Red Horse
$5,000.00
Red Horse by guild member Brian Melton. On display at the Beautiful Mystery Focus Gallery located at the Folk Art Center, NC.
The old timers wouldn’t touch it. They figured it wasn’t worth much. Punky red horse is brittle and fickle. I guess practicality outweighs aesthetics when living is a hard up struggle of working to make ends meet. It’s sad though–something so rare and beautiful being culled and discarded. I figure it just takes the right eyes at the right time, and, maybe, the right heart to see the value in what most see as lost. A little trim here, some mallet work there, and she starts to emerge. Like the Jairus’ daughter, maybe she was just sleeping. We know better though. “Talitha koum.”
- 2024
- Red horse white pine, figured maple, acrylic; sculpted
- Made in TN
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Description
The Folk Art Center opens Beautiful Mystery in the Focus Gallery
The Southern Highland Craft Guild opened its third member-focused exhibition of the year with Beautiful Mystery, featuring both traditional and contemporary craft by five members of the Guild. The colorful batik paintings on display are by Robin Ford, the clay pieces by Susan Grier and Joe Frank McKee, jewelry by Ilene Kay, and wood sculptures by new member, Brian Melton. Beautiful Mystery will be on view in the focus gallery upstairs at the Folk Art Center August 23-November 11, 2024.
Located on the second level of the Folk Art Center, these exhibitions feature both traditional and contemporary works by members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild and affiliated organizations. The Guild is a non-profit, educational organization established in 1930 to cultivate the crafts and makers of the Southern Highlands for the purpose of shared resources, education, marketing, and conservation. The Southern Highland Craft Guild is an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
