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On October 22, 2010, Gallery C, in partnership with Raleigh Arts Commission, will host a fundraiser for the Artist of Tomorrow Scholarship. This fundraiser will coincide with the opening reception for the new exhibit: Mothers of Abstraction. On display will be acrylic paintings by Diane Patton and blown glass by Sally Resnik Rockriver. The reception will be from 7:00 - 9:00 PM.

The Artist of Tomorrow Scholarship provides a one time scholarship to high school seniors who are pursuing high education in the fine arts. The scholarships are funded soley on local contributions are are given directly to the accredited institution for the payment tution, books, fees, or room and board. 100% of donations go directly to the scholarship. Suggested donation is $10.

Follow this link for more information on the Artist of Tomorrow Scholarship program.

The exhibition, Mothers of Abstraction, will be on display October 22 through November 20, 2010.

Gallery C is located at 3532 Wade Avenue in the Ridgewood Shopping Center and is easy to find for both locals and out-of-towners. We are across the street from Meredith College and in the same shopping center as Whole Foods. Parking in the Ridgewood Shopping Center parking lot is free, well-lit, safe and very convenient to the gallery.

Diane Patton's recent work involves abstracting images collected during her hikes on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Building her paintings by inviting organic forms and shapes, Patton uses layer after layer of opaque and transparent paint to create her vibrant canvases. Insistent that the painting must be free to wander, Patton likes her paintings to show the mark of the hand, a gouged line, the scratched mark, the brush stroke, always exploring energy and light. Patton's paintings are a fine line between intent and exploration; never fully planned out at their inception, but informed by years of her experience as an artist. Working from memory allows Patton to move past mere depiction to the conception of original works that combine vision, experience and creativity.

Echoing the birth of planets and capturing the life inside them, Sally Resnik Rockriver generates chemical reactions in blown glass and ceramics. While she is making her blown glass, Rockriver uses ceramic glazes and glass rocks to grow geolocial worlds on the interior of the hot glass vessel. These moments of chemical reaction become imaginary planets and frozen thermal formations.

Sally Resnik Rockriver has redefined the aesthetic parameters of her medium by allowing geological laws to determine the content of her work. Rockriver arrives at a new form that she refers to as Geochemical Sculpture, in which compositions become planetary formations. She creates a narrative landscape by combining her multiple approaches: glass columns with a crystalline core, calcite cave formations, crystal glazed slabs, salt-blown spheres, ceramic blown glass vessels, and sandcast rocks. Exploring Ms. Rockriver’s works is like visiting another world where new geological formations are revealed. We can enter the high temperature moment at which these phenomena were created and marvel at the explosive interior of a crystalline birth.

Revolution acrylic 12 x 12 inches	Mr. Moonlight acrylic 30 x 24 inches	It's Only Love acrylic 48 x 48 inches
Golden Slumbers acrylic 30 x 22 inches	For You Blue acrylic 36 x 36 inches	Across the Universe acrylic 48 x 48 inches
There's a Place acrylic 48 x 48 inches	Piece of My Heart acrylic 30 x 22 inches	Lost in Love acrylic 22 x 30 inches
Diamonds and Pearls acrylic 48 x 48 inches	Chantilly Lace acrylic 30 x 30 inches	California Dreamin acrylic 30 x 40 inches
Somewhere Over the Rainbow acrylic 36 x 36 inches	Crimson and Clover acrylic 30 x 24 inches	Unchained Melody acrylic 24 x 20 inches
Center of a Planet glass with ceramic glazes 13 x 13 x 13 inches	Birth of the Melt glass with ceramic glazes 14 x 16 x 12 inches	Birth of a Planet glass with ceramic glazes 9 x 13 x 14 inches
Thermal Storm glass with ceramic glazes 12 x 28 x 12 inches	Aqua Fire glass with ceramic glazes 10 x 14 x 8 inches	Webbed Fire glass with ceramic glazes 7 x 10 x 8 inches
Glacial Planet glass with ceramic glazes 18 x 24 x 24 inches	Geode's Birthplace glass with ceramic glazes 12 x 18 x 10 inches	Birth of a Planet glass with ceramic glazes 9 x 13 x 14 inches
Frosted Fire glass with ceramic glazes 8 x 7 x 7 inches	Aqua Reef glass with ceramic glazes 9 x 9 x 9 inches	Golden Slipper glass with ceramic glazes 3 x 5 x 4 inches
Gold Water glass with ceramic glazes 9 x 8 x 9 inches	Candy Cave glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 7 x 6 inches	Water Cave glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 7 x 6 inches
Electric Reef glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 5 x 5 inches	Pluto's Castle glass with ceramic glazes 10 x 6 x 6 inches	Starfish's Planet glass with ceramic glazes 7 x 16 x 16 inches
Pink Thaw glass with ceramic glazes 7 x 7 x 7 inches	Urchin's Cave glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 6 x 6 inches	Cave Egg glass with ceramic glazes 5 x 5 x 6 inches
Pluto's Seabiscuit glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 9 x 9 inches	Slipper's Frost glass with ceramic glazes 6 x 9 x 5 inches	Copper Geode glass with ceramic glazes 5 x 4 x 4 inches
Glacial Excavation glass with ceramic glazes 30 x 20 x 26 inches	Planetary Reef glass with ceramic glazes 15 x 40 x 26 inches	Jewel Volcanoes glass with ceramic glazes 15 x 30 x 15 inches
	Jewel Mantel glass with ceramic glazes 12 x 40 x 10 inches

