Theatre Art Galleries
announces the opening of its summer exhibitions curated by guest curator Tom
Patterson. Stitched, Stuttered and Screened: Recent Works by Woodie Anderson
opens Thursday, June 4th with an Opening Reception on Thursday evening from
5:30-7:30 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through August 21, 2015.
The Main Gallery will feature Artist and
designer Woodie Anderson employs printmaking, drawing, sculpture and written
language to explore the areas where identity, personal history and society
intersect. While studying fine art and graphic design at Appalachian State
University, she began experimenting with the tensions between fine art and
commercial applications of visual language--areas she continues to explore in
much of her work through the use of text, info-graphics and other collected
graphic materials. Often starting with well-worn household fabrics, she employs
a variety of processes including stitching, dyeing, screen-printing and drawing
to build layered, textural pieces that are full of life. Letterforms and
texts--including original and appropriated writings--are integral to much of
her work. Her current series, “Flags of Our Mothers,” is formally inspired by
banners and pennants dating from the Middle Ages, while its content centers on
women whose roles in history, myth, or present-day events have interested her
in particular.
Anderson lives and works in Winston-Salem, where
she teaches printmaking at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art and participates
in the Art-o-mat® (Clark Whittington’s vintage cigarette vending machines
repurposed to dispense original artworks). Anderson’s work is featured in The
Art-o-mat® “Unpacked” Book and in “Art Quilts at Play” by Jane Davila and Elin
Waterston. She has exhibited at regional and national venues including the
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
at ASU.
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Ben Towle is a cartoonist whose graphic novel Oyster
War will be published this fall. His previous book, Amelia
Earhart: This Broad Ocean (a graphic novel for young adults) was
released in 2010. A Junior Library Guild selection, it received accolades from
The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, among other publications. Towle’s
previous work includes the historical fiction graphic novel Midnight Sun
as well as an earlier volume of comics folk tales. He has been nominated three
times for the prestigious Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards.
Towle’s exhibition in Gallery B will
feature original pages from his three graphic novels and one of the folk tales
in its entirety.
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The Hallway Gallery will host Carol
Meetze Moates who works primarily in watercolor but also enjoys oils. She
states, “Painting is my passion, and I paint for the process. To me, the medium
is mysterious and exciting, and creating art is about the basic need to
experiment with the process.” Her work is primarily in watercolor but she has a
great love for oils as well.
Since retiring she has devoted herself full time
to painting and teaching. She teaches a watercolor class and a calligraphy
class each week at Uptown Artworks in Greensboro.
The Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery will host the Annual
Triad Middle School Art Exhibition with works from 8 area middle schools.
Theatre Art Galleries is located in downtown High
Point at 220 E. Commerce Ave. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from
12:00-5:00 p.m. For more information contact the TAG office at 336-887-2137 or
visit www.tagart.org."
- A Press Release
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