Alex Irvine Foundeviation Art Show

Foundeviation: an art show/fundraiser for skateable public art featuring new works by Alex Irvine. Reception Friday, August 3 from 7-10pm. Refreshments graciously provided by Pabst Blue Ribbon. 

A few words from the artist:
This art show is a fundraiser / proposal to build a sideways “Guastavino dome”—a cradle, in skatepark terms, made of tile—at the Foundation skateable sculpture park in the River Arts District. Imagine the roof of the basilica downtown on its side so you could skate it. The show features graphics and ceramics by Alex Irvine that help explain the proposed construction and hopefully raise some money to fund the project. There will also be opportunity for public input on this project and what the future of the skatepark could look like.

John Nebraska Art Show

Come join us for the opening reception of "Reinventing Nebraska" Friday June 15 from 7-10pm. Refreshments graciously provided by Green Man Brewing.

John Nebraska has been an illustrator, painter and teacher for more than thirty years. His work has been featured in many of America’s most respected publications such as: Forbes, The N.Y. Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, U.S News and World Report, and Scholastic. His drawings and paintings are in public and private collections all over the world.

He has designed a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service to raise awareness about organ transplants and has been honored on Capitol Hill during the unveiling. He has received numerous awards including: Excellence in Magazine Illustration from the New York Art Director’s Club and a Gold medal for work exhibited at Los Angeles Art Association. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show discussing his cutting edge techniques for using the computer as a creative tool. Graphic Arts Magazine did a feature article on his paintings and theories of taking an idea and putting it on paper.

He has worked in a variety of media and styles throughout his career specializing in technical illustration, photo-realism, symbolic painting, cartooning and portraiture. John is an expert in the use of acrylics, watercolor, pastel, collage, charcoal, ink and computer-assisted art. He is a extremely proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator, not only for creating art and illustrations, but also doing graphic design and typography.

John Nebraska has taught art at The School of Visual Arts and The Fashion Institute of Technology in N.Y.C. and numerous private schools throughout the country. He has also designed art programs for the YMCA, working with children from kindergarden to high-school age. Adults have assisted and apprenticed in his studio for twenty-five years.

His education includes a BFA from the California College of the Arts, Cranbrook Art Institute, Interlochen Arts Academy, and The Center for Art and Crafts at The Detroit Institute of Arts.

Other related websites: JohnNebraska.com & AstoriaArtCenter.com

Murmur Lodge Art Show

MURMUR LODGE’s Fian Arroyo, Rosy Kirby, and Julie Armbruster present:

“Fake Field Trip”

Art show opening Friday May 4th

PUSH Skateshop and Gallery

Artist reception from 7-9pm at 25 Patton Avenue, Downtown Asheville, NC.

Three Asheville based artists join their unique forces together to present a fantastical, pop-surrealistic escape into a bizarre but hopeful world, featuring shadows of mystical beasts, childhood impressions, and dramatic realizations. These artists share a fascination with naturescapes, intricate detailing, layering, and interpreting the world through exceptionally overactive imaginations. Their distinct talents twist and grow to create Murmur Lodge, a space where artists support each other to make art that is awesome.

Fian Arroyo, an accomplished award-winning illustrator, presents new watercolor, acrylic, and ink works focusing on his original mystical creatures. His works feature exquisite depth and unbelievably refined detailing as he pulls out another world off of the paper’s surface. He evokes a whimsical escape into a lush and fun environment full of monsters, winged lions, and confident humans.

Rosy Kirby, founder of Indian Summer Press, explores the emotional world of safe spaces, blooming botanicals, and desert nightscapes. She presents a quiet and meditative window into her dreams. Her newest works feature hand-pulled silk screens and inky drawings on paper. The magic of a simplified pallet and incredible fine-line detailing inspire sparks of our earliest memories and an appreciation for deep diving.

Julie Armbruster follows some of her favorite characters into a swirling world of soft colors and strong outlines. The emotional interactions and relationships defined in the acrylic and ink paintings provoke a narrative quandary. They invite the viewer to investigate the details and symbols and decide what it all means.

This show will be the second collaborative installation following a group challenge last Fall. Murmur Lodge’s primary goal is to encourage, support, and complement each other. By highlighting what is uniquely wonderful about what each artist makes, we inspire each other with new techniques and creative challenges. For this art show, we will all release a new work based on the theme and title of our show: “Fake Field Trip.”

