North Carolina Art
    Then & Now

May 1st - June 14, 2014

Opening reception: Sunday, May 4, 2-5pm

Then: Peter Agostini, Robert Barnard, Ben Berns, George Bireline, Sarah Blakeslee, Joe Cox, Elliott Daingerfield, Claude Howell, Richard Kinnaird, E.C. Langford, Edith London, Ted Potter, Francis Speight, Howard Thomas, Robbie Tillotson

Now:
McDonald Bane, Luke Buchanan, Arless Day, Robert Dunning, Anne Gregory, Silvia Heyden, Herb Jackson, Gerry Lynch, Ed Rihacek, Pat Scull, Sam Shelby, Margie Stewart, Robert Tynes


Sarah Blakeslee, Apple Picking Near Strasburg, VA


Claude Howell, Sand Fences: Ocracoke

 

 

Art From the Big Four
   

March 6th - April 26, 2014

Opening reception: Sunday, March 9, 2-5pm

Carolina: Beth Grabowski, Mario Marzan, Yun-Dong Nam,
elin o'Hara slavick, Jeff Whetstone, Dennis Zaborowski

Duke:
Tom Rankin, Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Merrill Shatzman

State:
Chandra Cox, Patrick FitzGerald, Charles Joyner,
Dana Raymond, Kathleen Rieder

Wake: David Faber, David Finn, Alix Hitchcock, John Pickel



 

 

Maud Gatewood
    Works on Paper

January 12th - March 1, 2014

Opening reception: Sunday, January 12, 2-5pm
First Friday: February 7, until 10pm

Maud Gatewood (1934-2004) was a major figure on the art scene in North Carolina in the second half of the 20th century. She is known for her patterned landscapes in rural settings. This exhibition focuses on her works on paper--watercolors, drawings, prints and oil on paper. Gatewood was born in Yanceyville in Caswell County. She taught at Queens College in Charlotte and at Averett University in Danville, VA. Her works are in a number of museum collections in North Carolina and the studio art building at UNC-Greensboro is named for her.


Maud Gatewood, Umbrellas


Maud Gatewood, Seated Man

 

 

One Hundred Under 1000.

November 24th thru December 31th, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, November 24, 2-5pm

This is the 19th in the series of “One Hundred Under...” exhibitions.



 

 

The World of George Bireline:     Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of His Birth

    The Print Collection of Robert and
    Peggy Harris of Raleigh

October 11th - November 16th, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, October 13, 2-5 p.m.


George Bireline

 

 

Structure in Painting

September 5th - October 9th, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, September 8, 2-5 p.m.

Charles Ladson / Macon, Georgia
Sherry Zvares Sanabria / Leesburg, Virginia
Nancy Scheunemann / Wilmington, North Carolina

The three painters in this show, each with his or her own distinct style, have never shown together before.  This marks the first time Charles Ladson and Sherry Sanabria have shown at this gallery.  The common binder in this show is that each painter employs structures--some recognizable and some not--in his or her work.


Sherry Zvares Sanabria

 

 

Art I Have Loved
    The Triangle's Art Exchange

July 17th - August 31, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, July 21, 2-5 p.m.

Art I Have Loved, the biennial exhibition and sale of works from private collections, is one of the gallery's most popular and most anticipated events.  This year netted the largest collection of artwork (over 300) in the 20-year history of the show.  Artists with international, national, regional, state and local reputations are represented.  Among them are:

Nancy Albertson
Harold Altman
David Loren Bass
Ben Berns
George Bireline
Bernard Buffet
Bert Carpenter
Ethel Casey
S. Tucker Cook
Matt Cooper
Joe Cox
Robert Dance
Elizabeth Darrow
Arless Day
Lope Max Diaz
Walker Evans
Rebecca Fagg
Richard Faughn
Frank Faulkner
Deborah First
Patricia Tobacco Forrester
Helen Frankenthaler
Richard Garrison
Maud Gatewood
Gina Gilmore
Janis Goodman
Bill Granley
Laura Grosch
Georgeanne Haas
Paul Harcharik
Ruth Harman
Paul Hartley
Madeline Heidrick
Sylvia Heyden
Anne Hill
Robert Howard
Paul Hrousky
Victor Huggins
Virginia Ingram
Barbara Insalaco
Norbert Irvine
Gregory Ivy
Herb Jackson
Mary Anne K. Jenkins
Elmer Johnson
Alex Katz
James Kerr
Richard Kinnaird
Oscar Kokashka
E. C. Langford
Henry Link
Linda Le Kinff
Edith London
Wayne McDowell
James McElhenny
Vincent Mastracco
Elizabeth Matheson
Peter Max
John Maggio
Ralph Meatyard
John Menapace
Paul Minnis
Susan Moore
Eadweard Muybridge
Robert Nelson
Kenneth Ness
Roy Nydorf
David Oppenheim
Dix Otto
Henry Pearson
Ann Carter Pollard
Sharon Parker
Jean Parrish
Elsie Dinsmore Popkin
Vernon Pratt
Mabel Pugh
Reginald Row
Andras Serano
Donald Sexauer
Francis Speight
Jack Stratton
Beth Sutherland
Kiyomi Talaulicar
Mary Leath Thomas
Robbie Tillotson
James Tucker
Andy Warhol
Richard Weaver
James A. McNeill Whistler
Beth Wicker
Merry Moor Winnett



 

 

Ann Harwell / Quilted Tapestry

May 5 - June 29, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, May 5, 2-5 p.m.


Peppermint Camillia of Dix, by Ann Harwell

 

 

Under the Influence of Gregory Ivy

March 21st - May 2, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, March 24, 2-5 p.m.

McDonald Bane
Lee Hall
Susan Moore
Mitzi Shewmake
Margaret Crawford
Anne Hill
Hannah Poe
Anne Kesler Shields
Maud Gatewood
Virginia Ingram
Ann Carter Pollard
Anne Wall Thomas

Gregory Dowler Ivy was the first modern artist to live in North Carolina. He created the art department at Woman’s College (UNC-G), founded the Weatherspoon Art Museum and the Durham Art Guild. While he was in Greensboro, his art department was ranked in the top twenty in the nation. He was very influential in North Carolina’s 20th century cultural life, and he was mentor to scores of artists including those in this exhibition which honors him.


Stagnation, 1948 by Gregory Dowler Ivy (1904-1985)

 

 

McDonald Bane Retrospective:
    A Survey of 65 Years in Art

February 10th - March 16, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, February 10, 2-5pm

On February 5, 1993, Lee Hansley Gallery opened with a private reception in the Capital Club Building in downtown Raleigh. The inaugural exhibition featured the work of McDonald Bane, a longtime friend of the gallery owner. A public reception followed on February 7. Two decades and over 200 shows later, the gallery dedicates its space once again to the work of McDonald Bane. This exhibition marks the first retrospective of this respected North Carolina artist’s work. Bane, who has work in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, has been a lifelong artist, designer, art historian, curator and educator. Join us on February 10 as we honor McDonald Bane and celebrate the start of the gallery’s 21st season.


McDonald Bane

 

 

Afterlight

January 6th - February 6, 2013

Opening reception: Sunday, January 13, 2-5pm

Examples of work by artist who have a strong identity with Lee Hansley Gallery. This exhibition is a porthole view of the gallery's first 20 years.


Paul Hartley, Landscape with Flower

 

 

One Hundred Under 1000.

November 18th thru December 29th, 2012

Opening reception: Sunday, November 18, 2-5pm
First Friday: Friday, December 7, til 10pm
Holiday Open House: Saturday, December 15, 12-5pm

This is the 18th in the series of “One Hundred Under...” exhibitions. This year’s show features 39 artists from 10 states is a wide variety of media. Added to works by our stable of atists are pieces from a list of invited artists. This show has the most variety of the series to date.



 

 

Thomas, Thomas & Thomas II
    Anne Wall Thomas, Howard Thomas
    & Mary Leath Thomas

October 7th thru November 10th, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, October 7, 2-5 p.m.
First Friday:  November 3, 6-10 p.m.

 

 


Untitled, Howard Thomas (1899-1971), oil on panel

 

 

Herb Jackson
    Pure Abstraction

August 23rd thru October 3, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, August 26, 2-5 p.m.
First Friday:  September 7, 6-10 p.m.

This exhibition of 25 paintings in a wide variety of scale marks the Raleigh native's first solo show at this gallery. Jackson earned art degrees from Davidson College, where he taught for over 40 years, and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His paintings, while all abstract in nature, are excavations in color and shape.  Jackson, who has works is a number of major museums in this country and abroad has developed a style that is immediately identifiable as his own.

 


Fog Bound by Herb Jackson

 

 

Margie Stewart
    Oil Studies and Still Lifes

July 12th thru August 18, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, July 15th, from 2-5 p.m.
First Friday:  August 3, 6-10 p.m.

 

This exhibition includes 72 small still life studies completed by the artist since the spring. They are fresh observations of situations set up and recorded on canvas by the Durham artist.


SPR Study Still Life No. 34 by Margie Stewart

 

 

Vincent Mastracco
    Second Generation Abstract Expressionist

June 1st thru June 30th, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, June 3rd, from 2-5 p.m.

 


Indian Springs by Vincent Mastracco

 

 

Interiors:
    Artwork from the World Indoors

April 12th thru May 26th, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, 15 April, from 2-5 p.m.

Luke Buchanan
Arless Day
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Jody dePew McLeane
Edward Rihacek
Charlotte Robinson
Margie Stewart
Catherine Walker

 


French Buffet with Flowers and Cake
by Jody dePew McLeane


The London Estate by Arless Day

 

 

Ben Berns:
    Landscape Drawings and Paintings

February 26th thru April 7th, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, 26 February, from 2-5 p.m.

Precision drawings and paintings of rural landscapes in North Carolina, Montana and Wyoming will fill the exhibition spaces at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh's Glenwood South beginning Feb. 26. The images are by Ben Berns (1936-2007), the Dutch born artist who spent a good part of his life in Greensboro. The gallery was recently selected to represent the late artist, a former professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This exhibition marks the first show of works by Berns in over fifteen years.

Berns was proficient at both painting and drawing. He started out as a sculptor but quickly was recognized for his ability to draw. Upon initial encounter by viewers, his graphite works are often mistaken as photographs due in large part to their extremely precise detail. However, when examined at close range, the mark making approaches abstraction. "And keep in mind that these pieces were done at very close range," said gallery owner Lee Hansley, who organized the show. "That means the artist developed a method of drawing that, when viewed from a short distance, the marks coalesced into realistic representation," he added.

One drawing in the exhibition, entitled Boseman, Montana, is a four-panel work on paper. Each panel is 72 x 48 inches, creating a polyptych that is an amazing six feet tall by 16 feet wide when place side-to-side. In the gallery, there was no wall wide enough to accommodate that configuration, so the panels were "folded" into a corner, taking up space on two perpendicular walls.

Yet another drawing in the show is a sweeping view of the Wyoming hills that is 96 inches wide. Gallery owner Hansley added, "I cannot imagine any finer drawings ever exhibited in North Carolina than those in this show...not even in a museum setting."

While Berns was accomplished with graphite, he added color and turned to painting in the last 30 years of his life. He was fond of the Sauratown Mountains in Stokes County, north of his home in Greensboro, and he painted scores of works there. He later moved to Maryland where he began painting wetlands and landscapes with water features like rivers, ponds and lakes.

It is interesting to note the absence of humans in the Berns landscape. Occasionally, the viewer will see a plowed field, a garden or a small structure among the lush, verdant scenes. But the viewer will see no human beings, just some evidence of human presence.

Berns was born in Ginnejen, The Netherlands, on May 15, 1936. Encouraged by his mother, he began painting at age eight. Bored with school, Berns quit at 14 and went to work in a printery. He later apprenticed with a lithographer in Amsterdam. He served his required two-year stint in the Dutch army and then settled in Paris, absorbing himself in the art scene for five years.

He immigrated to the United States in 1963 on an invitation of Pratt Graphic Art Center, where he taught printmaking. He supported himself by building lofts in the Soho section of Manhattan. While in New York City he sold Japanese prints and operated an art gallery.

In 1970 Berns was invited to teach painting and drawing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In his second year there, he was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He remained at UNC-G until 1982 when he left the university to paint full-time. He continued to live in Greensboro, later moving to Maryland where he split his time between Maryland and New York City.

The artist's first solo exhibition was in Amsterdam in 1965. It was followed by one-man shows in New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Memphis and Raleigh. He had been in scores of group landscape shows.

Ben Berns died in Virginia in February 2007. He was 70 years old.

Works by Berns live after him and have made their way to some of the world's great museums including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the British Museum in London and theMusee Cantini in Marseille , France. In this country his works are found in the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The New York Public Library, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Brooklyn College in New York, the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn., the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

In North Carolina, Berns' work may be found in the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro and the Greenville Museum of Art.

His works are in scores of major national corporate collections including the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, N.Y., Coca-Cola in Atlanta, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in New York, American Express in New York , Prudential Life in Newark, N.J., Sears in Chicago, Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter and the Bank of New York, among others. Locally his work is in the collection of GlaxoSmithKline, Duke University Medical Center and Mitsubishi.

 


Saw Mill, Stokes County, NC by Ben Berns

 


Moore's Knobb, Sauratown Mountains
by Ben Berns

 

 

George Scott: Abstractions

January 11th thru February 21st, 2012

Public Reception: Sunday, January 22nd, 2 - 5 p.m.

George Scott studied at the College of Design at N.C. State University and majored in graphic design. The Army veteran, who lives in Raleigh, began painting full-time over 18 months ago and this show is a result of that concentrated period of painting. This is Scott's first solo exhibition.

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A Storm is Coming by George Scott

 

 

100 Under 1000.

November 20th thru December 31, 2011

North Carolina's longest running fine art holiday exhibition.

Works in the show by the following artists::

Kim Abraham
Matt Amante
Andras Bality
Nicholas Bernard
Charles Phillip Brooks
Autumn Brown
Luke Buchanan
William Byers
Les Caison
Jan Chenoweth
Fong Choo
Kate Coleman
Brandon Cordrey
Josh Copus
Ben Dyer
Ray Elmore
Joyce Fillip
Ron Franklin
Ellen Gamble
David Goldhagen
Debora Gomez
Roger Halligan
George Handy
Bailey Hurt
Sarah Hutt
Richard Kinnaird
Jamie Kirkpatrick
September Kreuger
Suzanne Krill

Mimi Logothetis
Anna Ludwig
Gerry Lynch
Bernard Martin
Richard Marshall
Kevin Mayer
Lisa Neher
Ben Owen III
Jim & Shirl Parmentier
Kenneth Peters
Ronan Peterson
Martha Petty
Leah Preiss
Rob Pulleyn
Jo Pumphery
Dindy Reich
Kathleen Ryall
Holly Ann Sailors
Virginia Scotchie
George Scott
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Bruce Shores
Margie Stewart
Anne Wall Thomas
Catherine Walker
Conrad Weiser
Allen Weiss
Jennifer Wells

 

 

 

 

 

Art I Have Loved

September 18th thru October 12, 2011

Preview: Sunday, September 18th, 2 - 5 p.m.
Public Reception: Sunday, September 25th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Art I Have Loved is Lee Hansley Gallery’s biennial art exchange in which collectors consign works for resale on the secondary market. This is our largest show of this type in its 19-year run and includes the widest variety of works from all over the world. We’ll be open each Friday night of the sale until 10 p.m.

