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September Issue 2005
Artworks Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, Features Works by E. Faye Collins and Nancy Hayes
Artworks Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC, is presenting a two-person exhibit entitled, Mother Earth, featuring works by E. Faye Collins and Nancy Hayes, from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1, 2005.
Nancy Hayes is showing drawings with collage, paintings, and one 4' tall sculpture made from small broken sticks and rocks. Her general theme is the environment and endangered species.
E. Faye Collins is showing mixed media collages made of handmade papers, watercolor, pencil, pulp painting, and mostly natural found objects such as small stones, shells, leaves, feathers, and an acorn. She likes to think of them as "visual poetry," as they were described by Will South, the curator at Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC-G. He also said that, "The fragility of nature and our own hands comes together so quietly here, so intimately. The best art can do for us is to mediate between us and our experience of the world." Collins hopes other viewers can have a similar reaction to her work. The making of these paintings is a meditative process that brings her past experiences and memories into these small histories of self and nature. It is her goal to evoke a time, a place, and a spirit; to always interest viewers as well as to indulge her own pleasure in process.
Collins is a native of the Guilford College area of Greensboro where she still lives, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BFA (Magna cum laude) and MFA in painting and printmaking. She studied at Kent State Blossom Festival, Penland and Arrowmont Craft schools, and has traveled and studied art history in France, and painting and art history in Italy.
Collins has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1989 and shown there regularly, as well as with the Gallery group shows at the Hickory Museum of Fine Art, Davidson County Museum, the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, the High Point Theater Gallery, and Meredith College Gallery in Raleigh.
Collins has shown in Art on Paper at UNCG Weatherspoon Museum, in 2002, 1992, and 1987. Her work was included in Dimensions, 2001 (2001), Untitled: Non-Objective Art, (1997), and Southeast Spectrum, (1996 ) all sponsored by Associated Artists of Winston-Salem. Her work has also been shown in Green Hill Center and Greensboro Artists' League in Greensboro as well as various other venues since 1980 and is in numerous private collections.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the gallery at 336 / 998-2623 or at (www.Artworks-Gallery.org).
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