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February Issue 2007
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, Offers 3 New Exhibits
You've made it through the holidays and are bracing for the rest of winter. Out your window, you see bare trees. It's cold. And, depending upon where you are it might be a little snowy. Wouldn't some nice blues, greens, and pinks cheer you up? Appalachian State University's Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, NC, has just the bromide for your winter blahs: its 2007 Spring/Summer Season, featuring the 86th National Watercolor Exhibition, Anne Kesler Shields' Earthly Delights in the 21st Century, and Watercolor Works from the Turchin Center's Permanent Collection. The two watercolor exhibits will be on view from Feb. 2 through Mar. 17, 2007. The Shields' exhibit is on view from Feb. 2 through May 19, 2007.
In the Turchin Center's Gallery A, West Wing, is the National Watercolor Society's 86th National Watercolor Exhibition 2006. This annual traveling exhibition was established to present the best of water media painting. Works selected represent a wide range of directions and techniques, from experimental to traditional. At the core of the exhibition's goals is the encouragement of support for watercolor as a vital, enduring, and expressive medium. In addition, in recognition of the artists' achievement and in celebration of the Turchin Center's exhibition, Cheap Joe's Art Stuff, located in Boone, is supplying an award gift packet to each exhibiting artist.
Trained in a traditional art setting at Hollins College in the 1950s, Anne Kesler Shields spent three decades observing the evolving world of American art. She found influence in the color and pattern painting of the '60s, the minimalist movement of the '70s, and in the '80s she returned to realism in painting. During the '90s, Shields became increasingly interested with print media, photography and advertising. She found a mirror for society in the advertising of such magazines as Interview, W, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. Eventually, this fascination led to a new way of making art.
In her site-specific installation, Shields employs a design that incorporates a minimum of images appropriated from print media and art history to encourage viewers to look more critically at our society. This exhibition will be on display in the Turchin Center's Mayer Gallery, West Wing.
The Turchin Center's Gallery B, West Wing, is the site of the Watercolor Works from the Turchin Center's Permanent Collection exhibit. During the last 10 years, the Turchin Center's Permanent Collection has tripled to more than 1,000 original works. What began primarily as a collection of drawings and works on paper has grown to include works from a diverse range of media, techniques, and content. The collection is an integral part of the center's exhibition program and provides a body of work from which the curatorial staff can develop special exhibitions. The current exhibition complements the works included in the National Watercolor Society's annual traveling exhibition.
On Mar. 7, 2007, from noon to 1pm, the Turchin Center will present - Lunch and Learn! Students from the Department of Art's Visual Arts Guide course will lead a review of the 86th National Watercolor Exhibition 2006. Bring a lunch, check in at the Turchin Center's main desk and learn more about this exhibition.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 828/262-3017 or visit (www.tcva.org).
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