Pink Dog Creative has been privileged to host dynamic and groundbreaking exhibitions and performances. Descriptions of some of these events are below. Be sure to visit our home page for current exhibitions!
Benefit: Share Love & Open Studio
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The Roots + Wings School of Art will hold a benefit Sunday, Feb 12, 2-5PM at Pink Dog Creative to raise money for their scholarship fund, visiting artist fund and the Asheville Community Design Lab. The suggested donation is $10.
The benefit will include a live, interactive painting, a silent art auction and art-making stations for card-making, sewing art and more! This is also an open studio, so come visit Pink Dog’s artists to see bookbinding, ceramics, collage, encaustic, furniture design, jewelry, letterpress, mixed media and painting.
Visit www.rootsandwingsart.com for more information.
Exhibition: Mary Ann Scherr
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S. Reynolds Design Gallery presents Mary Ann Scherr: designer, educator, goldsmith and jeweler extraordinaire. Jewelers in the exhibition include Susan Cole Cannon, Megan Clark, Leigh Griffin, Marvin Jensen, Caitie Sellers, Matthew Smith and Terry Cole Sullivan.
There will be an opening reception November 12, 2-5 pm at the S. Reynolds Design Gallery at Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot St. in the River Arts District. The exhibition will be on view through December 30.
Exhibition: Dan Gottlieb
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Dan Gottlieb will display photos from trips to Turkey and Brazil at the S. Reynolds Design Gallery at Pink Dog Creative, September 30 – December 17. There will be an opening reception on Friday, September 30, 5 – 8PM. Read more about Dan’s work at Architects + Artisans.
“The images are hauntingly potent, long-exposure works of lavish color and studied movement. The photographer held his lens open for one to three-and-a-half seconds as he moved his body before his subject. ‘It’s kind of a choreographed thing – my movements have to be in synch with the space,’ he said. ‘It’s like what an architect does vertically or horizontally with a space. The camera is my proxy eye.’”
Exhibition: Virginia Derryberry
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Third Nature, the work of Virginia Derryberry was presented at the Artery. From Virginia’s artist statement: “In my large scale narrative figure paintings set in invented landscapes, I have sought a dynamic rather than a formulaic balance between the ideal and the real. The narratives are drawn from multiple myths, but the figures are portraits of specific individuals who are well known to me rather than idealized types.” Virginia’s full statement is available on her website.
Visit virginiaderryberry.com
Her work was on display through November 30, 2011 at the Artery (AAAC), 346 Depot St.
Exhibition: NiceNasty
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Art always reflects the persona of the artist but not always in such a literal way as Valeria Watson-Doost’s works do. The exhibit titled NiceNasty opened on October 8th at 6PM in the Pink Dog Creative Gallery, 348 Depot Street, in the Asheville River Arts District.
Watson-Doost’s collages reflect her childhood under segregation while concurrently addressing larger issues of war, violence and torture. What makes these works intensely personal while addressing universal concerns is the central role of the artist identified both as the victim and victimizer
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The “NiceNasty” exhibit also included a workshop given by Julie Becton Gillum. Gillum, a well known Asheville Butoh artist, choreographed a street procession that ended in the gallery space where several short performances took place in relation to specific pieces of art. Spoken word artist BLove aka DeWayne Barton performed several poems chosen for their relevance to the exhibit. Kimathi Moore performed music specifically composed for the event. The Affrilachian Butoh Hommage performance was repeated on November 12th at 3PM.
Valeria Watson-Doost’s mixed media exhibition “NiceNasty” closed November 20.
Read about Watson-Doost and NiceNasty at Verve Magazine
Read more about the exhibition and workshop at The Urban News
Exhibition: 10^10
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Pink Dog Creative hosted a 10^10 performance on Saturday, October 8, 7:30PM – 12AM followed by a post- performance dance celebration.
Projects on display included a sonic wall that absorbs airborne pollution while lining highways with beguiling lights, a collective film that reveals what healthy interaction between individuals and their cities might look like, a dispersed memorial for the victims of 9/11 prompting a collective conversation and exchange, and an interface which makes design accessible to all by allowing people who wouldn’t normally be able to afford a custom-designed home to participate in the design of their own.
Cleaster Cotton
The dynamic and visionary artist Cleaster Cotton exhibited new work, “Contemporary Primitive,” June 10 – June 30 at Pink dog Creative in the Exhibition Hall at 348 Depot St. An opening reception was held on Friday, June 10.
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