Works in the show are by the following artists::

Yaacov Agam
Phillip Ange
Nancy Baker
McDonald Bane
Richard Beale
Harry Bertoia
Chen, Binxing
George Bireline
Sarah Blakeslee
Pam Blene
Lynn Smiser Bowers
Frank Brangwyn
Robert Broderson
Bernard Buffet
Ethel Casey
Marc Chagall
A.R. Cole
S. Tucker Cooke
Clara (Kitty) Couch
Joe Cox
Margaret Crawford
Robert Dance
S. Danforth
Fred Daniels
Elizabeth Darrow
Arless Day
Lynn Moody Deal
Larry T. Dean
Susan Durfee
M.C. Escher
Walker Evans
Janet Francouer
Maud Gatewood
Paul Hartley
Gene Hege
Madeline Heidrick
Silvia Heyden
Richard Hickam
Anne Hill
A. Hogg
Constantine Holzer
Robert Howard
Claude Howell
Vic Huggins
Gregory Ivy
Herb Jackson
Mary Anne K. Jenkins
Cecile Ryden Johnson
Elmer Johnson
Inez Johnson
Henry Kamphoefner
James Kerr
Richard Kerwoski
Richard Kinnaird
Oscar Kokashka
Anton Krajnc
Hans Kruus
Lois Lane
E.C. Langford
Donald Lee

Edith London
Thomas MacPherson
Vincent Mastracco
Wayne McDowell
Hope McMath
John Maggio
Robert Marsh
Elizabeth Matheson
Nancy Tuttle May
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
John Menapace
Kieko Mimami
Richard Basil Mock
Steven Moore
Susan Moore
Philip Moose
Irene Moss
J. Muka
Ray Mullen
Edweard Muybridge
R. Nagel
Kenneth Ness
Kenneth Noland
Ruth Ogle
Nancy Orcutt
Dix Otto
Ben Owen III
Joseph Pennell
T. Petit
Pablo Picasso
Ted Potter
Pancho Quilici
Brett Radicki
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Charlotte Robinson
Schatzly
Donald Sexauer
Tribal Masks and Shield
Nona Short
Breck Smith
Virgil Sova
Francis Speight
Kiyomi Talaulikar
Jake Taylor
David Terry
Howard Thomas
Mary Leath Thomas
Walter Thrift
Robbie Tillotson
Charles Tostoe
James Tucker
J. Douglas Vokes
Waldrop
Neil Watson
David Weidman
Merry Moor Whinnett
J.A. McNeill Whistler
Stephen White
Sean Yselvt
Zilon

 

 

 

 

 

John Beerman: Studies
    Kevin Mayer: Still Lifes and Gardens

August 14th thru September 14th, 2011

Opening Reception: Sunday, August 14th, 2 - 5 p.m.

John Beerman, a native of Greensboro, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and has been painting for the past two decades in the Hudson River Valley of New York state. His painting at the North Carolina Museum of Art is among the most popular works in the collection. He also has work in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art, among others. He now lives and works in Hillsborough.

Kevin Mayer is a native of Chapel Hill who now lives and works in Freeville, N.Y., in the Hudson River Valley. He majored in French at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

 


John Beerman, New Mexico Midday Sketch


Kevin Mayer, Squash and Azalea

 

 

Fresh: More Art Faster
    Juried Summer Exhibition

July 15th thru July 31, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday, July 15th, 6 - 10 p.m.
Closing Reception: Sunday, July 31st, 2 - 5 p.m.

Fresh: More Art Faster is a juried competition hosted by Lee Hansley Gallery. The gallery’s proprietor and namesake selected the 92 works in the show by 67 artists. A list of participants is below. Over 200 artists entered the competition with most participants coming from metropolitan Raleigh. Ages ranged from 14 to mid-80s. “I was very pleasantly surprised as the response and at the level of work that was submitted. Initially, I had thought we might have 40 or 50 works, but we ended up showing twice that many,” stated Hansley. There is a wide variety of work and a good representation of three-dimensional pieces. It only runs through July 31 so don’t miss it.

*Awards of Distinction recipients

Sonja Chavez Alarcon
Matt Amante*
Julian Barlow
Fabrizio Bianchi
Christine S. Berndt
Mary Charles Boyette
Bif Bream
Jill Bullitt
Sylvia Chung
Alia El-Bermani*
Les Caison III
Brandon Cordrey
Linda Donelson
Eric Ennis
Joyce Fillip*
Ron Franklin
John Gaitenby
Gary Goodman
Donna Gregory
Catherine Howard
Kerry Hudson*
Bailey Hurt*
Suzanne Krill
Hope T. Langley
Eduardo Lapetina
Roxane Lessa
Renee Leverty
Marriot Little
Graeten Lowrie
Gayle Stott Lowry*
Gerry Lynch*
Richard Marshall
Susan Martin
Bonnie Melton

Tim Mize
Lisa Neher
Roger Van Ostrand
Martha Petty
Kristine Pierce*
Peter Pflasterer
Jessica Poland
Constance Poppalardo
Leslie Pruneau
Dindy Reich
Carl Robbins
George Scott*
Carol Joy Shannon
Sam Shelby
Stephanie Slater
Ali Sobel-Read
Mary Storms
Ellie Reinhold
Eric Saunders
Breck Smith
Dave Speicher
Bruce Spencer
Margie Stewart
Hunter Hilton
Tapscott
Sabra B. Taylor
Anne Wall Thomas
Julee Thomsen
Jim Stoots
Ron Ward
Robert Vance
Terry Vance
Conrad Weiser
Chip Wright

 

 

 

 

 

The Light of Day
    A Selection of Artworks from
    Our Stable of Artists

May 22nd thru July 2, 2011

Public Reception: Sunday, May 22nd, 2 - 5 p.m.

McDonald Bane
John Beerman
Luke Buchanan
Marsha Burns
Fong Choo
Tucker Cooke
Robert Dance
Arless Day
Michael Ehlbeck
John Borden Evans
Janis Goodman
Roger Halligan
George Handy
Silvia Heyden
Herb Jackson
Aaron Karp
Richard Kinnaird
Gerry Lynch

Kevin Mayer
Rod MacKillop
Wayne McDowell
James McElhinney
George McKim
Lisa Neher
Ben Owen III
Ruth Pinell
Andrew Polk
Rob Pulleyn
Jo Pumphrey
Charlotte Robinson
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Nona Short
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Catherine Walker

 

 


Pulling the Traps by Robert Dance


Flare by Herb Jackson

 

 

Black & White / Color & Light
    Portraits of Artists by Allen Weiss &
    Works of Art by His Subjects


    Billy Lee: Marble Sculpture

March 13th thru April 30, 2011

Public Reception: Sunday, March 13th, 2 - 5 p.m.

 

 


Claude Howell by Allen Weiss


Millstone by Billy Lee

 

 

Portraits of Artists
    Mixed Media by Gerry Lynch & Pat Scull

January 16th thru March 9, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, January 16th, 2 - 5 p.m.

 

 

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Phillip's Studio by Gerry Lynch


France by Pat Scull

 

 

100 under 1000.

November 21 thru December 31, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, November 21st, 2 - 5 p.m.

100 under 1000. artists:

Matt Amante
Diane Amato/
Lisa Morton
Andras Bality
McDonald Bane
Autumn Brown
Luke Buchanan
Jan Chenoweth
Fong Choo
Neolia Cole/
Kenneth George
Ed & Kate Coleman
Brandon Cordrey
Marc Crumpler
Lope Max Diaz
Adam Egenolf
John Borden Evans
Ron Franklin
Ellen Gamble
Roger Halligan
George Handy
Maryann Harman
Sarah Hutt
Jacob Kincheloe
Joyce Watkins King
Suzanne Krill
September Krueger
Eric Lawing
Anna Ludwig
Gerry Lynch
Robert Marsh
Richard Marshall
Bernard Martin
Zelime Matthews
George McKim
James McElhinney
Lisa Neher
Ben Owen III
Kenneth Peters
Jo Pumphrey
Marie Ringwald
Gail Ritzer
Charlotte Robinson
Kathleen Ryall
Holly Ann Sailors
Virginia Scotchie
Pat Scull
Victoria Sexton
Sam Shelby
Aditya Shringarpore
Michael Smallwood
Molly Strader
Liz Zlott Summerfield
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Fran Twisdale
Caroly van Duyn
Catherine Walker
Conrad Weiser
Jennifer Wells

 

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PageanTrees by McGee

 

 

Three Solo Painting Exhibitions
    Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids
    George Handy of Asheville
    Kenneth Peters of Raleigh

October 13 thru November 13, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, October 17th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Three artists working in very different styles are featured in the current trio of solo shows.  Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids is a trained commercial artist who turned to fine art. This body of work is characterized by a looser style than exemplified in prior exhibitions. All his works are rooted in the Eastern North Carolina and Southside Virginia landscape.

George Handy of Asheville is familiar to most gallery patrons as a potter. However, a few years ago, George's studio was lost in an auto accident and he turned to painting. His abstract relief paintings bear the same gestural markings and floating forms as did the surface decoration on his ceramic works.

Kenneth Peters of Raleigh is new to the gallery. His oil paintings of Victorian houses called to mind Edward Hopper, but with a limited pallet.

sam shelby
Sam Shelby

george handy
George Handy

kenneth peters
Kenneth Peters

 

 

Lilo Kemper: Clayworks
    A Retrospective

September 9 thru October 9, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, September 12th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Lilo Kemper has been making pots and showing them publicly since 1985 when she retired from her work in the pathology lab at Duke University Medical Center. She was an active potter until 2005 when health issues caused her to cease working. Lilo, who is now 90, was never a production potter; each firing produced another body of work demonstrating leaps in her development as a clay artist. This exhibition, which consists mostly of pieces loaned by collectors from the Triangle, is the first survey examination of her artistic output. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition; it was funded by gifts from her friends and collectors of her work.

This exhibition is comprised of scores of works borrowed from private collections.  The pots illustrated here are available for sale.  For questions and prices, contact the gallery at 919.828.7557 or email the gallery at [email protected].

Catalogues are available at the gallery for $10 or $12 via the mail.

lilo kemper

 

 

Mid-Century Modern:
    An Exhibition of Art and Design Objects     Created Between 1925 and 1975

August 5 thru September 4, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, August 8th, 2 - 5 p.m.

McDonald Bane
Robert Barnard
George Bireline
Bernard Buffet
Paul Collomb
Joe Cox
Margaret Crawford
Suzanne Evans
Frank Faulkner
Ruth Harman
Anne Hill
Silvia Heyden
Robert Howard
Claude Howell
Norbert Irvine
Gregory Ivy
Maryanne K. Jenkins
Richard Kinnaird
E.C. Langford
Edith London
Susan Moore
Kenneth Ness
Ann Carter Pollard
Anne Kessler Shields
Ron Taylor
Mary Leath Thomas
Gene Thornton
Walter Thrift
A.M. Tidd
and others...

Designs by Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson & Isamu Noguchi shown courtesy of Alfred William & Company in Raleigh, exclusive Herman Miller, Inc. dealers.

Designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer shown courtesy of Design Within Reach Studio in Charlotte.


Edith London, After Noguchi

 


Isamu Noguchi, Noguchi Table

 

 

Lope Max Díaz: Paintings

June 10 thru July 24, 2010

This exhibition is at:
Lee Hansley Gallery, Too
126 Glenwood Ave
Tues – Sat:  Noon – 6pm
and First Friday until 10 pm

Public Reception: Sunday, June 13th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Lope Max Diaz is one of North Carolina’s leading painters working in the modernist vein. Diaz is a retired faculty member at NC State University where he taught design fundamentals and painting in the College of Design. He exhibits his paintings throughout the southeast region, as well as in Puerto Rico.

Before joining the faculty of the College of Design in 1988, he was an assistant professor of design in the school of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico. He previously had been assistant professor of art in the Fine Arts Department of the College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, and has also taught art at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico.

Note: Work by Robert Marsh remain on view at the gallery through July 24.


Lope Max Díaz, Pintura Conjuntada II

 

 

Details: Five MFAs from ECU in
    Metals & Fiber

June 13 thru July 24, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, June 13th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Featuring: Matt Amante, Autumn Brown, September Krueger,
Molly Strader and Jennifer Wells

This exhibition features the works of four recent MFA graduates from the metals program and one from the fiber program at the East Carolina University School of Art and Design. The works included in the show are extraordinary and are on the level with seasoned, mature artists. –Lee Hansley

Matthew Giovanni Amante is a sculptor originally from Michigan. His undergraduate work was done at Western Michigan University where he studied Art Education and English Education while earning the majority of his elective credits in Sculpture. After graduation he accepted a position teaching high school art in Darlington, South Carolina. After teaching there for 2 1/2 years he came to ECU to earn his MFA in sculpture.

Amante’s work deals with stone as an inspiration, stemming from a childhood interest in collecting rocks. These sculptures take ideas from sculptural processes, Chinese aesthetic criteria having to do with “Scholars’ Rocks”, and geology. The work focuses on blending and transforming these concepts into sculptural form. “The Transformation of Stone” is the title of his thesis exhibition and contains sculpture separated into three MFA 2010 necklacecategories: “Geological Impressions”, “Scholars’ Rocks”, and “Outdoor Sculpture.” This body of work uses a variety of process and materials including, cast bronze, cast iron, wood, and fabricated steel to express his ideas.

Autumn Brown is a native of Augusta, Georgia. After receiving her BFA in metalwork from the University of Georgia she came to East Carolina University to pursue her Masters in metal design. After graduation, Autumn plans to begin her teaching career instructing students in the summer metalworking class at Interlochen Arts Center in Interlochen, Michigan.

September Krueger completed her undergraduate studies in Textile Design at Philadelphia University. She worked in a wearable art studio producing a line of women's clothing prior to her graduate studies. Her work focuses on storytelling, using silkscreened motifs to develop the images. Details are sketched onto the final surface of her textiles using the sewing machine and hand embroidery.

Molly Strader was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1979. She obtained her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with a major in metalsmithing and a minor in ceramics and sculpture in May 2004. Ms. Strader graduated Magnum Cum Laude, and with Departmental Honors from the University of Toledo, Department of Art. She completed a Small Business Management certificate from Florida Keys Community College in 2005, and her Masters of Fine Art in metalsmithing and jewelry design from East Carolina University in 2010.

Growing up Ms. Strader was surrounded with art; her mother was a painter, interested in cultural arts of the Native Americans as well as other native and ancient cultures. Her father was an engineer and owned a travel agency. For two summers in the mid 90’s she traveled to Bali, Indonesia, to study Balinese culture, dance, and work under a master wood carver. That trip and subsequent studies set Strader on a life long journey concentrating on her artwork and developing her views of simplicity and oneness with nature within the art. Creating artwork was an essential part of Strader’s youth and still is today, along with her continued interest in the world’s cultures. She has taught metalsmithing at MFA 2010 paintingFlorida Keys Community College through the Continuing Education Department, as well as private lessons out of her studio. Strader continues to design and create new work in her studio; her work has won many awards in shows nationwide.

