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September Issue 2004
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Offers New Round of Exhibitions
The Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, are presenting several exhibitions including: Diverse Portraits, featuring works by Trena McNabb in the TAG Main Gallery; Lost Gains, featuring works by Jason Weatherspoon in the TAG Gallery B; Recent Paintings, featuring works by R. Bruce Shores in TAG's Hallway Gallery; and Artwork by TAG Summer Camp, featuring works by students who took TAG Summer Camp in the Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery. All these exhibitions will be on view through Oct. 1, 2004.
Trena McNabb
With precise detail, Trena McNabb portrays pencil drawn life-size portrait figures set amidst a cornucopia of brightly painted illustrative details. After thorough research, the artist produces a predominate portrait of the individual with overlapping and interlocking images of their "life" surrounding them much like a frame. Each painting is a connected series of images that tell a story. The New York Times has described McNabb's work as "...real and yet surreal".
McNabb has exhibited at Green Hill Center for NC Art, Wake Forest University, and Fayetteville Museum of Art. She has completed commissions for Sara Lee Corporation, Banner Pharmacaps, Old Salem, and McGraw-Hill Publishing.
Jason Weatherspoon
Jason Weatherspoon is the recipient of TAG's Doris P. Deal Emerging Artist Grant for 2004. His clay figurative sculptures are startling anatomical projections, some graceful, some grotesque. Weatherspoon deals with the figure in a surreal manner, portraying social issues such as race, gender roles, and politics. His technique is exquisite and classical, but his images can be controversial.
Weatherspoon earned his BFA in Ceramics from UNC-Asheville and received numerous awards for excellence in ceramics and sculpture. He has shown in Asheville at various galleries by this exhibition at Theatre Art Galleries is his first major solo exhibition.
R. Bruce Shores
Greensboro, NC, painter, R. Bruce Shores, is exhibiting Recent Paintings in the Hallway Gallery. Acknowledging his indebtedness to past UNC-Greensboro painting professor, Andrew Martin, Shores categorized his own work as from the "Greensboro School of Painting". This approach to realist painting is based in careful observation coupled with the expressive possibilities inherent in paint. Shores' landscapes and still-lifes celebrate the language of color and brush mark with thick paint and rich hues.
Artwork by TAG Summer Camp is featured in the Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery. This will include batiks from "Together Art Grows" middle and high school scholarship students and art from fashion, photography, drama, architecture, and other camps. The gallery will also open a new interactive sculpture, Polo Ralph Lauren Creation Station. With six different art projects offered free for gallery visitors, this sculpture will creatively educate and entertain Kaleidoscope Kids. This project was made possible through a donation from Polo Ralph Lauren.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call TAG at 336/887-2137
or at (www.tagart.org).
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