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The Asheville Art Museum proudly presents Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between from Saturday, December 12, 2009 to Sunday, May 9, 2010. The public is invited to an Opening Reception Sunday, December 13, 2009 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. This exhibition celebrates the work of Lorna Blaine Halper (1924- ) in a solo show at the Asheville Art Museum as part of the Museum�s overall commitment to collecting and preserving the work of Black Mountain College artists. Evident in Halper�s earliest work is the indelible influence of Josef Albers. She went on to develop a highly unique approach that combined the principles of Albers�s teaching with her own individualized style. Adept in a wide variety of media including drawing, sculpture and painting, Halper's work displays a masterful exploration of the descriptive qualities of line as well as a thoughtful examination of the relationship of line to the space between, echoing Albers's directive to �see things in context.� �Whereas Albers maintained a theoretical approach and eschewed personal expression, Halper�s work is highly emotional,� says Cole Hendrix, Assistant Curator at the Asheville Art Museum. �Halper continually played with the terms of seeing, manipulating value, tone and scale to evince the descriptive qualities of line.� Born in New York City in 1924, Halper began her studies at Columbia University. In 1945, she enrolled at Black Mountain College and remained there through the spring of 1948. At Black Mountain College, she studied with Josef Albers, Fannie Hillsmith, Robert Motherwell and Ilya Bolotowsky. While there, she formed deep and lasting friendships with students Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Oli Sihvonen and others. She married a former student and member of the faculty, Tasker Howard. At the end of the 1948 spring semester, Lorna and Tasker moved to New York where she worked for Amerika House. After Tasker's early death she remarried novelist and critic Albert Halper. She currently resides in Pawling, New York. An exhibition publication will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop. �The Asheville Art Museum�s mission, to explore the best of American art since the 20th century and art of significance to Western North Carolina, is well served by this project, which celebrates a dedicated American artist and acknowledges her experience as a student at Black Mountain College as part of the context of the development of her work,� states Executive Director Pamela L. Myers. (Image provided by The Asheville Art Museum.)
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