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Lisa Clague
Deluge May 8 - September 6, 2025 Celebrated Western North Carolina ceramist Lisa Clague created this body of work during the six months following the devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Helene when both artist and environment were profoundly unsettled. The artist's creative process mirrors the trauma and recovery experienced in the wake of this cataclysmic event. Clague... Read more -
Domestic Tranquilty?
Patty Carroll | Crystal Gregory | Jennifer Halvorson | Jess Jones May 8 - September 6, 2025 Four artists incorporate familiar imagery, practices, and materials, creating provocative works that challenge notions of domesticity. Textile artists Crystal Gregory and Jess Jones make contemporary artwork for the wall utilizing craft techniques traditionally considered 'women's work.' Gregory casts vivid hand-woven textiles into concrete panels, selectively draping and capturing the fabric... Read more -
Mariella Bisson
solo exhibition July 3 - September 6, 2025 Read more -
Ellen Heck
Wonderland July 3 - September 6, 2025 Exploring human curiosity and decision making, paintings and prints turn mathematical topology into allegory. Young figures interact with a variety of forms including Möbius strips, Ochiai knots, Klein bottles, and Mandelbrot sets. Ellen Heck’s beautiful and nuanced works on paper have been well-received in group exhibitions at the downtown Asheville... Read more -
Western North Carolina Glass
Thor & Jennifer Bueno | John Littleton and Kate Vogel July 3 - September 6, 2025 New sculptural work and glass wall installations by two renowned husband and wife collaborators from Western North Carolina. This work is presented adjacent to original oil and mixed media works by Mariella Bisson. Read more
Upcoming
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Jerilyn Virden
solo exhibition July 31 - September 6, 2025 Read more -
New Artist Showcase
Steven L Anderson | Adrian Johnston | Brad Kunkle | Matthew Day Perez July 31 - November 8, 2025 We are proud to welcome several outstanding artists to the gallery. Highlighting painting and drawing as well as stunning glass installations for the wall, this group of accomplished artists embodies the excellence Momentum Gallery's clientele is accustomed to seeing. Save the date and check back for more info. Read more -
Ron Isaacs
solo exhibition September 11 - November 8, 2025 Read more -
Paul Sattler
solo exhibition September 11 - November 8, 2025 Momentum Gallery is thrilled to present recent oil paintings from Paul Sattler. Sattler has developed quite a following over the past seven years and we are all eager to see what he's been working on! We hope to host Paul for a reception in Asheville this September. Stay tuned for... Read more -
John L. Cleaveland, Jr.
solo exhibition September 11 - November 8, 2025 Read more -
Samantha Bates
solo exhibition September 11 - November 8, 2025 Read more
Past
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David Shingler
solo exhibition May 8 - June 28, 2025 Loose and expressive oils depicting the mountain landscape by North Carolina painter David Shingler are featured in a solo exhibition. Shingler's contemporary take on expansive vistas and intimate woodland scenes offers a fresh perspective on the wild beauty of our area. Read more -
Dana Brown
Encaustics March 6 - May 3, 2025 Read more -
Michael Barringer and Amy Gross
painting & mixed media fiber November 22, 2024 - February 1, 2025 Michael Barringer's lyrical abstract paintings are rich in detail and subtle in construction, developed through a formal system of repetitive, layered geometry and symbols. Amy Gross's embroidered and beaded fiber sculptures depict botanical subjects and organisms as clustered and burgeoning microcosms, paradoxically using only man-made materials. Read more -
Nature Interrupted
Group Exhibition November 22, 2024 - February 1, 2025 Nature Interrupted – featuring the work of Deborah Czeresko , glass; Alli Hoag , glass; Jill Hotchkiss , mixed media; Casey Roberts , cyanotype painting; Steve Snell , painting; and Jessica Tenbusch , drawing. Six contemporary artists examine and isolate plant and animal species, celebrating beauty and encouraging conversation about... Read more
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Amber Cowan
Solo Exhibition November 21, 2024 - February 1, 2025 Amber Cowan is a contemporary glass sculptor whose practice is based on the use of recycled, upcycled, and second-life American pressed glass. Through processes of flameworking, hot-sculpting, and glassblowing, she creates wall-mounted and freestanding tableaus, rich with texture and ornamentation. Her recent diorama-style pieces tell stories of self-discovery, escapism, and... Read more -
Small Works | Big Impact 2024
