310 ARTists to Show in New York City
Join us for an artist talk and with the curator Nadine Charlsen at 5:30 followed by reception into the evening on the 29th of November.
Berlitz Gallery is located in the Berlitz Learning Center, 40 W 51st Street, NYC.
The five resident artists from 310 ART in Asheville’s River Arts District are exhibiting work in New York City in Rockefeller Center at the Berlitz Gallery. Fleta Monaghan, Bridget Benton, Nadine Charlsen, Katrina Chenevert, and Jane Molinelli, are the featured artists in the show “310 ARTists From Asheville: Languages in Visual Arts.” Fleta Monaghan, founder of 310 ART, says, “This is a great opportunity for the artists to show as a group in New York while highlighting the diversity of art available in our studio. It also serves to bring recognition of the River Arts District to New York. While this show is going on, we will have similar pieces at our gallery in the River Arts District.”
Nadine Charlsen who is the curator of the show, is a master experimental watercolorist who moved to Asheville from NYC. Having exhibited at the Berlitz a number of times, she felt it would be a perfect venue to display the work of her studio mates. The gallery is in one of the most visited sites in the city. It’s also a few blocks from the Museum of Modern Art, a mid-town arts destination.
Each artist has their own unique style and medium. Featured in the show are:
Fleta Monaghan is a long time Asheville fine artist working in oils, inks, mixed media and encaustic. She grew up in Western Florida on the Gulf of Mexico and settled in Asheville in 1981. She founded 310 Art at Riverview Station in the River Arts District in 2006, which now houses a gallery, studios, and the oldest independent school for the arts in the region.
Bridget Benton, a nationally known artist, instructor and best selling author, joined 310 ART as a resident artist in 2017, after moving to Asheville from Portland, OR. In 2006, she began working in encaustic that allows her to incorporate multiple media while continuing to explore themes of memory, home, and belonging. Benton is the lead instructor in encaustic at 310 ART.
Nadine Charlsen is an urban landscape watercolor artist and instructor based in Asheville. Her background as a theatrical lighting designer in New York City for 31 years has allowed her to incorporate her knowledge of light, shadow, scale, colors and textures to culminate an artistic drama. She teaches a series of experimental watercolor courses at 310 ART.
Katrina Chenevert moved to Asheville in 2008 and immediately embraced the art culture. Nostalgia often drives her inspiration to paint but, it is the theme that drives what medium will be used in her final creations whether watercolor, acrylic, oil or scratchboard. Her passion with 3D art has bred creations incorporating large canvases, mixed media and fiber arts.
Jane Molinelli came to Asheville in 1976. With a background in fiber arts, her expressive, colorful paintings, inspired by abstract expressionism, reflect her work as a weaver and dyer. Her non-objective work seeks to capture energy, emotion, and memory through line, mark, and color.
See the artist’s work locally in Asheville at 310 ART, 191 Lyman St #310, Asheville, NC 28801, M-S 11-5 and Sun 12-4
Each 310 ARTist will have a two month featured show in 2019 starting in February and running through November. In addition, our gallery features more work all the time of 16 artists.
