COE GALLERY
THE IMAGINATION OF
HENRYK FANTAZOS
Through August 9, 2009
Fantazos was born and raised in Poland at a time when his country still lived in the remnants of the World War. He lived in Poland through all of his childhood years and into his adult life. He started painting and drawing as a small child and eventually went to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. He describes his style as “Proto-Renaissance;” a time when people were changing the way they think about the world. Though Fantazos wasn’t alive in the early 1200s when the Proto-Renaissance emerged, he was alive in a time when painting was believed to be on its way out. The school he attended had limited instruction and mostly focused on modernism. This horrified Fantazos, who was granted time to work alone in his dorm instead of in a classroom.
He moved to New York in 1975 and hated it and what it required of him. In less than a year he moved to a remote farm in West Virginia and stayed for the next eight years. Fantazos recalls those times as “the most shackle-free days imaginable,” noting that he could paint, tend his garden, and spend time with nature. Now Fantazos has made Hillsborough, North Carolina his home and has for some time.
His main collection of paintings entitled the “Face of the South,” convey his love for the land he lives in. He believes “the South is a disappearing country. Soon there will not be a place as the South. In its stead we are getting nightmarish happiness of Global Nowhere. All I should do, as always, is to paint it before it will be gone…”
Hear what he had to say when he visited HMA in April 2009. (The file is large, so please give it time to load.)
Visit the artist's website.
Sponsored by: HMA Follies '88
Reception Sponsored by: The Friends of Henryk Fantazos
ENTRANCE & SHUFORD
GALLERIES
PEOPLE READING
Selections from the Collection of
Donald & Patricia Oresman
Through September 13, 2009
This exhibition features 60 fine arts prints - a combination of lithographs, etchings, engravings, woodcuts, screen prints and drawings - created by well-known 20th century artists from around the world including: Will Barnet, Elizabeth Catlett, Marc Chagall, Edward Gorey, Joseph Hirsch, Diega Rivera and Ben Shahn.
Sponsored by Corning Cable Systems
Exhibition Developed and Organized by:
Thomas L. Johnson, PhD & Spartanburg Art Museum
PAUL WHITENER GALLERY
In the Beginning
Through Summer 2009
The Paul Whitener Gallery, dedicated on January 19, 2008, honors the life and work of the Museum's founder and first director, Paul W. Whitener. It features rotating exhibitions of art created by Paul Whitener – from HMA's Collection and through loans, and a short video about Whitener and the Museum he created (produced by Jackson Group Interactive).
Currently, works are on display that have never before been seen together thanks to the generous family members who have loaned HMA works by Paul, Mickey, and their teachers. Highlights include the portrait Three Sisters by Frank Stanley Herring.
MEZZANINE GALLERY
Homegrown & Handmade IV
CONFLUENCE
Selected Works from the
Huffman Collection of Southern
Contemporary Folk Art
Through Summer 2009
Confluence is the final exhibition in a series of four drawn from the vast collection of Southern Contemporary Folk Art of Hickory residents Dr. & Mrs. Allen W. Huffman, Jr. Andrew Glasgow, Director of The American Craft Council served as guest curator for this show which revisits the themes from the previous three exhibitions in new contexts while adding additional core themes not yet explored. The motif of “confluence” continues past the selection of art and themes into interpretation. Glasgow’s choices of themes and objects are complimented by a catalog essay by Janet Koplos, editor of Art in America, and interpretive labels by HMA’s folk art curator Nikol Wuest.
Sponsored by Duke Energy and Lynn & Leroy Lail.
OBJECTS GALLERY
BORN OF FIRE:
GLASS FROM THE MUSEUM'S
LUSKI COLLECTION
Through July 5, 2009
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.
GIFFORD & REGAL GALLERIES
PLEASE DO NOT RE-SHELVE
THE MUSHROOMS:
Installation by Erin Tapley
Opening July 11, 2009
Whittier, NC artist Erin Tapley will transform the Gifford and Regal Galleries into an art installation based on the printed form. She derives themes for installations from travel, research and environmental issues.
DONELLY & LAIL GALLERIES
SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY
FOLK ART OPEN STORAGE
 
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.
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