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Opening reception: Sunday, October 5th, from 2-5 p.m.
This exhibition is sponsored by Niche Publishing of Chapel Hill on the occasion of its release of a guide to State Parks.
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Opening reception: Sunday, September 7th, from 2-5 p.m.
Chris Stephens, a native of Raleigh, lives in Front
Royal, Virginia, and paints primarily the area in which he lives. He
studied with the late Andrew Martin at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. This exhibition contains natural landscapes
and urban scenes painted over the last three years.
Kirk Fanelly lives in his native North
Carolina. He studied art at Brown University and at the
Rhode Island School of Design. This exhibition is comprised
of new works that capture everyday slices of life and contemporary
genre paintings that sometimes amuse, perplex and occasionally
disturb the viewer.
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Opening reception: Sunday, July 27th, from 2-5 p.m.
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Opening reception: Sunday, 15 June, from 2-5 p.m.
This show marks the fifth Howard Thomas exhibition organized and hosted by the gallery. Thomas (1899-1971) is most identified with the University of Georgia where he was professor of art for two decades. He also taught painting at UNC-Greensboro in 1942-43. This exhibition begins with early painting that date back to his North Carolina days and follows his development from a representational, expressionistic painter through his mature, lyrically abstract paintings that are his hallmark. Works by Howard Thomas are in over 30 museum collections nationally including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Tom Turner, master potter, moved to Mars Hill, N.C., three years ago after a career in clay that included establishing the ceramics program at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is considered one of the leading porcelain potters working today. His works have their basis in classical vase and jar forms which are adorned with colorful and inventive glaze techniques and surface decoration.
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Opening reception: Sunday, 4 May, from 2-5 p.m.
Closing reception: Friday, 6 June, from 7-10 p.m.
Nona Short is one of North Carolina's leading photographers.
She has been active for the past four decades and is founder of the
North Carolina Photographers Annual competition. She taught Latin
and photography at Meredith College in Raleigh beginning in 1963
until her retirement three years ago. Her photographs of nature and
architecture are marked by a straight-forward, honest approach in
which she confronts her subject matter head-on. Nona displays a love
of rural life perhaps because she comes from a very small town in
western Tennessee.
Concurrent with the Nona Short exhibition is a show and sale of North
Carolina pottery. Included are works by Ben Owen, Jugtown, A.R. Cole,
Neolia Cole and Kenneth George, Conrad Weiser, Sally Bowen Prange,
Mark Hewitt and others.
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Public Reception: Sunday, March 23, from 2 until 5 p.m.
Gerry Lynch’s first exhibition with the gallery
features 18 works executed over the last three years. Most
are large scale abstraction on paper employing a variety of media. The
works are abstract expressions of the artist’s interpretations
of people, places and events in her life.
Her work is paired with the sculpture of Hanna Jubran,
professor of art at East Carolina University. Jubran’s
work in this exhibition incorporates stainless steel, bronze, soapstone
and marble. A trademark of his work is applying bronze to stone
and there are several pieces that illustrate that combination of
materials.
The paintings and sculptures complement one another remarkably well. There
is a shared aesthetic interest in shapes both with the painter and
the sculptor that makes for a harmonious marriage.
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Birthday Party :
Sunday, February 17, from 2 until 5 p.m.
Over 50 artists whose works have figured prominently on the walls of the gallery since it opened on Feb. 5, 1993, have submitted works to commemorate the gallery's landmark anniversary. Artists were asked to consider the number 15 in creating their works, and a free-wheeling variety of clever interpretations of the theme has resulted. Some are more obvious than others. Join us for a creative exhibition honoring our first 15 years of service to North Carolina art patrons.
Featured artists:
| Diane Amato & Lisa Morton Mackey Bane Lin Barnhardt David Loren Bass Jayne Bomberg Luke Buchanan Jonathan Courtland Sarah Craige Lope Max Diaz Amanda Taylor Durant John Borden Evans Kirk Fanelly Joyce Fillip Ron Franklin Janis Goodman George Handy Gay Hanna Maryann Harman Paul Hartley Sylvia Heyden Anne Hill Jerry Jackson Hanna Jubran Aaron Karp Jacob Kincheloe Joyce Watkins King Richard Kinnaird Jon Kolkin |
Karl Koga Anna Ludwig Gerry Lynch John Maggio Richard Marshall Bernard Martin James McElhinney George McKim Jody dePew McLeane Lindsay Packer Ruth Pinnell Gail Ritzer Charlotte Robinson Marvin Saltzman Nancy Scheunemann Pat Scull Sam Shelby Bruce Shores Nona Short Michael Smallwood Breck Smith Anne Wall Thomas Kathy Triplett Robert Tynes Caroly Van Duyn Catherine Walker Richard Weaver Mary Ann Zotto |
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Vincent Mastracco's paintings are characterized by heavy applications of paint generally in an organized pattern. His paintings are about the act of painting and are purely abstract in origin. Often the viewer will discern and underlying grid as the armature of the work. In some cases the grid is obvious and is an integral part of the painting. Mastracco's paint is applied generously and thickly employing a variety of tools, including but not restricted to his fingers. The artist was born in 1941 and died in 2001 at the age of 59. His studio was in the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan and he spent the weekends in his country home in Washington Depot, Conn. He died of a heart attack prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks. The building where his studio was located was damaged, but not destroyed. Mastracco was labeled a “second generation abstract expressionist” in a New York Times review of one of his exhibitions.
