May Issue 2000
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Hosts Three New Solo Shows
Through June 11,Theatre Art Galleries (TAG) in High Point, NC, is exhibiting solo shows by three artists visiting from other areas of North Carolina. East Carolina University art professor, Paul Hartley is showing his Recent Works in Main Gallery. Amanda Taylor Durant from Chapel Hill, NC, displays New Paintings dedicated to her late mother in Gallery B. And Ginger Spangler of Liberty, NC, exhibits her unique mixed media pieces depicting Southern Narrative in Gallery C.
Paul Hartley
Paul Hartley is a skilled draftsman who combines intensely detailed natural images with an experimental and labor-intensive process. The realistic details along with an incongruous setting or design are intriguing to the viewer. His paintings have a mysterious appearance and include both acrylic and oil medium, occasionally bringing in elements of collage. "My own interest is in creating something, not just in representing nature or the 'real' world. I do, however, want to create something with enough of nature's attributes, its visual complexity, to engage the viewer in really looking."
For the past twenty-five years, Hartley has been an art professor at ECU in Greenville, NC. A native of Charlotte, he received his BA from University of N. Texas, Denton and his MFA from ECU. He has exhibited at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, NC, Duke Museum of Art in Durham, NC, Weatherspoon Gallery in Greensboro, NC, St. John's Museum in Wilmington, NC, SECCA in Winston-Salem, NC, Green Hill Center in Greensboro, and North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Amanda Taylor
Durant
Amanda Taylor Durant is exhibiting her new landscape paintings in Gallery B. This exhibition is dedicated to the artist's mother who recently passed away. Much of her painting is done from direct observation as she works out of doors. As she captures the natural color, light and essence of a landscape, she also investigates the abstract elements of form and composition. Durant works with an energetic brushstroke loaded with paint. The paint is slathered on the surface with zest and the scene is energized by the artist's technique."The area around my home (Chatham County) is very rural and lends itself to my current exploration - its wildness, openness, vastness."
Durant has a BFA from UNC-Greensboro and her MFA from East Carolina University in Greenville. She is a former student of Paul Hartley. She has been granted an Emerging Artist Grant from the City of Raleigh Arts Commission and a coveted NC Arts Council Artist Residency at Chateau de La Napoule in France. She has exhibited at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, Artspace in Raleigh, Zebulon Library, Mount Olive College, Fayetteville Museum of Art and Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
Ginger
Spangler
Ginger Spangler is exhibiting her unique mixed media works, Southern Narrative, in Gallery C. Her work depicts concepts of Southern identity including paradoxes, myths and stereotypes. Her works present a story through collage, painting and etched glass. "As a native North Carolinian, my work reflects the stories often found in families and the importance of oral history in the South."
Spangler is a Summa Cum Laude BFA graduate from UNC-Charlotte. She received a Regional Artist Project Grant from the NC Arts Council and has exhibited at Huntsville, Alabama Museum of Art, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Sawtooth, Green Hill Center for NC Art, Rocky Mount Arts Center, The Hiddenite Center, the Museum of York County in Rock Hill, SC, Waterworks in Salisbury, Christa Faut Gallery, and Spirit Square in Charlotte.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call TAG office at 336/887-2137.
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