Work of the Week

The Mountain Lake Workshop originated in 1980 as a series of conferences founded by artist and curator Ray Kass and co-directed by art historian Howard

Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander (born Lahore, Pakistan 1969) takes both formal and political approaches to traditional Indo-Persian art forms, placing emphasis on provenance and

Raised on the Apsáalooke reservation in Montana, Wendy Red Star’s work is directly inspired by her culture. Like all of her work, the Four Seasons series

Western North Carolina’s Pisgah Forest Pottery, the third and final studio established by artist Walter B. Stephen, is one of many producers important to the

  Like much of Jeff Koons’s artwork, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank explores consumerism and the fetishization of everyday objects. In this case, the object

Will Henry Stevens is considered one of the most important Southern modernist painters. Shaped by his upbringing on the Ohio River, he had a lifelong

BACKGROUND After working in Cubist and Surrealist idioms in the 1930s and 1940s, Louise Nevelson began to create dynamic, muscular, often monumentally scaled abstract sculptures

This work prefaces a move in Hoss Haley’s career toward making work concerned with purely formal elements, focusing on math and physics. During his residency at

Through November, visitors to the Asheville Art Museum can explore Rural Avant-Garde: The Mountain Lake Experience in its final public presentation—the last opportunity to see

George Masa (Osaka, Japan 1881–1933 Asheville, NC) began his life in Asheville, NC in 1915 as an employee of The Grove Park Inn. He is