Ruth Pinnell's exhibition of silver gelatin prints includes a portfolio of works the artist did on two trips to Iceland as well as a suite of related images grouped together in a single frame. Another suite of work has a rooftop theme. Pinnell lives in Durham and teaches photography in Durham, Carrboro and Thomasville.
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One Hundred Under 1000. is the gallery's annual holiday show. This year's version, the eleventh in the series, features over 200 works by 65 artists. Participants come from our regular stable of artists as well as a host of invited artists. Our goal is to offer a wide range of original works of art in a variety of media at affordable prices. Works in this exhibition range in price from $25 to $975. Participating artists are as follows:
| Laleah Adams Diane Amato & Lisa Morton Andras Bality Steve Bickley Luke Buchanan Thor Bueno Neola Cole & Kenneth George Georgina Corrie Jonathan Courtland Lope Max Diaz Caroly Van Duyn John Borden Evans Barbara Fisher Ron Franklin Jim Gallucci Roger Halligan Paul Hartley Nathaniel Hester Brown Holloman Farida Hughes Rob Igoe Jerry Jackson Elmer Johnson Lilo Kemper Jacob Kincheloe Joyce Watkins King Richard Kinnaird Jamie Kirkpatrick Jon Kolkin Bob Kopf Suzanne Krill Mimi Logothetis |
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Jody dePew McLeane is one of the leading pastel artists in the nation. She employs a century old technique (similar to the method used by Edgar Degas) to create her imagined interiors and her nostalgic still lifes. Her use of light is skillful and her color is rich. This exhibition incorporates works completed in the last two years.
Thor Bueno teaches and works out of a studio at the Penland School of Crafts. He studied glass blowing at the famed Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and earned his BFA in visual arts from the University of California at San Diego. He earned his MFA at Alfred University in New York.
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Paul Harley: New Paintings
This exhibition features the two-year output of this East Carolina
University painting professor. It includes some of his classic paintings
in which he isolates a single realistic object or image over a background
of abstraction. A few allegorical paintings compliment the exhibition.
Hartley is a Charlotte native who grew up in Atlanta and earned an
art degree at the University of North Texas and his MFA at East Carolina
University. He has been teaching full time at ECU since 1975. After
next year he will retire from teaching and devote his time to painting.
Paul Hartley has earned the respect of thousands of art students
and hundreds of patrons over the decades and is considered one of
North Carolina's best painters.
Secondary Market Works
Visitors to the gallery never know what might be in store for them.
When they engage gallery personnel in conversation, they realize
that the gallery has a storehouse of art--much of it of historical
nature from estates or collectors who are selling all or parts of
their collections. The gallery has mounted a secondary market show
that runs concurrently with the Hartley exhibition. It consists of
a number of works by well-known local, regional and national artists.
Works are removed as they are purchased and new works are brought
out to replace them, meaning the gallery is ever changing. Don't
miss the opportunity to see a beautiful watercolor by Washington,
D.C.'s Patricia Tobacco Forrester, paintings by New York's David
Kapp, a beautiful abstract painting by the late Edith London, or
a barnacle glazed porcelain by the recently deceased Sally Bowen
Prange.

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Curated by McDonald Bane and Lee Hansley, long-time friends of the artist, this exhibition surveys over 40 years of artistic output of this Washington, D.C. painter. The viewer will observe four distinct stages in her work beginning with abstraction and moving through major art movements of her time as an artist. However, Charlotte Robinson has always had her own distinct voice in art, regardless of the current mode of expression or the media employed to make the art. She has almost always derived her work from natural sources--most particularly water.
Robinson, a Texas native, is first and foremost a colorist. Her work is most assuredly about the expression of vivid color and its power to evoke feeling, and this, along with her signature expressive brushwork provides a language for Charlotte's artistic comments on the environment and man's relationship to it.