Jennifer Wells completed her BFA in Craft and Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. She emphasized in Metal Design within the Craft and Material Studies Department, under James Meyer and Susie Ganch. After graduation Jennifer took a year off from school to go adventuring on a several months long sailing trip to the Bahaman Islands. She is presently an MFA candidate at East Carolina University with Linda Darty, Bob Ebendorf, Tim Lazure and Mi-Sook Hur. Jennifer has been very fortunate and been able to travel to Europe several times. Her more recent trips to Switzerland and Italy have left a lasting impression which permeates her artwork.

matthew giovanni amante
Matthew Giovanni Amante

autumn brown
Autumn Brown

september krueger
September Krueger

molly strader
Molly Strader

jennifer wells
Jennifer Wells


 

Robert Marsh: Recent Works in Oil Pastel

April 30 thru June 5, 2010

This exhibition is at:
Lee Hansley Gallery, Too (126 Glenwood Ave)
Hours: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesday - Saturday)

Public Reception: Sunday, May 16th, 2 - 5 p.m.


Robert Marsh


Robert Marsh

 

 

George McKim: Paintings

March 12 thru April 24, 2010

Public Reception: Sunday, March 12th, 2 - 5 p.m.

 


George McKim

Robert Barnard: Memorial Exhibition
    Joe Cox: Paintings & Works on Paper

March 5 thru April 27, 2010

This exhibition is at:
Lee Hansley Gallery, Too (126 Glenwood Ave)
Hours: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesday - Saturday)

Public Reception: Sunday, March 7th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Robert Barnard (1922-2010), a native of Northampton, England, was an esteemed art educator and professor of studio art at the University of North Carolina.

All proceeds from the sale of Joe Cox works from the Skip and Janice McAninch collection will go to the Friends of the Library at NCSU in support of the Color Wall restoration project.


Robert Barnard


Joe Cox

 

 

The Paul Hartley Legacy

January 17 thru February 27, 2010

This exhibition is at both Lee Hansley Gallery locations:

Lee Hansley Gallery (225 Glenwood Ave)
Hours: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesday - Saturday)

Lee Hansley Gallery, Too
(126 Glenwood Ave)
Hours: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesday - Saturday)

Public Reception: Sunday, January 17th, 2 - 5 p.m.

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Lee Hansley Gallery and Lee Hansley Gallery, Too presents "The Paul Hartley Legacy," an exhibition honoring the memory of the late painter from East Carolina University who died Thanksgiving Day. Hartley's influence lives on through the work of his students; over 100 of them are included in this exhibition, the largest exhibition ever held in a commercial gallery in North Carolina.  The artists are from 17 states and India and many are art professors themselves.  Paul Hartley had more student contact hour than any art professor ever in the state university system.  His influence is great and far reaching and his inspiration is without bounds. A committee of eight identified the outstanding students who should be invited to honor Paul Hartley through their work.  Each is represented by work in the exhibition.

Many are unaware that East Carolina University’s School of Art is the oldest and largest accredited art school in the South.  Paul Hartley taught there for 37 years and most of that time was the head of the painting department.  His work was the subject of a recent exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery and featured old work and new work.  The North Carolina Museum of Art acquired a Hartley painting from that exhibition.  The Paul Hartley Legend show is so large it will be housed in both galleries. Exhibitions run through Feb. 27.

A book featuring over 100 tributes to the late artist was published by the gallery in conjunction with the exhibition and is available at the gallery.  The book cost 10 dollars. Books may be purchased by contacting the gallery at 919.828.7557


Paul Hartley, My Room is Turning

Collection of Jerry Jackson, Penland, NC

 

 

One Hundred Under 1000.

November 26 thru January 2, 2010

Our annual holiday exhibition featuring works in a variety of media from our stable of artists along with works by invited artists.

Works by:

Andras Bality
William & Katherine Bernstein
Steve Bickley
Luke Buchanan
Chrissy Callejas
Neolia Cole & Kenneth George
Kyle Carpenter
Fong Choo
Ed & Kate Coleman
Lope Max Diaz
Amanda Taylor Durant
Caroly van Duyn
Michael Ehlbeck
John Borden Evans
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Ron Franklin
Janis Goodman
Al Frega
Janis Goodman
George Handy
Maryann Harman
Paul Hartley
Jerry Jackson
Joyce Watkins King
Richard Kinnaird
Jamie Kirkpatrick
Jon Kolkin
Suzanne Krill
Nancy Kubale
Eric Lawing
Mimi Logothetis
  Anna Ludwig
Gerry Lynch
John Maggio
Nancy Marple
Robert Marsh
Richard Marshall
Kevin Mayer
Wayne McDowell
James McElhinney
George McKim
Lisa Neher
Cindy Neuschwander
Ben Owen III
Jim & Shirl Parmentier
Ronan Peterson
Leah Palmer Preiss
Rob Pulleyn
Gail Ritzer
Sang Roberson
Kathleen Ryall
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Victoria Sexton
Sam Shelby
Bruce Shores
Liz Zlot Summerfield
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Michael Voors
Catherine Walker
Richard Weaver
Conrad Weiser


William & Katherine Bernstein


Nancy Marple

 

North Carolina Art: Then & Now

November 26 thru January 2, 2010

THIS EXHIBITION IS AT LEE HANSLEY GALLERY, TOO
126 GLENWOOD AVE


Hours:
12 p.m. - 6 p.m. (Tuesday - Saturday)
12 p.m. - 10 p.m. (First Fridays)

Public Reception: Sunday, November 29th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Works by: McDonald Bane, George Bireline, Luke Buchanan, Bert Carpenter, Joe Cox, Lope Max Diaz, Michael Ehlbeck, David Faber, William Frerichs, Maud Gatewood, Paul Hartley, Mark Hewitt, Alix Hitchcock, Robert Howard, Henry Kamphoefner, E.C. Langford, Page Laughlin, Billy Lee, Edith London, Gerry Lynch, Ben Owen III, Pat Scull, Anne Kessler Shields, Catherine Thornton and Robbie Tillotson.


George Bireline (1926-2002), Autumn 4

 

Margaret Crawford: Art Estate Sale

November 8 thru November 14, 2009

THIS EXHIBITION IS AT LEE HANSLEY GALLERY, TOO
126 GLENWOOD AVE
• Hours 1-6 p.m.

Close Out Auction of all works NOT sold during the estate sale:
Sunday, November 15th, 2:30 p.m. Doors open at 2:30

Conducted by Lee Hansley Gallery, the estate sale consists of the complete studio of work by native Raleigh artist Margaret Crawford. Among the well-known artists in this offering are prints by: Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Vassily Kandinsky, Kaethe Kollwitz, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Yoshitoshi Mori, Edouard Pillet, Georges Roualt, Toyokuni, and a large selection of works from the respected Rochester (New York) Print Club


Margaret Crawford studied with Gregory Ivy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she earned her BFA and MFA degrees. She is a disciple of the modernist Bauhaus philosophy of art and she worked almost exclusively in the abstract mode. Her works are both geometric abstractions and biomorphic abstractions. Margaret was an expert printmaker, a skillful painter and an accomplished sculptor. Her entire professional life was dedicated to teaching art on the university level. She exhibited widely in Michigan and in Upstate New York where she has lived and she has a work in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art. She has shown previously in Raleigh at Lee Hansley Gallery and at the defunct Gilliam and Peden Gallery. In addition to a massing a huge body of her own work, Margaret Crawford was an astute collector of fine prints. All are included in this massive sale.


Vassily Kandinsky, Untitled


Otto Dix, Matthaus Evangelium

 

Jody dePew McLeane: Pastel Drawings
    Kate Coleman: Portrait Series

October 25 thru November 17, 2009

Reception for the Artists: Sunday, October 25th, 2 - 5 p.m.

Jody dePew McLeane, who has been named pastel artist of the year by the Pastel Society of America in New York, is having her fourth solo show at this gallery. This year's body of work includes her trademark interior scenes, some with figures, and three still life drawings. McLeane's works have been published in three books and her work is in the collections of Hallmark, the Mayo Clinic, Stouffer's and Walt Disney World among others. She lives and works in Eagle River, Wisconsin.

Kate Coleman is having her first solo show with the gallery. Coleman, who lives and works with her husband Ed in Swannanoa in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a native of Indiana. She studied at Ball State University. She and her husband collaborate on much of the work that comes out of their joint studio. This is the first time Kate has shown her series of portraits of people, who are both real and imagined.


Jody dePew McLeane



Kate Coleman

 

Vincent Mastracco: Action Painting
     A Memorial Exhibition in Honor of Sam Tarlton

October 11 thru November 6, 2009

Reception: Sunday, October 11th, 2 - 5 p.m.

THIS EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION IS AT 126 GLENWOOD AVE

Vincent Mastracco, an abstractionist through and through, was a personal friend of the late Sam Tarlton. It is fitting that this exhibition of 20 works by Mastracco honor the memory of Tarlton. Tarlton introduced Mastracco to Lee Hansley Gallery in 1999 and today the gallery represents the artist's estate of works. The paintings are characterized by layer upon layer of oil paint and a heavy application of paint over an armature of a formalized geographic framework.



Vincent Mastracco, Blue/Green Grid Series

 

Paul Hartley: Looking Back

September 18 thru October 15, 2009

Reception for the Artist: Sunday, September 20th, 2 - 5 p.m.

This is the largest exhibition of Paul Hartley’s work ever held at the gallery.  The show features 55 paintings covering the last two decades of work by the Greenville painter.  Hartley, a native of Atlanta, earned his MFA at East Carolina University and returned there to teach art.  He was on the faculty for 33 years and was head of the painting program until his retirement last year.  While this is not a true retrospective, the show does reflect the artist’s style, technique and subject matter of his mature oeuvre as a painter.  Some paintings are narrative, some have art historical references and some simply celebrate the beauty of an isolated common object.  Few would disagree that Paul Hartley is the most skilled painter working in North Carolina today.


Paul Hartley



Paul Hartley, Living in a Stream

 

Anne Hill: By Her Own Hand
    A Memorial Retrospective Exhibition

August 23rd thru September 16th, 2009

First Friday Opening Reception: September 4th from 6-10 p.m.


Anne Hill, Untitled 38

 

Lisa Neher: The Outer Banks
    Kevin Mayer: Chatham Landscapes

June 23rd thru August 19th, 2009

Opening Recepction: Sunday, July 26th, from 2-5 p.m.
First Friday Gallery Walk: August 7th from 5-10 p.m.

Lisa Neher and Kevin Mayer, two artists who have shown with us in the past in group exhibitions, are having their first solo shows at the gallery. Lisa Neher's paintings are all done on the Outer Banks of North Carolina from the area around Duck down to Ocracoke. In her oil paintings, she captures the uniqueness of the architecture of Nags Head, the quaintness of Ocracoke with its wild ponies, the majesty of the lighthouses at Bodie Island and at Buxton as well as the fishing village atmosphere of Hatteras. Neher is from Falls Church, Virginia. Kevin Mayer, a native of Chapel Hill, rediscovers the charm of the agrarian aspect of his home state. These nine intimate paintings are the result of his spending the summer in Chatham painting. Mayer graduated from UNCG with a degree in French. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Art Students League in New York City. Mayer currently lives in Leesville, New York.


Lisa Neher, Soundside, Ocracoke



Kevin Mayer, Periwinkle Farm, Chatham County

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's New?
    Fresh Works by Artists in Our Stable

June 5th thru July 18th, 2009

First Friday Preview: Friday, June 5th, from 6-10 p.m.
Reception Honoring Artists: Sunday, June 7th, from 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition features new works from most of the artists in our stable.  Participants include painters McDonald Bane of New Hill, N.C., Luke Buchanan of Raleigh, Lope Max Diaz of Raleigh, Joyce Fillip of Raleigh, Cheryl Goldsleger of Athens, Ga., George Handy of Asheville, Paul Hartley of Greenville, Aaron Karp of Albuquerque,N.M., Joyce Watkins King of Raleigh, Richard Kinnarid of Chapel Hill, Gerry Lynch of Raleigh, Richard Marshall of Raleigh, James McElhinney of New York City, Wayne McDowell of Wilmington, George McKim of Raleigh, Anne Wall Thomas of Chapel Hill, Robert Tynes of Asheville and Mary Ann Zotto of Winston-Salem.  Sculptors in the show are Roger Halligan of Chattanooga, Tenn., Ronan Peterson of Chapel Hill, Gail Ritzer of Greenville, Pat Scull of Raleigh and Kathy Triplett of Weaverville, N.C. Drawings in the show are by John Maggio of Greensboro and Jody dePew McLeane of Eagle River, Wis.


Jody dePew McLeane, Lenny's Diner, pastel on paper, 16 x 20 in

 

 

 

 

 

Jon Kolkin:
    Tidal Pool Photographs

May 1 - 28, 2009

Opening reception: Sunday, May 3rd, from 2-5 p.m.

The 22 large-scale photographic images in this exhibition were all taken from a tidal pool on the west end of Emerald Isle on North Carolina's central coast.  They are deceptive in that their scale is ambiguous.  A number of the works appear to be aerial photographs but they were taken at ground level.  This marks Kolkin's second solo show at the gallery.


Shades of Bronze, 30 x 20 in

 

Art I Have Loved:
    The Triangle's Art Exchange

1 March - 20 April, 2009

Opening reception: Sunday, March 1st, from 2-5 p.m.
Closing reception: Sunday, April 26th, from 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition, held biennially, features some international work by artists like Marc Chagall, Bernard Buffet, Salvador Dali, Kuniyoshi, Kathe Kollwitz, Kiyomi Talaulicar and Louis Orr as well as works by well-known American artists like John J. Audubon, Carl Holty, Andre Serano, Charles Hinman, Clarence Morgan, Eudora Welty, Joseph Pinnell and Marsha Burns among others.  Well-known regional artists in this show are George Bireline, Patricia Tobacco Forrester, Clarence Morgan, Lamar Dodd and Francis Speight.  North Carolina artists in the exhibition include Joe Cox, Claude Howell, Herb Jackson, Robert Broderson, Rick Horton and Ray Musselwhite.  There are a number of three-dimentional works in the show by glass artists Kate and Billy Bernstein, Mark Pieser and Gary Beecham and Mary Lynn White and clay artists Ben Owen III, Jenny Bireline, Michael Sherrill, Mark Hewitt, Elaine Reed and Ben Owen, the elder.  Works may be purchased and removed from the exhibition.


Marc Chagall

 


Ben Owen III

 

Richard Kinnaird Retrospective

13 January - 21 February 2009

Opening reception: Sunday, January 18th, from 2-5 p.m.

Richard Kinnaird has been active on the North Carolina art scene since he moved to Chapel Hill in 1964 as an art professor at the University of North Carolina.  He retired from that post in 2003 but continues to live and work in Chapel Hill.  This exhibition spans Kinnaird's career, beginning in the mid-1950s and moving forward to the present.  The artist was born to American parents in Argentina.  He studied art at the University of Michigan, at Carleton College and at the Art Institute in Chicago.  He has works in the permanent collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum among others.


Richard Kinnaird, Maritime Influence

 

One Hundred Under 1000.

