One of the things I do besides create artworks is to show artworks. I manage the art gallery at Mars Hill University. We just finished installing the first show of the spring semester. It's a series of prose and poetry printed in letterpress, along with line etchings, all made with exquisite quality. I'm not exaggerating: it's some of the best I've ever seen. And the story that the artist is telling is extremely powerful.
Click on the image to see a larger version. Then zoom in on it even more. Take your time - the more you look, the more you're going to see.
Artist koreloy mcwhirter has created this collection of works titled "redhanded: a songe forre the loste". She doesn't capitalize names or titles, and deliberately uses spelling that evokes olde English. It's essentially a book of prose, poetry, and imagery, each page of which is individually mounted, framed, and presented. They're arranged such that you enter the gallery and follow the "book" around the wall, one page at a time, in order.
redhanded is based on her own experiences of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, both as a very young child and continuing into adulthood. This is not a happy story. It's not a hopeless story, either, and you'll find humor, love, mourning, forgiveness, anger, and much more.
You'll find it, that is, if you take the time to read the prose and poetry, and to study the prints. It's not an exhibition that you can pop in, get a quick look, and say you've "seen" it. But if you take the time, you will be profoundly moved.
Weizenblatt Gallery is in the Moore Fine Art building on the Mars Hill University campus in Mars Hill, North Carolina, about 20 miles north of Asheville. Hours are 10-4 MWF. We're having a reception for the artist on Tuesday, Jan 16, from 5-7 pm. I hear from koreloy that there will be music, singing, and maybe some dancing as well.
Be there.
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