First Friday Artwalk with Robert Asman as Artetude's "Artist in the Window"

Artetude Gallery is pleased to announce that Asheville artist Robert Asman, a master and leader in the contemporary return to the chemistry, physics and magic of the photographic darkroom, will be giving a series of entertaining and informative micro-demonstrations on his techniques and approaches to the photographic monoprint at the Gallery during this Friday, May 3rd, Downtown Asheville Art District (DAAD) Art Walk. 

These talks are open to the public, will be given throughout the evening and target both admirers and collectors of fine art photography as well as photographers. The Gallery will also offer portrait photographs of our clients, friends and visitors with Asman in front of their favorite works Asman's "Flesh and Vapor" exhibition.

Please join us and enjoy a libation Friday May 3rd while viewing some of the finest and most compelling contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and monoprints in Asheville and Western North Carolina.

​Convenient parking a stone's throw from the Gallery. Click here or on the Map Image below for a high resolution Parking Map:

Artetude Gallery in Asheville Citizen-Times Feature Article

Artetude Gallery's Chairman, Russell Medford, is interviewed by the Asheville Citizen-Times in a feature article highlighting Artetude Gallery and tonight's first Art Walk of the Downtown Asheville Art District. Check out our Facebook page with links to the article or click here or on image to read the article.

Look for the "Artist in the Window" this Friday at Artetude

Artetude Gallery will host an Open Reception with refreshments during the upcoming Downtown Asheville Art District (DAAD) Art Walk, 5-8pm, Friday, April 5th. 

Look for the "Artist in the Window" ​: Asheville artist Jo Ridge Kelley will be working on one of her latest paintings at Artetude during our Open Reception and looks forward to meeting you and discussing her work.

Please join us and enjoy a libation while viewing our current exhibition of contemporary landscape and Waterdance paintings by Asheville artist Jo Ridge Kelley, "Simply Elegant". as well as some of the finest and most compelling contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and monoprints in Asheville and Western North Carolina.

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Artetude Gallery Newsletter makes its debut

The first Artetude Gallery Newsletter is now available. The purpose of this monthly update of gallery exhibitions, events and topics of interest in contemporary art is to engage with our Gallery clients, visitors and friends, to learn about your interests and to address your needs as you explore contemporary fine art.

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Artetude Hosts Open Reception for First Friday Artwalk

Artetude Gallery will host an Open Reception with refreshments during the upcoming Downtown Asheville Art District (DAAD) Art Walk, 5-8pm, Friday, April 5th

Please join us and enjoy a libation while viewing our current exhibition of contemporary landscape and Waterdance paintings by Asheville artist Jo Ridge Kelley, "Simply Elegant" , as well as some of the finest and most compelling contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and monoprints in Asheville and Western North Carolina.

Sneak Peek of Robert Asman's upcoming "Flesh and Vapor" Exhibition

The main event draws near but here is a sneak peak In About a Minute of just some of Robert Asman's extraordinary "Flesh and Vapor" photographic mono prints that will be exhibited from April 10th to May 12, 2013 at Artetude Gallery - Asheville NC's newest contemporary fine art gallery. In this video, we explore the relationship between "Flesh" and "Vapor" of four pairs of mono prints using an image transmutation process. 

Don't forget the Artist Opening Reception on April 12th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. For more information, check out our website www.artetudegallery.com or Facebook page, Artetude Gallery.

"Asman has turned his photographs into paintings, in which his swirls and puddles of selenium, bleach, tea, and sepia are transformed into colors that conjure the sublime." - Edith Newhall, Philadelphia Enquirer

In "Flesh and Vapor", Asman brings together two themes, clouds/vapor and body/flesh, into a shared construct in which the textures, shape and sensuality of the human form are reflected in, and in turn reflected by, the ethereal and evanescent nature of the cloud. 

This exhibit comes at an important time as the use of traditional photographic darkroom processes are undergoing a renaissance by artists partly in response to the ubiquity and impact of digital technology. As a master innovator in the photographic darkroom, Asman is becoming increasingly viewed as one of this country's most important contemporary photographers and a leader in this new movement. 

For most of the last thirty-five years, Robert Asman has been devoted to investigating and stretching the conceptual and technical boundaries of silver prints. As an alchemist of the dark room, Asman's unique, one-of-a-kind photographic monoprint creations come to form in the darkroom through the boundless manipulation of paper negatives and chemicals. His explorations and technique bind human form, urbanism and nature. Asman approaches art making as a transformative process, in which he mines the physical properties of his materials to create a work on paper in which process and image are one. 

