Join us on October 14 for a special presentation and gallery tour with Abie Harris: Emergent Landscapes. Emergent Landscapes explores these links between Harris’s studio practice and his first career as University Architect at North Carolina State University, his family’s roots as early settlers of Blowing Rock, and his perennial fascination with the underlying, sometimes parallel, structures within the landscape, music, and built environments of rural North Carolina.
Abie Harris paints the mountains—he also paints the equally dynamic landscape of Bluegrass music. He is often doing both of these things at the same time. Rooted in Harris’s iterative approach to painting, the pictures in Emergent Landscapes arise from repetitive close study—of the vistas surrounding his family’s 19th-century home in the town of Blowing Rock and of the vernacular music traditions that aurally describe the region.