January finds a new show @ Constance Williams Gallery entitled “Resolutions” & a public showing of a 10 month quilt project by Pattiy Torno… The quilt “Winter Starr” goes to Atlanta to its new home on January 17, 2012 so do not miss this chance to get a peek.
Constance Williams Gallery & Studios is hosting Encaustic painter & teacher Mary Farmer and her students for three days this week. Here are a few photos. If you ever thought you might like to learn the encaustic process… Mary is your gal!
Two pieces of Jenny Mastin’s sculptural ceramics are included in the Artspace Artist Association’s “New Works” juried exhibition in Raleigh, NC through February 26, 2001. Both “Oracle” and “Mandrillus Sphinx” (shown above & already sold!) made an impression on juror Melissa Peden. Jenny’s inner vision reflects her knowledge of and interest in global cultures. “Each creation I design may be based on a cultural myth, folklore, legend … My objective with each piece is to exhibit a contemporary interpretation and visual narrative of primal creations.” Find Jenny & her work in #9 CURVE studios & garden, the home of Constance Williams Gallery & Studios.
Bea Seiburg and friends held a lovely luncheon today in celebration of the 75th birthday of Jessie Mae Jones… it seems that CURVE artist Lucille Stephens made a painting of Jessie’s house, so Bea & friends bought the painting and gave it to Jessie for her birthday present. There is more of Lucille’s work @ Constance Williams Studios & Gallery @ 9 CURVE studios & garden.
More Love from the New York Times! Ingrid Williams writes that the “River Arts District Blooms” here in Asheville with quotes from neighborhood notables, Constance Williams, Tom Montgomery & Chall Gray and a really nice photo of CURVE studios & garden.
Constance Williams’ encaustics share the stage for an evening of food and art @ the Grove Park Inn. The Grove Park Inn in their “Asheville Highlights” series, featuring local artists and local food producers welcome all to the Blue Ridge Dining Room between 5:30 and 8:30pm, Thursday, October 28, 2010. It’s free and open to the public. Show will run through Dec 27, 2010.
Jewelry designers & QVC-TV hosts Carolyn & Bill Pollack stopped in @ CURVE while filming their “Summer Across America” destination series this July. They had a look at the work of Karen Donde of sutherland Handweaving, talked with Pattiy Torno about her extraordinary quilts & explored the wonderful world of encaustic painting with Constance Williams. Carolyn & Bill were lovely to have in the studios and even went home with a series of 6 “jewel box” encaustic studies by Constance. The fruits of their visit will air on QVC-TV starting August 8, 2010.
Bill & Carolyn & Constance & the film crew having the after popsicle… it was a hot day!
Contact Constance @ 828.333.3286
www.constancewilliams.net
Constance Williams and her art works are all about creating, exploring and becoming fully engaged in a stimulating and sensory universe of light, color, texture, fluidity and emotion.
Her clay sculptures, as well as her encaustic paintings – which are created from pure beeswax, damar tree resin, pigments, washes, stains and added materials – have lively surfaces full of visual and tactile effects. Touching is encouraged! In her encaustic works, Constance creates dozens and sometimes hundreds of layers in which she is adding and subtracting, scraping and filling, melting and fusing, covering and revealing…in these works, visitors experience the unexpected duality of being confronted by constant light reflection and movement AND a sense of familiar calm.
Constance Williams is a professional artist whose current focus is on encaustic painting and sculptural hand-built clay. Her studio and gallery is in Asheville, North Carolina’s historic French Broad River Arts District, at 12 Riverside Drive, in the CURVE Studios complex, with open gallery hours seven days a week from 11 am to 4 pm. Her clay studio is located at 9 Riverside Drive, and she is actively engaged in both the River Arts District and the arts scene in Asheville.
Abstract Journey ©2008 Constance Williams
Uprising II ©2009 Constance Williams
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The Grand Shift is complete @ CURVE studios & garden. #6 is still home to the studios of Pattiy Torno, Meagan Chaney & sutherland Handweaving which includes Barb Butler & Karen Donde. #9 (both floors) is now Constance Williams Studios & Gallery. Constance Williams has her encaustic painting studio & lots of new gallery space on the ground floor. Constance is sharing the upstairs ceramic heaven with Greg Vineyard, Fran Welch, Cassie Ryalls & Jenny Mastin where each will have working studio & gallery space. #12 (downstairs) is now home to Maria Andrade Troya (moving over from #9) & Kyle Carpenter (of Clayspace Cooperative fame). Akira Satake (from his house) & Linda McFarling (from Phil Mechanic Studios) come over during the next month. See the transformation! We will celebrate our new artists @ our 2010 Spring Open House, April 23-25, 2010.
Haywood County Arts Council’s Gallery 86 has invited CURVE studios’ Greg Vineyard to curate a show celebrating CURVE studios & garden & its artists called “CURVEilinear“. It’s all about what people see and feel when they walk through the doors of the three historic brick buildings at 6, 9 and 12 Riverside Drive in Asheville’s River Arts District. It’s the CURVE studios & garden working studio experience where vistors seven days a week encounter functional clay and decorative ceramics, textiles and weaving, jewelry, metal works, furniture and paintings, plus a beautifully landscaped garden… with a synergistic communication amongst the group nurtured by artist-owner Pattiy Torno’s desire to incubate a creative community. The show runs from January 11 to February 6, 2010. Gallery 86 can be found at 86 North Main Street in Waynesville, NC. or online @ www.haywoodarts.org