23 November - 31 December 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, November 23th, from 2-5 p.m.

For the 12th consecutive season, the gallery presents its annual holiday exhibition. The 2008 edition features over 250 works by 61 artists from across the nation. The roster of artists includes our stable as well as dozens of artists who were invited especially for this exhibition. For the holiday season we'll be open on Fridays until 10 p.m. until Christmas offering free gift wrapping and free Triangle delivery. We will be open on Christmas Eve until 4 p.m.

*Due to the number of works in this exhibition, in most cases only a single piece by each artist is represented online.  Please visit the gallery to see the complete exhibition.

Artists with works in the show:

Andras Bality
Lin Barnhardt
Christopher Baumann
Jeff Bell
Jayne Bomberg
Luke Buchanan
Neolia Cole & Kenneth George
Ed & Kate Coleman
Marc Crumpler
Lope Max Diaz
Amanda Taylor Durant
John Borden Evans
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Ron Franklin
Al Frega
Janis Goodman
Will Goodyear
Maryann Harman
Paul Hartley
Brown Holloman
Rob Igoe
Joyce Watkins King
Richard Kinnaird
Jamie Kirkpatrick
Jon Kolkin
Suzanne Krill
Nancy Kubale
Mimi Logothetis
Anna Ludwig
Gerry Lynch
John Maggio
Robert Marsh
Richard Marshall
Bernard Martin
Kevin Mayer
James McElhinney
Maureen McGregor
George McKim
Ben Owen III
Ronan Peterson
Ruth Pinnell
Jody dePew McLeane
Lynnette Miller
Lisa Neher
Gail Ritzer
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Bruce Shores
Nona Short
Rick Smith
Chris Stephens
Billie Ruth Sudduth
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Tom Turner
Michael Voors
Catherine Walker
Richard Weaver
Conrad Weiser

Paul Hartley

Luke Buchanan

Billie Ruth Sudduth

Pat Scull

 

Bernard Martin and Roger Halligan

October 17 - November 15, 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, October 26th, from 2-5 p.m.

Paintings by Bernard Martin of Richmond and a new body of sculpture by Roger Halligan of Chattanooga comprise the current exhibition. Prior to this show the artists had not met and their work was paired not because of any thematic or design similarities but because the two series have little in common and are ideal compliments. Martin's narrative paintings, most of which are based on classic comic book covers with an art historical twist, are show alongside the three-dimensional works by Halligan, works which deal with the more formal aspects of art--juxtaposition of various organic shapes as well as color harmony and contrast.

This is Martin's first major show at the gallery, though he has been involved in group exhibitions in the past. He is professor emeritis at Virginia Commonwealth University. He maintains a studio in downtown Richmond where he paints fulltime. Martin has work in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk as well as the Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Halligan, who has shown with the gallery since it opened, has works in a number of public collections including the City of Raleigh, the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro, the Maitland Art Center in Florida and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro. He is a founding member of the Tri-State Sculptor's Guild and is listed in Who's Who in American Art. He shares Two Oaks Studio with his artist partner Jan Chenoweth in Chattanooga.


Bernard Martin, John Wayne with Me as a Kid I and Mad with Duchamp

 


Roger Halligan, Safety First and Untitled 2008

 

 

A Walk in the Parks: Photographs from     North Carolina State Parks

Bill Pendergraft
Ida Wills Phillips
Jere Snyder

October 2 - 15, 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, October 5th, from 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition is sponsored by Niche Publishing of Chapel Hill on the occasion of its release of a guide to State Parks.



Ida Phillips, Beach at Fort Fisher

 

Kirk Fanelly and Chris Stephens

August 28 - September 30, 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, September 7th, from 2-5 p.m.

Chris Stephens, a native of Raleigh, lives in Front Royal, Virginia, and paints primarily the area in which he lives.  He studied with the late Andrew Martin at the University of  North Carolina at Greensboro.  This exhibition contains natural landscapes and urban scenes painted over the last three years.

Kirk Fanelly lives in his native North Carolina. He studied art at Brown University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. This exhibition is comprised of new works that capture everyday slices of life and contemporary genre paintings that sometimes amuse, perplex and occasionally disturb the viewer.


Chris Stephens, House Shadows

 


Kirk Fanelly, Lot's Big Dance Number

 

Catherine Walker

    Michael Ehlbeck

July 24 - August 27, 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, July 27th, from 2-5 p.m.

 


Catherine Walker, Mussolini with Monkey and Pig


Michael Ehlbeck, Amboy

 

Howard Thomas

   Tom Turner: Porcelain Pots

13 June thru 22 July 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, 15 June, from 2-5 p.m.

This show marks the fifth Howard Thomas exhibition organized and hosted by the gallery. Thomas (1899-1971) is most identified with the University of Georgia where he was professor of art for two decades. He also taught painting at UNC-Greensboro in 1942-43. This exhibition begins with early painting that date back to his North Carolina days and follows his development from a representational, expressionistic painter through his mature, lyrically abstract paintings that are his hallmark. Works by Howard Thomas are in over 30 museum collections nationally including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Tom Turner, master potter, moved to Mars Hill, N.C., three years ago after a career in clay that included establishing the ceramics program at Clemson University in South Carolina. He is considered one of the leading porcelain potters working today. His works have their basis in classical vase and jar forms which are adorned with colorful and inventive glaze techniques and surface decoration.


Howard Thomas, Hilltown


Tom Turner, Refined Covered Jar (TT5543)

 

Nona Short:
   A Retrospective Surveying a lifetime
   of observation through the camera lens

   North Carolina Art Pottery Sale

2 May thru 11 June 2008

Opening reception: Sunday, 4 May, from 2-5 p.m.
Closing reception: Friday, 6 June, from 7-10 p.m.

Nona Short is one of North Carolina's leading photographers. She has been active for the past four decades and is founder of the North Carolina Photographers Annual competition. She taught Latin and photography at Meredith College in Raleigh beginning in 1963 until her retirement three years ago. Her photographs of nature and architecture are marked by a straight-forward, honest approach in which she confronts her subject matter head-on. Nona displays a love of rural life perhaps because she comes from a very small town in western Tennessee.

Concurrent with the Nona Short exhibition is a show and sale of North Carolina pottery. Included are works by Ben Owen, Jugtown, A.R. Cole, Neolia Cole and Kenneth George, Conrad Weiser, Sally Bowen Prange, Mark Hewitt and others.


Roadside Foliage 1987


Mr. H. L. Page at His Home near Nelson, Durham County, North Carolina 1978


Süsse 1967

 

Gerry Lynch
    Hanna Jubran

21 March thru 22 April 2008

Public Reception: Sunday, March 23, from 2 until 5 p.m.

Gerry Lynch’s first exhibition with the gallery features 18 works executed over the last three years.  Most are large scale abstraction on paper employing a variety of media.  The works are abstract expressions of the artist’s interpretations of people, places and events in her life.

Her work is paired with the sculpture of Hanna Jubran, professor of art at East Carolina University.  Jubran’s work in this exhibition incorporates stainless steel, bronze, soapstone and marble.  A trademark of his work is applying bronze to stone and there are several pieces that illustrate that combination of materials.

The paintings and sculptures complement one another remarkably well.  There is a shared aesthetic interest in shapes both with the painter and the sculptor that makes for a harmonious marriage.

 



Gerry Lynch, Anthro 101

 


Hanna Jubran, In Harmony with Nature

 

Fifteen: An Exhibition Celebrating the    15th Anniversary of Lee Hansley Gallery

17 February thru 19 March 2008

Birthday Party :
Sunday, February 17, from 2 until 5 p.m.

Over 50 artists whose works have figured prominently on the walls of the gallery since it opened on Feb. 5, 1993, have submitted works to commemorate the gallery's landmark anniversary. Artists were asked to consider the number 15 in creating their works, and a free-wheeling variety of clever interpretations of the theme has resulted. Some are more obvious than others. Join us for a creative exhibition honoring our first 15 years of service to North Carolina art patrons.

Featured artists:

Diane Amato & Lisa Morton
Mackey Bane
Lin Barnhardt
David Loren Bass
Jayne Bomberg
Luke Buchanan
Jonathan Courtland
Sarah Craige
Lope Max Diaz
Amanda Taylor Durant
John Borden Evans
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Ron Franklin
Janis Goodman
George Handy
Gay Hanna
Maryann Harman
Paul Hartley
Sylvia Heyden
Anne Hill
Jerry Jackson
Hanna Jubran
Aaron Karp
Jacob Kincheloe
Joyce Watkins King
Richard Kinnaird
Jon Kolkin
  Karl Koga
Anna Ludwig
Gerry Lynch
John Maggio
Richard Marshall
Bernard Martin
James McElhinney
George McKim
Jody dePew McLeane
Lindsay Packer
Ruth Pinnell
Gail Ritzer
Charlotte Robinson
Marvin Saltzman
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Bruce Shores
Nona Short
Michael Smallwood
Breck Smith
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Robert Tynes
Caroly Van Duyn
Catherine Walker
Richard Weaver
Mary Ann Zotto



Paul Hartley, A History with 15 Leaves

 


McDonald Bane, Sunset XV

 

Vincent Mastracco:
    2nd Generation Abstract Expressionist

Ruth Pinnell:
Black & White Photographs

January 6 - February 13, 2008

Reception:
Sunday, January 6, 2-5 p.m.

Vincent Mastracco's paintings are characterized by heavy applications of paint generally in an organized pattern. His paintings are about the act of painting and are purely abstract in origin. Often the viewer will discern and underlying grid as the armature of the work. In some cases the grid is obvious and is an integral part of the painting. Mastracco's paint is applied generously and thickly employing a variety of tools, including but not restricted to his fingers. The artist was born in 1941 and died in 2001 at the age of 59. His studio was in the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan and he spent the weekends in his country home in Washington Depot, Conn. He died of a heart attack prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks. The building where his studio was located was damaged, but not destroyed. Mastracco was labeled a “second generation abstract expressionist” in a New York Times review of one of his exhibitions.

Ruth Pinnell's exhibition of silver gelatin prints includes a portfolio of works the artist did on two trips to Iceland as well as a suite of related images grouped together in a single frame. Another suite of work has a rooftop theme. Pinnell lives in Durham and teaches photography in Durham, Carrboro and Thomasville.



Vincent Mastracco, Indian Springs

 


Ruth Pinnell, Palm Buddha

 

One Hundred Under 1000

November 18 - December 29, 2007

Reception:
Sunday, November 18, 2-5 p.m.

One Hundred Under 1000. is the gallery's annual holiday show. This year's version, the eleventh in the series, features over 200 works by 65 artists. Participants come from our regular stable of artists as well as a host of invited artists. Our goal is to offer a wide range of original works of art in a variety of media at affordable prices. Works in this exhibition range in price from $25 to $975. Participating artists are as follows:

Laleah Adams
Diane Amato
  & Lisa Morton
Andras Bality
Steve Bickley
Luke Buchanan
Thor Bueno
Neola Cole
  & Kenneth George
Georgina Corrie
Jonathan Courtland
Lope Max Diaz
Caroly Van Duyn
John Borden Evans
Barbara Fisher
Ron Franklin
Jim Gallucci
Roger Halligan
Paul Hartley
Nathaniel Hester
Brown Holloman
Farida Hughes
Rob Igoe
Jerry Jackson
Elmer Johnson
Lilo Kemper
Jacob Kincheloe
Joyce Watkins King
Richard Kinnaird
Jamie Kirkpatrick
Jon Kolkin
Bob Kopf
Suzanne Krill
Mimi Logothetis
 

Anna Ludwig
John Maggio
Nancy Marple
Richard Marshall
Zelime Gillespie Matthews
Kevin Mayer
Maureen McGregor
Lynette Miller
Chad Mohr
Lisa Neher
Joe Nielander
Margaret Peery
Ronan Peterson
Rob Pulleyn
Gail Ritzer
Carl Robbins
Ahmad Sabha
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Bruce Shores
Chris Simoncelli
Michael Smallwood
Breck Smith
Chris Stephens
Linda Tavernise
Anne Wall Thomas
Kathy Triplett
Tom Turner
Nathaniel Underwood
Michael Voors
Catherine Walker
Conrad Weiser
Mary Ann Zotto

 



Diane Amato & Lisa Morton, Dance at Bougival Revisited

 


Joe Nielander, Gestural

 


Joyce Watkins King, Dragonfly Dance

 

Jody dePew McLeane: Pastel Drawings

Thor Bueno: Glass Works

October 12 - November 10, 2007

Reception:
Sunday, October 14, 2-5 p.m.

Jody dePew McLeane is one of the leading pastel artists in the nation. She employs a century old technique (similar to the method used by Edgar Degas) to create her imagined interiors and her nostalgic still lifes. Her use of light is skillful and her color is rich. This exhibition incorporates works completed in the last two years.

Thor Bueno teaches and works out of a studio at the Penland School of Crafts. He studied glass blowing at the famed Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, and earned his BFA in visual arts from the University of California at San Diego. He earned his MFA at Alfred University in New York.


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Jody dePew McLeane, Vision of Saint Jerome

 

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Thor Bueno

 

PAUL HARTLEY: New Paintings

SECONDARY MARKET WORKS:
Edith London, Richard Garrison, Sally Bowen Prange, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Louis Orr and others

August 30 - October 6, 2007

Reception:
Sunday, September 9, 2-5 p.m.

Paul Harley: New Paintings
This exhibition features the two-year output of this East Carolina University painting professor. It includes some of his classic paintings in which he isolates a single realistic object or image over a background of abstraction. A few allegorical paintings compliment the exhibition. Hartley is a Charlotte native who grew up in Atlanta and earned an art degree at the University of North Texas and his MFA at East Carolina University. He has been teaching full time at ECU since 1975. After next year he will retire from teaching and devote his time to painting. Paul Hartley has earned the respect of thousands of art students and hundreds of patrons over the decades and is considered one of North Carolina's best painters.

Secondary Market Works
Visitors to the gallery never know what might be in store for them. When they engage gallery personnel in conversation, they realize that the gallery has a storehouse of art--much of it of historical nature from estates or collectors who are selling all or parts of their collections. The gallery has mounted a secondary market show that runs concurrently with the Hartley exhibition. It consists of a number of works by well-known local, regional and national artists. Works are removed as they are purchased and new works are brought out to replace them, meaning the gallery is ever changing. Don't miss the opportunity to see a beautiful watercolor by Washington, D.C.'s Patricia Tobacco Forrester, paintings by New York's David Kapp, a beautiful abstract painting by the late Edith London, or a barnacle glazed porcelain by the recently deceased Sally Bowen Prange.

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Paul Hartley, Tomato with Thread

 

 

ASHLYNN BROWNING: Bridging the
    Inner Landscape

JOHN MAGGIO: New Works on Paper

ROYAL BOSTON: Estate Sale

July 12 - August 25, 2007

Reception:
Sunday, July 15, 2-5 p.m.



Ashlynn Browning, Green Ladder


John Maggio, Banff Series #3

 

Charlotte Robinson: A Retrospective

May 17 thru June 30, 2007

Public Reception for the artist:
Sunday, May 20, from 2-5 p.m.

