Art We Heart
Curt Butler Solo Show
SOCO Gallery Through March 5 soco-gallery.com
HPxD February 10–13 hpxd.org
Shain Gallery March 12–25 shaingallery.com
HPxD invites you to a three-day celebration and exhibition of all things art, including emerging new talent and established artists at twenty HPxD flagship showrooms throughout High Point. The showrooms are spacious and spaced, supporting natural social distancing. Please note that masks are required. Visit hpxd.org for more information.
Through Kaleidoscope Eyes, New York–based artist Halsey Hathaway’s second exhibition at SOCO Gallery, features nine large-scale paintings exploring space, light, color, and form. Building on additive and retrogressive color structures, an interplay between opaque and stain layers, Hathaway creates an illusion of new forms and colors. The viewer is encouraged to visit the paintings multiple times in order to explore how shifts of light influence the soft geometry and color structure. Through Kaleidoscope Eyes will be on view to the public and by private appointment.
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Currently painting out of his Gastonia home, local artist Curt Butler enjoys sharing his passion and knowledge with others to create a journey for someone else. The artist’s interest in impasto and scumbling techniques is evident in his latest works using oil and encaustic, which will be on solo exhibition at Shain Gallery beginning in mid-March. “I enjoy the play of carving back into the wax with a palette knife to create different textures,” Butler says. “Heating up the wax allows me to fuse layers of paint to create a surface that is varied and complex. Each layer must be carefully fused to the next to ensure there is no cracking.”
LEFT TO RIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY LANCE BREWER, COURTESY OF SOCO GALLERY; ART BY JON ROLLINS, COURTESY OF HPXD; ART BY CURT BUTLER, COURTESY OF SHAIN GALLERY.
Through Kaleidoscope Eyes
