For the first time, the N.C. art museum and Penland School of Crafts have partnered: the project, 0 to 60: The Experience of Time Through Contemporary Art. It focuses on the temporal element, and features four WNC artists. Sculptural artists David Chatt, Hoss Haley, Anne Lemanski and Tom Shields will have their work in the […]
The spirit of John Payne guides the work of artist Chas Llewellyn, who has a one-night-only show tonight at the Wedge building.
Ad buster: Henco will complement its poster displays with a monthly, one-window exhibit. Window perception New work is going in Henco Reprographic’s window at 54 Broadway St. It’s neither word- nor ad-based. The print shop’s storefront typically functions as a de facto bulletin board for local events. Henco rotates the posters and announcements for bands, […]
Jason was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and local artist Anna Jensen has organized a sale of work on Monday, Feb. 25, to help.
Period furnishings at the Grove Park Inn. Photos by Kyle Sherard Asheville is hailed as an Art Deco capital, in the ranks with Miami for its architecture of that style. But an older, lesser-known vein of architecture and design predominates. It’s one quietly woven throughout the city and carried on in modern incarnations — Arts […]
Josh Spiceland’s life is a blaze of art-making and public display. The Asheville painter and muralist had a lengthy roster of exhibits in 2012, including shows at the One Stop Deli and Izzy’s Coffee Den, along with public murals and other gallery showings. He also pieced together a unique collection of architecturally-based en plein air […]
Xpress arts writer Kyle Sherard attended President Barack Obama’s public inauguration on Jan. 21 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. While straining to see the proceedings from the general admission area, Sherard also kept an eye out for fellow North Carolinians amid the dense and shivering throng. At one point he even brandished a sign that read, “Are you from North Carolina?” which actually summoned one person. Read on for a firsthand, if distant look at what democracy looked like.
Two works hanging in Gallery Minerva’s Biltmore Avenue window are set as bait for the passersby. From afar, they are stark, black and white minimalist compositions. But up close they reveal a intricate framework of curvilinear lines, decades in the making. The works, by Connecticut artist Bryan Nash Gill, are woodcuts, nearly four feet wide. […]
The two Asheville-based mural artists have finished two new pieces on the side of the old Penland Auction house, which will be torn down in four to six weeks.
The Greensboro-based artist blends elements of cinema, theater and documentary, evoking uneasy reactions of empathy, humor and pain. She’ll be at Black Mountain College + Arts Center tonight.
The River Arts District’s last property tax assessment was in 2006. It got skipped over in 2010. This was largely in due to the depressed housing market and lack of qualified property sales, both of which lead to reduced or unchanged values. However, the state laws require assessments every eight years, or if there is […]
