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September Issue
2008
Hillsborough Gallery of Arts in Hillsborough,
NC, Features Works by Chris Graebner, Ellie Reinhold and Pringle
Teetor
The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts in Hillsborough, NC, will present the exhibit Three Visions, new work by painters Chris Graebner and Ellie Reinhold and blown glass by Pringle Teetor, three founding members of the two-year-old gallery, on view from Sept. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008.
Hillsborough artist Chris Graebner's work is
largely botanical in subject. Feeling that beauty is in the details
of the particular, his botanicals are often large and involve
the viewer in close connection to an individual flower. While
not a traditional medium for botanical art, most of her current
work is in oils, which Graebner feels permit more spontaneity
and give more impact to her paintings.
Not all Graebner's current work is botanical, however. In this
show she also explores new ground with several paintings from
a series of nightscapes. "I'm intrigued by the light that
remains at night, moonlight and starlight, of course, as well
as ambient light and the last traces of sunlight. Living in town,
it never really gets dark."
A member of the American Society of Botanical
Artists and the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Graebner
studied privately in the US and Latin America, and holds a certificate
in Botanical Illustration from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill, NC, artist Ellie Reinhold's creative impulse has
always been about capturing an emotional essence; about distilling
conflicts, desires, and dreams down to an evocative essence of
images, objects, words, or colors. In this sense, her painting
is "from life". She uses the painting process as a place
to intuitively and poetically navigate through the conflicts and
quandaries of life. Reinhold says that it is this process that
provides her inspiration and pulls her into the studio. Though
often intensely personal at its inception, her work also speaks
to universal truths; "to paraphrase the writer Alice Walker:
If you delve deeply enough into yourself, you're bound to rise
up in other people." Reinhold holds degrees in painting and
drawing from East Carolina University and Penn State University.
Glass artist Pringle Teetor references the work of painters Morris Louis and Mark Rothko in a series of vases and sculptural pieces. She considers it "a painter's approach to blown glass." An admirer of Louis, Teetor used pre-fused veil cane as a color application to form flowing stripes of color, much like Louis' painting, while the layering and color palette of her landscape vases reflect the influence of Rothko's work.
A classically trained, 4th-generation artist and former painter, Teetor has a bachelors' degree in studio art from Trinity University, San Antonio and taught at the San Antonio Art Institute for many years. She began working in glass in 2003. Says Teetor: "My first experience in molten glass was astounding; the glass seemed to take on a life of its own. I knew I wanted to learn how to tame and control it."
For further information check our NC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/732-5001, or visit (www.hillsboroughgallery.com).
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