Group Exhibition November 21, 2024 - February 1, 2025 Small Works | Big Impact is Momentum Gallery’s annual group exhibition which delivers a curated collection of paintings and mixed media works, original prints, photography, and sculptural objects in carved brick, reed, glass, and repurposed materials, etc. Professional experience and visual expression are concentrated in new, intimately scaled pieces by... Read more -
Bryce Lafferty
Solo Exhibition August 29 - November 2, 2024 “My landscape drawings emerge as poetic expressions of my wonderment for the natural world. They are almost always based on actual places that I’ve visited and are the result of an internal process that involves meshing together memories with categorical knowledge, like science, philosophy, or history. I often use recurring... Read more -
Chihuly on Broadway
Solo Exhibition June 27 - August 24, 2024 Chihuly on Broadway features a collection of original 2D and 3D works from world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly . The exhibit includes rare glass sculptures, editioned glass, original charcoal drawings, and serigraph prints with hand work. Also featured are exceptional vitreograph prints made in Western North Carolina by Chihuly and his... Read more
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Joanna Manousis
Solo Exhibition June 27 - November 16, 2024 Joanna Manousis is a glass and mixed media artist who creates dazzling installations for the wall. Her cast glass compositions resemble opals and silver diamonds. Manousis is currently a PhD researcher at the National Glass Center in Sunderland, England. She investigates how three-dimensional cast glass surfaces can be used in... Read more -
Seth Clark
Solo Exhibition June 27 - August 24, 2024 Seth Clark returns to Momentum with a collection of his latest work in collage and mixed media sculpture. Using architecture as inspiration, Clark renders barns, forts, and houses, imbuing them with character and personality. He documents decaying architecture and abandoned, deteriorating buildings in urban and rural settings. Read more -
Enchanted Canopy
Group Exhibition June 27 - August 24, 2024 Enchanted Canopy is a themed group show set against the awe-inspiring Blue Ridge Mountains featuring works inspired by trees and forests. The collection includes work by artists Samantha Bates , Mariella Bisson , Rachel Campbell , Lilian Garcia-Roig , Terri Grant , Ann Harwell , Meg Lagodzki , Paul Messink... Read more -
Brian Sostrom
Solo exhibition May 9 - June 22, 2024 Read more
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Heather Hietala
Solo exhibition May 9 - June 22, 2024 Read more -
Samantha Keely Smith
Solo exhibition May 9 - June 22, 2024 Read more -
Tommy Simpson
celebrating 65 years of making February 29 - May 4, 2024 Tommy Simpson, an Asheville-based artist, is internationally renowned. A self-proclaimed 'imaginist,' Simpson transcends conventional boundaries of craftsmanship, fine art, and whimsy. This solo exhibit is a tribute to his prolific sixty-five-year career, encapsulating his creative evolution and mastery across diverse mediums such as woodworking, painting, printmaking, clay, rug design, and... Read more -
Works on Paper
group exhibition February 29 - May 4, 2024 Works on Paper is a group exhibition featuring original prints and unique works by represented artists and special guests. Pattern and color play prominently in the collection, which includes figurative and botanical subjects, as well as non-objective and geometrical abstractions, and abstracted landscapes by Mariella Bisson, Chakaia Booker, Ellen Heck,... Read more
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Meg Lagodzki
solo exhibition February 29 - May 4, 2024 Meg Lagodzki immerses herself in the forests surrounding her home, often painting or sketching outdoors, capturing the landscape’s essence through her distinctive paintings and layered acrylic collages. Lagodzki captures native flora and plays with the ever-shifting seasonal light. One standout piece features a beech tree’s pale, marcescent leaves, its trunk... Read more -
small work | BIG IMPACT 2023
Group Exhibition November 16, 2023 - February 3, 2024 This year's diverse exhibition of intimately scaled works by gallery artists and special guests explores materiality, nature, and socio-political commentary. Innovative works reward an extended look and may have viewers doing a double-take! Some highlights include Davis Choun's constructions from upcycled clothespins, Greg Sand's vintage found photograph collages, and Tim... Read more -
Nocturne 2023
Group Exhibition November 16, 2023 - February 3, 2024 Momentum Gallery revisits the theme of Nocturne . New works by Topher Straus, Stephen Paul Day, Christina Bothwell, and more merge to make a collection of enchanting works in various media. Paintings, cyanotypes, sculptures, and original prints celebrate the drama and mystery of night. While the world is shrouded in... Read more -
John L. Cleaveland, Jr.
