Tradition Meets Innovation: Objects & Accents of the Arts & Crafts Home
February 16 - March 31
An exhibition showcasing furniture, textiles, and paintings that are influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement and traditional American designs. Tradition Meets Innovation: Objects & Accents of the Arts & Crafts Home will coincide with the 25th Annual Arts & Crafts Conference at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa (February 17 - 19), located across the street from Grovewood Gallery.
FEATURING WORKS BY:
Brian Brace - A recent Western North Carolina transplant who feels he has come home. He creates furniture based on his many years of perfecting an Arts & Crafts aesthetic. Brian melds Arts & Crafts style with Shaker work ethic to make his own style of handcrafted furniture.
Don Gauthier - Kansas artist Don Gauthier started his craft career over 30 years ago as a potter. In 2001 he stopped working in clay to devote full attention to woodworking. He uses all local hardwoods and traditional small workshop production techniques. His Greene & Greene style is based on the honesty of simplicity and intensity of devotion to craftsmanship.
Bryan Koontz - North Carolina artist Bryan Koontz works in many different media, including water color, pen & ink, graphite, and is now exploring in depth traditional oil painting – specifically the techniques employed by the Hudson River and American landscape painters of the mid to late 19th century.
JP Sullivan - A traditional American realism painter from Western North Carolina. During the Arts & Crafts Conference he will be painting from a live model in period costume on the premises of Grovewood Gallery. JP will be demonstrating paint-making and explain the traditional materials and techniques passed down by the Master/Apprentice tradition since the Renaissance.
Ann Wallace - Arts & Crafts textile artist from California who creates stencil, applique & embroidery designs in linen. She uses designs reminiscent of Gustav Stickley, William Morris, Charles Rennie Macintosh & other masters of early 20th century design.
