The “Imperfectionist” Pivots
Textile artist turned collagist upends expectations By: Carolyn Kemmett Nava Lubelski’s art takes the viewer on an adventure that always ends with open-ended questions,…
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Sketchers Gonna Sketch: Show at Upstairs Artspace
Asheville native Cyrus Glance, who works in pen-and-ink, pastels, and gouache, decided early on that he didn’t want to be an artist. “When I…
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Exhibit: Open
Carefully Placed Lines on Paper, an exhibit of drawings by Tryon architect John Walters, opened late last month at Upstairs Artspace in Tryon —…
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Dirty Fingernails Required
“Clay is everywhere,” declares Western North Carolina potter Josh Copus. “Finding a good source of wild clay isn’t as hard as most people think.” …
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Taking Wing
Bonnie Joy Bardos created her first paintings when she was just two years old, although her parents may not have appreciated her budding…
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Film Imitates Art Imitating Life
Tryon film fans and art lovers are marking a red-letter day at the end of July. The historic Tryon Theatre, closed for months for…
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Painters Without Borders
Landscape is probably two-dimensional art’s most accessible form. But when painted scenes of photorealism or Monet-derived Impressionism are pushed into the realm of abstraction…
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A Traveling Show
You can always count on Upstairs Artspace in Tryon to ride the cutting edge, and they’re sharpening up for spring with no less than…
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National Poetry Month is over, and with it, Tryon’s ever-growing Lanier Library Poetry Festival, held in late April. But the word’s out all year…
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Six Weeks For Nina
Since late January, the Tryon art gallery Upstairs [artspace] has been busy paying a multifaceted birthday tribute to their town’s most famous — sometimes…
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