Feature Articles

September Issue 2002

Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Features Two New Exhibitions

Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, will present exhibitions by Winston-Salem, NC, artists, William Fields and Robert Ruckman, and Asheville, NC, artist, Jennifer Lipsey Edwards. These exhibitions will run from Sept. 7 through Oct.11, 2002.

Field's and Ruckman's exhibit, "Oracle, in Main Gallery features visionary drawings and paintings inspired by non-Western religion and spiritual explorations.

William Fields

Fields works in a meditative state and utilizes prismacolor and pastel on paper to create intricate biomorphic images. The works in this exhibit are part of the artist's Illuminations Suite. Since attending Wingate College, Kunst Ka Faber in Zurich, Switzerland, and Duke University in the sixties, Fields has pursued his immersion in art, poetry and philosophy. His work has been exhibited at Duke University in Durham, NC, Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, Sawtooth Center and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, and most currently is represented by Luis Ross Gallery in NYC.

Robert Ruckman

Ruckman is a self-taught artist whose cosmic visions and spiritual studies inspire his work. Working with thickly slathered layers of oil or acrylic paint, Ruckman creates what he calls "energetic portraiture" or Soul Portraits. Highly abstract, these fluid compositions have a dream-like presence.

Jennifer Lipsey Edwards

Jennifer Lipsey Edwards is the recipient of the 2001-2002 Doris P. Deal Fellowship for Emerging Visual Artists. Edwards' solo show in Gallery B is entitled, "Threshold and features mixed media paintings that she has produced in the last year of her budding career. These paintings are about walls, windows, doors and barriers. In her large richly textured paintings, Edwards uses traditional media such as oil paint along with building materials, tarpaper, joint -compound, and other materials. Her abstract paintings explore the positive and negative aspects of barriers. They tend to pull the viewer into their depths while simultaneously stressing the richness and complexity of the surface.

Edwards received a BFA with Distinction from the University of NC at Asheville in 2001. She has recently exhibited at the Upstairs Gallery in Tryon, NC, and Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC. This is her first solo exhibition.

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