Vietnam November 16, 2023 - February 3, 2024 The latest series of oils by landscape painter John L. Cleaveland, Jr. focuses on scenes from Vietnam. In keeping with a long-standing tradition within his work, the contemporary realist made two trips this year to the Southeast Asian country to explore and document areas that bore witness to significant conflict.... Read more
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Samantha Bates
solo exhibition August 31 - November 11, 2023 Momentum Gallery discovered emerging artist Samantha Bates fresh from graduate school, when the gallery opened in 2017. Bates' third solo show at Momentum features paintings, textile work, and mixed media compositions. Her artistic practice is defined by repetitious markings, using dots, dashes, loops, stitches, coils, and punched holes to represent... Read more -
Rachel Campbell
solo exhibition August 31 - November 11, 2023 Durham, North Carolina-based artist Rachel Campbell seeks to reveal beauty in the ordinary. Her oil paintings are stylized realism, depicting places and recognizable subjects manipulated through color and juxtapositions of flattened space against modeled form. She takes liberties with her palette, using punchy hues to render landscapes, home interiors, and... Read more -
Christian Burchard & Kristy Kún
wood & felt August 31 - November 11, 2023 Renowned sculptors Christian Burchard and Kristy Kún round out Momentum’s fall exhibitions, showcasing Burchard’s objects in wood and Kún’s dramatic hand-felted fiber works. Burchard uses Pacific madrone nearly exclusively, twisting and buckling as it cures to form unique shapes with a beautiful sense of movement. Kún’s textiles also convey a... Read more -
Vicki Grant
solo exhibition August 31 - November 11, 2023 Retired architect Vicki Grant creates ceramic and mixed media works, including Windows to the Earth , incorporating beads, fossils, minerals, crystals, and found objects into carved and painted porcelain. Color and texture prevail in this ongoing series and her newest collection, making its debut this fall, Celestial Landscapes . These... Read more
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Christina Bothwell
The Persistence of Eternal Optimism June 29 - August 26, 2023 Christina Bothwell is an experimental sculptor working primarily in cast glass whose figurative work references an interest in birth, death, and renewal while conveying a sense of wonder and hope. Playing with the translucent quality of glass, many of her works utilize a technique that allows her to render additional... Read more -
Paul Sattler
solo exhibition June 29 - August 26, 2023 Paul Sattler is a contemporary painter inspired by surrealism, mythology, literature, and historical artworks. In his loose and expressive oil paintings, animals and people engage in obscure narratives within domestic cross-sections and theatrical backdrops. Sattler captivates the viewer with fantastic scenes referencing parlor tricks or illusion, employing his personal sleight... Read more -
Casey Roberts
solo exhibition June 29 - August 26, 2023 With wilderness as his muse, artist Casey Roberts' cyanotype paintings capture the lens through which we experience the natural world. The artist's work considers this relationship balancing the harmony and dissolution of Man and nature. Casey may represent Man by rendering a subject like an illuminated house in the woods,... Read more -
Uncommon Threads
Contemporary Textile Invitational June 29 - August 26, 2023 This group exhibition features original works by artists Andrea Donnelly, Crystal Gregory, Sam Jaffe, Jess Jones, Kristy Kún, and Susie Taylor. Handwoven, hand-felted, and dyed textiles, deconstructed, repurposed, or set in concrete are featured in this exciting collection that celebrates six artists’ contemporary approaches to fiber art. Read more
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John L. Cleaveland, Jr.
