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August Issue 2005

Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, Features Works by Colleen Sterling

The work of Colleen Sterling opens at the Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, on Aug. 5. Titled, Interconnections, the exhibit runs through Aug. 31, 2005.

The interconnection of body and spirit - or of the universe, in general - is a strong theme running through Sterling's work. Using charcoal paste, Sterling makes a back panel of artwork on canvas or board. She then 'draws' on acrylic panels and mounts them on top of the black under drawings to create a layering of imagery.

Sterling's themes are personal, spiritual and narrative. In several of the works on exhibit, Sterling juxtaposes athletes over angels, Greek spiritual models and other symbolic images to suggest the potential for personal excellence.

In a work titled Delphinus, for example, Sterling laid the constellation by that name over a female swimmer. The points of the constellation are connected to form a dolphin, a creature that is revered in mythology and was known to serve as a mystical companion at sea.
 
In Connections, for example, Sterling painted an image with Earth in the foreground covered by a spiral cloud, and the universe beyond Earth, on a 66" x 72" canvas. She then made eight images that represent everyday life - such as eating a bowl of porridge or drinking a cup of coffee - on plexiglas and mounted them around the earth, visually presenting the concept that all things are connected. She repeats the spiral image of universality in each of the smaller vignettes that represent daily life.

An artist of national and international renown, Sterling is one of 18 artists selected from a field of 25,000 applicants to create site-specific artwork for Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, GA. Her work titled, Flight of the Spirit, was installed in 1999 and continues to hang in that airport.

Sterling's work is in the permanent collection of the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, TN, and in numerous corporate and private collections in the United States, France and Germany. She studied at Mundelein College (Loyola University) and the Museum School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.

A resident of the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Blairsville, GA, Sterling is the sister of Hendersonville resident and actor Kevin McKee.

For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/698-0601 or at (www.silverfoxonline.com).


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