A ColorFull New Show at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - Aug. 14, 2018 - PRLog -- Chris Graebner's paintings are often based on images gathered while traveling. "The paintings in ColorFull are drawn from trips, foreign and domestic, taken over the last ten years. In the past few months I've spent hours going through my photo files choosing images that speak me – images that carry me back to a specific place and time. Once I've selected the images, I must choose the size, surface and medium best suited for each." Graebner generally works on 4-6 paintings simultaneously so that the layers of each painting have time to dry while working on others. "Due to the back to back transitions of my son's wedding, my husband's retirement and our move to Elon last fall, I was out of the studio from August through January. Now, as we settle into our new home, I am again beginning to feel the grounding that being in the studio provides in my life. I hope that tranquility is manifest to the viewer in these new paintings."

The majority of Pringle Teetor's pieces for this show are cane work, a centuries old Venetian technique of putting stripes of color and patterns into blown glass. "I've always had a broad color palette and here I am able to explore endless combinations of color patterns in clean lines." The cane used in these pieces have either a colored core with clear on the outside, or veil cane, which has color on the outside with a clear core. Teetor made her veil cane with a variety of transparent or translucent colors, noting that as you look through the piece, the density of the color changes, causing interesting variations of color. Some pieces mix both types of cane, while others used strictly one or the other. In addition, several use varying size lines of contrasting colors to resemble plaids.

Lolette Guthrie is primarily a landscape painter. "Since I mostly paint from memory, my paintings are depictions of my recollections of the colors and the quality of light I experienced at a particular place and at a particular moment in time. For ColorFull, I thought about marveling at sunsets at the coast, remembering a pink and soft orange sky over Lake Jordan, the explosion of color when the sun shines through a stormy sky, the beauty of a broom straw field on a cloudy day."

ColorFull will be on display at the Hillsborough Gallery of Arts from August 27^th through September 23^rd with an opening reception during Hillsborough's Last Fridays Art Walk on August 31^st from 6-9pm.

The Hillsborough Gallery of Arts is owned and operated by 22 local artists and represents these established artists exhibiting contemporary fine art and fine craft. The Gallery's offerings include oil and acrylic paintings, pastels, sculpture, ceramics, photography, textiles, jewelry, glass, metals, encaustic, enamel, and wood. 121 N. Churton Street, Hillsborough, NC 27278. Phone: (919) 732-5001. The gallery is open 10am-6pm Monday -Thursday, 10am-9pm Friday/Saturday and noon-4pm on Sunday. More information can be found on the HGA website: http://www.HillsboroughGallery.com