A Fresh Look 2022 Art Competition and Exhibit

On view June 15 – July 29, 2022

See Winners for A Fresh Look 2022 here

Public Reception Saturday, June 25, 2022 from 6-8 pm
Awards presented at 7 pm

A Fresh Look art exhibit and competition opened last week at Southern Arts Society in Kings Mountain. Artists from around the region have submitted over sixty works of art to be judged for cash prizes. Artists were asked to show their most recent work taking a fresh look at the world around them. The theme for this show is very open, allowing for a wide variety of subject matter to be entered.
 
The artwork in the exhibit is bright and uplifting showing that the artists have chosen to see the beauty and color in the world around them. There are a lot of landscapes, wildlife and scenes from beyond our region, perhaps showing a desire to travel again and see more of the outside world. Artists have entered work in a variety of media: oil, acrylic and pastel paintings, photography, mixed media, glass and collage.

About the judge

Judging this year’s show is Myles Calvert, Associate Professor of Art at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC.

Come See the Exhibit

The public is invited to meet participating artists at a public reception on Saturday June 25th from 6-8 pm.
Awards will be presented at 7 pm. This is a Free event and dress is casual.
Winners will then be posted on Southern Arts Society’s website and Facebook page.

The exhibit is on view through July 29. Artwork in the exhibit is available for sale.

Take A Virtual Tour of A Fresh Look 2022

Embroidery of a violet flower.
Embroidery of a peach-pink flower.
Orange and red patterned woman curled up inside swirling colors.
Orange and red patterned woman with blue eyes.
Young goat looking at the viewer through a wire fence.
Light shining through a group of trees with a crooked tree in the foreground.
An ornate covered book beside patterned oriental vases.
Water rushing over rocks in a creek bed.
A lone tree on a cliffside looking out onto the ocean and rocks.
Assembled sculpture of an hourglass , coil, and red and white clothed handmaiden.
Assembled sculpture of an antique medicine cabinet and pill jars.
Close up view of the dark-rimmed eye of a white horse.
Man carrying a bucket into the out of a shadowy stable entryway.
A chasm in a rocky shoreline cliff overlooking the ocean.
A creek flowing along a well-grown green hillside with bushes and a tree.
A grassy field with rocks along a still lake.
Abstract with angular turquoise and orange shapes.
Abstract with angular yellow, gold, mint green, and orange shapes.
A horned puffin bird resting.
A spotted stingray swimming downward towards fish.
A cupola atop a foor under old trees.
A hilly cliffside with a small white house in the distance.
Rural scene of 2 decaying barns on a curved roadside with trees in the background.
Little girl in turquoise pajamas holding up a paper bag hand puppet.
A yellow Italionate house on a Tuscan hillside under blue skies and clouds.
A mountainside rendered in four sections of different colors.
A distant purple mountainside with a green hillside in the foreground.
An ornate brass princess-style telephone with a round dial.
Black rotary candle stick-style telephone with a brass rotary dial.
A section of an antiquarian bookstore with tin ceilings, rotary fans, and several full bookcases.
A single purple iris against a watery light purple background.
Two birds drinking from a stream.
Western landscape of mesas in the distance rendered in reds and blues.
Red rock mesas against a blue and clouded sky.
Looking upward at a hill with momentous clouds above.
An American bald eagle sitting on a branch against a pale vision of the eagle in flight.
An American bald eagle soaring against a blue sky and clouds.
A man walking into a light-flooded clearing out of a showy woodland path.
A barren tree tree rendered in gray and black.
A human torso rendered in gray and black.
A purple and patterned shield and a leather arm armor.
A triple-piece leather helmet fastened by silver metal studs.
Textured purple and green swirled abstract art on a gold resin background.
Collage of a black and white bird perched on a tree limb with stamp and labels added. Bell, It's Puzzling, acrylic
An old man playing a banjo.
A man playing a banjo.
Textured purple and green swirled abstract art on a gold resin background.
A flowing creek at along a bend with trees.
A green creekside at Crowder’s Mountain.
Sunflowers and red flowers in a glass vase against a light blue background.
Abstracted collage with a flying bird above a group of people.
An orange tabby cat looking at a traveling snail.
A grassy clearing amount pine trees under the moonlight.
Black and magenta assemblage canvas adorned with beads.
A multi-colored glass sculpture reminiscent of a terraced spinning top.
Multi-colored collage of a bird with spikes comb plumage.
A white farmhouse and silo atop a red hill.
A red and white boat at dockside.
Arch de Triumph in Paris.
An old abandoned red barn in a field.
Still life with a vase of roses and a ball of red and orange yarn.
Red tints of a sunrise burst.
Two mallard ducks alighting from the marshes.