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April Issue 2008

YMI Cultural Center in Asheville, NC, Features Works by Veronika Hart

The YMI Cultural Center in Asheville, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Africa: Portraits of Power, featuring twelve oil paintings by Veronika Hart, on view through May 31, 2008. The show is Hart's first solo exhibition in the Asheville area.

Trained in the style of the European masters, Hart meticulously captures people, animals, and landscape through figurative expressions of exotic proportions. Born in Tanzania, East Africa, Hart finished her education in Germany and immigrated to America in 1975.

Returning to the US after an emotional visit to her former home in 2003, Hart was in turmoil for weeks. "It was only when I strung up two large primed canvases reaching from ceiling to floor and began recreating 'Africa' did I begin to find peace" the artist states. "The YMI exhibit includes twelve paintings; six of them born from this inner passion. The others reflect personal and political complexities that have touched my life because of my African/European upbringing."

YMI programming is supported by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. The exhibit is co-sponsored by Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa and by Buncombe County.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 828/252-4614 or visit (www.ymicc.org).

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