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May Issue 2007
Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, Features Works by William Martin Jean and Timothy Maddox
New work by painter and teacher William Martin Jean and wood and steel furniture by art school student Timothy Maddox will be exhibited May 4 - 31, 2007, at the Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC.
William Martin Jean
Jean, an active painter, teacher and arts administrator in Cleveland, OH, returns to the gallery for his fifth exhibition. He is the founder and director of City Artists at Work, a grass roots organization that helps to promote the Superior/St. Clair area where many Cleveland artists live and work. He served as the Director of Continuing Education for the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1987 until 2004.
For Jean, art is a conversation between the artist and viewer that sometimes is direct and immediate and other times wanders back and forth in fragments. Jean believes the artist starts the conversation by catching the attention of the viewer. "The artist draws the viewer into the conversation by creating images that speak to our lives, conscious and unconscious," Jean said.
Jean's new Kyoto Series is a group of works that share similar muted shades of grays, browns, and black with subtle textural surfaces. The shapes are hard edged with blurred surfaces contrasted against sharp ones. The series derives from Jean'-s fascination with the culture of the Orient and reflects his contemplative approach to art. "I admire the simplicity of design and the sensitivity of surface and shape," he said. "These works speak of sky and earth, space and substance, ancient markers, stillness and tranquility."
Timothy Maddox
Timothy Maddox constructs steel-framed wood furniture that is now part of the Silver Fox Gallery collection. He studied at the Penland School of Craft and graduates this spring from the Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI, with a degree in Sculpture and Functional Art. After graduation, Maddox will open a co-operative studio space where dedicated artists and designers can share resources, space, knowledge, and ideas.
Maddox is a 2007 Windgate Fellowship Recipient and was chosen as a Niche Magazine Student Awards Finalist at the 2007 Philadelphia Buyers' Market of American Craft. In 2006, his work was included in an exhibition titled Fine Contemporary Craft at ArtSpace in Raleigh, NC. In June of this year, a piece commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art will be on exhibit at that museum in Raleigh.
The use of texture and pattern drew Silver Fox Gallery owner Bonnie Rash to the work of both artists. "The chaos and relationships inside the patterns and textures resolve into a peacefulness and coherence that is more beautiful because of the apparent chaos," Rash said. "The works helps me understand how the inevitable chaos of life, when we allow them, can resolve to make us more whole than we would otherwise be."
The exhibition is part of the gallery's grand
opening festivities to celebrate the recent expansion of the gallery.
The ground floor has been converted into a furniture, lighting
and fine art showroom, plus shipping and receiving space, adding
nearly 3,000 square feet.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 828/698-0601 or visit (www.silverfoxonline.com).
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