Curated by McDonald Bane and Lee Hansley, long-time friends of the artist, this exhibition surveys over 40 years of artistic output of this Washington, D.C. painter. The viewer will observe four distinct stages in her work beginning with abstraction and moving through major art movements of her time as an artist. However, Charlotte Robinson has always had her own distinct voice in art, regardless of the current mode of expression or the media employed to make the art. She has almost always derived her work from natural sources--most particularly water.

Robinson, a Texas native, is first and foremost a colorist. Her work is most assuredly about the expression of vivid color and its power to evoke feeling, and this, along with her signature expressive brushwork provides a language for Charlotte's artistic comments on the environment and man's relationship to it.

The show is as much about Charlotte Robinson, the woman, as it is about her artwork. She has spent years in the political trenches of the woman's art movement, is credited with organizing the school at The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, and spent
a decade on an exhibition that brought famous women artists and traditional quilt-makers together for the first time in a show that traveled for three years to 19 venues nationally.

This exhibition, containing over 35 works of art, is accompanied by a fully illustrated color catalogue. It features an essay by Andrea Pollan, an independent curator in Washington, D.C., and an essay by New York author Eleanor Munro. The catalogue is available at the gallery as are two books, Charlotte Robinson's The Artist and The Quilt, and Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, which features an interview with Robinson.

This exhibition at Lee Hansley Gallery is the first stop of a national tour planned for this show.


Charlotte Robinson, Up the Cove

 


Charlotte Robinson, The Pond at 1:30 pm

 

 

 

Joyce Watkins King
Luke Buchanan

5 April thru 12 May 2007

Public Reception:
Sunday, April 8, from 2-5 p.m.
Open First Friday 'til 10 p.m.

Both these artists are alumni of the College of Design at N.C. State University. Joyce Watkins King, who is showing here for the first time, is a native of Oxford, N.C., and has lived in Raleigh since 1975. Most of her professional life has been dedicated to marketing and development for nonprofits. Her art medium has been painting and her subject matter representational until three years ago when she studied at the Penland School. Since that time she has been creating abstract images employing a wide variety of media.

Luke Buchanan, who has been in thee group shows here prior to this exhibition, graduated from the College of Design at NCSU in 2002 with a degree in environmental design and architecture. He was born in Morristown, N.J., and moved to Raleigh with his parents when he was 8 years old. He graduated from Enloe High School. Buchanan's paintings deal primarily with space and the history of place. He uses a photomontague technique in building his paintings and often incorporates objects found at the site in his works.

 


Joyce Watkins KIng, Excavating Language


Luke Buchanan, Cuts and Bruises on Our Hearts

 

Art Treasurers from Our Vault

March 2 thru April 3, 2007

Public Reception:
Sunday, March 4th, from 2 until 5 p.m.

We’re turning the gallery inside out for our next exhibition. Everything from our storage is being installed in the gallery spaces for our clientele to see and purchase. You’ll see works by internationally known artists like Marc Chagall, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Jenkins, James Rosenquist, Louis Orr, Bernard Buffet and Andy Warhol; works by nationally known artists like Andres Serrano, Marsha Burns, Patricia Tobacco Forrester, Cheryl Goldsleger, Robert Howard, Henry Pearson and Jody dePew McLean; regional favorites like Howard Thomas, Edith London, George Bireline, Robert Broderson, Gregory Ivy and Francis Speight; as well as North Carolina luminaries Paul Hartley, Nona Short, Catherine Walker, McDonald Bane, Bert Carpenter, James Gadson, Herb Jackson, Iris White, Joe Cox and Maud Gatewood.

 

 

 

Ted Potter Memorial Exhibition
    & Friends of Ted Potter

January 14 thru February 24, 2007

Public Reception:
Sunday, January 14, from 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition honors the memory of Ted Potter who died in November. This exhibition will contain large-scale paintings by Ted as well as works by 20 of his closest artists friends and colleagues. Ted, who was in this gallery's stable of artists, was director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem for 24 years. He went on to become director of the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. At the time of his death, he was a professor of museum studies and painting and drawing at VCU. Ted was a Kansas native and graduate of Baker University. He earned his MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Throughout his career as an arts administrator, he has painted and made collages. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at the University of New Orleans Museum of Art, the Deland Art Museum in Florida, Wake Forest University's Hanes Gallery and at this gallery. This past summer a lifetime survey of his work was presented at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art.

Artists invited to honor Ted in this exhibition by showing their works alongside Ted's are McDonald Bane, Steve Bickley, Jacqueline Bishop, Douglas Bourgeois, Robert Dance, Frank Faulkner, Gay Powell Hanna, Paul Hartley, Richard Johnson, Ray Kass, Richard Kevorkian, Bob Kopf, Bernard Martin, Elizabeth Matheson, John Menapace, Jerry Noe, Roxanne Reep, Nona Short and Tom Suomalainen.

Ted Potter photo credit: Nona Short


Ted Potter
(1932-2006)


Ted Potter, The Board Visionary/The High Jumper

 

100 Under 1000 Holiday Exhibition

November 19 - December 30, 2006

Reception:
Sunday, November 19, 2-5 p.m.

The gallery's annual holiday show series continues for the tenth consecutive year. This year the bar was raised on the price limit of work from $500. to $1000. and by doing so, more artists were able to participate. The end result is a stronger exhibition. Media represented among the 195 works in the exhibition include painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass, photography, jewelry, mixed media, printmaking, drawing and assemblage. Artists in the show are Andy Bality, Bernard Martin and Cindy Neuschwander of Richmond, Va.; Carl Billingsley, Paul Hartley, Jerry Jackson, Hanna Jubran and Catherine Walker of Greenville; Elizabeth Bradford of Davidson; Ashlynn Browning, Luke Buchanan, Lope Max Diaz, Joyce Fillip, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Jon Kolkin, Suzanne Krill, Richard Marshall, Maureen McGregor, Keith Miller, Nancy Scheunemann and Pat Scull of Raleigh; Thor Bueno of Penland; Neola Cole and Kenneth George, collaborators, of Sanford; Georgina Corrie of London, England; Carmen Elliott, Richard Kinnaird, Nancy Marple and Anne Wall Thomas of Chapel Hill; Barbara Fisher and Lynette Miller of Asheville; Ron Franklin of Hillsborough; Janis Goodman, Paul Reed and Michael Smallwood of Washington, D.C.; Roger Halligan of Sophia, N.C.; Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va.; Brown Holloman of Pine Tops; Aaron Karp of Albuquerque; Jacob Kincheloe of New York; Patrick Leger of Greensboro; Anna Ludwig of San Francisco; Jody dePew McLeane of Eagle River, Wis.; Lisa Neher and Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va.; Paul Reed of Arlington, Va.; Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Chris Stephens of Front Royal, Va.; William Martin Jean of Cleveland, Ohio; and Nathaniel Underwood of Columbus, Ohio.

Andy Bality
Carl Billingsley
Elizabeth Bradford
Ashlynn Browning
Luke Buchanan
Thor Bueno
Neola Cole / Kenneth George
Georgina Corrie
Lope Max Diaz
Carmen Elliott
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Barbara Fisher
Ron Franklin
Janis Goodman
Roger Halligan
Maryann Harman
Paul Hartley
Brown Holloman
Jerry Jackson
Jon Kolkin
William Martin Jean
Hanna Jubran
Aaron Karp
Jacop Kincheloe


Richard Kinnaird
Jamie Kirkpatrick
Suzanne Krill
Patrick Leger
Anna Ludwig
Nancy Marple
Richard Marshall
Bernard Martin
Maureen McGregor
Jody dePew McLeane
Keith Miller
Lynette Miller
Lisa Neher
Cindy Neuschwander
Paul Reed
Charlotte Robinson
Ahmad Sabha
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Michael Smallwood
Chris Stephens
Anne Wall Thomas
Nathaniel Underwood
Catherine Walker

 


Richard Marshall, Peace Street Bridge


Ahmad Sabha, Large Bowl


Richard Kinnaird, Untitled Abstraction No. 2

 

JON KOLKIN: PHOTOGRAPHS

HOWARD THOMAS: EARLY AND LATE WORK

October 6 - November 11, 2006

Reception:
Sunday, October 8, 2-5 p.m.

JON KOLKIN of Raleigh makes his first appearance at this gallery in a solo show with two series of digital photographic images. One is a series of color images he labels "Glass Flower Fusion" series and another series of mostly black and white or selectively colored images called "Water's Edge." Kolkin was born in New York City and reared in Maryland. He has been interested in photography since his early youth and minored in the arts at Emory University in Atlanta where he majored in chemistry and later earned a degree in medicine. Kolkin has been practicing hand surgery for 25 years, the last 19 years in North Carolina.

HOWARD THOMAS (1899-1971) is arguably one of the South's most outstanding artists of the mid-20th century. He was born in Ohio and grew us in southeastern Pennsylvania. He started college studying engineering at Ohio State University but later transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago where he work with such notable artists as George Bellows, Leopold Seyffert, Joseph Binder and Randall Davey. This exhibition is a bookends show in that it includes a collection of watercolors from the 1930s that show a solid grounding is classical art as well as a collection of paintings from his late mature work dating from 1949 to 1969 which illustrate his interest and exploration into modernism. Thomas, who once taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1942-43) also taught art at Agnes Scott College in Georgia and at the Milwaukee State Teachers College. His longest tenure was at the University of Georgia where he taught painting from 1945 until his retirement in 1965. Thomas, who as married to a North Carolinian, moved to Carrboro following retirement where he focused on painting full time. Works by Howard Thomas are in numerous collections nationally including the Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Delgado Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Museum, the Columbia Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum in Georgia, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Weatherspoon Art Museum among others. His exhibition career includes shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Speed Museum of Art, Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Harn Museum of Art in Gainsville, Florida, among others. His work has been the subject of three retrospective exhibitions including one in 1998 that traveled to several museums in the South.


Jon Kolkin, Red Cactus Prism


Howard Thomas, Cows

 


Howard Thomas, Red

 

THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE

August 25 - September 30, 2006

Reception:
Sunday, August 27, 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition explores in a variety of media the visual manifestation of the essence of the South, particularly the mid-Atlantic region. This show’s inspirations come from the flora, the vernacular and formal architecture,the maritime influence and the mysterious mountains, the lush vegetation, suburbia, cultural iconography, the lowlands, the wetlands and vast expanses of fields and forests, the inhabited and the uninhabited land.

Capturing scenes from everyday life are painters Andras Bality of Richmond along with the somewhat quirky and humorous paintings by Kirk Fanelly of Charlotte. Drawing inspiration from the mountains are painters Elizabeth Bradford of Davidson, Robert Dance of Kinston, John Borden Evans of North Garden, Va., Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va., and Chis Stephens of Front Royal, Va. Coastal scenes are depicted in drawings by Ben Berns of Fairfax, Va., and also by Robert Dance. Margaret Peery of Charleston, S.C., derives her imagery in her watercolors from the Low Country of South Carolina

Painters Joyce Fillip of Raleigh and Barbara Fisher of Asheville explore southern symbols, real and surreal, while drawings by Robert Marsh of Danville, Va., depict southern classic landmarks like front steps, a family cemetery and a golf course.

Expressive painters Richard Fennell of Whitsett, Richard Marshall of Raleigh, Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Bruce Shores of Greensboro and Breck Smith of Holly Springs paint what they know best, the landscapes they see around them.

Painter Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va., documents her impression of an early morning sunrise over the Atlantic at 15-minute intervals. Painters Wayne McDowell of Wilmington and Lisa Neher of Falls Church, Va., also derive their imagery from the coast.

Sculptors Lin Barnhardt of Mt. Pleasant, N.C., and Marie Ringwald of Washington, D.C., and ceramist Ronan Peterson of Chapel Hill contribute three-dimensional works to the show in an attempt to stretch the idea of landscape beyond the painting surface.

 


Margaret Peery, Lady's Island


John Borden Evans, Slow and Steady Triptych


Sam Shelby, Suffolk Field

 

NEW & HOT NORTH CAROLINA

June 15 - Aug 19, 2006

Reception:
Sunday, June 17, 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition is the result of a call for North Carolina artists between the ages of 21 and 35 living and working in the state or native to the state. Seven of the artists were invited based on their accomplishments to date. The remaining 32 were juried into the exhibition as a result of the open call. See what the next generation of artists is doing. The future is now.

Zeynep Cagla Alkan
Catherine Berlanga
Meredith Brickell
Ashlynn Browning
Luke Buchanan
Barbara Campbell
Audrey Layne Combs
Jonathan Courtland
Robb Damman
Sharon Dowell
Kirk Fanelly
Ben Galata
Gina Gibson
Jamie Gray
Adam Hall
Arianna Hoffmann
Kay Hutchinson
Mary Johnstone
Daniel Kelly
Matt Kerley
Jacob Kincheloe
Hayley Kyle
Patrick Leger
Ivan Liotchev
Nicole Litts
Laura McCarthy
Ana Ayala Melendez
Jeremy Richard Millard
Lia Newman
Gillian Parke
Ginny Payne
Amy Scheidegger
Ali Sobel
Ahmad Sabha
Lauren Casey Scharling
Christopher Thomas
Nathaniel Underwood
Jennifer Weinberg
Caroline Cobb Wright


Zeynep Cagla Alkan, Pipes


Richard Millard, Natural Bridge


Laura McCarthy, Paper Vessels

 

 

Three Richmond Painters

Richard Kevorkian
Bernard Martin
Paul Muick

May 12 thru June 14, 2006

Reception: Sunday, May 14, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

Exhibition curated by Ted Potter, McDonald Bane, and Lee Hansley

 

 

 

Richard Kevorkian, The Journey No. 1

 

Bernard Martin

 

Paul Muick, Recherche

 

Lope Max Diaz: Paintings

Andras Bality: Watercolors

April 6 thru May 10, 2006

Reception: Sunday, April 9, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

Lope Max Diaz: This 2006 series of paintings, all entitled "Oops", brings together a number of elements in the artist's visual vocabulary resulting in a body of work that is concerned with color, space, surface and symbolism. Diaz, a native of San Juan, has been on the faculty of the N.C. State University College of Design since 1988 when he was named to fill the post of the late painter George Bireline. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, at the University of Puerto Rico Museum of Art and at the Greenville (NC) Musuem of Art among others. He regularly shows in his hometown of San Juan. Lope Max Diaz has been associated with Lee Hansley Gallery since it opened in 1993.

Andras Bality is one of Virginia's leading mid-career artists. He is a native of Richmond and lives there now. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and completed post-graduate work at the Cyprus College of Art in Europe. He exhibits regularly in New York and Richmond as well as in Hungary, the country of his ancestors. Bality has been in a number of group shows at Lee Hansley Gallery, but this is his first solo show. It features watercolors capturing vignettes of everyday life.


 

Lope Max Diaz, Oops No. 1

 

Andras Bality, Dance Lesson

 

Art I Have Loved

 

March 15 thru March 30, 2006

Reception: Sunday, March 15, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

This marks the seventh in a series of the biennial Art I Have Loved exhibition and sale. The 2006 version is by far the largest to date. Works by local, state, regional, national and international artists are included. Works in all media are priced at below market values. The show is up for only 15 days, so make a point to visit the gallery during this show.


