1st Friday at The Saxapahaw Art Gallery
Featuring Ironwood Sculpture by Larry Favorite and Silver Halide Photography by Jason Dowdle
By: Suzanne Connors
May 20, 2011 - PRLog -- The Saxapahaw Art Gallery announced today that it will host a special gallery exhibition from June 1, 2011- June 28, 2011 featuring Ironwood Sculpture by Larry Favorite and digital Silver/ Halide Photography by Jason Dowdle.
The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, June 3, 2011 from 6-9PM at the gallery.
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served, in addition to live music by Cool 21 Jazz Band. All are invited to come enjoy an evening of art and entertainment at the area’s newest fine art gallery.
Jason Dowdle is a professional videographer and cinematographer. He has shot for numerous television shows and TV documentaries for the History Channel, TLC, Discovery, The Military Channel and many others.
Jason is also a professional still photographer, and his specialty is photographing works of art and craft for artists and craftsperson’
“Creating a photograph is like writing a poem. I may think I know what I want to say when I start out, but I always discover something new in the process of unfolding, and in the end I arrive at a place I know, yet see it in a new light. My photographs most often focus on worlds or objects in transition, a building decaying, a storm gathering, a river flowing. Everything is on its way to becoming something else, and so beauty enters the world.”
Larry Favorite was a Mechanical Engineer in Phoenix, Arizona when he decided to "step off the fast track" and become an artist. Listening to his "inner voice", he searched for a medium in which to express his emerging creativity. He discovered desert ironwood, a nearly-petrified wood lying n the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Favorite spent 30+ years modifying tools and refining techniques to sculpt, sand, and polish this dense wood. He augments the natural beauty of the wood by painstakingly inlaying silver and turquoise stones into each finished piece. Favorite currently maintains a studio in Mebane, NC. www.favoritedesigns.com
“I derive my greatest satisfaction as an artist from the shear joy of doing- of being at one with the wood and releasing the beauty that is within. I love the challenge of looking at and listening to a piece of wood and letting it reveal to me what it should be. I have a tremendous sense of inner piece about my life and my work, and hope that those who touch the pieces of art I have created can feel this in the work itself.”
Gallery Information:
Call 336-525-2394 or email saxapahaw.artists@
The Opening Reception will be held on Friday, June 3, 2011 from 6-9PM at the gallery.
Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served, in addition to live music by Cool 21 Jazz Band. All are invited to come enjoy an evening of art and entertainment at the area’s newest fine art gallery.
Jason Dowdle is a professional videographer and cinematographer. He has shot for numerous television shows and TV documentaries for the History Channel, TLC, Discovery, The Military Channel and many others.
Jason is also a professional still photographer, and his specialty is photographing works of art and craft for artists and craftsperson’
“Creating a photograph is like writing a poem. I may think I know what I want to say when I start out, but I always discover something new in the process of unfolding, and in the end I arrive at a place I know, yet see it in a new light. My photographs most often focus on worlds or objects in transition, a building decaying, a storm gathering, a river flowing. Everything is on its way to becoming something else, and so beauty enters the world.”
Larry Favorite was a Mechanical Engineer in Phoenix, Arizona when he decided to "step off the fast track" and become an artist. Listening to his "inner voice", he searched for a medium in which to express his emerging creativity. He discovered desert ironwood, a nearly-petrified wood lying n the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Favorite spent 30+ years modifying tools and refining techniques to sculpt, sand, and polish this dense wood. He augments the natural beauty of the wood by painstakingly inlaying silver and turquoise stones into each finished piece. Favorite currently maintains a studio in Mebane, NC. www.favoritedesigns.com
“I derive my greatest satisfaction as an artist from the shear joy of doing- of being at one with the wood and releasing the beauty that is within. I love the challenge of looking at and listening to a piece of wood and letting it reveal to me what it should be. I have a tremendous sense of inner piece about my life and my work, and hope that those who touch the pieces of art I have created can feel this in the work itself.”
Gallery Information:
Call 336-525-2394 or email saxapahaw.artists@
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| Source | : | Suzanne Connors |
|---|---|---|
| : | ***@gmail.com  | |
| Zip | : | 27340 |
| Tags | : | Saxapahaw, Art Gallery, Chapel Hill Arts, Triangle Arts, Jason Dowdle, Larry Favorite, Ironwood, Turquoise, Photography |
| Industry | : | Photography, Sculpture |
| Location | : | Chapel Hill - North Carolina - United States |
Page Updated Last on: May 24, 2011