Now through March 11th, experience Up Close and Faraway at the Newton-Conover Auditorium. The show features the work of local artists Lindsay Barrick and Phil Hawn.
Lindsay Barrick is an established artist working and residing in western North Carolina. She began pursuing art seriously as a young girl, discovering her own unique point-of-view under the tutelage of renowned artist Jackie Maté of The Maté Studio. Her other favorite teachers include Thomas Thielemann and Lynda Lea Bonkemeyer of Moon Head Studio, Mary Dobbin, Damon Hood, John Saunders, and Jean Cauthen.
Some of Lindsay’s many inspirations include Francisco Zúñiga, Ross Wilson, William Kentridge, and Georgia O’Keeffe. She is also motivated by the beauty of poetry – particularly that of award-winning Belfast poet Adrian Rice and up-and-coming poet Matthew Rice. Music, theatre, creation, family, and friends constantly add to her work as well.
Phil Hawn is a graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta (AA), Berea College (BA in Ecological Design), and Appalachian State University (MS in Appropriate Tech Education), he splits his time between family, work, art, and volunteering.
His career in the arts has been spent working in offset printing, screen printing, television, ad agencies, and as an artist for hire. In his studio, he works on sculpture, painting, illustration, and graphic design. He enjoys teaching art to youth and adults.
When sculpting, Phil works in abstract using stone, wood, plaster, found and recycled objects or whatever he has at hand. The forms take shape out of images in his mind and find representation through tactile interpretation of what his hands find interesting to touch.
When painting his interests lie in the abstraction of nature in close-up, or like his sculpture, the images that form in his mind.
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