American Folk Art Exhibition
September 4 - October 5, 2009

Please join Gallery C for our upcoming Folk Art Exhibition, on display September 4 - October 5, 2009 in the Main Gallery. The opening reception will be held on the evening of Friday, September 11th, from 7 - 9 pm.

What exactly DO you call it? Whether you call it Folk art, Outsider art, Visionary art, Self-taught art, Primitive art, Intuitive art, Naïve art...it doesn’t really matter, because here at Gallery C we know what you mean. The art is raw and pure; the artists are outside the mainstream and have no training. The work is strangely appealing and not always pretty – but it is fresh, colorful, honest, and personal.

Gallery C has been a folk art gallery for almost twenty years. The folk art paintings, sculpture and folk art that we have collected over this long period are quite wonderful. Because we are located south of the Mason-Dixon Line, we are in the hotbed of American Folk art. We’ve been to the artists’ homes and purchased the works directly from their hands. If you buy outsider art from us you will get work that is authentically created by artists who are blessed with the gifts of vision and intuition, not by Johnny-come-lately artists whose works are motivated by fame or money.

Please follow the links to experience Minnie Evans, for whom making art was a calling from God. Robert Ruckman are similarly inspired, although the sources come from a vast array of world religions. A folk art painting by Woodie Long, Bernice Sims, or Jimmy Lee Sudduth captures the joys and hardships of rural life in the South, from the cotton harvest to Sunday dresses. And you don’t want to miss the playful folk art sculptures by North Carolina’s very own Vollis Simpson.

Available Artwork
Painted Fish with Scales Anonymous carved and painted wood 4 x 12 inches SOLD		Ocracoke Fish Anonymous carved wook, 3 x 11 inches SOLD		Toy Wrench Anonymous varnished wood, 2 x 9 inchesSOLD
Inlaid Box engeneered wood, 1970 6.5 x 14.5 x 7.5 inches		Devil's Hottub Tubby Brown mixed media, 12"H, 8" dia.		Devil's Limousine to Hell Tubby Brown mixed media, 12 x, 35 x5 inches
African King Richard Burnside Paint on Cardboard, 20 x 17 inches		2002 Silverado Steve Crowder wood, paint and pennies 3 x 7.5 inches		Stand Up Women Tom d. mixed media 10.5 x 9.25
Angel with Yellow Butterfly Minnie Evans mixed media, 11 1/2x 8 3/4 inches		Horse and Dog with Wings Minnie Evans mixed media, 13 x 18 inchesSOLD		Face with Bird Heads Minnie Evans mixed media, 13 x 11 inchesSOLD
Trumpeting Angel on Blue (detail) Howard Finster Offset Lithograph, signed in pencil 9.25 x 27 inches SOLD		Cricket Man Howard Finster cut plywood with paint and sharpie, 12.5 x 4.5 inches		If a Shoe Fits, Wear It Howard Finster cut plywood with paint and Sharpie marker 10.5 x 17.5 inches

Mother and Child Was Created By God Howard Finster Cut Plywood with Paint and Sharpie 11 x 9.5 inches		Inlaid Box from Fulton Harrill to Vanessa Harrill Fulton Harril Wood and Metal Inlay 10 x 17 x 8 inches		Roses Dots Chelo Gonzales pen and ink 21 x 18.5 inches
Pecanz Black Joe Jackson acrylic on board, 13.5 x 27.5 inches		Whale Clyde Jones mixed media, 22 x 48 inches SOLD		Crows Feeding Matthew Mallard Kershaw mixed media 16 x 38 inchesSOLD

Bikes Woodie Long Acrylic on Paper 12 x 18 inches SOLD		Kids and Kites Woodie Long Acrylic on Paper 23 x 18 inches		Big Man in the Moon Ted Ludwiczak Granite, 26 x 15 x 5 inches
Green Hair Ted Ludwiczak Limestone, 11 x 9 x 6 inches		Large Wind Face Ted Ludwiczak Brownstone 24 x 24 x 4 inches		Medium Wind Face Ted Ludwiczak Brownstone 14 x 10 x 12 inches
Sunny Girl Ted Ludwiczak Wacke Granite, 10 x 12 x 7 inches		Two Face Wall Plaque Ted Ludwiczak Brownstone 24 x 24 x 4 inches		Square Boyfriend Ted Ludwiczak Limestone 15 x 10 x 6 inches
Glacier Girl Ted Ludwiczak wacke granite 10 x 8 x 4 inches		Iggy Ted Ludwiczak wacke granite 11 x 3 x 5 inches		Double Sided Moon Face Ted Ludwiczak Limestone 8 x 8 x 4 inches SOLD
Girl Head from Maine Ted Ludwiczak wacke granite 9 x 7 x 7 inches		Small Moon Face Ted Ludwiczak Limestone 8 x 5 x 4 inchesSOLD		Camels Reuben Miller acrylic on board, 12 x 26 inches
Bird RA Miller Mixed Media 12 x 16 inches		Big Apple Sam McMillan paint and wood 37 x 25 inches		Bottle Cap Vollis Simpson Painted Steel 29 x 13 inches

Cowboy Vollis Simpson painted steel, 50 x 23 1/2inchesSOLD		Airplane Vollis Simpson painted steel, 16 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches		Red Bird Vollis Simpson painted metal 30 x 25 inches

The Watermelon Vollis Simpson painted metal 15 x 14 inches SOLD		USA Vollis Simpson painted metal 15 x 14 inches		Horse Vollis Simpson painted metal 28 x 18 inchesSOLD
Country House Bernice Sims Acrylic 16 x 20 inches		Awesome Bill from Dawsonville Johnny Wade Stephenson Acrylic on Board 26.5 x 36 inches		Green and Black Fish with Spots Robert Story wood, paint and metal 2 x 7 inches each

Toto Jimmy Lee Sudduth paint, mud and sugar 24 x 24 inches		Orange Boot Fellow Jimmy Lee Sudduth mud, sugar and paint on board, 48 x 24 inches		Watermelon Patch Currie Williams acrylic on board, 24 x 27.5 inches

Birds Mose Tolliver 14.5 x 12 inches		Tramp Art Treasure Box carved from wooden cigar boxes 4.5 x 7 x 6

Plus many more pieces!

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