solo exhibition April 27 - June 24, 2023 Following successful exhibitions at the Morris Museum and the Huntsville Museum of Art, John L. Cleaveland, Jr . presents a collection of recent oils at Momentum Gallery. For thirty years, the notable contemporary realist has meticulously rendered the southern landscape in remarkable detail. The current collection features woodland panoramas, rocky... Read more -
Ron Isaacs
solo exhibition April 27 - June 24, 2023 Trompe l’oeil constructions convey poetic relationships between everyday objects. Ron Isaacs ’ realistic depictions of clothing, branches, architectural elements, tools, and envelopes – all incredibly replicated in paint and plywood – celebrate transformation and symbolic connection. Read more -
Lisa Clague
solo exhibition April 27 - June 24, 2023 Renowned figurative ceramist Lisa Clague presents new sculptural work in a range of scale, from oversized heads to diminutive busts. Clague’s chimeric forms are often an amalgamation of human and animal imagery. Women with classical features, adorned in elaborate headdresses, become conduits to the subconscious, referencing mythology and spirituality without... Read more -
Bill Hall
solo exhibition April 27 - June 24, 2023 Recent works on paper by master printer Bill Hall combine printmaking, painting, and collage elements to render graphic, abstract compositions with spacial dynamics. Surface patterning and color relationships provide further visual interest while torn paper edges and organic shapes soften the geometry. Following a nearly thirty year career as a... Read more
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Sandy Rothberg – Close to Home
photography March 3 - April 22, 2023 Momentum Gallery presents Close to Home , a collection of recent abstract photographs by Sandy Rothberg. The word photography is derived from the Greek word “photos,” meaning light, and “graphos,” meaning drawing. Sandy Rothberg is a seasoned and educated photographer whose recent work explores using the camera as a tool... Read more -
Hillary Waters Fayle | Amy Gross | Ivy Jacobsen
natural inspiration January 5 - April 22, 2023 Momentum Gallery opens 2023 with a collection of thoughtfully made, contemporary multimedia works from three artists inspired by nature and foliage. This exhibition continues on the gallery's first floor through Saturday, February 25. About her Botanical Mandalas and Botanical Blueprints , Hillary Waters Fayle comments, 'collected botanical material is meticulously... Read more -
small works | big impact 2022
group exhibition November 17, 2022 - February 18, 2023 This year’s diverse exhibition of intimately scaled works by gallery artists and special guests explores the surreal, with dreamlike compositions, ambiguous narratives, and imagery of the natural world. Innovative works reward an extended look and may have viewers doing a double take! Some of the highlights include Christian Faur’s pixelated... Read more -
Hillary Waters Fayle & Ivy Jacobsen
September 8 - November 12, 2022 About her Botanical Mandalas and Botanical Blueprints , Hillary Waters Fayle comments, 'collected botanical material is meticulously dried and preserved, then arranged on and adhered to acrylic. Each leaf is placed with careful consideration in an intricate pattern, referencing the inherent patterns underlying everything in the natural world – echoed... Read more
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Bryce Lafferty
Boundarylands September 1 - November 12, 2022 Bryce Lafferty’s unique works on paper appear to show the inner workings of a fantasized biosphere. Through inventive cross-sections and merged elements, Lafferty suggests hidden systems that affect topography and biomes. The artist notes, 'My landscape drawings emerge as poetic expressions of my wonderment for the natural world. They are... Read more -
David Shingler
solo exhibition September 1 - November 12, 2022 David Shingler's loose oil paintings capture the essence of the Western North Carolina landscape. Cool water rushing down rocky creeks, deep forests with thickets of Rhododendron, and expansive mountain overlooks are depicted through bold and graphic brushstrokes. Carolina cotton fields and coastal grasses also find representation in the show. Shingler's... Read more -
Hoss Haley
Topography August 4 - December 31, 2022 Hoss Haley’s monumental sculptures in steel, bronze, and concrete identify him as an accomplished artist with a strong point of view. His minimalist explorations of form take inspiration from geological features and architecture. Many of his works require a fair amount of engineering, and he often develops custom tools and... Read more -
Mariella Bisson
solo exhibition June 30 - August 27, 2022 Contemporary works depicting area woods and waterfalls feature highly textural surfaces that emphasize their subjects’ sculptural planes. Bisson’s current collection includes large-scale oil and mixed media paintings on linen along with several works on paper. A new hardcover book featuring an essay on the artist’s use of paper and images... Read more
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David Ellsworth
