What's Happening With Artifex?

• April 11, 2012

  New Show – As Scene By The Artist

  ARTifex Gallery is proud to present Landscape Paintings by Mark Stephenson.
  The exhibit As Scene By The Artist will have an Opening Reception on
  Friday, April 13, 2012 from 5:30pm until 8:30pm and includes complementary refreshments.
  
  ARTifex also extends an open invitation on Sunday afternoon, April 15th at 3:00pm (also at the ARTifex Gallery) for a lecture/demonstration on Portraiture given By Mark Stephenson. Our previous show, Déjà Vu All Over Again, was a resounding success which featured Mark’s copies of old masters and his portraits. Mark will be painting this year’s reigning Miss North Carolina which will be on display for the event and as part of this year’s prize package, a portrait of the newly crowned Miss North Carolina. Come and see how he approaches the art and craft of portrait painting.

  
  

• February 3, 2012

  Narrative Landscapes at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

  Please join us for the Opening Reception of Beverly S. Dickson – Narrative Landscapes at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences – Nature Art Gallery, in Raleigh, NC on February 3, 2012. The Opening Reception is from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM during Raleigh’s Monthly “First Friday” Gallery Walk.
  
  Beverly’s work is infused with the color and light of the Piedmont region of North Carolina, where she lives and paints. Her abstracted landscapes celebrate the beauty and mystery of the natural world. Through her painting Beverly looks for the essential within the ordinary, finding beauty, mystery and magic in simple forms irradiating light. She uses shifting fields of color that suggest atmospheric space filled with light. The movement in her paintings is subtle, often nearly imperceptible, flowing from dark to light and from formless to form. The exhibition will run at the Nature Art Gallery until February 27th.

  
  

• New Show – Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Our current exhibition – Déjà Vu All Over Again – features NC artist Mark Stephenson. Mark was granted permission by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to paint inside the museum and copy paintings from Old Masters. Exhibit displays copies of paintings by Rembrandt, Titian, John Singer Sargent and Velazquez as well as many original portraits that Stephenson has produced.