Main Gallery Exhibition

Exhibition & Reception Details

• Location: Pullen Arts Center, 105 Pullen Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607
• Parking: Visitors must have a parking permit between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Check-in at Pullen Arts Center’s front desk for a license plate-based parking permit. View our parking map
• Cost: Free and open to the public
• Hours:
  • Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
  • Friday, Closed
  • Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• To purchase artwork, contact Pullen Arts Center for details.

Reception 

Join us at Pullen Arts Center on Saturday, October 25, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. for a closing reception. 

About the Artists

K. Orr Ambrose

Painter K. Orr Ambrose grew up in the foothills of South Carolina. Her early art education began at 8 years old with classes at the Greenville County Museum and later at the Greenville Fine Arts Center. In 1986, Ambrose began regularly visiting Monhegan Island, Maine. She was heavily influenced by the artists she met there, including Lynne Drexler. She attended the University of Georgia, where she studied under acclaimed artist Charles Hinman and earned her BFA with a double major in Painting and Ceramics. Ambrose has been exhibiting in group and solo shows for 30 years. She has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, since 2012.

www.orrambrose.com  | Instagram @orrambrose

Allison Coleman 

Allison Coleman is a narrative painter based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She received her BA from the College of Charleston and her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently teaches studio art and art appreciation at Wake Technical Community College. Coleman’s work explores themes of memory, labor, and the American landscape through layered compositions that combine stylized, paint-by-number-inspired environments with photorealistic figures from vintage photographs. Her paintings often examine the tension between personal and collective memory, drawing on domestic imagery, nostalgia, and archival material. Recent works incorporate striped fumigation tents as symbols of environmental control and disruption. Coleman has exhibited throughout the Southeast, including the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston. Her practice reflects an ongoing interest in storytelling, Americana, and how we navigate the space between history and constructed memory.

www.allisoncoleman.net | Instagram.com @allisoncoleman_art

Ari Ferro

Ari was originally from Utah and loves the deserts and mountains, lakes and streams, in that part of the country. He lived there most of his life, and leaving was difficult.  For five years after moving to Raleigh, he was homesick and believed he would never get over it.  But he did, and now he is perfectly content with his surroundings.  For many years, he dabbled in painting oil on canvas until at last, upon retiring, he focused his energy on artwork. His formal training and career were entirely in science, while his painting was learned from workshops and reading.  He profited greatly from plein-air painting.

ariferro.com

Nancy Goodrich

Nancy Goodrich began photography at the perfect age of 60 after trying mah-jongg, Chinese, and wood carving. She set up a darkroom in her Little House and wondered at the images appearing in the chemicals. After a stint at Maine Media Workshops, she began working with 19th-century methods, mostly Ziatype and some cyanotype, making her prints by hand. 

Heavily influenced by photography courses, she prefers to create 15 - 20 photos on a specific theme. Some include "Alternative Uses for Eggbeaters," "Sacred and Mundane," and "Mothers and Daughters." India has also been a source of photo essays.

Most recently, she's been seduced by ceramics, but hopes to rekindle her photo mojo.

nancygoodrich.net

Jenn Hales

Jenn works in acrylic paint and gravitates to themes of the environment, motherhood, aging, humor, and finding joy in the dark. Jenn lives with her family in Raleigh and makes art in a garage-turned-studio.

JennHales.com | Instagram @jennhales

Marcia Moran

Marcia is a self-taught painter who creates primarily oil paintings. She captures a moment in time, paying mindful attention to the play of light, movement, and the myriad of colors present in all things living or man-made. Her style ranges from realistic to expressive realism, combining impasto and thin glazes. Previously working as a graphic designer, a faux finish and muralist painter, and owner of a small painting studio, she has a wealth of experience creating both small and large works. Currently, Marcia’s focus is on clouds and landscapes. Using photos as insightful references, along with incorporating spiritual essences as they often emerge through the brush strokes, she is able to portray clouds that ignite emotions. Residing in Wake Forest, her home studio has a view of the woods, which keeps Marcia inspired and thankful for her ability to express her love of nature and share its beauty with others through her paintings.

www.marciamoranfineart.com | Instagram @marciamoran.art

Min ZC 

Min Zhong has been a lifelong appreciator of beauty and the arts. She moved to the United States in 1998, where she studied at North Carolina State University; she now considers North Carolina her home. Min started taking her first drawing classes at Pullen Arts Center in 2010 while working a full-time corporate job. To this date, she has explored many mediums such as charcoal, pen and ink, watercolor, and oil paint, which became her favorite and primary medium. The artworks of landscape shown here reflect Min’s love and obsession with the beautiful nature and our local environment; most of the paintings shown were completed on site (en plein air). She very much favors painting of these local attractions like city parks, venues, and farms.

Min has spent thousands and thousands of hours on her practice; her dedication has paid off in the form of notable artistic awards and recognitions. Min realized early on this journey that, her style is in continuous development, yet her principles remain the same, i.e., she always has an emotional connection with her subjects. As stated on her website, “Painting and Drawing is a state of living to me. As a portrait and landscape artist, people and nature are my inspiration; my style empathizes with the subject I paint. I strive to see the essence of the person or the scene, tell a story, explore an idea, or convey a particular feeling. I hope the captured moments will resonate with the viewer.”

www.minzcart.com | Instagram @min_at_minzart