Visionary June 30 - December 31, 2022 David Ellsworth is one of the world’s premier wood turners. Over the past fifty years, he has achieved international recognition for his elegant hollow-formed vessels and sculptures. Ellsworth’s work is included in the permanent collections of forty-five museums. His understanding of material and process, a refined sensibility of form and... Read more -
Thor & Jennifer Bueno with Samantha Keely Smith
Blown glass and oil paintings June 30 - August 27, 2022 Created through a variety of techniques, the Buenos silvered and colored glass elements are arranged into wall-mounted compositions inspired by river stones and cairns, wildflowers and indigenous plants, pearls, and bubbles. Emotive color and sweeping brushwork define Samantha Keely Smith’s non-objective abstract oils. Read more -
Andy Farkas
solo exhibition June 30 - August 27, 2022 Moku hanga prints, or Japanese watercolor woodcuts, feature narrative imagery showing personified animals with poignant, original sayings in handset letterpress text. Farkas’ work is evocative and masterfully executed. Read more -
Tommy Simpson
solo exhibition May 5 - June 25, 2022 Simpson is an imaginist who has worked in nearly every medium, including woodworking, painting, printmaking, ceramics, bookmaking, jewelry, and writing. Whether it’s a painting or sculptural object, in each of Simpson’s works there is an identifiable style that puzzles together the artist’s personal and cultural references into a signature blend... Read more
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Seth Clark
solo exhibition May 5 - July 30, 2022 “My work focuses on deteriorating architecture. These structures, designed to be huge forces of permanence, are continually being challenged, destroyed and forgotten. I see an inherent honesty in the face of my subject. Among all of the clutter—the shards of wood and layers of rubble—there remains a gentle resolve. As... Read more -
Dana Brown
Encaustics April 1 - June 25, 2022 Dana Brown creates encaustic paintings, rendering remarkable imagery in pigmented wax. Inspiration for her work comes through such diverse subjects as branches, foliage, and berries as well as rusted machinery, and geometric architecture. Defined focal points with crisp lines give way to more painterly areas composed of marbled patterns and... Read more -
Ann Harwell
solo exhibition March 3 - April 30, 2022 Combining hundreds of pieces of fabric, Ann Harwell creates quilted scenes of outerspace, astral phenomena, people, and landscapes inspired by gardens and arboretums. With each piece of fabric, Harwell transforms scenes from nature and everyday life into dynamic compositions – enlivening the surface of each intricate tapestry with a mesmerizing... Read more -
Michael Barringer
Threshold March 3 - April 30, 2022 'In an age in which disbelief is so profoundly prevalent or, if not disbelief, indifference to questions of belief, poetry and painting, and the arts in general, are, in their measure, a compensation for what has been lost.' –Wallace Stevens We've all had experiences which seem to connect us to... Read more
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Ani Kasten
Mending Work March 3 - April 30, 2022 Ani Kasten’s highly textural ceramic vessels have a deconstructed aesthetic. Different types of clay and crusty glazes combine with ceramic detritus to create raw and dynamic surface qualities. The vessel forms are irregular and often include wire stitching and patched details. With each examination, the work reveals itself more –... Read more -
Small Works | Big Impact 2021
Group Exhibition November 18, 2021 - March 26, 2022 Small Works | Big Impact is an annual exhibition that assembles intimately-scaled works in a variety of media by gallery artists and special guests. Intricate details and concentrated energy define a collection that highlights the smaller side of works by Samantha Bates, Robert Bender, Mariella Bisson, Christina Bothwell, Andy Farkas, Ivy Jacobsen, Ani Kasten, Meg Lagodzki, Casey Roberts, Greg Sand, Sarah Vaughn, and more. Read more -
Nocturne
Group Exhibition November 18, 2021 - February 26, 2022 As winter approaches and the days get shorter, Momentum Gallery hosts Nocturne, a collection of enchanting works in a variety of media that celebrates the drama and mystery of the night. Nocturne includes paintings, photography, cyanotypes, plywood constructions, sculpture, and original prints, While the world is shrouded in shadow, the moon and artificial lights offer definition to shapes that emerge from the darkness. Imagination picks up where detail leaves off, imbuing this time of day with magic and intrigue - the potential of the unknown and unseen. Featuring works by John L. Cleaveland, Jr., Tom Eckert, David Ellsworth, Bill Hall, Ron Isaacs, Ron Layport, Casey Roberts, Sandy Rothberg, Paul Sattler, Brian Sostrom, Maltby Sykes, and more. Read more -
Bill Hall
