Green Hill Art Museum List of Winter Show Artists

With Mixed-Media Artists, Watercolor Painters, and Sculptors, GreenHill's Winter Show Returns with a Renewed Focus on Cultural Diversity

North Carolina Arts Council

Tuesday, January xi, 2022

GreenHill Middle for Due north Carolina Art, in Greensboro, has opened its forty-second annual Winter Bear witness, which features a broad range of contemporary artwork past emerging and established artists across the land. This ii-month exhibition, which volition run through Feb 16, strengthens GreenHill'southward focus on cultural diversity and demonstrates its innovative approach to presenting art amid a global pandemic. "Winter Show inspires connection and openness to new perspectives," Barbara Richter, GreenHill's executive director and primary executive officer, said in an interview with The News & Record. "The exhibition offers coveted access to many of our state's nigh innovative and thoughtful creators both online and in-person. More than 400 works by emerging and established artists showcase the resilience of our multifaceted cultural customs."

The Northward Carolina Arts Council asked five artists featured in the Wintertime Show how the pandemic has affected them as an artist and how fine art has helped both them and their community persevere. Their stories bear witness the many ways in which the arts spark fellowship, vitality, and healing. Despite the uncertainty of these times, North Carolina artists continue to create meaningful work.

A Bangladeshi immigrant whose work combines traditional Bengali decorative art forms with Western gestural abstraction to gloat her personal and artistic voyage and growth, Selina Akter sees her art every bit a way to show love and support for her community. "During the pandemic my daughter and I made some handmade cards with sweet notes for COVID-xix patients at Transition Life Care Center, in Raleigh. I believe those cards with colorful art brought some joy to those residents." For Selina, equally for and then many people, the pandemic has been a fourth dimension of cracking difficulty and sorrow. She said, "I have lost many friends and family members, including my father. I was overwhelmed past my loss and by thinking almost our uncertain futurity. Fine art helped me to calm down, salve my stress, and hope for a brighter future."

Connect with Selina Akter:

world wide web.selinaakter.com/

Crystal Injure is a painter and a musician, and her artwork beautifully combines the power of both media and that of the natural globe. The pandemic, however, dampened her inspiration. Without shows to submit work to and a halt placed on in-person learning for her graduate school program, she "spent several months non painting at all." This fallow time gave her a risk to "give serious thought to her goals as an artist, and to reassess her work and where she wanted it to go." Eventually this period of reassessment led her down a new path of collaborative artwork, and she partnered with fellow GreenHill Wintertime Evidence creative person Lucas Hundley. Together they created a series of painted wooden salt and pepper shakers, some of which are shown above. Crystal had never worked collaboratively on a slice of art before, but she came to see the unknown of the pandemic as a perfect opportunity to breach what was for her unknown artistic territory. "Taking my fine art in new directions, in the midst of seemingly everything going in a new direction, feels reassuringly similar moving forward."

Connect with Crystal Hurt:

world wide web.crystalhurt.com/

Jasmine Best believes that "creating art is prayer." Her machine-sewn wall hangings and woven rugs present narratives of the creative person'south childhood in North Carolina and evoke themes of self-identity, representations of Black, and cultural stereotypes. "I am most at peace when creating art," she said. "During the pandemic, making art was what helped me process what was happening and to check in on my mental and physical health." The pandemic presented some hurdles for her art-making, merely those challenges provided inspiration. "I had to call up differently about how I sourced my materials. Some of my favorite places to buy art supplies were either temporarily closed or permanently closed during the pandemic, so my art practice became fifty-fifty more sustainable than information technology was before. I tried to use the fabric that was already in my studio for new work." You can see the results for yourself in the works pictured above.

Connect with Jasmine Best:

www.jasminebest.com/

Julio Gonzalez, a Charlotte-based painter and printmaker, describes his work equally "if Hansel and Gretel had met Quetzalcoatl while trying to notice their style home." His art draws on his father'southward Aztec heritage and his female parent's Mayan ane, reclaiming them through a contemporary lens. The pandemic forced Gonzalez to work smaller. "Prior to the pandemic, I had access to larger studio space. I take had to movement to a minor spare sleeping accommodation, which I share with another creative person." The move there inverse his arroyo to making fine art. "I have moved from painting to using watercolors and inks to go quick immediate manifestations of my ideas. I recently completed a serial of five-inch by seven-inch watercolor and ink works depicting a reimagining of Mayan cosmology and mythology." Julio Gonzalez is no stranger to the healing power of fine art, using his paints, inks, and watercolors equally tools to process the ever-changing climate of the pandemic. He says, "Creating fine art heals by allowing one to limited and become out things they can't verbally. Really proficient art is able to do that for many."

Connect with Julio Gonzalez:

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Jonathan Vizcuña saw the isolation of the pandemic as a chance to look inward. "Staying in art and getting lost is pure bliss. There is nothing ameliorate than this. The myriad trivial things on the outside serve as the coveted creative goad for my fine art," he said, reminiscing on the earth we left behind at the beginning of 2020. "Interesting and baroque conversations, strangely beautiful hand-painted signs on buildings, rebellious flowers running downwards the sidewalk, and an endless list of inspirations: all I have to go along at present is the memories of those experiences." His intricate sculptures of animals, created using vivid, carefully folded newspaper, evoke the special connections many of u.s.a. had during the pandemic with our pets—for some of united states of america, our only companions. "The pandemic has pushed everyone from isolation to introspection, whether welcomed or non. As an artist, information technology'south not the worst identify, as it happens automatically when y'all create a piece."

Connect with Jonathan Vizcuña:

world wide web.jonathanvizcuna.com

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GreenHill'southward Winter Show is costless and open to the public. All pieces showcased are for sale. Run into the piece of work of these 5 artists amongst more than 400 other pieces in the gallery (which has updated its COVID safety guidelines) or browse the collection online.

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Source: https://www.ncarts.org/blog/mixed-media-artists-watercolor-painters-and-sculptors-greenhill%E2%80%99s-winter-show-returns-renewed

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