Click here to read Diane Patton's biography

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Directions to Resnik Thermal Lab (919)-942-2554 office / (919) 928-9712 studio #day of show only
#196 Collins Mountain Road, Chapel Hill NC 27516

from Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill: Take NC54-US15-501 Bypass around Southwest perimeter of Chapel Hill. Stay on NC 54 when US 15-501 leaves it. Take second exit after this point (Jones Ferry Road exit). Left onto Jones Ferry Road. Straight for about 6 miles, then right at Frosty's Trading Post onto Crawford Dairy Rd. Right after 2.4 miles onto Collins Mt. Rd.
White barn on rt.

From Pittsboro: NC 87 North for 8 miles. Right onto Chicken Br. Rd. at historical marker "Captain Johnston Blakely". Continue 4 miles to T-intersection. Left onto Crawford Dairy Rd. Right 1 mile later onto Collins Mt. Rd. White barn on rt.

        From Greensboro, Graham, and points West: I-85 to NC 54 exit. NC 54 towards Chapel Hill for 10 miles. Right at convenience store onto the Morrow Mill                 Road. Left fork after 1.5 miles onto the Clover Garden-Orange Chapel road. Sharp left 5 miles later onto Collins Mt.Rd. (comes about 1/4 mi. after small bridge). White

The Thermal Lab 196 Collins Mtn. Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 942 2554 www.thermallab.com Support Rare Local Blown Glass and Get Great Affordable Gifts! NOW AVAILABLE AT THE STUDIO: Sally's cover article in Ceramics Monthly (Directions down below) : From Raleigh/Durham Chapel Hill: I-40 or 15-501 to NC HWY 54 to Carrboro/ Jones Ferry Road exit. take left at end of exit ramp (if coming from the raleigh/east side). On Jones Ferry Rd. go SW away from town, pass Willow Creek Shopping Cntr on rt. Cross Univ. Lake, go 7 mi. At Frosty's Store, turn rt. onto Crawford Dairy Rd. Go 2.5 miles, turn rt. onto Collins Mtn. Rd. #196.From Pittsboro: HWY 87 North toward Graham, go 8 mi., turn rt. onto Chicken Bridge Rd. (at "Captain John Blakely" historical marker), go 4 mi. to dead end. turn left onto Crawford Dairy Rd., go 1mi., turn rt. on Collins Mtn. Rd., 2nd building on rt. #196 Collins Mtn. Rd. Ask about Glass Blowing Classes
Glass Blowing Students and Faculty will be selling their work at the Resnik Thermal Lab Glass Blowing School. Please help us to carry on this rare local artform! We will be selling following student items: -Ornaments $15-$25, Seconds $5-$10 (40% of the profits are contributed to the tool fund, the remainder pays for our monthly overhead and maintenance costs.) Also Featuring: Works by Faculty Instructors and Students 50% of proceeds contributed to the school REMEMBER: CAUTION: broken glass everywhere! Watch your step, supervise children. We look forward to seeing you, thank you for your continued support! CONTACT INFO: Contact: Sally Resnik Rockriver: (919) 942-2554 Email: resnik@thermallab.com Checks and cash accepted	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Ken Rumble P: 336.333.7460 ext. 111 F: 336.333.2612 ken.rumble@greenhillcenter.org IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST “Green Hill Explores the Garden with Summer Exhibition REGROWTH” Greensboro, NC, April 16, 2008: Green Hill’s summer 2008 exhibition, REGROWTH, features nine artists who will present large-scale installations and otherwise substantial groups of works. These works make use of plant imagery as a metaphor for universal cycles of death and renewal. Many of the artists work within poetic registers that suggest loss or nostalgia and convey a sense of the fragility of the natural environment. All of these artists explore a mediated and stylized nature that in the history of art has often taken the form of a garden. The exhibition is curated by Edie Carpenter. The exhibition will be on display from Friday, June 20, until Sunday, August 24, 2008. The opening reception will be held Friday, June 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. On view at Green Hill for the first time, a large selection of Sally Rockriver’s work represents the play of chance as a result of her practice of combining blown glass and ceramics. While she is blowing glass, Rockriver uses ceramic glazes and glass rocks to grow geological worlds on the interior of the hot glass vessel. The results capture moments of chemical reaction that appear like imaginary planets and frozen thermal formations. Rockriver creates narrative landscapes through her multi-work installation of pieces in several different forms: glass columns with crystalline cores, calcite cave formations, and crystal glazed slabs. The Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art is located at 200 N. Davie Street in the Greensboro Cultural Center in downtown Greensboro across from Center City Park. With a mission to represent and promote North Carolina artists, the Green Hill Center has been a Greensboro institution for more than 30 years. Green Hill houses over 7000 square feet of gallery space, a sales shop, and ArtQuest, a giant, hands-on art studio for children and families. For more information, call (336) 333-7460. Museum hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 5 pm, Wednesday 10 to 7 pm, and Sunday 2 to 5 pm. A suggested donation of $5.00 is requested for admission into the gallery. Metered street parking and public parking lots with nominal fees are conveniently located adjacent to Green Hill.
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