Solo Exhibition September 17 - November 13, 2021 Spatial relationships define bold compositions in abstract and minimalist mixed media collages and paintings. Bill Hall was a master printer with Pace Editions in New York for nearly three decades. Working in a restrained palette, Hall’s work combines nuanced surfaces with graphic shapes to create sophisticated geometric abstractions. Read more
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Mariella Bisson
Solo Exhibition September 17, 2021 - January 1, 2022 Using the landscape as a foundation, with motifs centered around woods and waterfalls, Mariella Bisson’s oil paintings with collage elements capture the abstract and sculptural qualities of rock faces, sheets of water, and reflective pools. Light and shadow play a important role in the way the painter delineates space and serve as a metaphor for greater themes in the work. Read more -
Jessica Calderwood | Jennifer Halvorson | Casey Roberts
Group Exhibition July 15 - November 13, 2021 Three artists create clever and emotive works that explore narrative through the lens of domestic iconography. Serene cyanotype paintings depicting natural subjects, still lifes, and everyday imagery relate to cast glass and mixed media sculptures. Objects, figurative subjects, and animals engaged in lighthearted and occasionally mysterious situations. Read more -
Paul Sattler
Solo Exhibition July 15 - September 7, 2021 Paul Sattler’s recent oil paintings and drawings are a tour de force. Multiple characters are captured in moments taken from obscure narratives and unfolding dramas. Drawing upon color theory and surrealism for inspiration, mythology and historical references also inspire Paul Sattler's paintings and drawings. In the robust world Sattler creates,... Read more -
Ivy Jacobsen
solo exhibition July 9 - September 6, 2021 The beauty in nature is realized in Jacobsen's stylized botanical paintings that unfold in great detail, conveying a sense of space through a signature layering technique. The artist comments, 'For the last 10 years I've been focused on creating the illusion of depth within my landscapes. It is my hope... Read more
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Brian Sostrom
solo exhibition July 2 - September 6, 2021 Read more -
Picture That
Contemporary printmaking July 2 - September 6, 2021 The positive potential of this world is only limited by our ability to imagine it anew. This exhibition of prints and monotypes demonstrates the power of an artist's vision to influence our world with the images they conjure. Flowing between abstraction and representational works by renowned artists Chakaia Booker ,... Read more -
Lisa Clague
solo exhibition March 1 - June 26, 2021 Read more -
Samantha Bates
solo exhibition March 1 - December 31, 2021 Read more
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Samantha Keely Smith
solo exhibition February 22 - June 26, 2021 Samantha Keely Smith's paintings explore the dual worlds in which we exist: our inner lives and the changing world around us. The paintings represent the landscape of the psyche, the place where the conscious and unconscious meet, where outside forces and our own human nature collide as we grapple with... Read more -
Ron Isaacs
solo exhibition February 22 - June 26, 2021 Read more -
Crystal Gregory
solo exhibition February 22 - June 26, 2021 Read more -
Emergence
Alysia Fischer, Vicki Grant & Ivy Jacobsen May 15 - July 25, 2020 As spring unfolds and bare winter branches give way to budding blooms, Momentum Gallery presents Emergence , a collection of recent works by three artists that reveals the magic and mystery of the season. Professor, artist, and anthropologist Alysia Fischer incises intricate leaf patterns into rubber innertubes, upcycling them into... Read more
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Maltby Sykes (1911-1992)
February 13 - March 28, 2020 Momentum Gallery presents an exhibition of original lithographs and mezzotints printed in the 1950s and 1960s by southern modernist Maltby Sykes (1911-1992). Revered by generations of students, Sykes was Professor Emeritus at Auburn University, where he taught for many years. Having trained with John Sloan in New York, Diego Rivera... Read more -
SMALL WORKS | BIG IMPACT 2019
Intimately-scaled works by gallery artists and special guests November 14 - December 31, 2019 This year’s curated exhibition of intimately scaled works by gallery artists and special guests addresses themes of memory, the passage of time, mortality, and the natural world. Although small in scale, these works have real presence, conveying the sensibility and proficiency of their accomplished makers. Delicate wood feathers, atmospheric landscapes,... Read more -
A New Leaf
A foliage-themed exhibition September 12 - November 9, 2019 A New Leaf is a sophisticated collection of original works celebrating the charm and beauty of one of nature’s great wonders – foliage. From atmospheric photography to glass sculpture, trompe l’oeil relief paintings and eye-popping infinity mirrors, exquisite works are cast or constructed from actual leaves while others imitate their... Read more -
Give Me Wood