Asman has received multiple honors throughout his career, such as a Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and at Galerie Paviot in Paris. Asman's work can also be found in numerous permanent collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

An exhibition catalogue will be available at the Opening and updates and videos for this extraordinary and timely exhibition will be posted on www.artetudegallery.com and its Facebook page over the coming weeks. "Flesh and Vapor" will be exhibited at Artetude Gallery from April 10 - May 12, 2013. Please feel free to contact us directly at director@artetudegallery.com or 828-252-1466.

Upcoming Exhibit of Photographic Monoprints by Robert Asman

Artetude Gallery, Asheville NC's newest contemporary fine art gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibit of photographic monoprints by Robert Asman, entitled "Flesh and Vapor"  from April 10 - May 12, 2013. An Opening Reception will be held at the Gallery (89 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801) on April 12 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.

Please click here for more information and an "In about a Minute" video introducing Robert Asman and his work in "Flesh and Vapor".

New Artist: Ramona Bronkar Bannayan

Artetude is pleased to announce the addition of Ramona Bronkar Bannayan to our cache of artists.  Ramona comes to us from New York City. 

Ramona Bronkar Bannayan received a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art and Art History from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.  Ramona completed an intensive landscape painting program at Maryland Art Institute and went on to earn her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Columbia University and currently lives in New York, New York.

Ramona exclusively uses pastels and charcoal to create small 8” x 8” landscapes.  She has had many solo and group exhibitions, including shows at the University of Connecticut and the Paesaggio Gallery in West Hartford, Connecticut.  One of her images was even selected for interpretation by poet Mark Doty.

Here is what Ramona has to say about her work:

“I require a limited boundary to propel my search for an image.  Each series derives from a memory supported by my own Diana camera and digital photographs or other historical landscape paintings. This is a methodology that requires internalization rather than a direct response.  Ideally, seeing is slowed down, and the unique nature of each work becomes all the more noticeable.  Making drawings through the windowpane of memory softens the edges even further, but I’m constantly aware of that tightrope between sentimentality and structure.  We remember some things, forget others, and that which is important to us nudges forward.  For me, the intrigue always begins with the horizon, that distant point where the ephemeral caresses solidity.  Time of day is also important.  I am absorbed not only by the light and ambience of dawn and dusk, but the subliminal emotional associations in beginning or ending another day.   Formally, in some respect over the years, my apparatus for a visual articulation of space has been contradictory.  Ultimately, I waffle between an implied and an atmospheric perspective.  However, with this most recent body of work, the scales have tipped toward the atmospheric.  Not a vista, these explorations of space through the landscape are analogous to an object with a human scale, the width of your open hand or the space between your ears.  Further to actual format, historically, painting on a rectangle suggests that the spatial moment continued beyond its edges. Conversely, my preference is for the equilateral element of a square.  It implies containment, a singular intimate space, rather than an extended scene, reinforcing the personal human element.

Realistically, the wonderment and spirituality of sky, weather and land are basic notions earnestly experienced and thus fully remembered in my mid-western bones.  I cannot escape them.”

New Artist: Robert Asman

We are excited to announce the addition of local photographer, Robert Asman.

Artetude Gallery, Inc. is pleased to announce Robert Asman as the newest addition to our gallery.  The Asheville-based artist will be featured as our “Artist of the Month” for August.  On Sunday, August 12, 2012­ at 2:00pm, Robert will discuss his photographic-based works on paper, as well as his life and inspirations.

For most of the last thirty-five years, Robert Asman has been devoted to investigating and stretching the conceptual and technical boundaries of silver prints.  As an alchemist of the dark room, Asman’s creations come to form in the darkroom through the boundless manipulation of paper negatives and chemicals.  His explorations and technique bind human form, urbanism and nature.  Asman approaches art making as a transformative process, in which he mines the physical properties of his materials to create a work on paper in which process and image are one.

Artetude Gallery and Mission Foundation Announce Partnership

Artetude Gallery, Inc., a contemporary fine art gallery, partners with Mission Healthcare Foundation to support cancer programs at Mission Hospital

 “Contemporary Art on a Mission” links a portion of art sales to the support of SECU Cancer Center programs

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, August 1, 2012. As Asheville’s newest contemporary fine art gallery, Artetude Gallery, Inc. is pleased to announce a new and innovative program, “Contemporary Art on a Mission”, with the Mission Health Foundation in which Artetude Gallery, Inc. pledges a portion of retail art sales to support the cancer programs at Mission Hospital.

