CROSSCURRENTS OF ART ~ Barbara Nerenz-Kelley, paintings and Kyle Van Lusk, sculptures
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TC Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell Street, Transylvania County, North Carolina 28712
CROSSCURRENTS OF ART The Artwork of Barbara Nerenz-Kelley & Kyle Van Lusk
August 28 @ 9:30 am - September 18 @ 4:30 pm | FREE
CROSSCURRENTS OF ART
BARBARA NERENZ-KELLEY, paintings KYLE VAN LUSK, sculptures
The TC Arts Council will exhibit the paintings of Barbara Nerenz-Kelley and the sculptures of Kyle Van Lusk from August 28 thru September 18. There will be a reception on August 28 during Brevard’s 4th Friday Gallery Walk from 5 – 8 pm.
Barbara Nerenz-Kelley from Germany has always found multiple outlets for her creative expression: from singing on stage and writing songs, to teaching children’s theater and psychodrame, as well as in dance instruction, choreography and performance and, yes, painting. Her creative journey now takes place primarily on canvas.
Barbara Nerenz-Kelley photoBarbara Nerenz-Kelley Sailing the Yellow Fields
Chaos, destruction, and reconstruction comprised an essential experience of my childhood in Germany during and after WW II. This caused a deep longing in me to bring order into disorder, clarity into confusion, stillness to quiet the inside and outside noise.
Eschewing a predetermined concept I mostly begin my abstract work with vigorous brushstrokes, with movements and gestures. Merging marks, lines, textures, shapes and colors, I work in many layers, moving paint around, scrubbing off and out, scratching and wiping away, generating chaos to find order, destroying to build up again. Each painting undergoes multiple metamorphoses, following traces of the past, of memories and dreams, of feelings and sensations.
I like to compare this ongoing process with nature’s cycles of birth, death and rebirth, of creation, destruction and building up again. The best is to step out of my own way, be in a state of no-mind and to let happen what wants to express itself naturally.
Barbara Nerenz-Kelley from Germany started her study of painting in her early twenties. Following a career as a social worker and therapist, she began as a professional painter after relocating from Munich, Germany to Asheville, NC in 2004 where she lives with her American husband, the writer Robert Eaton Kelley.
Art for me is a spiritual language, it is a way to come in touch with the invisible and give it color and shape, mark and line.
Gallery representation:
Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC
www.bluespiral1.com
dk gallery, Marietta, GA
www.dkgallery.us
For more information, please contact: Barbara Nerenz-Kelley
nerenz-kelleyarts@charter.net
www.nerenz-kelleyarts.com
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Kyle Van Lusk: Born in the mountains of North Carolina, sculptor Kyle Van Lusk has been inspired by the balance of beauty and strength in the Blue Ridge Mountains since childhood. Lusk continues to create sculpture that manifests this relationship and his affinity for process and materials. Raised in a small community near Brevard, NC, Lusk was encouraged by his parents from an early age to engage in the study of art. His first formal study was at Brevard College, then earned his BFA in 1995 from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Renowned for its excellent sculpture program, East Carolina University was also where Lusk chose to study as a graduate, earning his MFA in Sculpture in 1998. Since completion of his graduate work, Lusk has created and displayed work in several juried public sculpture exhibitions. He also has works in many permanent collections and on loan to college campuses throughout North Carolina. Kyle taught art at Appalachian State University and currently is Associate Professor of Art at Brevard College in Brevard, NC. With his wife Heidi, children Declan, Julia, and Ian, Lusk currently resides and maintains his studio in Brevard.
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