FEATURED COLLECTIONS +
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
From the Permanent Collection
Coe Gallery
Through March 24, 2012

This exhibition highlights a few specific collections within the Museum's Permanent Collection including Hudson River School era paintings, high-speed photographs, New York Ten & New York International prints, sculptures by Anna Hyatt Huntington, pastels by Will Henry Stevens, and oils by Wolf Kahn.

This show includes works collected by the Museum over the past decade, including HMA's most recent acquisitions: Manimal by Jef Raasch (ceramic), Maine Seascape by N.C. Wyeth, Joan of Arc by Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Big Boy by Mark Hewitt (wood-fired stoneware).

Anna V. H. Huntington (1876-1973), Joan of Arc, bronze, 16 x 7 x 26 1/8 inches, Museum purchase, 2011.2.

NC Wyeth (1882-1945), Maine Landscape, oil canvas, Museum purchase, 2011.19.1.

Sponsored by:
Hickory Museum of Art Guild
Plastic Packaging, Inc.

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IMAGE*INATION
Catawba Valley Camera Club's
5th Annual Photo Competition
Entrance Gallery
Through March 31, 2012

This exhibition features winning photographs from the Catawba Valley Camera Club’s 5th annual photography competition, IMAGE*INATION.

The annual competition is open to youth ages 13 to 17, and amateur and experienced adults. Judging is done by members of the Camera Club. First, second and third place winners in each division receive cash prizes and have the honor of having their photographs put on exhibition at the Museum.

Olivia Kelly, "Lucas", First Place Winner, Youth Division

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Andrew Fullwood: ORIGINS
Shuford Gallery
Through February 26

Gallery Talk: Sunday, January 29, 2 PM

Andrew Fullwood, Origins/Expecting II, walnut, 46” x 19” x 15”

This exhibition features 16 wood sculptures by self-taught Chapel Hill artist Andrew Fullwood. “My interest in wood, a material with living texture, no doubt derives from a background in biology, but also from a family craft tradition spanning five generations of skilled furniture makers. Without formal training, I have gradually taught myself the craft. I am unusually drawn to the challenge of giving physical form to unique shapes that appear first in imagination.”

Watch an interview with Andrew Fullwood produced by Artsee Magazine:

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North Carolina Landscapes by
Chrys Riviere-Blalock
Gifford & Regal Galleries
Through February 12

Chrys Riviere-Blalock, Morning, Jordan Lake, 2010, oil on linen, 24 x 48"

“Paul Klee said, ‘The aim is to reveal the invisible.’ Although my work addresses what is perceived visually, the aim is to embrace the seen and the unseen. My process of painting is simple: seeing and responding. What I see is exhilarating…vast space, a robust and wonderously alive landscape that is simultaneously as delicate and fragile as each spring’s new leaf. The transience of this physical environment becomes a mirror for an inner reality, a metaphor for the awareness of human mortality coexisting with the exuberance of life. The response, the task of painting, is about the sensuous act of applying paint and the pure joy of making color ... Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua’.”

Chrys Riviere-Blalock

This project was made possible by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources and the Cleveland County Arts Council.

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THE LOUIS ORR ETCHINGS OF
NORTH CAROLINA
Windows Gallery
Through February 12, 2012

A historic collection of etchings of North Carolina landmarks created by Louis Orr from 1939 – 1951. The prints are from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and were recently conserved.

Louis Orr, North Carolina State Capitol at Raleigh, etching on paper, Gift of the Hickory Public Library System, 2009.9.13.

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LANDSCAPES BY PAUL WHITENER
From the Mildred Whitener Coe Bequest
Paul Whitener Gallery
Through Spring 2012

A selection of landscapes by Paul Whitener, the Museum's founder and first director, from the Bequest of Mildred Whitener Coe.

Paul Whitener (1911-1959), "Catawba Valley", 1946, oil on canvas, Bequest of Mildred Whitener Coe, 2008.15.1.

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DISCOVER FOLK ART:
Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists in the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
Mezzanine Gallery
Ongoing

The Hickory Museum of Art recently expanded their Southern Contemporary Folk Art Collection and Exhibition space. A new, hands-on exhibition was installed on the Museum's 3rd floor Mezzanine Gallery.

The Interactive Exhibition Features:
• Re-creations of Artists’ Working Environments (including a School Bus & Barn)
• Touch Screens
• Over 200 Folk Art Objects
• Sounds & Smells
• Family Activity Stations
• and More!

Free Family Guides for the exhibition are available at the Museum’s check-in desk in the first floor HMA Galleria. Copies of the children’s book, Discover Folk Art: An Adventure with Artie at the Hickory Museum of Art, are also available in the Galleria for $9.95. In the book, Artie (HMA’s art-loving mascot) takes a group of children on a tour of the galleries and introduces them to work by several folk artists including Sam “The Dot Man” McMillan and Q.J. Stephenson.

This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional major support has been provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Inc. and the Unifour Foundation Endowment Fund of North Carolina Community Foundation.

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AMERICAN ART POTTERY:
From the Museum's Moody Collection
Objects Gallery
Ongoing

Selections of the American art pottery collection gifted to the Museum by the Frances Johnson Moody Estate. Several studios are represented including Rookwood, Catalina, Van Briggle, Weller, Tiffany and Roseville.

Van Briggle Studio (artist unknown), "Siren of the Sea", c. 1920, ceramic, Gift of Frances J. Moody Estate.

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BORN OF FIRE:
Glass from the Museum's Luski Collection
Objects Gallery
Ongoing

An exhibition of glass works given to the Museum by Sonia and Isaac Luski, and Rose and Abraham Luski. Several styles of glass blowing are demonstrated and the show includes artists from the prestigious Penland School of Crafts nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Jon Kuhn, "Innocence Contained", 1992, glass, Gift of Isaac & Sonia Luski.

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SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
OPEN STORAGE
Donnelly & Lail Galleries
Ongoing

The entire third floor of the Museum is reserved for Southern Contemporary Folk Art. As part of this dedication to folk art, the Donelly and Lail Galleries house works in an open storage format. These pieces are not part of a traditional exhibition, but are on view for research, study, comparison and enjoyment. Works in these galleries change regularly.