Richard Oversmith
Lisa Stinson
july 8 - aug 1
reception : july 18, 4 — 6
Saturday, July 18 is a full day with these two.
It begins at 7 am at Mountain Grounds — the Art Cellar has curated the shop’s summer specials menu, and to mark it, Greg and Ben have each hand painted fifty coffee sleeves. The first hundred cups of the morning go out in one.
In the evening, join us at the gallery from 4 - 6 pm to meet the artists and see the show. Wines selected by Peabody’s Wine & Beer Merchants, with a tasting pairing chosen for his exhibition.
And when you have a chef like Ben Knight in town you make sure you’re hungry. Fresh pizzas from his oven, fired on site through the evening.
Two painters, one state, opposite directions. Smith grew up in the Matney community near Valle Crucis and has spent a career painting the High Country's disappearing barns and homesteads — the architecture of a place quietly leaving. Knight, a Chicago native who studied under Larry Poons, layers color and texture until the painting comes up off the canvas, all movement and present tense. Hung together, they hold both ends of the same question — what a place looks like going, and what it feels like to be fully here.