Work of the Week

BACKGROUND After working in Cubist and Surrealist idioms in the 1930s and 1940s, Louise Nevelson began to create dynamic, muscular, often monumentally scaled abstract sculptures

This work prefaces a move in Hoss Haley’s career toward making work concerned with purely formal elements, focusing on math and physics. During his residency at

Through November, visitors to the Asheville Art Museum can explore Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience in its final public presentation—the last opportunity to see

George Masa (Osaka, Japan 1881–1933 Asheville, NC) began his life in Asheville, NC in 1915 as an employee of The Grove Park Inn. He is

While scrolling through images in the Asheville Art Museum’s Collection, I came across three photographs by photographer George Tice that spoke to me. The images

I was sorting through boxes of Walter Iooss’s work in the Museum’s vault and updating their measurements in the collection management system before many of

An intimately sized painting by Dorothea Dreier, Interior with Chinese Lantern, is on view now in the SECU Collection Hall. It’s always impossible to pick

Asheville-native J. Stone Roberts understands the appeal that can arise from unexpected combinations. He uses these constructed juxtapositions to great effect in his realistically painted

In the exhibition Meeting the Moon, I was most interested to discover that artworks made before the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced their

Within the Olympics exhibitions at the Asheville Art Museum, the exhibition entitled Precious Medals: Gold, Silver, Bronze is probably the most thought-provoking one; it features