True Blue Art Supply

Water Dance – Watercolors by Suzanne Shaffer
Friday May 4, 5-8 pm
The Asheville Gallery of Art presents a water-themed show by local artist Suzanne Shaffer. A portion of the proceeds from sales will go to The Rotary Water Project, a non-profit organization that builds wells for impoverished communities.

Courtyard Gallery Grand Re-opening
Saturday May 5, 6-9 pm
Grand re-opening of the newly expanded Courtyard Gallery, with simultaneous openings at the Pump and Flood galleries. Located in the Phil Mechanic Studio in the River Arts District.

True Blue is proud to present Bob Martin, an artist who merges East and West aesthetics through his sumi-e works and other art. The influences of Japanese techniques and sensibilities can be seen woven throughout much of his work. 

In addition to his sumi-e works and landscape paintings, Bob has done frescoes and illustrated books.  He teaches palette knife techniques and sumi-e painting and participates in “quick draw” and “plein air” painting demonstrations. Bob is also a retired kilt maker, a historian of the kilt, and a member of the Scottish Tartan Society and the Guild of Tartan Scholars.

Asked about his art, Bob says, ”I paint to please myself.  I have nothing to prove with my painting, no theory to expound, no revolutionary ideas to give to the world.  I give myself, using my talents to the best of my ability.”

Downtown Asheville Gallery Walk
Friday April 5, 5-8pm
Asheville Downtown Gallery Association Invites you to visit the downtown galleries to enjoy the fine art and craft that they have to offer.

Absolute Uncertainty: Paintings by Barbara Fisher
Opening Reception Friday April 6
Barbara’s work has been exhibited in the Asheville Art Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Bank of America World Headquarters. Her serene and dreamy abstracts and landscapes will be shown at Urban Dharma in downtown Asheville April 6th through May 20th.

Mira Gerard Singh – River of Forgetting
Opening Reception Friday April 6
Paintings by artist Mira Gerard Singh will be on display at Jonas Gerard Fine Art in Asheville from April 6th through 29th.

Paintings by Leif Erik Johansen
Friday April 6
Izzy’s Coffee Den, 74 Lexington Avenue, Downtown Asheville.

The Artist’s Way 12 Week Course
For anyone who wants to live a more dynamic, creative, exciting and productive life.  Next course begins January 23rd 2012. It will meet Mondays from 5:30-7:30 for 12 weeks. For more information call Anna at 828-273-6617

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011; focusing on the work of painter Pat Passlof, an accomplished Black Mountain College alumna, member of the New York School and under-recognized figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition will open at the museum in downtown Asheville on January 27, 2012 with a reception from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Court McCracken, of Hatchery Studios, will be the featured artist for Third Thursday ART @ The Junction. Please join her for complimentary wine and light fare @ 6:30pm, January 19, 2012.

Pipe’s Dreams is artwork created by John Pipes that is light- reactive. Images look different in white light, black light, colored light and no light. DeSoto Lounge, Feb 2 at 6:00pm

True Blue is proud to welcome Taylor Cort as our local artist of the month for October, 2011.  

Taylor is best-known as a tattoo artist, having originally apprenticed in Boone before making his way to Asheville.  His artist statement is short and sweet – “I like to paint skulls.”

Taylor will have several pieces available for purchase through the end of the month – oils, acrylics, colored pencil, and even small polymer clay figurines. Taylor’s horror-themed imagery makes an eerie backdrop for your October visits to True Blue.

Come by and see for yourself! Can’t make it by this month? – See more of Taylor’s artwork here.

Atelier Gallery presents drawings by William Asman. Opening reception on Saturday October 8.

City of 1,000 Easels is a large-scale immersive arts event canvassing all of downtown Asheville, and featuring a self-guided walking tour among countless working artists showcasing their creative process for the public to witness in real time. Sunday, October 16 in downtown Asheville: roughly 3-6 pm.