 

Pablo Picasso, Limited Edition book with Print

 

Edith London, Blue Hour

 

Anne Wall Thomas:
A Survey of Paintings and Collages

Caroly Van Duyn:
Ceramic Sculpture


Reception: Sunday, January 15, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

The works of Anne Wall Thomas are a reflection of her modernist roots. Thomas, who is the first MFA graduate of Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), studied with the art department's founder, Gregory Ivy, who is recognized as North Carolina's first modernist. Her images, for the most part, concern themselves with shape and color and other formalist considerations. The collage elements in her works are selected for their function as forms and color, not so much their literal subject matter.

Thomas, who has taught at Queens College in Charlotte, at the University of Georgia and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the former director of the Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia and until recently was the adminsitrator for the Southeastern College Art Conference.

Her works are in a number of public collections including Vanderbilt University, the Georgia Museum of Art at Athens, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Ackland Art Center, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and at the Gallery of Art and Design at N.C. State University among many others.

This exhibition, while not planned as a retrospective, is a survey of her collage and painting output in her medium of choice, gouache. Of the 30 works in the exhibition, 21 are from the 21st Century.

Caroly Van Duyn is a recent transplant from Connecticut to Cary, and this is her first solo exhibition in North Carolina. She is a sculptor whose medium is clay and found objects. Most of her works deal with the human figure, many conveying pathos and emotion. Other of her works however are pure abstract forms derived from nature.

Van Duyn earned a BFA at the State University of New York at Purchase. She studied further at the Silvermine Artists Guild in Connecticut, worked with Larry Rivers and Eric Fischl at the Master Workshop in Art at South Hampton, N.Y., and has studied with Sandra Graf, Andrew Lewis and Scott Tubby. She has also studied at Wesleyan Artists Guild and Brookfield Crafts Center in Connecticut and at the Taos Art Institute in New Mexico.

 

Anne Wall Thomas, Red Sun Rises

 

Anne Wall Thomas, Homage to Serena

 

Caroly Van Duyn, White Sheets

 

One Hunderd Under 500. /
Fifty Under 1000.

27 November thru 30 December 2005


Reception: Sunday, November 27, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

One Hundred Under 500. is the gallery’s annual holiday exhibition featuring works from our stable of artists as well as special invited artists. This year’s exhibition showcases the works of 50 artists. Of that number, 15 are invited artists and of that group nine artists are showing with us for the first time. They are Angela Bubash, Thor Bueno, Barbara Fisher, Jake Fried, Annette Gates, Babette Herschberger, Mimi Logothetis, Ronan Peterson and Carl Robbins. There are actually 185 works in the One Hundred portion of the exhibitiion. The 2005 version of this series includes a section called Fifty Under 1000. in which 60 works are featured priced as under $1000. This is the largest show the gallery has mounted in its 13-year history.

For the holiday season, gallery hours have been extended. We are open Monday thru Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m. through Dec. 23. On Christmas Eve, the gallery will open at 10 a.m. and close at 3:30 p.m.

This exhibition includes works
by the following artists:

Andras Bality
Ashlynn Browning
Angela Bubash
Thor Bueno
Jonathan Courtland
Lope Max Diaz
Carmen Elliott
Kirk Fanelly
Joyce Fillip
Barbara Fisher
Ron Franklin
Jake Fried
Annette Gates
Janis Goodman
Roger Halligan
Mary Ann Harman
Paul Hartley
Babette Herschberger
Brown Holloman
Hanna Jubran
Lilo Kemper
Jacob Kincheloe
Richard Kinnaird
Tomoo Kitamura
Suzanne Krill
Eduardo Lapetina
Rob Levin
Mimi Logothetis
Anna Ludwig
John Maggio
Richard Marshall
Maureen McGregor
George McKim
Lisa Morton/Diane Amato
Julie Olsen
Ben Owen III
Ronan Peterson
Ruth Pinnell
Carl Robbins
Charlotte Robinson
Reginald Rowe
Nancy Scheunemann
Pat Scull
Sam Shelby
Nona Short
Margie Stewart
Anne Wall Thomas
Jan Tips
Kathy Triplett
Caroly Van Duyn
Michael Voors
Catherine Walker
iris white

 

Roger Halligan


Richard Kinnaird

 

 

Lope Max Diaz


Ronan Peterson

 

Jody dePew McLeane:
Pastel Drawings

Major Works from the Stable

Oct 23 thru November 23, 2005


Reception: Sunday, October 23, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 

Jody dePew McLeane is one of the nation's leading pastel artists and returns to the gallery for her second exhibition of all new work featuring imagined interior spaces and figural theatrical pieces done from observation.

Major Works from the Stable
featuring Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Vincent Mastracco, Edith London, Howard Thomas, Richard Kinnaird, McDonald Bane et al

Our storage room houses many treasures rarely seen unless requested. This stable show affords us an opportunity to share some of our fine stock of paintings with the viewing public.

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Jody dePew McLeane, Mikado's Three Little Maids

 

Jody dePew McLeane,
Meissen Plates/Silver Candlesticks

 

Paul Hartley: New Paintings

Francis Speight (1896-1989): Paintings and Drawings

Sept 2 thru October 20, 2005


Reception: Sunday, September 11, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 

This is Paul Hartley's biennial solo show of works, which includes 33 new paintings, three enamel works and three 3-D constructions. Hartley is head of painting and drawing at the East Carolina University School of Art where he has been on the faculty since 1975. He is a native of Charlotte and was reared in Atlanta. He earned a B.A. at the University of North Texas and an M.F.A. at ECU. His work is in the collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro and the Greenville Museum of Art among others.

The Francis Speight exhibition is a reprise of a show organized by this gallery in the spring. It features paintings and drawings by the celebrated North Carolina-born artists. Speight, who was from Windsor in Bertie County, taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia and later was artist in residence and professor emeritus at East Carolina University School of Art.


Paul Hartley, Piero Space V: Searching

 

Paul Hartley, We Have Paris

 

Francis Speight, Old Oaks at Speight Homeplace

 

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George Bireline Revisited:
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

July 15 thru August 31, 2005


Reception: Sunday, July 24, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 
 
 

George Bireline, a fixture on the North Carolina art scene for the last half of the 20th Century, was a vanguard painter. In addition to being a career art instructor at the N.C. State University College of Design, he maintained a lifelong active career as a professional artist. His works are in a number of museum collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Wasington, D.C., the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y., the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Duke University Museum of Art in Durham among others. The largest repository of his work in public collections is housed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

This exhibition is comprised of 38 works from private collections and from his estate. The show contains a number of drawings and several three-dimensional works. "This is a surprising variety of work that we have pulled together," said gallery owner Lee Hansley. "Some of these paintings have been seen only once in this area at the North Carolina Museum of Art. And some of these works are monuments in the overall oeuvre of this very important North Carolina artist." Works representing the four distinct periods in Bireline's work are included in the show--abstract expressionism, trompe l'oeil, color field and narrative.

Bireline is a native of Peoria, Illinois, but he lived most of his life in Raleigh. He earned his BFA at Bradley University in Peoria and his MFA at the University of North Carolina. His works have been the subject of a number of major exhibitions including a retrospective at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1976 and another survey show at the former City Gallery of Contemporary Art in Raleigh in 1995. Earlier this year his work was featured in museum shows at the Asheville Art Museum and at the Greenville (N.C.) Art Museum.

 

George Bireline, Harvard Square

 

George Bireline, Construction 1972

 

George Bireline, Bride

   

Francis Speight:
North Carolina's 20th Century Master Painter

Wayne McDowell: Still Lifes and North Carolina Seascapes

Ahmad Sabha: Industrial Ceramics and Photography

May 15 thru July 2, 2005

Reception: Sunday, May 15, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

Francis Speight is one of North Carolina's most recognized artists of the mid-20th Century. His paintings of his beloved native North Carolina as well as his adopted home in the Philadelphia area are his trademarks. He was born in Windsor, the county seat of rural Bertie County in northeastern North Carolina, in 1896. He studied at Wake Forest University, at the Corcoran School and finally at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he also taught from 1925-1961. He and his artist wife, the late Sarah Blakeslee, returned to North Carolina in 1961 where Speight became artist-in-residence at East Carolina University School of Art. His works are included in scores of public collections including the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the North Carolina Museum of Art among others. This collection of paintings and drawings from the estate of the artist includes a never before exhibited two-panel study for a WPA mural proposal, paintings of Manayunk, Pennsylvania, where Speight lived, as well as one large-scale canvas painted in his backyard in Bertie County in 1928. According to Lee Hansley, gallery owner, this is the largest body of work by Speight shown in Raleigh since the artist died in 1989.

Wayne McDowell: This exhibition marks Wayne McDowell's first show in the Triangle. He is a plein air painter working in two distinct genres--still lifes and seascapes. The five seascapes in this exhibition were painted on Bald Head Island at Southport. The horizon lines are very low, emphasizing the flatness of the land and the grandeur of the sky. His still lifes, which lean toward the minimal, feature relatively few objects as focal points in the paintings, thereby allowing the artist to give attention to the backgrounds within a limited pallet. There is a strong relationship between the landscapes and still lifes, even though at first glance they appear to be quite different. McDowell's focus on the nothingness in both genres and his expressive brushwork are similar in both bodies of work; only his subject matter is vastly different. McDowell was born in Memphis in 1960 and studied at the Memphis College of Art. He moved to Wilmington in 1998 where he paints and does freelance web design work. The Cameron Art Museum recently added one of his paintings to its collection.

Ahmad Sabha came to North Carolina as a senior in high school as a foreign exchange student from Israel. He remained and studied at Central Piedmont Community College and later earned a civil engineering design degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In addition to his work in clay and photography, Sabha is employed in the planning department of the City of Charlotte. His works reflect his interest in the urban industrial aesthetic. His objects are inspired by factories, gears, pipes and unadorned structures built with little or no concern for their visual impact.

 

Francis Speight, The Sun's Last Rays

 

Wayne McDowell,
Bowl & Plate on a White Cabinet

 

Ahmad Sabha, Silo No. 2

 

 

Margie Stewart: New Paintings

Ashlynn Browning: Drawing on the Moment

April 7 thru May 11, 2005

Reception: Sunday, April 10, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

These two solo exhibitions feature a complete new body of work by Margie Stewart of Durham, professor of art at Meredith College in Raleigh, as well as a fresh new series of drawings by Ashlynn Browning of Raleigh.

Margie Stewart's expressive paintings of still lifes and interiors evoke the works of famed Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. The exhibition contains 27 new works.Stewart has degrees from Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as the College of Design at N.C. State University. She earned her MFA from UNC-Greensboro.

Ashlynn Browning of Raleigh provides a cohesive show of works on paper employing graphite, charcoal, oil, pastel and collage elements. These loosely rendered works hint at landscapes and figures without providing the viewer with too much information. They are very monochromatic and textural with only understated hints at color. Browning studied with Stewart at Meredith College prior to earning her MFA degree from UNC-Greensboro.

These are inagural solo exhibitions for both of these artists at Lee Hansley Gallery. Both have participated in group exhibitions in the recent past.

 

Margie Stewart, Bottle, Three Limes

 

Ashlynn Browning, Sensory

SupportFest 2005:
A silent auction to benefit
Support Works, Inc. of Raleigh

Sunday, April 3, 2-5 p.m

 
 

 

 

Down East: ECU Faculty Exhibition

March 6 thru April 1, 2005

Reception: Sunday, March 6, 2-5 p.m.

 

  

Over 25 of the art faculty members will be in this exhibition. A variety of media will be represented including painting, drawing, sculpture, fiber, printmaking, ceramics and metals. The ECU School of Art and Design is one of the South's oldest and largest schools of art offering professional degrees.

 

 

 

Claude McKinney: Paintings and Drawings 1950-1953

Mark S. Fields: Black and White Photographs

Feb 6 thru March 3, 2005

Reception: Sunday, February 6, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

Claude McKinney This body of work was completed mostly when Claude McKinney was studying art with Kenneth Ness, George Kachergis and Robert Howard at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The paintings and drawings have not been exhibitied in 50 years. McKinney, a native of Greensboro, is the former dean of the School of Design at N.C. State University and is one of the founders of the Centennial Campus, the sprawling 1200-acre research campus currently under development. McKinney is on the board of the North Carolina Museum of Art and on the board of Arts N.C. State.

Mark S. Fields This exhibition marks the first time Mark Fields has shown his art in his native North Carolina. He was born in Selma but lives and works in Philadelphia. His very pristine, crisp black and white images feature floral and architectural subject matter.

 

 

Claude McKinney, Hotbed of Ignorance

 

Mark S. Fields, Five Tulips in a Vase

Louis St. Lewis: The Bad Boy of the Triangle Art Scene

Sean Yseult and Louis St. Lewis: Twelve Inches of Fame

Jan 6 thru Feb 3, 2005

Reception: Sunday, January 9, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

 

Louis St. Lewis, The Education of Narcissus

 

Louis St. Lewis and Sean Yseult, Amaryllis Angel

 

One Hundred Under 500

Nov 21 thru Dec 31, 2004

 

Reception: Sunday, November 21, 2-5 p.m.

Louis St. Lewis: The Bad Boy of the Triangle Art Scene and Sean Yseult and Louis St. Lewis: Twelve Inches of Fame 6 January thru 3 February 2005 Public Reception: Sunday, 9 January, 2-5 p.m.

Painters with new works in the 2004 edition of 100 Under 500. are Andras Bality of Richmond, Ashlynn Browning of Raleigh, Kirk Fanelly of Charlotte, Joyce Fillip of Raleigh, Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va., Paul Hartley of Greenville, Richard Kinnaird and Louis St. Lewis of Chapel Hill, Janis Goodman of Washington, D.C., Anna Ludwig of San Francisco, James McElhinney of Chatham, N.Y., George McKim of Raleigh, the late Vincent Mastracco of New York, Jennifer Miller of Hillsborough, Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va., Nancy Scheunemann of Raleigh, Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Jan Tips of San Antonio, Anne Wall Thomas of Chapel Hill, and Catherine Walker of Greenville.

Gail Ritzer of Greenville, a mixed media artist, is in the show as are sculptors Marie Ringwald of Washington, D.C., and Roger Halligan of Sophia, N.C. Artists working in clay will include grandmother-grandson collaborators Neola Cole/Kenneth George of Sanford, Carmen Elliott of Chapel Hill, Ron Franklin of Hillsborough, Terry Gess of Penland, Judy Jackson of New York, Lilo Kemper of Durham, Suzanne Krill and Pat Scull of Raleigh.

Photographers Marsha Burns of Seattle, Ruth Pinnell of Durham and Nona Short of Raleigh have works in the exhibition as will Jeff Hill of Raleigh, who will have beaded necklaces. Prints by Jacob Kincheloe of San Francisco and the late Howard Thomas will be included as will works on paper by the late Mary Leath Thomas. Jewelry by the late iris white will also be in the show.

 

Chris Simoncelli, Untitled Jar Series

 

Margie Stewart, April 1

 

Jerry Jackson, Geneoslogy
   

Andrew Martin and the
Greensboro School of Painting

October 10 thru Nov 14, 2004

Reception: Sunday, October 10, 2-5 p.m.

 

  

Featuring 20 paintings by the late professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and works by 13 artists who were greatly influenced by Martin. Those artists are Richard Fennell, Judy Henricks, Alix Hitchcock, Eric Lawing, Henry Link, Philip A. Link, Hillary Osborn, Norma Rogers, Bruce Shores, Breck Smith, Jack Stratton, Chris Stephens and Linda Tavernise.