Our artist reception will include music, food, and a RARE opportunity to earn a limited edition silk screen print featuring all three artists works.

Also got some special guest stars including the amazing Amy Harrington-Kerns hooking us up with a COTTON CANDY MACHINE and the amazing DJ Kudzu spinning’ and grind’ some vinyl!!! Special hand pulled limited edition silkscreen print featuring all 3 artists. Grand slam purchase entitles collector to a special free gift!

Refreshments graciously provided by Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Garden Party Art Show

Garden Party: a bouquet of new art works by Alli Good, Hannah Dansie, and Maxx Feist

When: March 16

7:00-10:00 pm

Where: Push Skateshop and Gallery

Alli Good, Hannah Dansie, and Maxx Feist come together for this collaborative event to ring in the changing of the seasons. The three artists bring together their styles of lowbrow art, gothic folk, and comic illustration to present an array of skulls, devils, weirdos, animals and foliage to delight and entertain.

Help us celebrate the long awaited coming of spring. New skate decks by all three artists will also be presented. Come show your love.

Culture War Art Show

Culture War: opening reception this Friday, January 12 from 7-10pm. Featuring the works of Yamabushi and Granpappy. Come one and all. Refreshments graciously provided by Hi Wire Brewing. http://yamabushiart.com

The Illustrated Rock Art of NC Art Show

THE ILLUSTRATED ROCK ART OF N.C.

Featured Artists: JASON KREKEL & LANCE WILLE • JOSHUA MARC LEVY • JT LUCCHESI & HOME TEAM • MATTHEW STUART DECKER • DREW DE PORTER

Gig posters, test prints, original drawings and rarities. Celebrating local artists, illustrators and printers working in live music entertainment from North Carolina. With our growing population of amazing musicians, it takes an army to create the artwork and print the posters. 2017 was a great year for fans of live music and the art of rock.

Please join us in Celebration at the Closing Reception: Sunday, January 7 from 2-6pm. All Ages.

Live instrumental music by NUGGET BOX (members of Hard Rocket) (Free/Donations)

The show runs through Sunday January 7th.

Refocused! Art Show

Refocused: Recycled Skateboards Reimagined. New works by Chad Cardoza and Toybox Monster. PUSH Gallery reception Friday, October 13 from 7-10pm. The show will be up from October 13-December 3.

Here is a small write up from Toybox Monster:

I work under the name Toybox Monster and I create art from broken/used decks. I have skated for 30 years so far and have gone through many many boards. I was working at a shop and we kept getting broken boards to throw away and I always felt it was such a waste. So I decided to give them a second life as art, hoping that all the fun that was had on them would still retain that positive energy and continue to make people happy.

Joshua Spiceland Art Show

Come one and all for the reception of "There Is No Other," new works by Joshua Spiceland at PUSH Gallery Friday, August 18 7-10pm. Refreshments graciously provided by Pabst Blue Ribbon.

PHOTO:OBJECT Art Show

PHOTO:OBJECT is an exhibition of "photographs" which push the boundary of "object." Curated by Lydia See from works submitted through an open call, interpretations to this constraint represent many cross-disciplinary approaches. The show was designed as an instigation to makers to set constraints, challenge their studio practice, take risks, and shake shit up. 

Featuring over 15 artists including Krista Allison, Lauren Bacchus, Eli Blasko, Paul Choi, Gray Hales, Clark Hodgin, Brighton Kilgore, Kelsey Magnuson, Jeff Mason, Susan Alta Martin, M. HoneyBee Mckee, lydia see, Shon Swett, Brett Wyatt and others. 

Opening Exhibition: 
PUSH Gallery
7-9pm
beer + tunes

A Zine Catalogue will be published, featuring artworks and writings, and will be available for pre-order at the opening.  

