Reaching for the Sky
East Flat Rock collage artist Melanie Hopkins thinks a lot about the nebulous gasses enveloping the Earth. “Being under the sky has always been…
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Still Life with Architectural Background
Accomplished watercolorist learned composition during his first career When John Anderson retired to Hendersonville after a four-decade architectural career, he began looking for an…
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Not Your Weird Uncle’s Taxidermy
Erin Derham’s Stuffed Breathes New Life into a (Literally) Dead Art Picture a taxidermist. Odds are you imagine a bearded man in hunting gear…
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Daylight Over Deadlines
By Tay Greenleaf At first glance, Gary Cooley’s portfolio seems like it couldn’t possibly be the work of a single person. There’s a November…
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Two Visionary Artists Share a Show
Bold Life has featured Bobbie Polizzi’s quirky assemblage pieces at various times in the past; and speaking of the past, the more recent version,…
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Sacred Ground
A reception opens clay artist Lucy Clark’s exhibit that followed a three-week workshop she attended at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, learning techniques of…
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An Unexpected Flowering
Eight years ago, when Flat Rock artist Barbara Remensnyder was 70 years old and had enjoyed a productive career in the arts for decades,…
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Don’t Straighten the Frame
“Wabi-Sabi” harkens from a Japanese notion of finding aesthetic beauty in imperfection — that which is tilted, slightly decayed, quietly peeling, spilling its lines….
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“The Vegetable, Struggling”
A hanging painting or photo with a frame gone slightly askew begs to be straightened. But according to the notion of “wabi-sabi,” the tilt…
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The Anti-Engelbreit
When Marian Congdon arrived in Hendersonville more than 20 years ago, it wasn’t love at first sight. She and her husband had moved from…
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