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Wheeling Gallery Features Marietta Artist, Union Local Art Students

"Rooster Magic" by Beth Nash

Artworks Around Town’s May exhibit features Beth Nash, a Marietta-based artist and teacher, and opens with a reception at the Centre Market gallery from 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, part of Wheeling’s First Fridays events.

In addition to Nash’s work in the main part of the Centre Market gallery, Union Local High School students will have their work on exhibit in the North Gallery.

“Union Local has an excellent art program and always has a show that defies the fact that the work is created by high school students,” said Judith Minder, Artworks curator.

Teaching at Marietta College, Nash instructs students in drawing, life drawing, solid and flat design. Using her instructional skills, Nash renders her personal art work mainly in acrylic and charcoal. Her drawings are more traditional than her paintings and monoprints. She works in a large variety of art fields specializing in portraiture. Her work is layered and fragmented with more than a surface to each one.

“These works are the type the viewer needs to ponder on rather than just casually view. Symbolism abounds along with broken images which come together as a whole to create a unified experience more than just a standard ‘picture’ of a person, group or scene,” Minder said.

Nash feels herself to be a maker, a creator of “things,” Minder added. She has worked in printmaking, fabric design and as a clothing designer as well as creating paintings, drawings and illustrations. She creates surfaces with acrylics and charcoal on wood panels. Adding and subtracting colors and shapes, she finds the veiled images she desires. Nash said often these creations spend a long time hanging around in her studios, and other times the images she wants to create emerge almost immediately.

“Experienced artists and makers of art work realize that any work of art has ‘a mind of its own,'” Minder said. “The artist starts to create with an idea in mind, but the piece of artwork often goes in a completely different direction from what the artist intended.”

Said Nash: “The day that I discovered I could create my own world of images, the idea of what making art was all about changed for me. The world of dreams and visions opened up, and I began to accept, sometimes with reluctance, the images that emerged.”

All shows at Artworks are free and open to the public. Artworks is located in the Upper Market House of Centre Market, 2200 Market St., Wheeling.

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