Fayetteville Underground First Thursday Opening Reception January 7th 5-8pm: Don Nibert and Pedigree
Join us Thursday Jan 7th. from 5-8pm for Fayetteville Underground’s first Thursday opening reception. The month of January features 2 exciting new shows. Don Nibert, a Fayetteville Potter who rarely shows in Fayetteville (his pottery is widely sought in juried shows all around the country) will be exhibiting work in our Hive Gallery. The Revolver Gallery space will be filled by Christopher Baber and Michael Shaeffer – 2 young, cutting edge Hot Springs artists who call themselves "Pedigree." There will be group shows in the Vault and E-Street Galleries with all your favorite Fayetteville Underground artists as well. All exhibitions will last until Jan 30th.
In the Hive Gallery: Nationally Recognized Potter Don Nibert
The glowing works of artist Don Nibert have earned him national recognition. Each elegant pot he makes is a portrait of flame. In addition to many other awards, his work earned him an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship, $5000.00, in 1995.
“I moved here to join a documentary film company. “We intended to shoot films with anthropological themes, travel the world and only come back to collect the money. “When it didn’t pan out, I didn’t intend to stay. But I fell in love, found people to play music with ( I still play with) and discovered this is a powerful place to be.
In a previous life, 1970 to 1973, he was a math major studying computer science at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Nibert continued college at the University of Arkansas. He wanted to teach elementary school, but once again his plans did not pan out. The class ‘Public School Art’ was a required course, in that class he found his way to the clay studio and his real work.
He spent most of his remaining college hours taking clay courses. His second semester in pottery he did his first show, Natchitoches, La., “I made money selling my Homework”, he says.
(taken from article written by Zan Javis in 1996 for the Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
Don Nibert has lived in Fayetteville for thirty three years, twenty two of those years as a Studio Potter. He sells at Juried Art Shows all over the country This upcoming show will be a rare opportunity view and aquire Nibert’s work.
In the Revolver Gallery: Pedigree "Matters of Consequence"
After five years of working together; Hot Springs, Arkansas ‘ art duo Pedigree will be showcased at Revolver gallery, located in the basement of the One East Square Plaza building on the historic downtown square in Fayetteville. Pedigree is the collaborative art of Christopher Baber and Michael Shaeffer. In 2004, Shaeffer was living in New York, and Baber was running VS. Art Gallery in downtown Hot Springs. In the spring of that year a chance encounter occurred for the two at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California, where they were formally introduced by a mutual friend. Shortly after meeting, Shaeffer came down from the Empire state to show at Baber’s gallery, and a few months later, Baber moved to New York with Shaeffer and the two began working together. In 2006, they were asked to show at the 404b Gallery in Hot Springs. In 2007, they both returned to the Spa City and opened the short lived Nobrow Gallery, a gallery focused on the works of local young talent they felt were not receiving proper exposure from the art community they called home.
“Matters of Consequence”, the latest Pedigree project, will feature solo works by both artists as well as their collaborations. Baber’s work is described as schematics of the human experience, by creating drawings loosely based on timelines and electrical schematics to try and create a visual representation of abstract concepts such as love, jealousy, hate, loss, elation, etc. The result is a jumbled and chaotic, while still coherent, intentional, array of colors, lines, circles and shapes. Each color, line, or shape, representing a moment in time, or connection he has with the world around him.
Shaeffer’s work began as fashion-based illustration dealing with the concepts of personal identity, and the influences of American popular culture within his surroundings. Recently his work has taken a turn to more personal interests, such as the idea of potential within oneself as well the town he calls home. By starting each work with geometric patterns he shows the concept of possible potential and how it can be used for beauty or simple escapism.
The combination of the two leads to what some have called an attempt to create an emotional blueprint, a constant search for some understanding within their lives, and their environment.
The Fayetteville Underground
Basement of One East Square Plaza
East side of the Historic Fayetteville Square.
Fayetteville, AR
Gallery Hours W-F 12-7pm
Saturday 10-5pm
First Thurs Opening Reception each month 5-8pm
4 galleries: Open Studios
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