Red Carpet Gala & Gallery Show of the Year Awards 2018 - First Peak of the Blue Ridge
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Red Carpet Gala & Gallery Show of the Year Awards 2018

February 8, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Red Carpet Gala

To honor and celebrate the fabulous artwork and gallery shows that take place in Polk County, Tryon Arts & Crafts School will for the third consecutive year present the award for Polk County Gallery Show of the Year.
The award will be given at the public reception for TACS’ Red-Carpet Artist of the Year Show,
Friday, February 8, 6 – 8:30 PM at
373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, NC.

Criteria:You may nominate one temporary/rotating gallery show that was located in Polk County, NC, in 2018 with a theme, title and opening and/or closing reception.

Please vote for your favorite show from the list of shows submitted from the following galleries (in alphabetical order):

  • Carri Bass Photography and Art Gallery,  Carri and Friends
    February 9 2018
    Along with Carri Bass and four friends, Alyson McFalls, Blake Johnson, Diane Becker and Pan Goodhand coming together to create a show was an amazing feat. From Carri’s outstanding works as a photographer, Blake Johnson photography work fits together so well. Enhanced by the amazing metal work created by Alyson McFalls, to Diane Becker’s “Souls” which are created with stone and pottery all worked so well with Pam Goodman’s sweet woodsy birdhouses. Five Artists from 4 medias creating a show that is a must see.
  • Tryon Arts & Crafts School, The Enchanted Forest
    August 3-30  2018

    Originally a concept formed by Ruthie Roseaur and Kate Stockman, The Enchanted Forest was concentrated around featured artists – Art Sauder, Phoebe Blackwell, Camille Corn, Doug Dacey, Eva McCray, Hope Rhodarmer, June Rhoads, Justin Allman, Kate Stockman, Katee Hargraves, Kelly Theil, Kymberly Day, Mary Dill, Petra Brooks, Rowan Leona, Ruthie Rosauer, Sam Oliver, Sarah Jane Oiler, and Toby Wolter. Approximately 60 guest artists participated in a public calling, resulting in a dense woodland-themed display with wide variety of disciplines represented. Works entertained folklore, mythology, fantasy, impressionist landscape, and abstract compositions inspitred by nature. Artist Mary Dill constructed a large papier mâché tree rooted at the gallery’s central axis, from which Stockman’s jewelry hung.
  • Tryon Fine Art Center, Gallery 1, Showcase of Excellence
    February 17-March 10, 2018
    Showcase of Excellence features the exceptional artistic talent of high school students in our area. This premier event is a juried fine arts competition that offers young artists their first taste of a professional gallery environment. Cash prizes are awarded for the top student artists and teachers. We welcomed 13 teachers from 10 different North and South Carolina high schools for the 2018 Showcase of Excellence which ran from February 17 through March 10, 2018.
  • Tryon Painters and Sculptors, For the Love of Horses
    September 15-October 13, 2018, September 22 Reception
    Over 100 local artists contributed works appropriate to the theme “For the Love of Horses,” including any aspect of equestrian lifestyle, from attire to pastoral scenery to activities, or any abstract representation. The show was juried by C. Allen Coleman, an artist, curator and seasoned creative professional.
  • Upstairs Artspace,  Peter Roux: The Cloud Paintings
    October 20, 2018 – November 30, 2018
    Peter Roux’s work is fascinated as much by how we see in our culture as what we look at. We’re confronted by constant images in our daily life- through print, online, social media, etc.- to the point where most of the spaces we experience visually on a daily basis are reproductions in some form. Each of these has been edited prior to our viewing, so choices have been made as to what we see, where the borders lie, etc. Framing mechanisms are in continual use in all media, and they affect our viewing. In the Suspension series, his interest lies in utilizing somewhat “epic” landscape subjects – clouds, large open spaces- as visual pulls into illusory space, and then setting these against elements of flat mark-making. This curiosity is about all the dynamics that are set in motion by relating one type of visual vocabulary against another. In these offsets he finds tensions and relationships that reflect on how contemporary spatial language, and therefore contemporary space itself, can be understood.

 

 

Details

Date:
February 8, 2019
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Event Categories:
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Website:
www.tryonawards.org

Venue

Tryon Arts and Crafts School
373 Harmon Field Rd.
Tryon, NC 28782 United States
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Phone
828-859-8323