Past Events
"Nudes and Naked Truths"
May 1 - June 30, 2013
AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel
AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 6pm-8pm
Featuring portrait, nude, and abstract works from Western North Carolina artists Nancy Moore, Elinor Bowman and Keith Spencer
Black Mountain’s Nancy Moore—gifted with a loving awareness—is an accomplished professional artist whose primary medium is watercolor. Moore has participated in many solo and juried exhibitions and her work has been featured in galleries in the United States and Canada. On Friday, May 3, a select group of Moore’s watercolors entitled “Visionary Art Naked Truths” will debut at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel as part of the “Nudes and Naked Truths” art show that will hang through June 30. Also featured in this show are watercolors from Elinor Bowman and works in oil from Keith Spencer.
NANCY MOORE
Nancy says of her Visionary Painting—“The seeing that I experience is not of my eyes. When I am with the watercolor paper, what emerges is an awareness of oneness with my inner voice. “The raw passion of nature and spirit are called into these watercolor paintings. Voices from the tribe partnering for deepened connection, insight, and balance. Improv art reaching to ancient wisdom, weaving movement song story. When an insight comes from a place of peace, there is color and life and creativity. With true vision there is the dancing of the heart.”
Nancy has been influenced by a childhood in the country, roaming the landscape, animal and human companions, travels to never ordinary places, sounds of silence, sounds of earth rhythms, songs of spirit-led dances, poetry, movement within movement without borders; today she is focusing on the power of the shared heart. Each piece of art is an original work on watercolor paper, signed and framed.
ELINOR V BOWMAN
Award winning artist, Elinor Bowman, started painting in1996 after careers in the business world, and my, my, was it worth the wait! “I love to portray persons, either portrait or figures. Something of the persona comes through,” says Elinor. Several media—brush and ink, oils, conti-crayon—are appealing to Elinor, though her portraits and nudes in watercolor are the medium curator Cappi Macsherry finds both outstanding and closely personal. “The combined subtleties of Bowman’s use of color, movement, placement, and subject make for a powerful yet intimate connection between the piece and viewing patron, “says Macsherry. “Painting and drawing are avenues for accessing my higher, true self,” according to Bowman, “I love it!!”
KEITH SPENCER
Painting directly on canvas with broad strokes of oil, Columbus artist, Keith Spencer produces softly realistic and semi-abstract works of the female nude that emit a life force that seemingly combine with that of Spencer’s own to appear on the canvas in calm, vivid hues of purples, greens, yellows, and the varied colors of nature, most recognizably seen in Spencer’s paintings of scenic landscapes. “Energy, especially that of color, is the most important element in Spencer’s figure paintings that comes to life with no formal studies other than a rudimentary midnight sketch using more notes than lines,” remarks Libby Fleming in the “The Intuitive Painter” from Bold Life Magazine. “Spencer’s human figures vibrate with life and invite the viewer into a world of glowing color and gentle shapes.” Spencer paints the radiant energy of his subjects rather than the details of line and form. “What makes something unique has always interested me,” says Spencer. “I think at some level, I am trying to reveal that uniqueness through my paintings, whether it is a landscape, a figure, a still life or a feeling." Spencer’s newest works of nudes (all painted from 2009 – 2013) are suggestive investigations of the female body and what is revealed when one thinks no one is watching. Spencer’s paintings of the face, while seemingly simple and introspective, have subliminal significance that transcends the figure and form altogether.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 6pm-8pm
Featuring portrait, nude, and abstract works from Western North Carolina artists Nancy Moore, Elinor Bowman and Keith Spencer
Black Mountain’s Nancy Moore—gifted with a loving awareness—is an accomplished professional artist whose primary medium is watercolor. Moore has participated in many solo and juried exhibitions and her work has been featured in galleries in the United States and Canada. On Friday, May 3, a select group of Moore’s watercolors entitled “Visionary Art Naked Truths” will debut at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel as part of the “Nudes and Naked Truths” art show that will hang through June 30. Also featured in this show are watercolors from Elinor Bowman and works in oil from Keith Spencer.
NANCY MOORE
Nancy says of her Visionary Painting—“The seeing that I experience is not of my eyes. When I am with the watercolor paper, what emerges is an awareness of oneness with my inner voice. “The raw passion of nature and spirit are called into these watercolor paintings. Voices from the tribe partnering for deepened connection, insight, and balance. Improv art reaching to ancient wisdom, weaving movement song story. When an insight comes from a place of peace, there is color and life and creativity. With true vision there is the dancing of the heart.”
