Ginger Young Gallery - Southern folk art, outsider art & self-taught art

Ginger Young Gallery Presents

UPCYCLE:

a holiday sale and celebration of creative reuse!

When: Saturday, December 3, 10:00 - 6:00

Sunday, December 4, 12:00 - 6:00

Where: 5802 Brisbane Drive, Chapel Hill

Every aspect of this sale, UPCYCLE, will celebrate creative reuse:

* works by self-taught artists from the American South who create beauty from found and salvaged objects;

* Ugandan recycled paper jewelry items from Bead for Life; and

* Haitian metal art crafted from used steel oil drums.

Attendees are also invited to bring their new and gently used children’s books to donate to Book Harvest, which recycles these books by placing them in the hands and homes of local children who need them.

“Upcycling”, a term coined in 1994, means taking an object viewed as waste and turning it into something of greater value. In this spirit, the artists featured in UPCYCLE rely on old roofing tin, mud, bottlecaps, grocery bags, twigs, road signs, vines, license plates, coffee beans, peanut shells, hinges, keys, old fishing boats, and found wood to render their worlds, their visions, and their imaginations. Without benefit of a single art class, each of the artists featured in this sale – including Grahame Eggleston, Chris Beck, Leonard Jones, Sybil Gibson, James Arthur Snipes, Ray Polin, and Jimmy Lee Sudduth -- has worked solely with materials readily at hand, many of them discarded, to create unique works of enduring beauty and passion.

Ginger Young has collected and exhibited Southern self-taught art for more than 20 years; currently, her collection comprises over 1,200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and assemblages by more than 65 Southern self-taught artists. Her gallery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is one of the country’s leading collections of Southern folk, outsider, and visionary art, celebrating the creative genius of these self-taught artists. Ginger also writes about and curates exhibitions of self-taught art.

UPCYCLE runs from 10:00 to 6:00 on Saturday, December 3, and from 12:00 to 6:00 on Sunday, December 4; this event is free and open to the public, and it features hundreds of original items for $5 - $50. Please note:

Anyone who upcycles their new or gently used children’s books by bringing them to donate to Book Harvest will receive $5 off any purchase. Learn more at www.bookharvestnc.org
100% of bead sales will be donated to Bead for Life. Learn more at www.beadforlife.org.

Directions and Information:

Ginger Young Gallery is at 5802 Brisbane Drive in Chapel Hill. Take I-40 to exit 266; go 1.3 miles north on Hwy 86 (toward Hillsborough). Turn right on Mt. Sinai Road. After 0.7 mile, turn left on Brisbane Drive.

The gallery is open by appointment other times. To schedule an appointment or for more info about this event, please contact Ginger Young at (919) 428-0511 or at ginger@gingeryoung.com. To preview the art, visit www.gingeryoung.com or join Ginger Young Gallery on Facebook.

Please join Ginger Young Gallery for our

SPRING 2011 ART SALE!

Saturday, May 7 10:00 – 6:00

Sunday, May 8 12:00 – 6:00

Other times by appointment -- please call (919) 932-6003

Paintings, garden art, Haitian oil drum art, and more!

Works by 70 folk and self-taught artists, including Chris Beck, Grahame Eggleston, Mark May, Sarah Rakes, Leonard Jones, Peter Loose, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Cher Shaffer, Buddy Snipes, and Mike Esslinger.

One-of-a-kind Mother’s Day and graduation gifts starting at $15.

Sensational pound cake and field-fresh strawberries.

Please bring your gently used children’s books to donate to Book Harvest, a new initiative that gives books to kids who need them.

Learn more at www.bookharvestnc.org

Everyone who donates books will receive a gold coin made by Peter Loose - while they last!

5802 Brisbane Drive, Chapel Hill

Take I-40 to exit 266; go 1.3 miles north onHwy 86 (toward Hillsborough). Turn right on Mt. Sinai Rd. After 7/10 of a mile, turn left on Brisbane Drive.

Questions? (919) 932-6003 or ginger@gingeryoung.com

Preview the art at www.gingeryoung.com.

Follow Ginger Young Gallery on Facebook!

Don't miss the 9th annual Fearrington Folk Art Show -- and be sure to join us for the Collectors’ Preview Event Friday evening, Feb. 18. I will be moderating a lively panel discussion at 6:00 entitled "Every Picture (or Pot) Tells a Story". The panelists include:

* memory painter Theresa Gloster;

* art historian Lisa Howorth; and

* UNC Professor Bernie Herman.

Tickets to the Preview event are $25 and can be purchased online or in person at McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village. The preview ticket includes admission to the Fearrington Folk Art Show throughout the weekend. For more info, please visit www.fearrington.com/village/folkart.asp. Hope to see you there!

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Wednesday, February 13
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130

12:00 - 1:30
Lunch will be served

Despite their lack of formal training, a handful of African-American self-taught artists from the Southeastern US have emerged as creative powerhouses in the past twenty years, their genius recognized and celebrated by the mainstream art world. Some of their most eloquent renderings depict their everyday lives. In this talk, we will discuss these visual narratives and the ways in which they bear witness to rural farm life, race, work, family, and childhood. We will examine artworks by such artists as Jimmy Lee Sudduth, James Arthur Snipes, Bernice Sims, Mose Tolliver, Eddie Hayes, and MC Jones.

An avid art collector for thirty years, Ginger Young has run a business in Southern self-taught art since 1990 and represents more than 60 artists in her Chapel Hill home gallery. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, she has taught at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies and UNC's Friday Center, and has published articles and letters about self-taught art in Bible Review, Christianity and the Arts, Oxford American, Gallery Notes, and Folk Art Finder. To learn more, visit www.gingeryoung.com.