The show is as much about Charlotte Robinson, the woman, as it is
about her artwork. She has spent years in the political trenches
of the woman's art movement, is credited with organizing the school
at The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, and spent
a decade on an exhibition that brought famous women artists and traditional
quilt-makers together for the first time in a show that traveled
for three years to 19 venues nationally.
This exhibition, containing over 35 works of art, is accompanied by a fully illustrated color catalogue. It features an essay by Andrea Pollan, an independent curator in Washington, D.C., and an essay by New York author Eleanor Munro. The catalogue is available at the gallery as are two books, Charlotte Robinson's The Artist and The Quilt, and Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, which features an interview with Robinson.
This exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery is the first stop of a national tour planned for this show.

Charlotte Robinson, Up the Cove

Charlotte Robinson, The Pond at 1:30 pm
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Both these artists are alumni of the College of Design at N.C. State University. Joyce Watkins King, who is showing here for the first time, is a native of Oxford, N.C., and has lived in Raleigh since 1975. Most of her professional life has been dedicated to marketing and development for nonprofits. Her art medium has been painting and her subject matter representational until three years ago when she studied at the Penland School. Since that time she has been creating abstract images employing a wide variety of media.
Luke Buchanan, who has been in thee group shows here prior to this exhibition, graduated from the College of Design at NCSU in 2002 with a degree in environmental design and architecture. He was born in Morristown, N.J., and moved to Raleigh with his parents when he was 8 years old. He graduated from Enloe High School. Buchanan's paintings deal primarily with space and the history of place. He uses a photomontague technique in building his paintings and often incorporates objects found at the site in his works.
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This exhibition honors the memory of Ted Potter who died in November. This exhibition will contain large-scale paintings by Ted as well as works by 20 of his closest artists friends and colleagues. Ted, who was in this gallery's stable of artists, was director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem for 24 years. He went on to become director of the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. At the time of his death, he was a professor of museum studies and painting and drawing at VCU. Ted was a Kansas native and graduate of Baker University. He earned his MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Throughout his career as an arts administrator, he has painted and made collages. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at the University of New Orleans Museum of Art, the Deland Art Museum in Florida, Wake Forest University's Hanes Gallery and at this gallery. This past summer a lifetime survey of his work was presented at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.
Artists invited to honor Ted in this exhibition by showing their works alongside Ted's are McDonald Bane, Steve Bickley, Jacqueline Bishop, Douglas Bourgeois, Robert Dance, Frank Faulkner, Gay Powell Hanna, Paul Hartley, Richard Johnson, Ray Kass, Richard Kevorkian, Bob Kopf, Bernard Martin, Elizabeth Matheson, John Menapace, Jerry Noe, Roxanne Reep, Nona Short and Tom Suomalainen.
Ted Potter photo credit: Nona Short
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The gallery's annual holiday show series continues for the tenth consecutive year. This year the bar was raised on the price limit of work from $500. to $1000. and by doing so, more artists were able to participate. The end result is a stronger exhibition. Media represented among the 195 works in the exhibition include painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass, photography, jewelry, mixed media, printmaking, drawing and assemblage. Artists in the show are Andy Bality, Bernard Martin and Cindy Neuschwander of Richmond, Va.; Carl Billingsley, Paul Hartley, Jerry Jackson, Hanna Jubran and Catherine Walker of Greenville; Elizabeth Bradford of Davidson; Ashlynn Browning, Luke Buchanan, Lope Max Diaz, Joyce Fillip, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Jon Kolkin, Suzanne Krill, Richard Marshall, Maureen McGregor, Keith Miller, Nancy Scheunemann and Pat Scull of Raleigh; Thor Bueno of Penland; Neola Cole and Kenneth George, collaborators, of Sanford; Georgina Corrie of London, England; Carmen Elliott, Richard Kinnaird, Nancy Marple and Anne Wall Thomas of Chapel Hill; Barbara Fisher and Lynette Miller of Asheville; Ron Franklin of Hillsborough; Janis Goodman, Paul Reed and Michael Smallwood of Washington, D.C.; Roger Halligan of Sophia, N.C.; Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va.; Brown Holloman of Pine Tops; Aaron Karp of Albuquerque; Jacob Kincheloe of New York; Patrick Leger of Greensboro; Anna Ludwig of San Francisco; Jody dePew McLeane of Eagle River, Wis.; Lisa Neher and Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va.; Paul Reed of Arlington, Va.; Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Chris Stephens of Front Royal, Va.; William Martin Jean of Cleveland, Ohio; and Nathaniel Underwood of Columbus, Ohio.
