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February Issue 2006
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, Offers New Exhibits
Theatre Art Galleries in High Point, NC, is presenting several new exhibitions including: When Hot Fronts Meet Cold Fronts, in the Upstairs Gallery B, featuring collaborative works by Diane Amato and Lisa Morton; Artists Among Us, in the Main Gallery, featuring works by Tom Beaver, Louis Bowles, Raylene Fealy, Sarah Lytle, Kitty Montgomery, and John Rogers; Young Artists Among Us, in the Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery, featuring works by Evan Phillips, Magdelene Carron, Emily Bunch, Kayla Watson, Aubrey Hood, Abby Procton, Jessica Hunt, and Kimberly Davis; and High Point Fine Arts Guild Winter Juried Show, in the Hallway Gallery, featuring works by members of the Guild. All exhibitions will be on view through Feb. 18, 2006.
Diane Amato & Lisa Morton/Nanny Studios
When Hot Fronts Meet
Cold Fronts features
collaborative works by Diane Amato and Lisa Morton of Nanny Studios.
Amato is a photographer residing in Chapel Hill, NC, and Lisa
Morton is Gallery Director for the Durham Art Guild. Each artist
is widely exhibited separately. This exhibit focuses on their
artistic partnership. Together they create works of art using
familiar subjects in new, and often startling, ways: often referring
to iconic art historical images. All photography is staged in
a studio, and no software or manipulation is used. Their works
contemplate accepted popular culture through their combined visions,
emotions, and personalities. These photographs express humor,
sadness, and even horror at accepted popular culture.
Artists Among Us will delight and surprise our friends
and neighbors. Is your postal worker really a painter? How about
your baker?
Louis Bowles with a background in furniture design, has established
a thriving bakery business: Louis' Healthy Breads. Bowles still
has his drawing board from high school and even now finds time
to create vibrant watercolors.
Tom Beaver, like all
of these artists, has loved creating art since childhood. Essentially
self-taught Beaver has been seriously painting for the last twenty
years. He owns Yorkshire Furniture, which sells traditional English
replicas made in England.
Raylene Fealy has worked in glass for over thirty years and has
made a profession out of her art. First working with stain glass,
Fealy is exploring a new color resist technique on glass to create
mysterious colors and textures. Fairly new to the High Point area,
she moved here with her husband Jim (who is our Police Chief and
an unknown artist himself!).
Sarah Lytle is a Virginia
native who has lived in High Point for 9 years. She minored in
art at University of Alabama and busy raising two young children,
she still finds time for her art. Lytle will be exhibiting bold
colorful pastels.
John Rogers is a graphic designer and painter who has worked for
the US Postal Service for 27 years. His talent has shined in various
exhibitions at the African American Atelier, NC Museum of Art,
and even in Asia. A Design & Painting graduate of A &
T University, Rogers has won many honors for his work.
Kitty Montgomery is a well-known High Point figure not only through
her work with the arts but also as Dean of GTCC High Point and
as interim President of the High Point Chamber of Commerce. With
a BFA and an MFA from UNC-G, Montgomery has exhibited at SECCA,
NC Museum of Art, NC History Museum and NC Watercolor Society.
Kaleidoscope Youth Gallery shows Young Artists Among Us.
Be inspired by an exhibition by students who were chosen to show
in this second annual exhibition, highlighting art work by some
of the area's most talented young artists. Starnes Art Company
award these artists with gift certificates for art supplies. Congratulations
to these exceptional art students. Magdelene Carron, Age 5, Kindergarten.
Evan Phillips, Age 6, First Grade. Emily Bunch, Age 9, Third Grade.
Kayla Watson, Age 9, Third Grade. Aubrey Hood, Age 12, Seventh
Grade. Abby Procton, Age 12, Seventh Grade. Jessica Hunt, Age
16, Eleventh Grade. Kimberly Davis, Age 17, Eleventh Grade.
TAG is a non-profit visual art organization that presents exhibitions and educational programs focusing on quality visual art.
For more information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the galleries
at 336/887-2137 or at (www.tagart.org).
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