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Asheville Art Museum E-Mail: mailbox@ashevilleart.org http://www.ashevilleart.org Exhibitions The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire | Water
The Asheville Art Museum annually partners with the Asheville Area Section of the American Institute of Architects to sponsor the Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Middle and high school students from 20 Western North Carolina school districts are invited to submit work for this special juried competition. Award recipients’ art will be featured in a group exhibition showcasing the emerging artistic talent of the region. The Museum regularly sends works by 20 – 25 recipients of the Gold Award to the National Scholastic Art Competition. In addition, the Museum also selects one work of art that best represents Western North Carolina to be exhibited in the Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh. For additional details about the WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards, please contact Erin Shope, School + Family Programs Manager at 828.253.3227 ext. 121 or eshope@ashevilleart.org.
The New Materiality expands beyond the boundaries that currently exist between technology, art and craft. The artists in this exhibition use new technologies in tandem with traditional craft materials such as clay, glass, wood, metal and fiber, to forge new artistic directions. According to Fo Wilson, the curator of the exhibition, The New Materiality looks at a growing development in the United States towards the use of digital technologies as a new material and means of expression in the practice of craft. Digital video and audio, computerized design and other technologies are presented as new materials to be exploited or manipulated in order to enrich artistic expression. If we were to compare digital matter-zeros and ones-to materials like clay,glass, fiber or wood, does that force us to rethink the traditional craft concern of "the hand versus the machine"? The New Materiality examines the impact of digital technologies on theworld of contemporary craft. Artists featured in the exhibition include Brian Boldon, Shaun Bullens, E.G. Crichton, Sonya Clark, Lia Cook, Maaike Evers, Donald Fortescue, LawrenceLaBianca, Wendy Maruyama, Christy Matson, Cat Mazza,Nathalie Miebach, Mike Simonian, Tim Tate, Susan Working and Mark Zirkel. This exhibition was organized by the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. American artist Josef Albers, best known for his series Homage to the Square, influenced art-making of the 20th century by using the series to explore and manipulate viewers’ color and spatial perception. Historically most two-dimensional work has been rectangular in format, but with Albers’s series, art-making in the 20th century was dramatically changed. Albers’s theories and influence extended to his many students from Black Mountain College and Yale University, and ultimately gave rise to Op (“optical”) art and Minimalism. Drawn from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Homage2 examines artists who have taken up the challenge of the square and used color and space in unique ways. This exhibition features several of Josef Albers’s former students, including Richard Anuszkiewicz, Albert Lanier and Jack Tworkov, as well as more contemporary artists such as Sally Gall, Sol LeWitt, Kenneth Noland and Donald Sultan. Homage2 furthers our exploration and understanding of the legacy of Black Mountain College, an important focus of the Museum’s Permanent Collection. Homage2 was organized and and curated by the Asheville Art Museum with support from Nancy Holmes. Related Programs:
Free with Membership or Museum Admission "I prefer to think that the sheer marvels of the planet—of water, fire, air, and earth—occasionally flip the blindfolds off our preoccupied eyes." The four elements are universal energies, grounded not only in the nature of our planet, but also within our bodies.Our lungs and breath relate to air, our skeleton and flesh to earth, the heat generated by our bodies to fire, and our blood to water. Air, earth, fire and water are key elements in the occult and mystical worlds, but the first knowledge of them was based more on science as it was understood at the time. Ancient Greeks believed that everything was made up of these four elements, a concept that formed the basis of philosophy,science and medicine for over two thousand years. While we now know that these previous beliefs were simplistic and flawed, we continue to be inspired and at times awed by these elements. Humans cannot live without the four essential elements. Air fills our lungs and gives us breath, earth furnishes us with food and shelter, fire keeps us warm and wards off the night,and water quenches our thirst. But as necessary as they are,these elements also have their dark sides—air brings hurricanes and tornadoes, earth erupts with lava and quakes, fire reduce things we care about to ashes and water overflows our lands. Using both two- and three-dimensional works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, this exhibition examines the way in which artists have treated or incorporated these elements into their works. The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire | Water features works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection including Elizabeth J. Peak’s Clouds, Paula Stark’s Red Earth, Douglas D.Ellington’s Untitled Landscape on Fire and Ke Francis’sThree Friends: Loggerhead, Albino Catfish and Magic Moon, among many other works. This exhibition was organized and curated by the Asheville Art Museum. |
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