Satellite Venue Exhibits
Check out our upcoming and current projects!
Check out our upcoming and current projects!
Rebecca Yeomans “Spellbinding Vines” Grapevine, various silk fabrics & thread, 30.75” x 24” x 2″
Art in Bloom Gallery is collaborating with Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts to present the fiber art of Rebecca Yeomans! Discover Rebecca’s botanically dyed creations across the 2nd Floor Lobby and Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre.
The exhibit will be open daily from 12-5pm, March 28th – June 23rd, as well as most evenings and via tours at 310 Chestnut St.
About the Artist
Rebecca Yeomans has lived her entire life centered around making. She learned to knit at eight years old and was considered the “class artist” in school. She studied studio art at UNC-Chapel Hill, receiving a BFA in 1974. After earning an MFA from Auburn University in 1979 she taught there for several years. Rebecca and her husband Tom moved to Wilmington, NC in 1984 and she worked as a scenic artist in the film industry. She was a founding board member for DREAMS of Wilmington and later taught classes. After she and Tom raised two artsy daughters, Rebecca quickly moved into full time artist mode. Her current work combines botanical printing, knitting, and stitching with a painterly feel.
About Her Process
The botanical printmaking process is almost always the inspiration and starting point for Rebecca’s work. Eco or botanical printing is the art of transferring color from natural plant material on to fabric or paper using pressure, moisture, and heat. Beautiful contact plant portraits are captured by bundling vegetation and fabric, either by rolling around a pipe or stacking in layers and binding tightly. The bundle is then steamed or immersed in simmering natural dye coaxing the pigment out of the leaves and on to the cloth. Results depend on many variables: type of fabric, water source, plant species, season, climate, and type of vessel used to name a few. Thus each piece is unique and always a surprise. The process involves many steps: scouring, mordanting, pre dyeing, printing with plant material, post dyeing, rinsing, and perhaps printing again. Rebecca enjoys the relationship with the natural world inherent in the process: foraging walks, growing my own dye plants, the aroma of cooking eucalyptus, and the opening of a bundle to reveal what gift Mother Nature has given. When a piece of printed paper or cloth excites me, Rebecca begin the slow process of embellishing. This involves tearing fabric, arranging and rearranging, pinning, basting, and deciding on a place to start. She approaches this process intuitively, reacting playfully, exploring this or that, asking what if? The piece evolves and its story unfolds. Hopefully a lovely whole is created by the intricate details. In a nutshell, the beauty of the materials and the process of making are what my artwork is about. Rebecca is co-creating with Mother Nature and collaborating with the fabric, yarn, and thread.
Virginia Wright-Frierson “Bryce Canyon Late Afternoon” Oil on canvas, 49″ x 36″
Art in Bloom Gallery is collaborating with Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts to present the paintings of Virginia Wright-Frierson! Discover Virginia’s painted scenes across the 2nd Floor Lobby and Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre.
The exhibit will be open daily from 12-5pm, January 10th – March 26th at 310 Chestnut St. Preview the works online at: https://aibgallery.com/product-category/thalian-hall/
About the Artist
Virginia Wright-Frierson has made Wilmington, North Carolina her home for over 40 years. She travels extensively for inspiration for her painting and frequent visits with family across the United States.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with additional training at the Arts Students’ League in New York City and the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. Virginia has lectured and taught many workshops and classes in painting and drawing and on illustrating children’s books.
She is widely known for her design and construction of the Minnie Evans Bottle Chapel and Sculpture Garden at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, a structure built with mortar and thousands of glass bottles, inspired by the art of the visionary artist who worked in the garden for many years as a gatekeeper.
In 2000, Virginia donated the sweeping mural which is permanently installed on the ceiling of the new atrium at Columbine High School after the tragic shootings there. It is comprised of twenty painted panels which lift the eyes to a perspective of a Colorado forest of evergreens, aspen and sunlight.
She has written and illustrated many children’s books, including three John Burroughs Nature Book Award winners: A Desert Scrapbook, An Island Scrapbook, and A North American Rain Forest Scrapbook.
Her most recent work has included a one-person exhibition of 120 road trip oil paintings at the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, a “pop up” exhibit of new oils and watercolors at 216 N. Front Street sponsored by Art in Bloom Gallery, and a Cameron Art Museum exhibit, “The Lived-In Body, Celebrating Women Over 65.”
Judy Hintz Cox “Energetic 3″ Oil and mixed media on canvas, 36″ x 50”
MoMentum Companies & Art in Bloom Gallery are continuing their collaboration in 2025! Join us in downtown Wilmington on Fourth Friday Gallery Nights. We are featuring the original work of artist, John Sharkey, and gallery artist, Judy Hintz Cox.
The opening Fourth Friday Event is March 28, from 6-9pm, and the show runs through April 1, 2025.
View art Monday-Friday from 9am-3pm at MoMentum Companies at 103 S. Front Street in downtown Wilmington, NC.
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