| Andy Bality Carl Billingsley Elizabeth Bradford Ashlynn Browning Luke Buchanan Thor Bueno Neola Cole / Kenneth George Georgina Corrie Lope Max Diaz Carmen Elliott Kirk Fanelly Joyce Fillip Barbara Fisher Ron Franklin Janis Goodman Roger Halligan Maryann Harman Paul Hartley Brown Holloman Jerry Jackson Jon Kolkin William Martin Jean Hanna Jubran Aaron Karp Jacop Kincheloe |
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JON KOLKIN of Raleigh makes his first appearance at this gallery in a solo show with two series of digital photographic images. One is a series of color images he labels "Glass Flower Fusion" series and another series of mostly black and white or selectively colored images called "Water's Edge." Kolkin was born in New York City and reared in Maryland. He has been interested in photography since his early youth and minored in the arts at Emory University in Atlanta where he majored in chemistry and later earned a degree in medicine. Kolkin has been practicing hand surgery for 25 years, the last 19 years in North Carolina.
HOWARD THOMAS (1899-1971) is arguably one of the
South's most outstanding artists of the mid-20th century. He was born
in Ohio and grew us in southeastern Pennsylvania. He started college
studying engineering at Ohio State University but later transferred
to the Art Institute of Chicago where he work with such notable artists
as George Bellows, Leopold Seyffert, Joseph Binder and Randall Davey.
This exhibition is a bookends show in that it includes a collection
of watercolors from the 1930s that show a solid grounding is classical
art as well as a collection of paintings from his late mature work
dating from 1949 to 1969 which illustrate his interest and exploration
into modernism. Thomas, who once taught at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro (1942-43) also taught art at Agnes Scott College
in Georgia and at the Milwaukee State Teachers College. His longest
tenure was at the University of Georgia where he taught painting from
1945 until his retirement in 1965. Thomas, who as married to a North
Carolinian, moved to Carrboro following retirement where he focused
on painting full time. Works by Howard Thomas are in numerous collections
nationally including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the High
Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Delgado Museum
of Art, the Ackland Art Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art, the Columbus
Museum in Georgia, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Weatherspoon
Art Museum among others. His exhibition career includes shows at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the Speed Museum of Art, Corcoran Museum
in Washington, D.C. and the Harn Museum of Art in Gainsville, Florida,
among others. His work has been the subject of three retrospective
exhibitions including one in 1998 that traveled to several museums
in the South.
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This exhibition explores in a variety of media the visual manifestation of the essence of the South, particularly the mid-Atlantic region. This show’s inspirations come from the flora, the vernacular and formal architecture,the maritime influence and the mysterious mountains, the lush vegetation, suburbia, cultural iconography, the lowlands, the wetlands and vast expanses of fields and forests, the inhabited and the uninhabited land.
Capturing scenes from everyday life are painters Andras Bality of Richmond along with the somewhat quirky and humorous paintings by Kirk Fanelly of Charlotte. Drawing inspiration from the mountains are painters Elizabeth Bradford of Davidson, Robert Dance of Kinston, John Borden Evans of North Garden, Va., Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va., and Chis Stephens of Front Royal, Va. Coastal scenes are depicted in drawings by Ben Berns of Fairfax, Va., and also by Robert Dance. Margaret Peery of Charleston, S.C., derives her imagery in her watercolors from the Low Country of South Carolina
Painters Joyce Fillip of Raleigh and Barbara Fisher of Asheville explore southern symbols, real and surreal, while drawings by Robert Marsh of Danville, Va., depict southern classic landmarks like front steps, a family cemetery and a golf course.
Expressive painters Richard Fennell of Whitsett, Richard Marshall of Raleigh, Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Bruce Shores of Greensboro and Breck Smith of Holly Springs paint what they know best, the landscapes they see around them.
Painter Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va., documents her impression of an early morning sunrise over the Atlantic at 15-minute intervals. Painters Wayne McDowell of Wilmington and Lisa Neher of Falls Church, Va., also derive their imagery from the coast.
Sculptors Lin Barnhardt of Mt. Pleasant, N.C., and Marie Ringwald of Washington, D.C., and ceramist Ronan Peterson of Chapel Hill contribute three-dimensional works to the show in an attempt to stretch the idea of landscape beyond the painting surface.
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This exhibition is the result of a call for North Carolina artists between the ages of 21 and 35 living and working in the state or native to the state. Seven of the artists were invited based on their accomplishments to date. The remaining 32 were juried into the exhibition as a result of the open call. See what the next generation of artists is doing. The future is now.