Around Town: The Arts in Charlotte - April 6th Art Crawl

The first Friday of every month an Art Crawl takes place at various galleries around Charlotte.

Of course every trip out requires some delicous cuisine to get it started... so we headed to 300 East located (as it's name suggests) on East Blvd, in the Southend area of uptown Charlotte...

Right:

This delicious dish you see here is what is known as Roasted Free Range Chicken. It consists of  Pan Gravy, Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes & Seasonal Veggies....Of course I had to have the mashed Potatoes substituted for red potatoes, but the end result was no less delicious! 

Left: The first stop for the night was Hiddell  Brooks Gallery located on 1910 South Blvd. where we got to see the wonderful works of art... but this was one of the only things I managed to 'sneak' a picture of in one of the back rooms...      

  
Check out their website to see some of the amazing pieces by Chris Metz and Christopher Terry...




      

Next we were off to the Ciel Gallery, an amazing 
gallery full of everything Mosaic (note the picture
at the beginning of the blog... bee-utiful yes?)


Right: Of course this amazing creation isn't too
shabby is it?

At the Ceil Gallery you can not only see     

beautiful mosaics, you can also take
classes to learn how to make some
creations of your own... Hmm... I
think I should put a visit on the books
don't you?    

Lovely bird... even more impressive in person

Woman among the flowers

Right: Every single item in this gallery is beautiful and unique... the intricate, painstaking details all seem to trigger the same response, absolute amazement...

 

That would be one heavy dress right?

                                                                                  

Next we headed right next door to one of my favorite Galleries, one I've visited a few times before... Lark and Key... Unique doesn't even begin to cover the art that fills this amazing little gallery... 

The featured works for this exhibiting were titled "Memory and Metaphor" featuring works by Honora Jacob, Duy Huynh and Jennifer Mecca....

Check out some of the other amazing works below...

The Enigmatic Memory of Love

Left: I love the use of butterflies in this picture by Honora Jacob... the use of yellows and reds is perfection... 






Below: Another picture by Honora... but this time it's bees...

  

Right: At Peace with a Memory... note that while the painting is covered by plexiglass, the entirety of the art work is not below the surface, but on top of it as well...

To see more of the art work by Honora Jacob, either go to the gallery yourself or check out the lark and key website...

http://www.larkandkey.com/artwork.php?artistName=honora%20jacob

Below: More of the artwork on display at Lark and Key...

Slow Food for Thought- Duy Huynh

Left: This is one of my very favorite pieces... unique and unbelievably beautiful... 

                                                           

Right: 'They told him sally was shy' by Vicki Sawyer...

Below: Other paintings by Vicki Sawyer... I think it's brilliant that she uses black as the background as it really makes the paintings pop...

Left: Broken Shell, by Diane Hoeptner... 

Below: Bird in Flight (artist unknown, to me at least)

Well that concludes this addition of The Arts in Charlotte... I look forward to sharing more in the weeks and months to come!