Slackers Art Show

Trip out on this! You are invited to the SLACKERS Group Art Show, featuring local Asheville artists LEVY (AC/DC, Grateful Dead, Black Crowes), GREU (AVL tattoo artist) & Introducing rad art by KFEZ. Meet the artists in person opening night, St. Patrick’s
Day, FRIDAY March 17th. Live Music by AVL Burnout, Nugget Box (members of Hard Rocket) & Dogwater. Refreshments graciously provided by Hi-Wire Brewing. Please Save The Date. The show stays up for 1.5 months, through May 1st 2017. Thank You! 25 Patton Ave, ALL AGES, 6-11pm, FREE

Andy Herod Art Show

What is the algorithm Facebook uses to assign the suggested connections for each user? Do they look familiar? Do we already know them? Should we? How and why do we have access to them? These are all questions Andy Herod will be exploring in his new series Sorry I Made it Weird: Portraits of People You May Know. Nationally known as a printmaker and multidisciplinary artist and musician, Herod is unpacking the cultural zeitgeist of social media with this work, attempting to tackle the unseen narratives which
tether us through the internet, following a thread through social media, out of the computer screen, and in to our homes.

Herod has chosen to paint people he decidedly does not know for these portraits, causing both the subject and artist to consider access and privacy. Well known for his non-human subject- matter, Herod is interested in experimenting with portraiture, and states “this is a departure for me - Facebook is a part of my everyday life, and I'm interested in what I don't like about it, and in the privacy we have given up in our lives because of our reliance on social networks.”

Herod incorporates the use of painting and printmaking processes to produce images rooted in classical portraiture based on the most common contemporary application of the portrait: the profile picture. By culling the “people you may know” section of Facebook for portraits and re- contextualizing them on the gallery wall, Herod is shifting these real people to fictionalized characters, and from one box to another – the computer screen to the “white box.”

Inhabiting the spaces between familiar and strange, acquaintance and friend, intimate and antagonist, these works ask for a willingness to engage from the viewer, who might encounter people they may know, or want to know, through this exhibition.

PUSH is pleased to host Sorry I Made it Weird: Portraits of People You May Know, new work from Asheville artist, Andy Herod on August 19th from 6-9pm. 

Sunset Motel Art Show

Sunset Motel
Reception: Friday, June 24 6-10pm
PUSH Gallery 25 Patton Ave. Asheville

“Sunset Motel” marks the 3rd exhibition by artist couple and collaborators, Brock Forrer and  Ally Alsup. Since moving to North Carolina from Alaska a year ago, Alsup and Forrer have changed their medium and direction from printmaking and sculpture, to large scale acrylic paintings. Their imagery is a combination of graphic portraiture, architecture, and vintage ephemera. With no obvious concepts being drawn on, the duo relies on the narrative between their work and imagery to convey meaning and intention. Overall, “Sunset Motel” is the artists’ everyday depiction of what it has meant to leave home and start over in a completely new place. 

April Fools Art Show

Arroyo & Levy: April Fools!
Art Opening at Push Skate Shop & Gallery
Friday, April 1st at 7pm
25 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC

Fian Arroyo has been creating award winning illustrations and character designs for many Fortune-500 companies including advertising, editorial, toy & games and skateboard companies for over 20 years. For this show, Arroyo has created a collection of must-see fantasy, pop-surrealism and skate art. Fian relocated to Weaverville from Miami, Florida in 2009 and is currently being held hostage by his wife, two kids and a mortgage.

www.fian.com

Joshua Marc Levy has worked as a rock & roll artist over the past 20 years for everyone from AC/DC to The Black Crowes. For this show, Levy has produced 11 original skate decks, wild blotter art collages, original drawings and screen prints. Levy lives in Asheville and heads the Asheville Art Family, a full service design, illustration and photography studio.

www.ashevilleartfamily.com

Don’t miss this super-fun, energetic & colorful art experience!
Refreshments graciously provided by the fine folks at Hi-Wire Brewing.

Look Back Library Show

Gus Cutty Satanic Panic Art Show

Gus Cutty presents “Satanic Panic” opening reception featuring completely new works by Asheville aerosol artist and WNC’s #1 mural artist Gus Cutty in celebration of Halloween and horror movie and heavy metal culture of America in the 1980’s.

where : Push Skateshop and Gallery, 25 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC

when : Opening reception will be from 7-9 pm Friday October 30th and the exhibit will hang through the month of November. 

Costumes are encouraged. 

“Remember that time in 1984 when we found your brothers Judas Priest record and went into the attic and lit candles and played it backwards and it told us to steal my sisters barbies and melt their heads together til it looked like a rad goat headed demon then we had to hide the evidence in that abandoned school in the woods behind our neighborhood so we wouldn’t get caught and we found all those playboys in the leaves with the eyes cut out and pentagrams drawn all over em?!? This is gonna be just like that.”

