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June Issue 2003
Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, Features Summertime Fun
Splash into "Summertime Fun" at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center Friday, June 13, as we welcome our new artists' exhibitions. Artist Todd Stone will be present during the reception to converse informally with visitors about his exhibit at the Waterworks, Pools and Reflections on view June 13-Aug. 23. The galleries will also feature summer landscape paintings in an exhibition entitled Summer Light by Sharon Wolpoff, on view June 6-Aug. 9, and playful watercolor works for children of all ages by Lynn Baney entitled ABSTRABET: The ABCs of Learning Through Art, on view June 6-Aug. 16.
Sharon Wolpoff, a Maryland resident, created many of the paintings which will be exhibited at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center while in Italy. In 1972 she resided with an Italian family in Rome as an art student, during which time, according to Wolpoff, her love of Italy and fascination with light, which is evident in her works, originated. Wolpoff asserts, "The interplay of light and shadow can momentarily illuminate the most ordinary setting. Suddenly, an inherent beauty is revealed, and I want to capture that eye-dazzling instant. I'm interested in showing the effects of the light rather than its source." Wolpoff has exhibited her work along the East Coast and in the MidWestern US, as well as in Assisi, Italy. Her artwork can be found in the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; McGrawHill, New York, NY; University of Maryland, College Park, MD; the Watkins Collection and the Washington College of Law, The American University, Washington, D.C.; J. C. Hudgens Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA; Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH; and Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D.C. One of her paintings is also in use on the set of the NBC series Mad About You. Wolpoff has received numerous art awards, including the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist's Award for three consecutive years.
Lynn Baney of Pennsylvania has created abstract paintings in her private studio in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, for 30 years. Baney has received numerous awards for her abstract works; from 1996 to 2000 she received an Award of Excellence in painting from Manhattan Arts International Magazine in New York. The ABSTRABET, or abstract alphabet, which covers all 26 letters of the English alphabet, has been the primary focus of Baney's career since 1993. According to the artist, the series stemmed from a dream the artist had, as do most of her creative ideas, which displayed "two or three letterforms moving about and revealing secret meanings." Baney has since added an educational component to her exhibition of the ABSTRABET, as she explains, "in order to assist students and others in understanding abstraction as well as sign systems." During our Summer Art Fun program the artist will instruct two children's classes: "For the Love of Color" for ages 68 and "Engage Your Brain with Fun and Games!" for ages 9-11.
New York artist Todd Stone, like Sharon Wolpoff, creates many of his works by focusing on the use of light. According to Stone, "Light is the protagonist of Pools and Reflections. The paintings portray a moment in a specific place when the interplay of light, water, air, ground, and body coalesce." Stone has been exhibiting his work professionally since 1974. He has been included in several publications and has received numerous awards and grants for his work, including a Puffin Foundation grant in 2003, a State Museum of Pennsylvania Painting Award in 1997, and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1976. Stone's artwork can be found in both national and international collections of such reputable museums and businesses as the Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY; ABC Motion Pictures, New York, NY; Banco Nationale de Lavoro, Rome, Italy; Art in Embassies Program, Washington, D.C.; Gensenschacts Hypobank, Lubeck, Germany; Hypobank, Hamburg, Germany; Lufthansa Airlines, Munich, Germany; the Napa Valley Opera, Napa, CA; the Pace Collection, Dallas, TX; and numerous others.
The three artists are represented by Katharine T. Carter and Associates of St. Leo, Florida and New York City.
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