Signature Studio @ Gallery 86: 86 North Main Street, Waynesville. October 19-November 24, 2011. Artist Reception: Friday, November 4, 2011, 6-9pm, FREE and open to the public. Artists from The Enola Group’s Signature Studio.The Enola Group provides people with disabilities the opportunity to make life choices.

Art at UNC-A
UNC Asheville’s 2nd Annual Invitational Art Exhibition, featuring 18 artists invited to exhibit by the Art Department faculty, opens with a reception from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23 at the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery on the campus. The show will remain on display through October 25 and includes works in the six concentrations offered in the Art Department: ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

Exhibiting artists are: Bette Bates, Dusty Benedict, Betty Clark, Christopher Curtin, Dave Detrich, Dustin Farnsworth, Larkin Ford, Brian Glaze, Constance Humphries, Debra McClinton, Monty McCutchen, Mark Nystrom, Jo Pumphrey, Tom Shields, Courtney Starrett, Jean-Paul Tousignant, Denise C. Woodward-Detrich and Valerie Zimany.

310 Art Gallery presents Play with Perception, an interactive art show by Julie Robinson.  Riverview Station, 191 Lyman Street through October 6th. Opening reception Saturday, September 10, 5-7pm.

Asheville Art Museum presents Color Study in the Appleby Foundation Gallery. Through November 6th.

Atelier Gallery presents Workshopauchery, works by Martin A. B. Guenette. Opening reception Saturday,  September 10, 6-8 pm.

Art at UNC-A
Works by 11 UNC Asheville Art Department faculty members will be featured in a wide-ranging exhibition thru Sep 16 at UNC Asheville’s  S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Participating studio art faculty are Tamie Beldue, Virginia Derryberry, Robert Dunning, Mark Koven, Scott Lowrey, Brent Skidmore, Carrie Tomberlin, Eric Tomberlin, Robert Tynes, Matt West and Megan Wolfe. Works in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, mixed media, multi-media installation, and ceramics will be on view. Located on the first floor of Owen Hall, the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays.

New Work by Dustin Spagnola
Harvest Records, West Asheville
This show features a variety of mixed media works depicting influential punk rock musicians.
Opens July 1st.

LaZoom Tours presents Asheville Art Tour
Saturdays at 11 am
This new 2.5 hour tour takes you to the neighborhoods and studios of numerous working artists in Dowtown, The River Arts District, and West Asheville, through the lens of a local artist. Each tour includes a live musician, bottled water, and snack. Adults $35, ages 13-17 $15, kids 12 and under free. Ticket booth on corner of Haywood and Battery Park downtown.

New Gallery Seeks Artists
ZaPow, a new artist and writer promotions company and unique illustration, comic and pop art gallery and workspace, will be opening this Fall in downtown Asheville. The 3,000 square foot location at 21 Battery Park near the Grove Arcade will be the only one of its kind in the region.

ZaPow is currently accepting applications from National and Regional artists. The ideal artists will have an eye towards visual narrative, illustrative; pop aesthetic.

Art at UNC-A
Concealment and Expression: A Parodoxical Love Affair Within Carnevale, by Cate Johnson. Highsmith Gallery, Highsmith Union. Opening Reception at The Bywater; Thursday, May 5th, 6-8pm.

Bobo Gallery
22 North Lexington Avenue
Time Signatures: Recent Mixed Media Works by True Blue’s own Joshua Spiceland!
Open 7:30pm-2am nightly; Closing event May 27th 7:30 – 11.
Show also accessible through Green Light Cafe entrance.

Fine Arts League of the Carolinas
362 Depot Street (in the River Arts District)

Origin of Colors: Secrets of the Old Masters, and
Making it Last: Building a Painting From the Ground Up

Guest Artist George O’Hanlon, founder of Natural Pigments, presents these two lectures followed by question-and-answer sessions. Monday, May 2 from 9am-1pm. $30.