A group invitational wood show featuring internationally recognized artists June 27 - August 31, 2019 Give Me Wood is an imaginative and evocative collection of contemporary painting and wood sculpture. Central to the identity and creation of all the extraordinary two- and three-dimensional works in the exhibition is the common material of wood. The participating artists defy logic, explore space (both real and imagined), carve,... Read more
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Mariella Bisson
Setting Shapes June 27 - August 31, 2019 Mariella Bisson deftly delineates the sculptural planes of regional waterfalls and sylvan scenes creating refreshingly contemporary landscape paintings. Her oil-over-collage paintings feature built-up texture, suggesting the complex surface of stone and tree bark, lichen, and moss. Bisson's paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of formal composition and reflect a sensibility honed... Read more -
Introducing Two New Painters
Oil Paintings by Paul Sattler and Samantha Keely Smith June 27 - August 31, 2019 Dramatic narratives unfold in Paul Sattler's charged and enigmatic oil paintings which reference historic and literary sources. Sattler comments, “A diverse population of animals are enmeshed in my works’ human-inhabited environments, theatrical locales, and domestic dramas.” Drawing upon color theory, surrealism, and folklore for inspiration, his works encourage questioning of... Read more -
Dissolution
Seth Clark & Jason Forck May 2 - June 22, 2019 The collection features individually created and collaborative works by two artists, Seth Clark and Jason Forck. Original collages mounted to panels play off architectonic sculptures in glass and wood culminating in a cohesive body of work that explores the notion of deteriorating architecture. Clark and Forck came together through a... Read more -
Vernacular
February 28 - April 27, 2019 Narrative watercolors, original etchings, and ceramic sculpture by Phil Blank, David C. Robinson, and Sasha Schilbrack-Cole respectvely, reference subjects such as faith, race, and identity in the South. The three-person exhibitions debuts at Momentum Gallery’s Lexington Avenue location in downtown Asheville on Thursday, February 28 with an opening reception from... Read more
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In the Landscape and Of the Landscape
February 28 - April 27, 2019 Jennifer Bueno, Bryce Lafferty, and William Henry Price convey their wonderment with the natural world and allude to its unseen, inner workings. Through abstract expression, imaginative cross-sections, and works that depict satellite views of our planet, they take viewers on a journey of discovery and introspection. Dimensional blown glass and... Read more -
Momentum Gallery at CONTEXT Miami 2018
Booth C130 December 4 - 9, 2018 VIP Opening Night Preview, Tuesday Dec. 4, 5:30 - 10p.m. Booth C130 Please Call Momentum for Tickets 828-505-8550 Read more -
Casey Roberts – Cyanotype Paintings
Grand Opening Exhibition of Momentum on Broadway at 52 Broadway! November 15, 2018 - January 31, 2019 Momentum Gallery is thrilled to announce the Asheville debut of artist Casey Roberts with a one-person exhibition to open the new space on Broadway Street. Dreamy and contemplative – Roberts’ large-scale cyanotype paintings on paper depict a variety of domestic and wilderness subjects which evoke a still and wonderous world.... Read more -
SMALL WORKS | BIG IMPACT 2018
at 52 Broadway Street in Downtown Asheville November 15, 2018 - January 31, 2019 SMALL WORKS | BIG IMPACT is an annual curated collection of paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works by gallery artists and special guests that offers incredible and unique handmade gifts for the holidays. Emotive ceramics, surreal painting, intricate glass curiosities, embroidered foliage, and memento mori come together in a provocative... Read more
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Momentum Gallery at SOFA Chicago 2018
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Pam Longobardi
Drifters Project October 28, 2018 - January 31, 2019 With the Drifters Project, Longobardi collects, documents, and transforms oceanic plastic into installations and photography. The work provides a visual statement about the engine of global consumption and the vast amounts of plastic objects and their impact on the world's most remote places and its creatures. Longobardi's work is framed... Read more -
Transformation
Earth, Water & Wood August 30 - October 31, 2018 The group exhibition, Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood features recent work by five Momentum artist partners: Mariella Bisson , oil painting with collage; David Ellsworth , wood; Vicki Grant , porcelain and mixed media; Ron Isaacs , trope l’oeil painting on wood; and Ron Layport , wood. New York painter... Read more -
Samantha Bates
solo exhibition August 30 - October 31, 2018 Momentum Gallery is thrilled to debut a collection of new mixed media paintings and textile works by Samantha Bates . Bates’ contemporary landscapes are inspired by her time in wilderness areas, largely in her home state of Washington. Through meticulous mark making and patterning, thousands of dashes and dots emerge... Read more