Brainstorm Art Show and Launch Party

Where do ideas and inspiration come from? Push Gallery's first show of the year, Brainstorm, opens this Friday, May 8th and explores this question through the artwork of over a dozen creatives from a range of mediums. Featured artists include Bigfoot, Adam Void, Gus! and Nathanael Roney. The group exhibit will also serve as a launch party for a new local skateboard company by the same name founded by long time PUSH employee, Eric Hunt. Several of the featured artists' works make up the company's first round of board graphics and T-shirts which will be available at the opening. T-shirts will be screen printed live on site by Green Light Ink.

Brainstorm: Group exhibition and local skateboard company launch. Reception at PUSH

Gallery Friday, May 8 from 7-10pm. Show will run from May 8 until June 16.

Lance Turner Art Show

Exhibition: Systems and Portraits
Artist: Lance Turner
Run Dates: September 5th-October 10th, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5th, from 7-10pm.

Push Gallery is pleased to announce the latest exhibition of new work by local artist Lance Turner with an opening reception of Friday, September 5th, 2014 from 7-10p.m. at the gallery. The exhibition will run through October 10th.

Lance Turner's latest installation of portrait paintings and moving images intend to further refine our understanding of the mechanics of painting, infinity, and the situation of the viewer through a seemingly limitless amount of patterning, mirrors and Photo-realist painting. He has recreated the PUSH gallery through murals of abstract landscapes that contain psychedelic systems of teeth and eyeballs that draw on a wide range of influences from Rococo painting to skateboard graphics to process art. The gallery is filled with moving images and paintings that incorporate the viewer as subject matter. These are placed on top of murals to immerse the viewer into a total work of art conveying information overload and rapid transition as an exaggeration of our sense of the present.

Lance Turner is from Morganton, NC, and recently graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting. He has worked at the Asheville Art Museum and the Hickory Museum of Art. He has recently shown work at the National Ornamental Metals Museum in Memphis, TN; The Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC; the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, GA; and the Farmington Museum of Art in Farmington, NM. PUSH gallery is proud to present his latest work in this exciting new show. The event is free so come out and enjoy music, hors d'oeuvres, and beverages! Artist Reception Friday, September 5th from 7-10pm.

Bigfoot Art Show

Bigfoot is coming to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina in July of 2014!!

"UNMASKED IN ASHEVILLE"

With an exclusive appearance at the illustrious PUSH Skateshop on Friday July 18th, the local humans will be sure to either be appalled, or throw up their hands in applause. Push skateshop will be producing a run of 200 decks dived up into 3 different color versions... A t-shirt and a matching sticker designed by the artist.

Friday JULY 18th, 2014 
7-10pm

Bigfootone.com

Our Favorite Toy Art Show and Fundraiser

Come out Friday, May 30 from 7-10pm for the group art show fundraiser "Our Favorite Toy" at PUSH Gallery. Curated by our very own Eric Hunt, all proceeds will go towards our DIY Foundation skate spot down in the river arts district. Refreshments graciously provided by Asheville Brewing Co. Come buy art and support the cause.

Nathanael Roney Art Show

Age Cowboy presents Slown Down Pictures, a new collection of artworks by Nathanael Roney and an original soundtrack by J Seger, to open at PUSH Gallery (25 Patton Avenue) on Friday, April 18th from 7-10pm.

 Followed by A Newspaper (2012) and The Deepening Blues (2013), Slown Down Pictures marks the third trial of "art show with soundtrack" the two have produced. And for the first time in the series, the individual works themselves have been titled, if not mostly for the sake of mentioning them here — BURDEN, COMPOSURE, SHIT CARS — titles meant to fulfill those traditional purposes of explanation.

Roney's work has been referred to as both "refreshing" and "masturbatory." Some people even hang it in their homes. He hates Rs and Ks and especially Bs, because he has a harder time drawing them than say Cs, Ts or lower case Es. This is not to say he uses the words he writes based on the preference he has in drawing them, but sometimes words and their characters are visually incorrect, making them useless in many cases. He considers the desire to articulate, even the instinct, to be the skin of great weakness. When used poorly, language assumes its power to conclude what it can only hypothesize. He often finds himself in defense from its influence, and at times, frustrated because of it. Seger on the other hand, just don't give a fuck.