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August Issue 2007
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Offers New Summer Exhibits
The Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, is offering several exhibitions including: Full Circle, featuring works by Scott Raynor in TAG's Main Gallery; 3 through the Looking Glass, featuring works by Millicent Greason, Tiffany O'Brien, and Leanne Pizio in TAG's Gallery B; an exhibit by members of the Women's Artists League (WAL) in TAG's Hallway Gallery; and an exhibit of works by two children's groups in TAG's Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery. All exhibits are on view through Sept. 22, 2007.
Full Circle features works by High Point University Assistant Professor of Art, Scott Raynor. The exhibit includes recent paintings and drawings. A High Point native, Raynor has recently returned home. He earned an MFA at UNC-Greensboro and has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center and the Courthauld Institute in London. Raynor has exhibited at Greenhill Center for NC Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and Sawtooth Galleries. He portrays the complexities on interior scenes and still lifes. "I am using the interior as an avenue to explore complex color harmonies and relationships as well as the rendering of forms," says Raynor.
3 through the Looking Glass exhibits the work of three Triad artists, Millicent Greason, Tiffany O'Brien, and Leanne Pizio, who are fans of the Lewis Carroll story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Much of the work in this exhibit is inspired by this fanciful story.
Millicent Greason is the owner of Urban Artware, a gallery in the Arts District in Winston-Salem, NC. Her work involves painting and assemblage of items and collage. The objects she has integrated into her work ranges from dried animal carcasses, to mirrors, to lovely antique decorations. She not only depicts aspects of the Alice story but also, uses the real life photographs of young Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Dodgson). Greason has shown at Seed Gallery, Wake Forest University, and Lincoln Center, NYC.
Tiffany O'Brien's figurative paintings combine brilliant color and fine detail with outlandish imagery. The cartoon-like faces have huge eyes that confront the viewer in a darkly playful manner. She has called her figures "lovable freaks" and describes her paintings as "twisted, creepy, disturbing and melancholy, as well as sweet, innocent, pure and adorable." O'Brien has exhibited at Urban Artware, SECCA, and the Seed Collective.
Leanne Pizio has worked in ceramics for many years and is also a painter and printmaker. She helped put this exhibit together as an installation: involving paintings, pottery, sculpture and prints. The entire gallery is transformed into a bizarre tea party where Alice falls down the rabbit hole and the Mad Hatter lays out elaborate table settings. Pizio's carved stoneware is primarily black and white and incorporates images from the story as well as some narrative: "Off with her Head!" Large stoneware figures loom around the space and include Alice, the Rabbit, Mad Hatter, the Queen, the Duchess and the Caterpillar. Pizio also teaches pottery and is the owner of Three Dogs Pottery Studio in Oakridge, NC. She earned her MFA at UNC-Greensboro and has studied at Penland School of Crafts. Pizio has exhibited at Urban Artware, the Marshall Gallery and Greenhill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC.
In the Hallway Gallery, is an exhibit by members of the Women's Artists League (WAL), a newly formed triad artists' support group. Artists include, High Point artists, Susan Bellamy, Jacque Coffee, Karla Greene, Sherie Griffith, Ann Hughes Johnson, Lou Ann Peters, Sue Seamon, and Amy Jo Wood; also Sherie Griffith of Browns Summit, NC, and Benita VanWinkle from Pfafftown, NC. Paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs are featured.
The Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery features the artwork from two children's groups: the Communities-in-Schools program "Bridges to Success" at Kirkman Park Elementary, and self-portraits from forty summer camp students from the Latino Family Center CSS in High Point. St. Mary Episcopal Church hosted this free camp, and the art classes were held here in TAG's Youth Gallery.
For more information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call TAG at 336-887-2137 or visit (www.tagart.org).
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