Art

One day, when the Asheville-area artist Rowan Farrell was hanging some of her enigmatic work for an exhibition, a bystander approached. “What kind of…

For more than 10 years Daniel Nevins’ imaginary narrative paintings were a favorite amongst Asheville collectors, and it’s no wonder given the cherubic characters…

A pioneer of Asheville’s River Arts District is going home. Heinz Kossler, who hid out in Asheville 30 years ago as an illegal immigrant…

Kathy June uses almost every material imaginable. And the messier her media, the better. “I like smudges and fingerprints,” says the artist. “I guess…

When he’s in his studio, Ray Cooper is prone to spending long periods of time looking at his work, contemplating the visual problems at…

If the purpose of art, as John Cheever once observed, is to impose order on chaos, Taiyo La Paix may have been saved by…

When the Agfa factory closed in Pisgah Forest in 2002, 270 people lost their jobs. Tim and Donna Frady were among them. After nearly…

As an artist, Lori Raines has a peculiar wish. “I would like to draw nothing at all,” Lori says. But to draw nothing, to…

“Someone once said my paintings look like a Milton Bradley game on acid,” says Hendersonville artist Susan Webb Tregay. A quick look around her…