Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/08/16
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
The Center for the Arts
Categories No Categories
Center for the Arts – Of the Earth Visual Arts Exhibition
At the Dalton Gallery, 121 E Main Street, Rock Hill, SC
yorkcountyarts.org
Of the Earth, works by Ben Grant, Janis Hughes, and Richard Siegel is on exhibit. SEE ADDITIONAL OPEN HOURS BELOW.
Ben Grant is no stranger at the Arts Council. His work has been accepted to three annual Juried Competitions. Grant describes his art as an exploration of form, composed of gentle curves, textures, and flowing lines. Patterns seen in the world are translated into carved details in his wood-turned vessels, bowls, organic sculptures, and functional furniture. With each piece, Grant explores form, balance, and texture.
Janis Wilson Hughes is a potter from Johnson City, Tennessee, and is inspired by the land that surrounded her home in the Smokey Mountains. Her favorite subject is seedpods, an interest that grew out of a powerful childhood memory of stumbling through an overgrown meadow to discover a stand of milkweed bushes laden with crude, rough pods that were bursting with feathery seeds. Themes of her work encompass celebrating the protective shells of latent, dormant life personified in her seed pod sculptures, exploring the open spaces created through the weathering of time as embodied in her Traverse pots, and a tribute to our own inseparability from nature’s cycles.
Charlotte native, Richard Siegel, works are a collaborative effort with nature where technique, control, and self-expression are realized. Siegel’s vibrant watercolor paintings portray the unique challenge of painting in the “great outdoors.”
Galleries are open Monday through Thursday from 9 AM to 6 PM, Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM, every second and fourth Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM, and every second and fourth Sunday from 2 to 4 PM.
EXHIBIT: Through FEBRUARY 14
PUBLIC RECEPTION: JANUARY 28 – 6 PM