Gallery 4463 March show: "New Member Exhibition"

Gallery 4463, Acworth's Premier Fine Arts Sales Gallery, will feature the works of our newest members for our March 2010 exhibition.  Painters Marsha Chandler, Julian Cowdart, Cathryn M. Green, Greg Holzhauer, Gail Koornick, Tina Steele Lindsey, Marianne B. van der Haar, and Paul Wagener, and photographers Sherry Ghavassi, Bill Graham, and Charles Holton will be featured in our main gallery.  Our new artists are known locally as well as internationally and have a wide variety of styles.  Please join us for the opening reception on Friday evening, March 5th from 6:00 to 9:00p.m.  The show runs through Sunday, March 28th.  Admission to the gallery is always free. 

Gallery 4463's February exhibition features the work of award-winning artist Elizabeth Chapman.  Chapman's mixed-media paintings are inspired by her love of nature and light and her works have been described as "intensely sublime," "glorious studies in color, texture and form," "enormously appealing," "absorbing, organic" and "earthy yet ethereal."  Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and France.  The show runs through Sunday, February 28th and admission is free. 

Gallery 4463 is Acworth’s Premier Fine Arts Sales Gallery and represents the works of over 35 artists from Atlanta and North Georgia.  The gallery is located at 4463 Cherokee Street in the heart of historic downtown Acworth, across the railroad tracks and less than a mile from I-75.  Gallery 4463 is in a prominent brick and glass two-story building that features 14-foot-high ceilings and a spacious interior, and is a space uniquely suited for a full-size gallery.  The gallery is operated by a group of professional artists who are committed to the idea of creating a quality fine arts gallery that is unique: a resource for professional artists, a center for fine arts in our town and community and ultimately a magnet for art patrons from all over north Georgia.

Our hours are: Thursday from 1:30p.m. to 4:00p.m.  Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6:30p.m., and Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. or by appointment (404-808-9971).  Please visit our website as well: http://www.gallery4463.com.  Admission to the gallery is free.

If you have any questions, you can call me on my mobile at 678-362-4367.  Thanks!
Damien Guarnieri

*** About Gallery 4463 ***

Gallery 4463 came into being in 2007 as a group effort of some 20 artists who pooled their resources to establish a top quality fine arts and sales gallery in Acworth, Georgia to exhibit and sell their work. While the Atlanta area has many galleries, few are artist owned and operated.  The operations of the gallery are all sustained by the volunteer effort of the artists themselves.  There is no public funding or staff.

The gallery’s strengths are the variety of styles and media as well as the depth of talent our little group has to offer.  Among our members is Robert Meredith, one of Georgia's most accomplished contemporary artists whose specialty is "trompe l'oeil" painting.  Ernest Varner is a leading portrait artist whose work is currently in a special national exhibit of eight painters honoring the black heritage of the Old West at the Booth Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.  Louis Delsarte, a prominent Atlanta artist and an art and humanities professor at King's alma mater, Morehouse College,  who is the painter of an epic 125-foot-long mural depicting the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr., which is located at the Peace Plaza opposite the entrance to the MLK National Historic Site’s visitors center in Atlanta. 
 
Many of our artists have won awards in their respective fields, including  top-notch professional photographers: Michael Wood, Tom Kells, Mike Nalley, Damien A. Guarnieri, Bill Kettering, and Cathy Gore.  We have several prominent watercolorists including Don and Suzie Maier who do western landscapes, as well as several artists who create abstract works in various media.  A few of our artists work in 3-D including longtime “raku” artist, Sheila Giddens.  Other artists who work in 3-D include Brenda Smith, a metal smith and jeweler. 
 
Elizabeth Chapman creates unique acrylic mixed-media paintings. Her original works have garnered numerous first place awards. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and New Zealand.  One of our newest and senior-most members is Atlanta artist Jack Smith, who paints acrylic landscapes, but has devoted a lifetime rendering line drawings of famous naval ships, both from our early history as well as contemporary warships.  Prominent local artist, teacher, and founding gallery member, the late Peter Gebhardt, also has his traditional and abstract paintings on display at our gallery.  The gallery also has an international flair through Chinese artist Zi De Chen and his mystical and epic paintings and pen and ink work. 
 
The Gallery is also home to the Bak family estate, representing the lifetime works by the late Bronislaw Bak and his wife, retired artist Hedi Bak.  Bronislaw and Hedi were nationally prominent artists in the 60s and 70s.  Bronislaw designed many public, corporate and religious themed works in stained glass and relief sculpture.  In 1960, working with a small group of monks and students, he designed and executed one of the largest and most complex stained glass windows in the world, at St. John's University near St. Cloud, Minnesota.  Also in the '60s Hedi and Bronislaw founded and operated a fine arts workshop, Studio 22 that produced hundreds of limited edition woodcuts, stone lithographs, and etchings. Bronislaw and Hedi's works are in collections all over the US and Europe. 
 
Acworth is a small community that offers the amenities of a resort-like setting with a number of refined restaurants, gift shops, and a playhouse situated in a historic district of stately homes and lakefront park.  Today the gallery is operated by some 25 artists and holds monthly featured exhibits in our main exhibit area along with a salon gallery where works by all the artists are available.   More information about Gallery 4463 and our artists can be found on our website www.gallery4463.com.