Expose Yourself to Art!
Down Creek Gallery, located on Highway 12 on the waterfront in the heart of the village, is celebrating its 7th year as one of Ocracoke’s premier galleries. Art Openings are held throughout the season, with refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres provided. Live music is now a part of each event. Everyone is invited, locals and visitors alike, to share in these enjoyable, entertaining, social evenings with the artists. Art Openings are from 5:00 pm until 8:00pm.
Special musical entertainment for the season’s first opening is a return engagement with the group “Trees On Fire” from the Charlottesville, Virginia area.
The season kicks off on Thursday, June 7th with local painter Row Selman, whose 2011 show was canceled due to Hurricane Irene. Row studied art at the Boston School, which, she says, is very academic.
“It teaches the eye to see truth in nature, and trains the eye by painting strictly from nature,” she said.
Row’s art is part of private collections throughout the United States.
“My goal as a painter is to constantly challenge myself with difficult design and technical problems, and to really be more and more in touch with what I am painting. Daily, I can hardly wait to get out and paint, in all kinds of weather,” she said.
The next Art Opening will be on Thursday, June 21st when Hatteras Island artist Linda Meyer Browning will present her newest works. Linda is a long-time Outer Banks artist whose award-winning work with photo composites pushes the boundaries of the fine-art photography field. She creates her unique composites using thousands of tiny digital pictures of butterflies, dolphins, fish, or scallop shells.
Linda attended West Virginia University in Morgantown and Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. After working as a commercial artist and as a medical artist, she moved to Hatteras Island where she met her husband and established Browning Artworks, the island’s first fine art and craft gallery. After 20 successful years in business, the Brownings closed the gallery so that Linda could return to her long-neglected art career.
Other Art Openings this season are: July 5th, Marissa Gross; July 19th, Mary Bassell; August 2nd, Barbara Adams; August 16th, Masato Nagakane; August 30th, Kitty Mitchell; September 13th, Sarah Searight.
For additional information on these artists or any of the Art Openings scheduled for this season please stop by the gallery, call 252-928-4400, or click here.
