA degree in theatre arts from the University of California at Davis, was recommended in 1997 for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's SECA award, and in 1996 was chosen educator for the visual arts by The California Arts Project. He is featured in the article Navigating the Pluralistic Pleasures of "Talent 2001" which appears in the December 2001/January 2002 issue of Gallery and Studio.
Animal Art for the Young at Heart, by North Carolina painter Natalie Schorr. will be on exhibit in Gallery G. Her works include mixed media pieces featuring whimsical animal etchings, using antique wallpaper and other materials.
Schorr received her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University. In addition to her art, she has worked for the past 12 years as a freelance art director and set designer for motion pictures and television. Recent shows include Natalie Schorr: Small Works 2001 at The Creative Resource Gallery in Wilmington, NC; Natalie Schorr: American Pictures at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington; City of Farmington Division of Cultural Affairs, Farmington, New Mexico; Echoes and Visions IV, Laguna Nigel, CA; and Arts in Harmony '01 in Elk River, MN. Her works can be found in private collections in the United States, Great Britain, and Taiwan.
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