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Cherry Jungle. Sarah Boyts Yoder, artist<\/p><\/div>\n
Mark Making<\/em>, an exhibition of painting, printmaking, fiber and ceramics, features artists employing gestural marks as a central expression. This group exhibition examines the nuances of mark making as an artistic practice through works by Eleanor Annand, Grant Barbour, Christina Brinkman, Frank Hursh, Amy Putansu, Jon Rollins, Katie Walker and Sarah Boyts Yoder.<\/p>\n Charlottesville, VA-based painter Sarah Boyts Yoder says visual artists can \u201ccompare the marks they make to the notes a musician plays when creating a song. Those marks or notes are the tools we have, but they are also what unlock the creative expression of the everyday tools we use, our instruments,\u201d Yoder says. \u201cThey are how we construct our work. Everyone has their own signature, or way of playing and making their marks. Over the years, I\u2019ve developed my own visual vocabulary of marks and forms that I always \u2018play\u2019 with. They are how I build all my paintings. I like to feel fast and fluid so I adjust my paintbrush or drawing tool, the surface I\u2019m working on and the consistency of the paint to achieve a particular speed and fluency that allows me to improvise and make connections.\u201d<\/p>\n Jug Form No. 2. Bill Jones, artist<\/p><\/div>\n In its Small Format Gallery, Blue Spiral 1 will exhibit works by Bill Jones, an artist working in Western North Carolina who says his show will be about drawing and will feature ceramic wall pieces, cups and a self-portrait. \u201cI consider much of my practice to be drawing, but maybe not in the conventional sense,\u201d Jones says. \u201cThrowing at the potter\u2019s wheel to me is just drawing in three dimensions as is my process of assembling pieces from thrown parts. The functional cups in the show might be thought of as sketches, while the wall pieces are more abstract compositions. These wheel-thrown parts that many of my pieces are made of are what I\u2019m referring to as \u2018moments\u2019 in my work. What I love about clay is that it\u2019s a perfect record of what you do to it. All these individual thrown parts are to me gestures or moments and they represent how we take in the world as a collage of feelings, senses and memories\u2014all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BS1-Bill-Jones-Bottle-Form-copy.jpg\")