Nancy has been influenced by a childhood in the country, roaming the landscape, animal and human companions, travels to never ordinary places, sounds of silence, sounds of earth rhythms, songs of spirit-led dances, poetry, movement within movement without borders; today she is focusing on the power of the shared heart. Each piece of art is an original work on watercolor paper, signed and framed.
ELINOR V BOWMAN
Award winning artist, Elinor Bowman, started painting in1996 after careers in the business world, and my, my, was it worth the wait! “I love to portray persons, either portrait or figures. Something of the persona comes through,” says Elinor. Several media—brush and ink, oils, conti-crayon—are appealing to Elinor, though her portraits and nudes in watercolor are the medium curator Cappi Macsherry finds both outstanding and closely personal. “The combined subtleties of Bowman’s use of color, movement, placement, and subject make for a powerful yet intimate connection between the piece and viewing patron, “says Macsherry. “Painting and drawing are avenues for accessing my higher, true self,” according to Bowman, “I love it!!”
KEITH SPENCER
Painting directly on canvas with broad strokes of oil, Columbus artist, Keith Spencer produces softly realistic and semi-abstract works of the female nude that emit a life force that seemingly combine with that of Spencer’s own to appear on the canvas in calm, vivid hues of purples, greens, yellows, and the varied colors of nature, most recognizably seen in Spencer’s paintings of scenic landscapes. “Energy, especially that of color, is the most important element in Spencer’s figure paintings that comes to life with no formal studies other than a rudimentary midnight sketch using more notes than lines,” remarks Libby Fleming in the “The Intuitive Painter” from Bold Life Magazine. “Spencer’s human figures vibrate with life and invite the viewer into a world of glowing color and gentle shapes.” Spencer paints the radiant energy of his subjects rather than the details of line and form. “What makes something unique has always interested me,” says Spencer. “I think at some level, I am trying to reveal that uniqueness through my paintings, whether it is a landscape, a figure, a still life or a feeling." Spencer’s newest works of nudes (all painted from 2009 – 2013) are suggestive investigations of the female body and what is revealed when one thinks no one is watching. Spencer’s paintings of the face, while seemingly simple and introspective, have subliminal significance that transcends the figure and form altogether.
"First Friday at the Monte Vista Hotel, Friday, April 5th, 5:30-8:30pm
Bill Boyd, Artist
Swannanoa, NC
William (Bill) W. Boyd was born and raised in California where he spent his professional life as a civil engineer. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, Boyd studied black and white photography at Palomar College and UCSD, San Diego. During this period he learned about light, shadows and composition, earning numerous awards for his photography, even developing and printing his own work in a dark room he built. In 2003, Bill retired and moved to Swannanoa, NC with his wife, Martha, and there—his mountain-top studio—he took up oil painting in 2004 at the age of 60, developing a style of his own that is closely modeled after Abstract Realism. Abstract Realism is when the artist takes a real object or scene and abstracts it, allowing the viewer of the piece to put himself in the scene or imagery in a way that doesn’t restrict the viewer to a single location or time in their life. It is more than just distorting the imagery. It is the ability to change something to the unreal but not surreal. Boyd, who likes experimenting with color, light and shape, has painted and studied with David McCaig, John MacKah, and Tim Bell, and continues to draw inspiration from the beach, mountains, and from the works of Wolf Kohn, and Egon Schiel. Boyd knows that nothing is static and is looking forward to constantly modifying and expanding his work.
