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August Issue 2004
Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, Features Exhibits at Arts Center and Local Hospital
The Caldwell Arts Council and the Art in Healing Gallery at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in Lenoir, NC, is presenting duel exhibitions entitled, Looking Out, Looking In. Both exhibitions will be on view from Aug. 6 - 27, 2004. .
Looking Out, Looking In, will feature works by artists Anne Burgess, Orna Bentor, Ora Owen, Betty Powell and Harry Seng at the Caldwell Arts Council.
Anne Burgess resides in Blowing Rock, NC, and works in watercolors and pen and ink. Most of her drawings are of people. Burgess has been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Orna Bentor is an Israeli artist living and working in Boone, NC. She is drawn to depicting Israeli and Palestinian cultural and political issues in her paintings. Bentor has selected the visual motif of Palestinian embroidery as her main symbol.
Ora Owen of North Wilkesboro, NC, is a self-taught artist who enjoys making metal sculptures and assemblages. Most of her materials are found objects from the local scrap yard, the beach, the roadside, or anywhere she can find objects that might be considered unlikely. Owen hopes to make a humorous statement with her art work. Betty Powell of Wilkesboro, NC, is an artist and teacher whose sensitive pastels, watercolors, oils, acrylics and mixed media collages hang in private and public collections across the south. Her belief in hard work and continuing study of her craft has kept her mind and eye open to the beauty around her. Powell works in her home studio in Wilkesboro and frequently conducts workshops and juries art shows.
Harry Seng of Morganton, NC, enjoys working with a variety of mediums, acrylic paintings, watercolor, wood, stone and metal sculpture. He has always been around the making of art and still has much of the work he did as a child. Seng is currently Director of Creative Therapy at the J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center and Director of Studio XI in Morganton.
The exhibit at the Art in Healing Gallery at Caldwell Memorial Hospital will feature works by artists Mary Anne Caplinger, Judy McNeill, Barbara Timmerman and Judy Willis.
Mary Anne Caplinger of North Wilkesboro, NC, works in fiber for the tactile and visual qualities of the medium. Her work presents a textured physical surface creating the draw for a closer look and the invitation to touch. Caplinger works with cloth, yarn, paper and other fiber elements. Judy McNeill is from Statesville, NC, and hand builds with stoneware, porcelain and earth ware. She works with only basic tools; she designs one-of-a-kind pieces and uses the coil, slab and pinch methods of building. McNeill's work is shown throughout the Southeast and she maintains a studio at her home in Statesville.
Barbara Timmerman lives in Newland, NC. Her works in watercolor varies from naturalistic subjects to abstract naturalism but in both styles. She tries to allow the viewer to have the latitude to "fill in the blanks" with his or her own life experiences. Timmerman's hope is that the viewer will find in her work a pleasant journey to somewhere else. Julie Willis is a quilt maker from Ferguson, NC. She taught herself to sew clothing in the late 1970s, which led to a successful part-time business creating unique garments in Tampa, FL. Willis attempts to artistically convey ideas through the mediums of quilting.
For more information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call the arts center at 828/754-2486.
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