New in the Lucas Mansion Gallery: Notes From A Life by Karen Parker
Aug 2019. During the months of August and September, the Hiddenite Arts & Heritage Center’s Lucas Mansion Gallery will feature the work of Karen Parker in her new exhibit, “Notes From A Life.”
Located on the second floor of the Center’s Lucas Mansion (316 Hiddenite Church Road), the Gallery is free to visit Monday – Friday from 10am – 4:30pm and on Saturday from 10am-3pm.
Karen Parker began to draw at an early age, sketching people, animals, and everyday scenes. “At school, science and biology fascinated me,” said Parker. “I was compelled to understand how things worked. This drove my mother to distraction, as she would come home to find the lawnmower, the clock, or some other household item dismantled.”
“I make art to fulfill a life-long desire to explore and understand the world through practical experience and intimate contact,” the artist shared.
As a formalist, Parker is interested in how shapes, spaces, color and value interact and define each other; the relationships and the tension between them. “I like the exploration of structure and form through the drawing aspects of my work. Painting allows me to further examine the organization and interplay of surface, value and color,” Parker went on to explain.
Karen Parker received her BFA from UNC-Greensboro and her MFA from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She has been teaching art to people of all ages since 1989 in community art centers, Universities and Community Colleges.
News Articles
Silver Linings Photo Show Makes Print
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Article In Channel Markers magazine about MAG's Photo Show in August.
https://issuu.com/lakenormancurrents/docs/lake_norman_currents_july_2019/19
Article about Hockenheim Sister City
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Senator Sawyer and MAG in the News. January 2019
MAG is always looking for ways to promote our artists. This opportunity will recognize a 3 artists each quarter of 2019. The Senator will proudly hang art our artists' work in her office in Raleigh. What a great opportunity!
What is a Zorn Palette
What do all these paintings have in common? They were all painted with only four colors - white, yellow ochre, Cadmium Red and Ivory black -----"The Zorn Palette". Anders Zorn was a famous Swedish painter who lived 1860-1920.
When looking over his body of work you'll note that this limited palette is not the only one he used. But there are quite a few figure paintings where it is quite obvious that the Zorn palette is exactly what he used. In fact, in one particular painting, "Self Portrait with a Model", you have a clear view of his palette with those four colors.
Since I'm an avid portrait painter, I decided to experiment with this palette. Painting portraits is challenging --- but so rewarding! Simplifying my palette to something I know works gives me the freedom to focus on other aspects of portraiture, so I decided to
incorporate it into my workshops. I also ask my workshop participants to do "homework" before they come, preparing color charts using these four colors. That way they walk in the door with some sense of the range of flesh tones those four colors can produce. Not only does it produce beautiful flesh tones, but it virtually guarantees color harmony to your portrait.
Hope you'll come paint with us!!! – Robin Wellner. Check out Robin’s website to see more of her beautiful work. www.robinwellner.com/
Robin will be giving a demo at the next Mooresville Arts quarterly program Sunday, April 14. The program begins at 2 PM with a short update on Mooresville Arts. Be sure to arrive on time for this great quarterly program. One lucky
member of the audience will be selected to be Robin’s model for her demonstration and will be taking the demo painting home!
If you are excited and inspired by Robin's work, you are in luck! She will be teaching a 3-day
workshop, Alla Prima Portraits Using the Zorn Palette, at Mooresville Arts on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 18, 19, 20. Check out the April online catalog at www.mooresvillearts.org/workshops for more information.
Iredell Living - December 2018
Check out our article in Iredell Living. Jessica made the cover!!
https://issuu.com/designfix/docs/iredelllivingdec18online?e=2125922/66182632
Nine Potters fetured at Trackside Festival, November 2018
Mooresville Tribune October 2018
Article on our Art After Dark Halloween party
5 Students Win
Youth Art Show was in the Mooresville Tribune. Congratulations to all the winners!
Lake Norman Currents Sept 2018
Embrace the Arts issue.
Features an ad and list of activities
Pages 43-44, 47
Mooresville Citizen August 2018
The Mooresville Arts Center is holding its first multicultural exhibit
Mooresville Arts President, Jessica DeHart, made a presentation to the Town Commissioners.
Lake Norma Currents Article, June 20, 2018
Lake Norman Publications Arts at the Mill
