Asheville
Gallery of Art’s April show, “The Nature of Things,” will feature the work
of new member artists, Tebbé Davis, Mark Harmon, t.e. siewert, and Kate Thayer.
This will be the second show in AGA’s new gallery space at 82 Patton Avenue.
The artists will present works that highlight their diverse styles as they each
interpret their view of the natural world.
Tebbé Davis paints
landscapes and abstract
paintings that focus primarily on the textures and colors of the southern
Appalachians and the Carolina seashore. He uses color, texture, and composition
in each scene to convey the intense beauty he perceives as an artist. “I invite
the viewer to explore a world far removed from their everyday existence to an
inner journey of the soul,” he states.
Mark Hamon says the very
texture of the Smoky Mountains, the weathered rock faces covered by lichens and
mosses, inspire his work. He states that lichens were the first organisms to
colonize dry land some 700 million years ago, which began the slow process of
creating soils that made life on land possible. Of his paintings, Harmon says,
“These works speak of the frailty and resilience of life in the form of
beautiful compositions that capture the very nature of things often ignored.”
t.e. siewert claims it’s
never too late to be what you might have been. “In my fifth decade of life that
saying has never been so true as I become the artist I was meant to be,” she
states. Siewert works in encaustic, a hot wax technique. The depth of the colored
wax layers and sheen achievable using that medium allows her to create nature
scenes that are characteristically full of light and poetry. Her work reflects
her love of the Western North Carolina mountains where she says, “The air is
fresh, the streams are clear, and the people are down-to-earth.”
Kate Thayer states, “As a
painter, my aim has always been that of attempting to kindle in the viewer the
same kind of emotional exhilaration that
I experience when I am seduced by a scene that asks to be brought to life in pastel or oils.” She says she
thinks of her paintings as poems, those wordless encounters with the often
stunning voices of nature whose colors and forms we rarely notice. “I want to bring to you, the viewer, what you may not have
noticed in this busy world of ours: a time to stop and breathe in through
our eyes the sweet and compelling voices of nature,” she states.
“The Nature of Things” runs from April 1 through 30. The
public is cordially invited to meet the artists at a reception on Friday, April
1, from 5 to 8 p.m. Their work and that of the other 26 gallery members will be
on display and for sale through the month during regular hours. The gallery is
located at 82 Patton Avenue, Capital Center, in downtown Asheville, across from
Pritchard Park.
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