See an expanded collection of Boyd’s Friday, April 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel’s “First Friday”. Also featured that evening is 3D Found-Object Folk Artworks from Alan Kaufman along with a sneak peek of Nancy Moore’s new collection of folk abstract watercolors. Enjoy “Artini” drink specials, live music, dinner specials, and a meet and greet with the artists. New works featured in the Elbow Gallery by the Swannanoa Valley Fine Art League. Free and Open to the public. Monte Vista Hotel, 308 West State Street in Black Mountain. 828-669-8870. 828.419.0049 . www.anthmgallery.com
Swannanoa, NC
William (Bill) W. Boyd was born and raised in California where he spent his professional life as a civil engineer. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, Boyd studied black and white photography at Palomar College and UCSD, San Diego. During this period he learned about light, shadows and composition, earning numerous awards for his photography, even developing and printing his own work in a dark room he built. In 2003, Bill retired and moved to Swannanoa, NC with his wife, Martha, and there—his mountain-top studio—he took up oil painting in 2004 at the age of 60, developing a style of his own that is closely modeled after Abstract Realism. Abstract Realism is when the artist takes a real object or scene and abstracts it, allowing the viewer of the piece to put himself in the scene or imagery in a way that doesn’t restrict the viewer to a single location or time in their life. It is more than just distorting the imagery. It is the ability to change something to the unreal but not surreal. Boyd, who likes experimenting with color, light and shape, has painted and studied with David McCaig, John MacKah, and Tim Bell, and continues to draw inspiration from the beach, mountains, and from the works of Wolf Kohn, and Egon Schiel. Boyd knows that nothing is static and is looking forward to constantly modifying and expanding his work.
See an expanded collection of Boyd’s Friday, April 5, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel’s “First Friday”. Also featured that evening is 3D Found-Object Folk Artworks from Alan Kaufman along with a sneak peek of Nancy Moore’s new collection of folk abstract watercolors. Enjoy “Artini” drink specials, live music, dinner specials, and a meet and greet with the artists. New works featured in the Elbow Gallery by the Swannanoa Valley Fine Art League. Free and Open to the public. Monte Vista Hotel, 308 West State Street in Black Mountain. 828-669-8870. 828.419.0049 . www.anthmgallery.com
"First Friday" at the Monte Vista Hotel, Friday, March 1, 5:30-8:30pm
AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel presents March’s “First Friday” event on Friday, March 1, 5:30-8:30 p.m. The evening features Found-Object Folk Art Works by artist Alan Kaufman, paintings by Sally Sweetland, “Artini” drink specials, appetizers and music by Joe Hallock & friends. “First Fridays” are held on the first Friday of every month and are free and open to the public. The Monte Vista Hotel is located at 308 W State Street in Black Mountain, 828-669-8870.
Featured Artist, Alan Kaufman
After a start in New York City and many years in Miami, Kaufman now calls Asheville home. He honed his woodworking skills at his family’s antique furniture and restoration business, and his work is all about folk art. In Kaufman's studio the woodworking machines and shop tools share space with the materials he has collected over many years: lumber from old barns, parts of lamps, chandeliers, his hand-made glass works, and those serendipitous items that he finds just about everywhere. All of these resources come together to create one-of-a-kind pieces. Kaufman's creations have been shown at Handmade in America (Asheville), Grovewood Gallery (Asheville), Miya Gallery (Weaverville), Art Factory (Wilmington), The Design Gallery (Burnsville), Chifferobe (Black Mountain) and now at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel.
In addition to his work as an artist, Kaufman, and wife Judy, have played a large role in producing the East Asheville Studio Tour (EAST) each year. This year they’ll return to support and feature artwork in the newly restructured EAST event that will now be known as BLUE TO BLACK Art Weekend, directed and produced by Black Mountain’s Cappi Macsherry with co-director, June Vengoechea of Visions of Creation.
Featured Artist, Alan Kaufman
After a start in New York City and many years in Miami, Kaufman now calls Asheville home. He honed his woodworking skills at his family’s antique furniture and restoration business, and his work is all about folk art. In Kaufman's studio the woodworking machines and shop tools share space with the materials he has collected over many years: lumber from old barns, parts of lamps, chandeliers, his hand-made glass works, and those serendipitous items that he finds just about everywhere. All of these resources come together to create one-of-a-kind pieces. Kaufman's creations have been shown at Handmade in America (Asheville), Grovewood Gallery (Asheville), Miya Gallery (Weaverville), Art Factory (Wilmington), The Design Gallery (Burnsville), Chifferobe (Black Mountain) and now at AnTHM Gallery at the Monte Vista Hotel.
In addition to his work as an artist, Kaufman, and wife Judy, have played a large role in producing the East Asheville Studio Tour (EAST) each year. This year they’ll return to support and feature artwork in the newly restructured EAST event that will now be known as BLUE TO BLACK Art Weekend, directed and produced by Black Mountain’s Cappi Macsherry with co-director, June Vengoechea of Visions of Creation.
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