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April Issue 2003
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Features Works by Terri Dowell-Dennis, Lisa Woods, and More
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, will present the exhibition, Sculptures Tell Southern Women's Stories, which will be on view from Apr. 26 through Aug. 2, 2003. The exhibition of sculpture will include works by Winston-Salem, NC, artist, Terri Dowell-Dennis and Greensboro, NC, artist, Lisa Woods. Both artists express Southern life stories in their sculpture. However, each is disparate from the other in the message and the materials.
Also on view at TAG will be the exhibition, High Point Fine Art Guild's Annual Summer Juried Show, First Annual Juried Photography Show, sponsored by the High Point Fine Art Guild, and an exhibition featuring works from the past year (2002-2003) by TAG after-school art classes. These exhibits will also be on view from Apr. 26 through Aug. 2, 2003.
Terri Dowell-Dennis is inspired by the rural mountain life with which she grew up. Her exquisitely fabricated sculptures consist of materials such as cornhusks, wooden kitchen utensils as well as paper delicately fashioned into garments or bonnets and digital photography. There are frequent references to the Bible. Dowell-Dennis earned an MFA in sculpture from Clemson University and a BS in Art Education from Appalachian State University. She is the Curator of Education at SECCA. She has received a Visual Art Fellowship and a Project Grant from the NC Arts Council, a Regional Artist Grant from the W-S Arts Council, and was named Museum Educator of the Year, 1994-95 by NC Art Education Assoc. She recently exhibited at Davidson College and has also exhibited at Salem College, Wake Forest University, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Sawtooth Center, and SECCA.
Lisa Woods tells her story with more contemporary materials. Using rubber, acetate, epoxy resin, plexiglass, halogen lights, and metal; Woods examines her childhood influences, as well as expresses her contemporary insights. Religion, family bonds, memories, Southern superstitions, and humor flavor her sculpture. Woods received an MFA from the University of Georgia and a BA in Art Education from Mercer University. Currently, she is the visual arts teacher at Southern Guilford High School. Her students are frequent participants (and award winners) in TAG's Student Shows. Woods has exhibited at Greenhill Center, Meredith College, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in La Grange, GA, and Greensboro Artist's League. She received a Central Piedmont Triad Regional Artists Hub Emerging Artist Grant.
"My On Being Southern series is derived from various aspects of Southern life and mythology, with a decided bent towards the gothic and the kitsch. The Target series is very personal in that I am using my immediate family as a catalyst," says Woods.
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