Work of the Week

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

With the exciting news in March of the Asheville Art Museum’s new acquisitions of two James Ormsbee Chapin studies for the Collection’s 1942—1945 painting Nine

Janet Nolan’s Union 50 Stars wall installation is comprised of 50 aluminum cans flattened by the traffic of New York City and molded by the

INTERN’S TAKE Robert Glenn Ketchum’s Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management series examines the natural and human-induced decay of the

“I chose to honor Carlos & Fernando in the series as their love and commitment to each other is one that is never highlighted and

James Turrell (born Los Angeles, CA 1943) considers light a material that defines space. His expansive body of work challenges human perception and the primal