“We are excited to bring to Asheville and Western North Carolina compelling cutting edge sculpture, painting, monoprints and photography from nationally and internationally recognized artists, and we are proud to partner with Mission Healthcare Foundation as an important part of our commitment to support the cultural, social and physical health of our new home community” said Margaret K. Offermann, MD, PhD, President of Artetude Gallery. Dr. Offermann, a medical oncologist, was the founding past Medical Director of the recently opened SECU Cancer Center at Mission Hospital.

“Given Mission Health’s commitment to providing both a state-of-the-art facility in the new SECU Cancer Center, but also enhancing the level of services available to all the residents of Western North Carolina, having the support of fine community businesses like Artetude Gallery is critical to both reducing cancer and increasing the survival rates in our region,” said Bruce Thorsen, President and CEO of Mission Foundation.   “Our trustees are committed to helping cancer patients receive the very latest technology and treatments right here near home, and that is going to take generous gifts and grants to bring high caliber research and researchers to Asheville to work at the SECU Cancer Center.  We are delighted with our partnership with Artetude Gallery and hope others will follow their lead,” Thorsen concluded.

“We are proud to work with Mission Healthcare Foundation through ‘Contemporary Art on a Mission’ to realize our goal of building a dynamic and sustainable business model through which contemporary art collecting contributes on a continuing philanthropic basis to the community”, said Russell Medford MD, PhD, Chairman of Artetude Gallery, Inc. Dr. Medford is President and CEO of Salutria Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company developing new drugs for the treatment of heart disease, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

“I am pleased to be a part of this new endeavor between the business and philanthropic communities,” stated Perry Magee, Director of Artetude Gallery. “We believe this initiative is a natural expression of the commitment to community that all of us at the gallery feel. It also complements well our corporate commitments to support and grow the careers of our artists, to create new contemporary art collectors and to exceed the needs and expectations of established collectors”. Mr. Magee brings extensive experience in the business of art through senior positions at contemporary fine art galleries in New Orleans, LA and Carmel, California.

About Artetude Gallery, Inc.

Founded 1 June 2012 by two physician-scientists with a love for contemporary art and deep respect for the symbiosis between collector and artist, Artetude Gallery, Inc. is Asheville’s newest contemporary fine art gallery featuring compelling, cutting edge sculpture, painting and photography from nationally and internationally recognized artists. With each piece of art, Artetude Gallery is committed to developing long-term term relationships with both new and established art collectors to help them realize their vision in building the finest and most meaningful contemporary art collections for their home and office. The Gallery’s “Contemporary Art on a Mission” program with Mission Healthcare Foundation reflects the philosophy of its owners and employees by building a dynamic and sustainable business model through which contemporary art collecting contributes on a continuing, philanthropic basis to the cultural and physical health of our Asheville and western North Carolina communities.

Margaret K. Offermann, MD, PhD, President of Artetude Gallery, Inc. is former Deputy National Vice-President of Research for the American Cancer Society and former Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is currently president-elect of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, located in metropolitan Washington, DC.

Russell M. Medford MD, PhD, Chairman of Artetude Gallery Inc. is former Chairman of Georgia BIO, currently on the Board of Directors of BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization) based in Washington, DC, on the Board of Advisors, Institute for Bioscience and Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and on the Board of Directors, National Health Museum.

About Mission Healthcare Foundation

Mission Foundation is a 27-year-old not-for-profit public charity that supports the services and programs of Mission Hospital and Mission Health.  The Foundation trustees and staff seek contributions and grants from individuals, corporate, civic and governmental sources to provide financial stability and underwriting for a wide variety of programs and projects that serve thousands of people in Western North Carolina. Those programs include: Mission Children’s Hospital; The Ladies Night Out Mammography program; the MAMA helicopters, genetic counseling services; nursing and allied health education; The SECU Cancer Center; Mission’s Stroke Program , Mission’s Heart Center and the Toothbuses, mobile dental offices giving free or low cost dental care to grade school children in the region. The Foundation is governed by a 29-member board of Trustees and is based in Asheville.

For more information, visit us at Artetude Gallery, 89 Paxton Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina, 28801, our website at www.artetudegallery.com or contact Perry Magee, Gallery Director, Artetude Gallery, Inc., pmagee@artetudegallery.com, 828-2521466.