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“Roses & Figs” Still Life Photography by Yana Slutskaya
This is Art in Bloom Gallery’s second year partnering with the Durham Art Guild to introduce new artists to our coastal community. This year we are partnering to bring photographer, Yana Slutskaya, to Wilmington.
Yana Slutskaya is an award-winning professional artist and contemporary still-life photographer based near Raleigh, NC. She holds a BA degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Painting and Theatrical Design, from Moscow State Academic Art College.
As a still-life photographer, Yana finds immense joy and fulfillment in capturing the silent stories of inanimate objects.
The process feels akin to creating scenes on a theatrical stage, drawing from her background as a professional theatrical stage designer and decorator. She approaches each composition by envisioning the objects as dynamic characters, each playing a role in a captivating narrative. Through the interplay of light, particularly natural light from windows, Yana strives to infuse my compositions with an inviting, dramatic and artistic ambiance.
Her inspiration stems from everyday elements that surround her, such as fruits and flowers from the garden, seashells, pottery, and unique vintage items discovered in various places. The beauty of nature and her passion for gardening continually fuels Yana’s creativity, offering a wellspring of ideas for her work.
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, June 15th, from 2-5pm. Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by Justin Lacey! In addition, we feature continuously rotating art featuring 30+ of Art in Bloom Gallery’s Artists!
Click here to preview the work for this show!
About the Durham Art Guild
The Durham Art Guild is a nonprofit member-driven visual arts organization established in 1948. The Guild’s mission is to enrich and connect our communities by creating opportunities and providing leadership for current and future visual artists and art enthusiasts. The Guild programs over 40 exhibitions annually across multiple NC community partnership venues featuring over 400 regional artists. In addition to the Creative Mentorship Program and the Artist in Residence Program, the Guild also produces over 20 arts related events each year including receptions, lectures, community building events and professional development workshops. For more information about the Durham Art Guild please visit www.durhamartguild.org or follow us @durhamartguild
Angela Rowe “Peaches, Eagle Island” Oil on canvas, 30” x 24” x .75”
Art in Bloom Gallery is collaborating with Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts to present the oil paintings of Angela Rowe! Discover Angela’s realistic foods, animals and landscapes across the 2nd Floor Lobby and Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre.
The exhibit will be open Monday – Friday from 12-5pm, June 26 – August 27rd, as well as most evenings and via tours at 310 Chestnut St.
About the Artist
Angela Rowe is a native of Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. Although she grew up drawing and making objects, she took other career paths, working an architectural historian, in arts administration, and managing high complexity global projects for IBM.
Since 2013 Angela has focused on making art, maintaining a studio practice at ACME Art Studios since 2014. She received an AFA in Visual Art from Cape Fear Community College in May 2018.
Primarily a painter, she also works in mixed media, print making and ceramics.
About the Oils
Angela primarily works as a painter in oil, focusing on a representational approach. Regardless of the medium, all of Angela’s creations share the same intention of portraying things which are more than they superficially seem. Angela wants to suggest a story, show a certain light, a moment, a mood, a shared memory. She takes her own reference photos. These are images which said something to her.
Angela likes to work in multiples and within themed series as this allows her to more fully explore aspects of a subject or theme. In the past – and continuing – this has included a focus on local foods and food providers, such as produce stands and fish markets, as this gives Angela a way to speak about food as an expression of region and culture. Recent animal paintings include some of the earliest breeds brought to the Americas, but Angela is playing with other aspects such as the joy of a hog wallowing in the mud on a hot day or goats taking a sunbath in the sandy dust of eastern NC. A painting of a Devon Red cow becomes a nod to 19th century paintings of prize winning animals.
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts
310 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, NC 28401
Join us in celebrating our partnership between Red Arrays Light Therapy Spa, Debra Bucci Fine Art and Art in Bloom Gallery!
Red Arrays Light Therapy is a locally owned and operated red light therapy spa located directly beside Art in Bloom Gallery in the Mayfaire Shopping Center. This woman owned spa invited Debra to create and display a selection of paintings in reds, pinks, or grayscale tones. The paintings are for sale and can viewed in the spa and online.
Red Arrays Light Therapy Spa
980 Inspiration Dr, Wilmington, NC 28405
Stoneware Pottery & Raku Ware by Traudi Thornton
Art in Bloom Gallery and the Estate of Traudi Thornton are pleased to continue to represent the work of late master ceramicist and artist Traudi Thornton (1940-2023). The gallery will offer works of Traudi’s functional stoneware pottery as well as her unique raku ware. Traudi continues her unique presence at Art in Bloom Gallery, where she participated in exhibits and sales beginning in 2015.
Join us in celebrating our partnership between True Blue Butcher & Table Restaurant, Debra Bucci Fine Art and Art in Bloom Gallery!
True Blue, a local restaurant in Wilmington, NC, invited Debra to create and display a collection of her large abstract art in their dining room. The paintings are for sale and can viewed in the restaurant and online.
True Blue Butcher and Table Restaurant
1125 Military Cutoff Road, Wilmington, NC 28405