For over a quarter century, there has been an identifiable look about the work produced by students from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While the first generation of artists were influenced by the Bauhaus philosophy espoused by the department's founder Gregory D. Ivy, the second generation of students at UNC-G demonstrate the European academy style of training practiced by their mentor, Andrew Martin (1923-1997).

Martin, who was born in Paris and whose father was a figural sculptor, studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and at the traditional L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Bert Carpenter, the late chair of the art department at UNC-G, saw an exhibition of the artist's paintings in New York and invited him to teach for a semester at Greensboro. Martin stayed at UNC-G from 1964 until his retirement in 1995. He died in 1997 after a year of intensive work in his newly constructed sculpture studio in Greensboro.

Gallery owner Lee Hansley knew Martin for over twenty years. Martin's last major exhibition while he was alive was at Lee Hansley Gallery when it was located on West Martin Street in downtown Raleigh. Hansley has always believed that Martin was one of the most important painters living in North Carolina and he places Martin in the pantheon of influential art teachers in North Carolina alongside such luminaries as Gregory Ivy, George Bireline, Joe Cox, Tucker Cooke and Paul Hartley.

Since Martin's death, Hansley has wanted to honor Martin with an exhibition of his work as well as the work of students that show his influence. This exhibition attempts to do that and goes a step further by giving the Martin-inspired look a name, The Greensboro School of Painting.

 

 

Andrew Martin, Self Portrait in Green Cardigan

 

Andrew Martin, Two Black Walnut Trees

 

   

Robert Tynes: Paintings

Robert Barnard: Paintings

August 25 thru October 2, 2004

Reception: Sunday, August 29, 2-5 p.m.

 

  
 

Robert Tynes has made a mark for himself in the art world as an abstract illusionist painter. He juxtaposes superreal objects in space floating over an expressive abstract background. Tynes, a Chicago native, studied painting at Rhodes College in Memphis and earned his MFA in painting at the East Carolina University School of Art. He lives in Black Mountain in the North Carolina mountains and is a professor of painting at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Robert Barnard, a native of England, is professor emeritus of painting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This exhibition contains a sampling of Barnard works over the past 30 years. It includes his symbolist abstract paintings, allegorical drawings and his signature totem paintings.

Out on a Limb by Robert Tynes

Birthday Homage to the Sun by Robert Barnard

 

   

Abstraction: Russell Arnold, McDonald Bane, George Bireline, Robert Broderson, Ashlynn Browning, Alexander Calder, Lope Max Diaz, Janis Goodman, Roger Halligan, Paul Hartley, Charles Hinman, David Hockney, Herb Jackson, Hanna Jubran, Aaron Karp, Richard Kinnaird, E.C. Langford, Billy Lee, Edith London, Vincent Mastracco, Kenneth Ness, Lindsay Packer, Charlotte Robinson, Reginald Rowe, Richard Serra, Michael Smallwood, Margie Stewart, Kiyomi Talaulicar, Anne Wall Thomas, Howard Thomas, Mary Leath Thomas and Jan Tips.

Dot Hooks: Art Deco Drawings and Ocracoke Watercolors

July 15 thru August 21 2004

Reception: Sunday, July 17, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 
 

Abstraction: This is probably the best time to come to this gallery to understand the gallery’s mission and purpose. When I opened the gallery 12 years ago, I had a very specific vision. The gallery did not open on a whim or any blind desire to be in the art business. This gallery was many years in the making and did not metamorph out of a framing operating or a hobby. It grew out of a desire to see first rate artists promoted. The art is not restricted to regional geography, though it has a strong North Carolina and Southeastern bent. That comes from the fact that I grew up and have spent most of my life in North Carolina and that I for eight years was associated with the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem--two years as a volunteer and six years as a curator. I had done independent curatorial work since the early 1970s when I was a newspaper editor in Roanoke Rapids. My first major exhibition was a retrospective of the painter/sculptor E.C. Langford who lived in Roanoke Rapids and who became my best friend in my hometown. I continued the curatorial work as an avocation until it became my profession at SECCA.

Why this show is significant to understand this gallery is rather simple. It embodies the gallery’s aesthetic probably better than any show I have mounted since opening. A gallery is almost totally dependent on the taste of its director/owner. It is with pleasure that I present each work in this exhibition to you. I feel strongly about each piece. Each work of art in this show speaks to me personally and I hope at least some of them will connect with you, the viewer.

Each piece in this show represents an artist who has had some influence over me, who has addressed my aesthetic interests or who has lured me onto their aesthetic plane. I was perhaps closest to the late artists Langford, Edith London and George Bireline. They are roughly from the same old school of modernism, though it could be argued that Bireline’s aesthetic embraced more than modernism. (However, his aesthetic was solidly rooted in modernist thought.) An artist who had an impact on me was Claude Howell who is not represented here. But Claude certainly helped mold my aesthetic over the years. Howard Thomas, whom I only met once in a social setting, is someone I have grown to know only through his work and through my friendship with his widow, Anne Wall Thomas. Another artist I never knew who also has informed my aesthetic is the late Gregory Ivy, probably the most important figure in North Carolina art is the middle of the 20th century. Ivy did so much to bring art to North Carolina and he left behind a strong contingent of women artists who continue his influence today--not the least of which is his star pupil McDonald Bane. Then there is the second generation of artists like the very talented painter Paul Hartley, the fine sculptors Roger Halligan and Hanna Jubran. All make this gallery what it is today.

This exhibition has been in the making for many years, and in many ways it is a fairly complete statement about what this gallery is about. In almost all cases, the works shown here are representative of the artists and we can share other works or images of works with you upon your request. I hope you enjoy the show.

--
Lee Hansley
18 July 2004

 

Dot Hooks, who died last year, was Johnston County's (North Carolina) foremost artist. Born in 1916 she studied at the Art Students League in New York City prior to returning to North Carolina where she lived in Smithfield. She became known as the area's leading portrait painter and portrait photographer. This exhibition showcases a portfolio of drawings done while at the Art Students League as well as vintage watercolors from her favorite place, Ocracoke Island.

 

Installation view: Abstraction at Lee Hansley Gallery. Sculpture by Roger Halligan

Ocracoke by Dot Hooks

Jeff Hill's Images in Wood:
Woodcuts, Icons and Cruciforms

Ron Franklin's Raku:
Jars, Boxes and Other Containers


May 23 - June 30, 2004

Reception: Sunday, May 23, 2-5 p.m.

 

   

 

Vincent Mastracco

Jonathan Courtland:
Photographic Light Boxes

April 4 - May 15, 2004

Reception: Sunday, April 4, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 
 

Vincent Mastracco, who died in 2001 at age 59, was a respected New York artist labeled a second generation abstract expressionist. The 25 paintings in the current exhibition are from his estate of artwork. His works are characterized by brilliant color, heavy application of paint, brusque brushwork and multiple techniques employing wide and narrow blade spackling knives and other implements, masking tape and even his fingers and thumbs. The results are fantastical and lively paintings which evoke patterns from nature and geometry, sometimes in the same painting. His works bring to mind the freedom of Jackson Pollock, the color palette of Claude Monet and the expressive brushwork of Vincent van Gough. But the finished product is distinctively Mastracco. His canvases are literally laden with paint, some having over $1,000 worth of paint on a single canvas. In talking about his work, the late Mastracco used to boast that it would take up to six months for a canvas to dry. He worked in series, working on any number of canvases simultaneously. In this exhibition, with works dating from the mid-1970s through 2001, the viewer will encounter about seven different stylistic genres of painting. Mastracco was a painter's painter; he brought paint to life.

Jonathan Courtland, a Charlotte native, is a stone mason by trade but spends his spare time photographing obscure details in Durham where he lives. He captures with his camera the gritty detail of an urban setting: worn wallpaper, graffiti adorned trash bins, the drips from sloppy paint jobs. While his medium is clearly photography the complete presentation of his work is quite sculptural. He manufactures steel light boxes with distressed surfaces in which he mounts his images on Ilfachrome transparency film which is lighted from behind. The result is part relief sculpture incorporating color photography. The light boxes can hang on the wall or be placed on a tabletop or bookshelf. The 18 pieces comprising the current exhibition are displayed in a darkened gallery to allow the imagery to dominate.

 

 

 

Springtime by Vincent Mastracco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light Box 9 by Jonathan Courtland

 

The Triangle's Best Art: Part 2
Mary Leath Thomas:
Works on Paper
March 7- March 31, 2004
Reception: Sunday, March 7, 2-5 p.m.
 
 

MoCA/NC in cooperation with Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh is hosting the Triangle's only art competition. This is the second part of the two part juried exhibition that began last month. Also on view are works on paper by Mary Leath Thomas.

Artists in the Triangle's Best Art: Part 2 exhibition include: Lauren Adams, Cynthia Aldrich, Suzanne Andron, Diana Bloomfield, Jayne Bomberg, Everett Boykin, Ashlynn Browning, Rosario Camarasa, Ferris Chandler, Winona Crawford, Nancy Dolce, Susan Durfee, Sylvia Henry, Harriet Hoover, Lauren Ivey, Delia Keefe, Richard Kinnaird, Stacey Kirby, Lori Laberge, Gerry Lynch, Maureen McGregor, Jennifer Miller, Wendy Musser, Wendy Painter, Sharron Parker, Nancy Scheunemann, Margaret Senter, David Simonton, Madelyn Smoak, Bruce Spencer, Margie Stewart, Nancy Taylor, Jane Terry, Anne Wall Thomas, Pablo Uriz.

The Triangle's Best Art: Part I
February 3 - March 3, 2004
Reception: Sunday, February 8, 2-5 p.m.
 
 
 

A total of 130 Triangle artists submitted over 250 pieces for the panel's review. Juror McDonald Bane, who saw about half the work on Sunday before the jury process was stopped, remarked that is was one of the strongest bodies of work she had ever seen in a juried competition.

Gallery owner Lee Hansley noted, "We are very pleased at the response; it exceeded our expectations both in quantity and quality. In fact, when the jurying is completed on Thursday, we may have so much work that the exhibition will have to be shown in two parts. We are open to that eventuality."

Hansley continued, "If there was any disappointment, it was that crafts people didn't seem to get the message. We would have welcomed more craft works. The entries are very strong in painting and other 2-D media, however."

MoCA/NC in cooperation with Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh is hosting the Triangle's only art competition.


Nov 30 - Jan 21, 2004

Reception: Sunday, November 30, 2-5 p.m.

 

 

One Hundred Under 500, now in its seventh year, is the gallery's annual holiday exhibition in which works of art in a variety of media are offered for sale--all priced below $500. The 2003 version of the show contains the work of 50 artists mostly from North Carolina and the Southeast.

Painters in the exhibition include Andras Bality of Richmond, McDonald Bane of New Hill, N.C., Ashlynn Browning and Lope Max Diaz of Raleigh, Kirk Fanelly of Charlotte, Janis Goodman of Washington, D.C., Maryann Harman of Blacksburg, Va., Jane Harrison of Lenoir, Paul Hartley of Greenville, Richard Kinnaird of Chapel Hill, Anna Ludwig of Cambridge, Mass., James McElhinney of Valatie, N.Y., Richard Marshall of Raleigh, the late Vincent Mastracco of New York, Jennifer Miller of Hillsborough, Norma Rogers of Charlottesville, Va., Susan Rosefielde and Louis St. Lewis of Chapel Hill, Nancy Scheunemann of Raleigh, Sam Shelby of Roanoke Rapids, Burnell Shively of Valatie, N.Y., Michael Smallwood of Washington D.C., Anne Wall Thomas of Chapel Hill, the late Mary Leath Thomas of Athens, Ga., Jan Tips of San Antonio and Catherine Walker of Greenville.

Photographers in the show include Marsha Burns of Seattle, Marita Gootee of Mississippi State, Miss., Bruce Melkowits of Chapel Hill and Ruth Pinnell of Durham. Printmakers in the show are Delia Keefe of Chapel Hill, John Maggio of Greensboro, the late Donald Sexauer of Greenville and Charlotte Robinson of Falls Church, Va.

Relief sculpture by Roger Halligan of Sophia, N.C., Jerry Jackson of Rocky Mount and Marie Ringwald will be inlcuded as well as metals by the late Iris White of Saxapahaw, N.C. Ceramist in the exhibition include Carmen Elliott of Chapel Hill, Ron Franklin of Hillsborough, George Handy of Asheville, Judy Jackson of New York, Suzanne Krill and Maureen McGregor of Raleigh, Yun-Dong Nam of Chapel Hill, Pat Scull of Raleigh and Conrad Weiser of Durham. Turned wooden works by Richard Siegel are also in the show.

 
Red Orbit by Anne Wall Thomas

Jody dePew McLeane: Pastels
McDonald Bane: New Paintings
Janis Goodman: New Work
Oct 26 - Nov 22, 2003

Reception: Sunday, October 26, 2-5 p.m.

 

 
 

Jody McLeane, who lives in Eagle River, Wisconsin, is an award-winning master of the pastel medium. She uses pure powdered pigment, which she crumbles in her left palm, using it as a palette. To apply the pigment to the surface of the paper ground she uses her thumb and grinds the pigment into the paper. This gives her work a painterly, expressive quality. The finished drawings are steamed to bind the medium to the support. McLeane is a member of the Pastel Society of America in New York and was elected as a master panelist by the society. Her works have been featured in four books, including The Best of Pastel II, published by Rockport Publishers, in 1998. Her works are in scores of public collections including the Amoco Corporation in Chicago, Walt Disney Corporation in Florida, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Northwest Air Lines in Detroit and the Hallmark Collection in Kansas City, Mo. The 12 works in this show feature scenes of imagined interiors as well as figural backstage vignettes from the theatre.

McDonald Bane,who lives south of Raleigh in the New Hill community, is a painter, drawer, educator and curator. She has an undergraduate degree in general science from Virginia Tech and earned her MFA at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied with her mentor and lifelong colleague Gregory Ivy. She has taught at Meredith College in Raleigh, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, at the North Carolina Governor's School and at California State University at Fullerton. She has organized and curated scores of exhibitions as chief curator at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem and as an independent curator working for The Arts Council, Inc. of Winston-Salem. She has juried many exhibitions and has served on numerous art panels in the Southeast. Bane has works in a number of public and private collections, the most notable of which is the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The six works that comprise her solo exhibition here are the latest in her series of large-scale geometric abstractions on canvas.

Janis Goodman, who lives in the nation's capital, is an associate professor of art at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. Her undergraduate degree is in printmaking from Queens College in New York. She also studied art at Pratt Graphics Center in New York; at the Etruscan Foundation in Siena, Italy; and at the Corcoran School. Her MFA is in painting from George Washington University. Goodman has a distinguished exhibition record having shown her work in galleries and art centers in Washington, New York, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Germany and The Netherlands. Works by Goodman are in the collections of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, the Hickory Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, the Federal Reserve in Richmond, the University of Virginia, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, the Terra Collection in Chicago, among others. Her works in this exhibition are poetic and atmospheric images of trees and birds that evoke a universal sense of time, memory, nature and history. The mixed media works are of oil, wax and graphite on canvas, paper and panel.

