Work of the Week

CURATOR’S TAKE Roger Shimomura’s The Lineup depicts incarcerated Japanese American men of varying ages waiting for the restroom at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in

I am interested in the forms that result from the kinesthetic reaction to a given situation. Similar motions in different media are translated into a

Since the Museum has been closed due to COVID-19, I’ve been conducting a complete inventory of the Collection. One of my favorite works is Tree

I’ve been a fan of Anne Lemanski’s work for as long as I can remember. I first met Lemanski many years ago when she was

This sculpture by Karen Karnes is from an intimate series created later in her career as a ceramicist. She was a trailblazer in the ceramic

The depth of emotion in this young man’s eyes caught the attention of my own as I recently explored the exhibition Intersections in American Art.

This week we have chosen to feature a work of art outside of the Museum’s Collection, and in fact, just outside of the Museum itself. Asheville’s dynamic Black Lives Matter mural was installed

This coin bank is featured in the first gallery of Intersections in American Art, the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the Collection of the Asheville Art Museum. The artworks it

An adorable young puppy is caught in mid-movement looking up at the viewer, momentarily distracted from its discovery of a grasshopper in a garden. From

Though this painting may appear to be a fairly straightforward exploration of abstraction, where color and form take the place of figures or recognizable objects,