September Issue 1999
Hodges Taylor Presents Works by Heriberto Mora and Preston Orr
Hodges Taylor Gallery, in Charlotte, NC, announces two new
exhibitions introducing two new artists to the Charlotte area,
Cuban artists Heriberto Mora and Savannah, GA, artist Preston
Orr. The exhibits open Sept. 10 and continue on view through Oct.
30.
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Heriberto Mora was born in a province of Havana, Cuba and educated
at the Fine Arts School of San Alejandro. After emigrating to
Spain, the artist came to the US, settling in the Miami area.
Since then, Mora has had solo exhibitions in Florida and Spain.
His paintings are in private collections in Madrid, Paris, New
York, Bogota, Caracas, Miami and Washington, DC, as well as in
the permanent collection of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale,
FL.
Mora is a painter of enigmatic and subtle dimensions. Incorporating
a certain humor in his work and playing off the obvious connotations
of objects, the meaning of his paintings are not always immediately
evident. In this way, the artist engages the viewer in unanswerable
questions. Mora's works are solidly constructed compositions of
commonplace objects oddly juxtaposed. In one piece, a man in a
beekeeper's outfit sits on a box; he seems to be reading a book/honeycomb
suspended from a pole overhead. The body of work created for Hodges
Taylor was conceived like "a journey starting in darkness
and finishing in light."
Preston Orr is a painter who uses unconventional materials to
execute his work. The support for his paintings is fiberglass
which the artist utilizes for its translucent qualities. He works
with solid opaque materials, such as plastic letters, pages form
books, string, yarn or grasses, collaged into the work balanced
against translucent and opaque areas of paint. Orr further exploits
the fiberglass surface as is usual. The effect of his work is
similar to that of the conscious and unconscious, some ideas come
to the top, others submerge themselves, waiting to come out another
day.
Orr is a SC native and MFA degree recipient of the Savannah College
of Art and Design. Orr's work has been exhibited in group shows
in New York, Los Angeles, as well as solo and group shows in Savannah,
GA, and Columbia, SC. Awards include a recent commission for Alexander
Hall at Savannah College of Art and Design where Orr is designing
a work to be suspended from the ceiling.
Hodges Taylor Opens Photography Room
Jerry N. Uelsmann
In its nineteen years, Hodges Taylor Gallery has encouraged
the viewing public to experience the diverse range of artistic
expression, in technique, in subject matter, and in various media.
Now the gallery proudly announces the opening of a Photography
Room, thus expanding the existing resources available to collectors.
Our mission is to offer black-and-white images created by accomplished
artists.
Hodges Taylor now represents the photographic work of Rob Amberg,
Tim Buchman, Carolyn DeMeritt, Elizabeth Matheson and Jerry N.
Uelsmann. A collection of photographs by such artists as Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Philippe Halsman, Ralph Eugene
Meatyard and Jock Sturges will also be available.
Print Room News
Feminine, Feminist or just Fine prints! The Fine Print Room
will feature new works by woman artists such as Judy Pfaff, Squeak
Carnwath, and Lorie Hamermesh. New editions are already in the
gallery by Anna Kunz, published by Riverhouse Editions, beta Press
will publish new work by Fay Jones and a four-print suite by Mary
Ann Peters, color images on the subject of water.
Beta Press is also publishing a portfolio of 16 etchings with
photogravure and spitbite by Robert Helm. Dream Prints
are highly rendered but painterly images taken from landscapes
and presented with companion pages of poetry by Loretta Ana Watt.
Crown Point Press is publishing another portfolio along the lines
of Live Model Series, only this time the subject is landscape.
Eleven artists including Robert Bechtle, April Gornick, Ed Ruscha,
Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Pat Steir have completed 16 x 20 inch
prints sold in a portfolio case or as separate images.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings
or call the gallery at 704/334-3799.
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