 

 
Two Dressers for the Micado by Jody McLeane

 

 

It's Inside by McDonald Bane

 

 

Late Harvest, Tuscany by Janis Goodman
   
Paul Hartley: Paintings
Pat Scull: New Works
Sept 21 - Oct 22, 2003
Reception: Sunday, September 21, 2-5 p.m.

 

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Paul Hartley, who is head of painting at East Carolina University School of Art, is one of North Carolina's leading painters. The Charlotte native earned his B.A. at the University of North Texas in Denton and his M.F.A. from East Carolina University. He has been on the faculty at ECU since 1975. His work is characterized by very detailed painting juxtaposed against a backdrop of abstraction which likely will contain recognizable objects for the viewer to excavate over time. He is the master of a technique called acrylic lift in which paint is applied to a glass surface, later removed and applied to a canvas or panel support. His subject matter is both personal and universal.

Pat Scull, who lives in Raleigh and was reared near the nation's capital, is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She completed additional art study at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Known primarily as a painter, Pat moved into sculptural relief and then headlong into sculpture. About four years ago her 3-D interest led her to ceramics. Her latest body of work in clay consists mostly of very imaginative and fanciful teapots. She has brought to her ceramic creations her affinity for color from her paintings and the love of form from her sculpture. Each piece pays its respect to the teapot form while at the same time each is a unique work of art.

 

 
Strings on Swan by Paul Hartley

 

 

Teapots VII and XII by Pat Scull

 

Alice Ehrlich and Her Students
Aug 24 - Sept 18, 2003
Reception: Sunday, August 24, 2-5 p.m.
 
 


"Alice Ehrlich & Her Students" features the works of Broughton High School's legendary art teacher along with the works of 15 of her outstanding art students. Ehrlich, who studied art at Meredith College and at the Art Students League in New York City, also worked with Gregory Ivy and Howard Thomas at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, George Kachergis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joe Cox from the School of Design at N.C. State University. Participants in the exhibition honoring Ehrlich include: Herb Jackson and Laura Grosch of Davidson; Carolyn Harris of New York City; Vernessa Foelix of Switzerland; and from Raleigh, Ellen Gamble, Lillian Jones, Bob Rankin, Melissa Reed, Wharton Separk, Pam Shank and Harry Stewart; Pat Turlington of Goldsboro; Janice Capps Patterson of Stedman, N.C.; and the late Nicki Stamey and Robert Stewart.

 

Still Life with Flowers by Alice Ehrlich

George Bireline and Friends
July 30 - Aug 20, 2003

Reception: Sunday, August 10, 2-5 p.m.
 
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This exhibition marks the 80 birthday of the late gallery artist George Bireline. Prior to Bireline's death last August, his work was the subject of a large solo exhibition at the gallery. During preparation for that show, George agreed in concept to the planning of an 80th birthday celebration, thinking the show would be rather small in scale. What George didn't know was that the gallery planned to surprise him by inviting his close friends, who are artists, to show work alongside his paintings. This promises to be an upbeat celebration of the life, friendship and work of George Bireline, North Carolina's leading 20th Century artist.

Included in the "& Friends" portion of the show will be works by his widow, ceramist Jennie Bireline, and his son, painter Marek Bireline. Other artists with works in the show are Bireline's longtime friends R.D. Newnam of Durham, Claude McKinney of Raleigh and architect Ligon Flynn of Wilmington. Other friends and colleagues with works in the exhibition are Graham Auman, Jill Bullitt, Lope Max Diaz, Susan Toplikar and Brad Watkins, all of Raleigh; Ron Rozelle of Saxapahaw, N.C.; Ron Taylor of Florida; and Paul Jeremias of Asheville. Bireline's two daughters, Alex and Lise, both of Raleigh, have loaned personal works to the show as have his two stepsons, Brent and David Wilson, also of Raleigh.

Brent Wilson's band performed on the gallery's front porch for the reception/birthday party on Aug. 10.

 

Vents by George Bireline
   

2 + 2 = 4 Southwest Artists
June 22 - July 23, 2003

Reception: Sunday, June 22, 2-5 p.m.
 
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This exhibition features the works of two couples: Aaron Karp and Jane Abrams of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Reginald Rowe and Jan Tips of San Antonio, Texas. While Rowe and Tips are exclusively abstract nonobjective painters, Karp, who has shown in the gallery on numerous prior occasions, is an abstractionist whose subjects are often rooted in reality. Jane's more representational work draws its subject matter from her travels. The exhibition will provide viewers the opportunity to campare and contrast works by these two artist couples. The color and light of the Southwest infuses their artwork.

 

You Can't Catch a Falling Knife No. 2
by Aaron Karp
   

Art I Have Loved:
The Triangle's Art Exchange

Anna Ludwig: High / Low
New Paintings by the Harvard
College Senior


June 1 - June 19, 2003

Reception: Sunday, June 1, 2-5 p.m.

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Every other year the gallery hosts a secondary art market exhibition called Art I Have Loved. This year's exhibition contains some real treasures. We have been collecting artwork for the past several months for the show and sale. Be on the lookout for original Alexander Calder gouaches; lithographs by Ben Shahn and Sam Francis; works by Robert Marsh, Joan Miro, W.C.A. Frerichs and scores of others. It is still not too late to contact us about any work or works you may have to offer for sale in the Triangle's Art Exchange: Art I Have Loved...and there's always next year.

email: [email protected]
phone: 919-828-7557

Also on view is recent work by Anna Ludwig, a Raleigh resident and senior painting student at Harvard University. She exhibits eleven new paintings in a solo exhibition entitled "High/Low." Ludwig juxtaposes her figurative painting with coastal landscapes. The exhibition opens June 1 and runs through June 19.

 

Receding Orbs by Alexander Calder
Ted Potter: Inside the Ropes
Apr 27 - May 27, 2003
Reception: Sunday, April 27, 2-5 p.m.
 

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"Daumier meets Tom Wolf meets the
juice of Abstract Expressionism."

--Mary Ann Zotto

Ted Potter, director of the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, shares his latest series of paintings drawn directly from his experiences in the art world. Potter is best known in North Carolina as the former director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, a position he held for over two decades. He has also served as director of the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and as director of the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans.

This exhibition comes to Raleigh from the University of New Orleans where it received critical acclaim. Through this series of large-scale expressive paintings, Potter pokes fun at the art establishment, which he knows from inside the ropes, and affords us the opportunity to laugh a little at ourselves.

 

 
The Jurors (Marty, Madaline, and Marvin).
by Ted Potter

Kathy Triplett: Wall to Wall
James W. Fitzgibbon's
  Fadum-Fields House
Mar 23 - Apr 23, 2003

Reception: March 23, 2-5 p.m.


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Kathy Triplett is one of North Carolina's leading ceramists. She is perhaps best known for her handbuilt whimsical teapots in which she incorporates found objects ranging from glass and wire to beads and bits of computer circuit boards.

For the past few years, she has focused on creating relief tiles which also incorporate found objects. This exhibition features 83 of her latest tiles. Prices range from $290 to $350 for single tiles, $850 for tiles incorporating functional teapots and $900 to $2100 for tile groupings ranging from two to six components.

Kathy, who resides in Weaverville in the western North Carolina mountains, is a teacher of ceramics and the author of two books on ceramics including her very popular how-to book on slab work entitled, Handbuilt Ceramics.

A native of South Carolina, she graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and completed additional studies in Mexico and Italy. She is an active member of Piedmont Craftsmen Inc. in Winston-Salem and the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild in Asheville.

She has been commissioned to create pieces in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Florida, New York City, Chicago; as well as in Japan, Bolivia and Puerto Rico. Her works have been included in over 75 solo and group exhibitions in San Diego, Atlanta, New York City, Seattle, Portland, Wichita, St. Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Philadelphia among others.

"Wall to Wall: Kathy Triplett" at Lee Hansley Gallery marks her first major solo exhibition in Raleigh.

 

6 Ceramic Tiles. by Kathy Triplett

The Perfect Painting
Feb 7 - Mar 19, 2003

Reception: February 9, 2-5 p.m.

The gallery celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a group show based on a survey to define what constitutes "the perfect painting".

More than a decade ago, Russian emigre artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid queried 1,001 Americans about their tastes in color, form, style and content to determine what would constitute "The Perfect Painting."

Lee Hansley Gallery took some of the study's basic results involving scale, color and content and invited our stable of artists, along with a few guest artists, to create a perfect painting in his or her recognizable style.

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A View Down East. by Robert Dance
Two Hundred Under 500
Oct 20 - Nov 23, 2002
 

This annual exhibition of works in a variety of media showcases art by the gallery's stable of artists as well as works by invited artists. All pieces are priced at under $500.

This show provides an opportunity for patrons to survey the type of work the gallery showcases on a regular basis. It is also ideal for collectors of works on a small scale. Works in the exhibition range in price from $16 to $499.

 

The Off Season. by Kirk Fanelly
McDonald Bane: Drawings
John Maggio: Paintings
Sam Shelby: Landscape Paintings
Oct 20 - Nov 23, 2002
Reception: Sunday, Oct 20, 2-5 p.m.

Bane, who has two drawings in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, shows her latest pin and ink drawings. Maggio, who is from the UNC-G art faculty, will show a collection of recent mixed media paintings and Shelby, a Roanoke Rapids pleinaire painter, will exhibit a new body of northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia landscapes.

 

Afternoon Showers, Bedford Co., VA
by Sam Shelby
Howard Thomas: Paintings
Gregory Ivy: Constructions
Sept 11 - Oct 16, 2002
Reception: Sunday, Sept 15, 2-5 p.m.
This survey of the late Howard Thomas's work comes 31 years after his death. Works on paper, canvas and panel are included with subject matter ranging from early landscape to late abstraction. Rediscovered constructions in wood by the late Gregory Ivy have been reconstructed by his pupil McDonald Bane. Ivy is founder of the art department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and founder of the Weatherspoon Art Museum.


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Red in Blue Contrapuntal by Howard Thomas
Art from Architecture: Lin Barnhardt, Kirk Fanelly, Marie Ringwald, Nancy Scheunemann
July 28 - Sept 6, 2002
Reception: Sunday, July 28, 2-5 p.m.
Three-dimensional ceramic houses by Barnhardt, paintings of interiors by Fanelly, relief sculpture of rural barns by Ringwald and paintings of Raleigh's historically black Oberlin Village comprise this exhibition.


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White Shed, Halifax County, NC by Marie Ringwald
Donald Sexauer: Paintings and Prints
Jacob Kincheloe: Drawings
June 20 - July 24, 2002
Reception: Sunday, June 23, 2-5 p.m.

The exhibition features 34 prints and 12 new paintings by Sexauer, professor emeritus from the East Carolina University School of Art. The Kincheloe show includes 11 drawings completed over the past three years by this 18-year-old Raleigh artist who will be entering the San Francisco Art Institute in August.

 

 
N.C. Nature Conservancy: Silent Auction
June 14 - June 16, 2002
Reception: Sunday, June 16, 2-5 p.m.

Large-scale color photographs of the Roanoke River by Winston-Salem artist Carl V. Galie Jr. and Coastal Plain watercolors by the late Georgia Tate are offered for auction to benefit the Nature Conservancy's land acquistion program.

 

 
George Bireline: Selected Paintings
Iris White: Memorial Exhibition
May 2 - June 12, 2002
Reception: Sunday, May 5, 2-5 p.m.

This chapter in Bireline's work includes some new works as well as some major works from the 1980s and 1990s. One work dates to 1957. While not intended as a retrospective, the exhibition is a mini survey of the artist's oeuvre.

 

 
Vincent Mastracco: (1941-2001)
March 7 - April 20, 2002
Reception: Sunday, March 10, 2-5 p.m.

Mastracco is a second generation abstract expressionist. This collection of works covers several years of the artist's output.

 

 
Joe Cox: Paintings and Drawings
Yun-Dong Nam: Descriptive Process, Flower Vase Project
Chang-Hwa Lee: Figural Sculpture
Jan 27 - March 2, 2002
Reception: Sunday, December 2, 2-5 p.m.

This exhibition features a unique colleciton of the late artist's works from a number of private collections. Nam's ceramic works consist of a collection of flower vases fired upside down so that glazed drip upward toward the mouth of the vase. Lee's figural ceramic works are in resonse to the aftermath of September 11.

 

 
One Hundred Under Five Hundred
Dec 2 - Jan 19, 2002
Reception: Sunday, December 2, 2-5 p.m.

Reception: The gallery's annual holiday exhibition featuring over 100 works priced at under $500.

 

 
Charlotte Robinson: Water Patterns
Oct 31 - Nov 24, 2001
Reception: Sunday, November 4, 2-5 p.m.

The Falls Church, VA, artist has created a new collection of related works with her inspiration drawn from wetlands and waterways.

 

 
Paul Hartley: New Paintings
Lilo Kemper: New Works in Clay
Sep 27 - Oct 27, 2001
Reception: Sunday, September 30, 2-5 p.m.

This much anticipated exhibition will feature new works by the head of the paintng department at East Carolina Univeristy School of Art.
Lilo Kemper: This exhibition will comprise a new body of work of German-born Kemper's one-of-a-kind ceramic pieces.


 
Vernacular Architecture
Paintings by Nancy Scheunemann
Aug 17 - Sep 22, 2001
Reception: Sunday, August 26, 2-5 p.m.

Nancy Scheuneman has been painting and drawing proessionally since 1991. Having gained a strong fine arts background at Meridith College, she has since studied with two internationally acclaimed artists. Charles Kapsner is artist to the Charles Lindberg family; Daniel Greene includes William Randolph Hearst among his clients. Additionally, Mrs. Scheunemann recently attended an art festival in New York City consisting of lectures and work of leading contemporary portrait artists. Mrs. It is with pleasure that Lee Hansley Gallery welcomes Mrs. Scheunemann to its stable of artists.


 
Art I Have Loved: The Triangle's Art Exchange
June 24 - July 28, 2001
Reception: Sunday, July 24, 2-5 p.m.

This popular biennial show and sale features a wide range of works from private collections. Works range from historical to contemporary in all media . Collectors may consign artwork to Art I Have Loved by contacting the gallery at (919)828-7557 or emailing us at [email protected].


Michael Smallwood: Symbolist Abstract Paintings
Catherine Walker: Chicken Paintings
Hanna Jubran: Sculpture
May 10 - June 16, 2001
Reception: Sunday May 13, 2-5 p.m.

Smallwood, a Washington, D.C. artist, offers a new body of work combining geometric abstraction and personal symbolism, while Jubran, who is on the faculty of East Carolina University School of Art, references natural forms in his biomorphic sculptures of marble, stone and bronze.


North Carolina Society for Original Graphics
An Historical Survey of the Raleigh Fine Art Print Club, Founded by Leon Silber, and
Electronic Sculpture, Allan Erdmann: A Retrospective
A review of the very sophisticated solar-powered pedestal and wall-mounted sculptures by the master of this medium. :
Apr 1 - May 5, 2001

Reception: Sunday, April 1, 2-5 p.m.


2001:
New Art for the New Century
Feb 1 - Mar 24, 2001
Public Reception: Sunday, February 4, 2-5 p.m.
An exhibition of art forged in the modernist tradition of the 20th Century with all the energy and verve of the new millennium...


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