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May Issue 2005
Tessera Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Features Works by Charles Walker and Andy Jay
The Tessera Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, is featuring several exhibitions including: The Washington Park Paintings, featuring works by Charles Walker, on view through May 15, 2005, and an exhibit of photographs and photographs transferred to canvas by Andy Jay, which will be on view from May 20 through July 3, 2005. A selection of works from the previous exhibit, Faces: A Celebration of Black History Month, will also be on view in the retail section of the gallery.
Charles Walker graduated from Wake Forest University in 1993 with a degree in studio art, and then completed a Master of Fine Arts in studio arts at the University of Georgia. He has exhibited in Winston-Salem and additional cities in North Carolina, as well as in Georgia and California.
Walker has worked in various art-oriented capacities with numerous institutions in Winston-Salem, including the Enrichment Center, Sawtooth Center for Visual Art, SECCA and Wake Forest University. He has also served as an assistant to Winston-Salem based artists Donald Lipski and Kunc, and New York based artists Andrea Callard and Ron Gorchov.
Of his work, Walker says, "The visual arts pick up where verbal communication (writing and speaking) leave off. My work is primarily interested in some of the more intangible aspects of the human experience - mood, tone, and the atmospheric nature of how we as humans perceive the world. I don't look to art to tell a story, to take up issues - whether social or political. All I look to art to do is to simply exist and in so existing to express something in the simplest and most direct manner possible."
Andy Jay is a Summerfield, NC-based photographer. He was born in White Bear Lake, MN, and purchased his first camera at age 11. Jay then entered the burgeoning field of Graphic Arts and acquired a vast knowledge of the merging of traditional photography and Digital Arts, for which he is featured on the Adobe web site as a "success story."
Jay is an avid biker and event photographer, published in several magazines nationwide. His experience and notoriety as "photodude" allows him access to events and aspects of the biker community that most people will never see.
Jay says of his work, "It's about capturing a feeling, a mood, an emotion, so vivid or subtle that when you view the photograph, it can either bring back a feeling, or put you in the middle of a brand new experience."
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e-mail at (art@tesseragallery.com) or at (www.tesseragallery.com).
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