{"id":82816,"date":"2025-08-28T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=82816"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:11:43","slug":"four-new-exhibitions-open-at-blue-spiral-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/four-new-exhibitions-open-at-blue-spiral-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Four New Exhibitions Open at Blue Spiral 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82826\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82826\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy-810x452.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Klakulak-Lisa_Cut-From-the-Same-Cloth-photo-copy-1140x637.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cut From the Same Cloth. Lisa Klakulak<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Blue Spiral 1 will open four new exhibitions with a reception on Friday, September 5, from 5\u20147 p.m., all on view through October 29. The Main Gallery exhibition, <em>Tableau: Contemporary Still Life<\/em>, draws attention to the contemporary equivalent of an historic art form, rethinking the genre through style, media and subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill lifes are anything but,\u201d says photographer Bill Green, whose work is featured in <em>Tableau<\/em>. \u201cIt may be a moment in time, but I look to capture a scene full of different timelines that have found their way into the scene at that very moment.\u201d While Green never stages a scene and only shoots found locations, he was encouraged to create new work for the exhibition\u2019s theme. \u201cI look for locations and vignettes of life where people are absent, but there are signs they were there,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82820\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82820\" class=\"wp-image-82820\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Pierce-Bethany_Powder-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"406\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bethany Pierce, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fiber artist Lisa Klakulak incorporates common objects in unexpected ways. Working primarily with wool hair through wet felting, she is \u201cdeeply inquisitive of natural materials; the patterning of their growth and\/or accumulation, deterioration and deformation,\u201d she says. \u201dThe objects I work with present a domestic setting, though not one that is still or contented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Painter Bethany Pierce sees still life as a timeless practice. \u201cI think still life painting is perennial because at its most fundamental level, it\u2019s the practice of learning to see,\u201d she says. For this exhibit, she drew inspiration from \u201cdaily rituals and commonplace pleasures: birthday cakes, flowers from the garden, dinner with friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fitts approaches still life as a hybrid of traditions. \u201cI see it as a fusion of four artistic traditions: still life, realism, trompe-l\u2019\u0153il and American pop art,\u201d he says. \u201cWe all have remembrances of the things and objects that give meaning to our lives. These paintings will be received differently by each person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Lower Level Gallery, <em>Material Matters<\/em> will explore how artists transform materials into works that challenge expectations. \u201cI believe animals can mirror the human condition in a nonconfrontational and expressive way,\u201d says ceramic sculptor Christina Kosiba. \u201cI hope my work creates moments of reflection, reminders that we are not above nor apart from nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82818\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82818\" class=\"wp-image-82818\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2-1024x974.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2-810x770.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Davis-Julyan_The-Rescue-copy-2-1140x1084.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rescue. Julyan Davis, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Glass artist Robert G. Burch finds energy in risk, incorporating unexpected materials like keys, tools and barbed wire into his glass sculptures. \u201cIf there is not danger or tension in the process and the final piece, it\u2019s boring,\u201d he says. \u201cThe challenge of bringing glass into contact with unusual mediums is where the tension lies for me.\u201d He sees his work as a response to purely digital creation. \u201cCNC machines and computer-generated art, while innovative, lack the personal touch and tactile connection between the artist and their medium,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is a unique power in the imperfections and nuances that come with handcrafted material with such a long road to command the material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Showcase Gallery will present <em>Stories Far and Near<\/em>, pairing narrative paintings by Julyan Davis with cast-glass sculptures by Alex Bernstein. \u201cI tend to pick stories from the past that speak vividly to present issues,\u201d says Davis. \u201cOnce I have found a story I reach out to historians and artists in other fields who would find my discovery intriguing and inspire them to create.\u201d He also sees clear resonance in his collaboration with Bernstein. \u201cI think his fusion of glass and steel to create beauty will complement my own treatment of the past: I also balance contrasting materials,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_82823\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82823\" class=\"wp-image-82823\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2-838x1024.jpg 838w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2-768x938.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2-810x990.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blue-Spiral-1-Kosiba-Christine_Stillness-in-White-copy-2-1140x1393.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-82823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stillness in White.<br \/>Christine Kosiba, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI realized that I was drawn to sculpture and found that blown glass was a challenging material to try to make sculpture out of,\u201d says Bernstein, who was raised in a family of glass blowers. His cast-glass forms capture light and transition color, often prompting viewers to wonder about the medium. \u201cI still see something new every time I look at them,\u201d he says, \u201cand they have an amazing fluid movement as you walk around them, almost like they\u2019re alive and moving with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Small Format Gallery will feature <em>The Poetry of the Earth<\/em> by painter Deborah Squier, whose work blends realism and impressionism to offer an intimate, luminous vision of the Appalachian landscape.<\/p>\n<p><em>Blue Spiral 1 is located at 38 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/BlueSpiral1.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BlueSpiral1.com<\/a> or call 828.251.0202.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Spiral 1 will open four new exhibitions with a reception on Friday, September 5, from 5\u20147 p.m., all on view through October 29. 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