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July Issue 2007
Asheville Area Arts Council in Asheville, NC, Features Works by Peggy DeBell, Meg Winnecour, Kevin Palme and Leslie Ann Keller
The Asheville Area Arts Council in Asheville, NC, will present two new exhibitions including: Best Kept Secrets, featuring works by Peggy DeBell, in the AAAC Boardroom Gallery, on view from July 6 - Aug. 29, 2007; and The Color Show: Paintings by Meg Winnecour, Kevin Palme and Leslie Ann Keller, on view in AAAC's Front Gallery, from July 6 - 29, 2007.
Peggy DeBell
Peggy DeBell creates wall hangings, framed textile works and wearable art by printing on fabric using archival pigments, often quilted and embellished with both machine and hand embroidery.
This show has evolved from her recent month-long stay as Artist in Residence at the Jentel Foundation in Banner, WY; as well as from her travels through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons on route to Banner. She took advantage of the time, space and place to reflect on her intimate and sometimes intense relationship between her inner and outer worlds.
The idea that DeBell had any artistic talent was kept secret for the first 38 years of her life. Since, in her quest as a craftsperson, artist, and soul-searcher, a once silent voice has gradually grown stronger. And now, her involvement with her creative and divine feminine sensibilities, as well as her love affair with fabric, quilting, stitching, photography, surface design, teaching, traveling, meditation, and especially with nature, has brought her closer to her own best kept secrets. "The more I become transparent and intimate (into-me-see), the more I hope a window will open so that the person who views my work might discover their own best kept secrets," says DeBell. She is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and other professional artist organizations.
Leslie Ann Keller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meg Winnecour
Kevin Palme
While Meg Winnecour, Kevin Palme, and Leslie Ann Keller each strive to create paintings that are simultaneously beautiful, stimulating, and soothing, they each revel in quite different qualities of paint. The similarities among the 3 painters' work show themselves in the paintings' palettes: cadmium reds and yellows announce themselves boldly while cobalt blues and soft greens cool and soothe. The artists are utterly unabashed in their use of vivid, lush color.
The differences in their work, however, show themselves in the paintings' surfaces. Palme, an abstract minimalist who uses 30-40 layers of paint to achieve his final image, strives to make paintings that are clean and polished, their surfaces as unmarred as glass. Keller, a traveler and reader who fills her mind with ideas and surrounds herself with classical music before painting, thrills when her paintings based on the natural world suggest movement, space, lightness, fluidity, and depth. Winnecour, a food lover and often food painter, delights in creating paintings that share the same qualities as the food she enjoys cooking, freshness, vitality, and a little wildness.
For more information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the AAAC at 828/258-0710 or visit (www.ashevillearts.com).
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