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Many creative acts seem to emanate from the experience of place...

Our staff selected works related to The Bascom's annual theme, place, using an inductive approach to ask what pieces in our collection might tell us, as viewers, about the role of place in works of art. This collective exercise gave us insights to the works that reside here in our building. In seeing the collection anew, we noticed several characteristics about the relation between place and art:

Structure: Place is represented through use of lines and shapes that create pattern, whether this be in representations of buildings, rhythms of the land, or in abstract forms that seem to provide a sense of ground ing or location.

Transitions: Doorways, thresholds, windows, and passageways help the viewer situate a scene but also invite us to see boundaries -- the separation of intimate and public, the interior and the outdoors, nature and civilization, the self and the other. The places in-between are locations where we define our lives, navigate the ev eryday, and experience moments of subtle transformation as we make routine arrivals and departures from one space to another.

The Organic: Especially in a collection like ours, which was chosen in the context of our location on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, nature, plant-life, geography and biodiversity shape our experience of where we are and what we notice in our everyday world, from the macroscopic views of plant life to the panoramic views of landscape, the back-and-forth of closeness and distance shape our experience of this place.

We invite you, the audience to draw your own conclusions about the role of place in this selection of works.

A free, public reception will be held Friday, February 25th at 5pm at The Bascom to celebrate our three current winter exhibitions.

  • GALLERY: Joel Gallery
  • ARTIST(S): Various
  • ON DISPLAY: January 29, 2022
  • THROUGH: April 16, 2022
  • MEDIUM(S): Various

Current Exhibitions

Emergence: A Survey of Southeastern Studio Programs 2024

Emergence celebrates the role of teaching and mentoring in artistic development, highlighting works by faculty mentors and their students. The 35 pairs of artists presented...

Selections from our Permanent Collection: Legacies

Drawn from The Bascom’s permanent collection, works exhibited this year celebrate the visual legacies of 20th century artists who practiced in the Southeastern US, including...

Satellites & Salamanders IV

Through sculptures, films and cut text works, Satellites & Salamanders IV attempts to re-member hidden and lost parts of artist Walker Tufts’ legacies. The installation...

Outdoor Sculpture 2023 - 2024

In April 2023, five new works were installed on the Horst Winkler Sculpture Trail, marking the third year of our outdoor sculpture program on The Bascom campus. Two...

THE BASCOM WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR 2024 EXHIBITION SPONSORS


Claire and Alex Crumbley
Kathleen and Christopher Hohlstein

Cathy and Bob Fisher
Ann Sullivan

Vance and Willis Willey
Woodcrest Foundation

For information about sponsorship opportunities, please call: 828.526.4949

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This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Learn more at http://www.ncarts.org.

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Funded in part by a grant from South Arts
in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.