The Gallery At The View

Being able to visually express my feelings, thoughts and passions onto a canvas is the fulfillment of my personal calling. For the last several years, I have enjoyed creating hundreds of paintings in a variety of techniques, textures and color pa...

Jenny was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and is now based in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from University of California, Davis with degrees in Environmental Design & Economics and subsequently earned a Ph.D. from University of N...

I was raised in a small predominantly black town. The same town my mom grew up in. Because the school board wanted to force integration, they moved the district lines. This meant that instead of going to the elementary school my mom had gone to, I...

In my art, I explore a wide range of styles and textures, always rooted in, and returning to, abstraction. During the pandemic, I became fascinated with the lines that connected us to people and places - or disconnected us. On my daily walks, I p...

Anne Heartt Gregory grew up in Weldon, N.C. She studied English and Art at Duke, Contemporary Literature at Oxford, and Ceramics at the Penland School of Crafts. She is a member of 5 Points Gallery in downtown Durham. Bookbinding was her first pr...

My first experience making art at the age of 5 was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I don't remember making it, but it was in my bedroom for many years so I do remember that it was a big lump of clay with all sorts of things like f...

Roy Guerrette graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics. He worked as a graphic artist for ten years while continuing his craft as a studio assistant with Portland Pottery Studio. Originally f...

Zach is completely self-taught and colorblind photographer, owner of Pretty Average Photography LLC. Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, you can usually find him taking hikes with the elderly crowd looking for birds to take pictures of or m...

I began as a comic artist for my high school newspaper. I was in the Chicago Daily News with a mentorship from a political cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize. My first paintings were exhibited in school shows. A mural of mine was put up at the ...

Around five years ago, I began experimenting with tie-dye, upcycling second-hand cotton, linen, and denim. Self-taught through social media and collaborations, I explored various techniques to create unique pieces. After transitioning from corpor...

My work is a reflection of an inner world trying to balance itself. The process bears witness to spiritual, sexual, and worldly cycles. Painting allows me to dialogue with past experiences. I use abstraction, erotica, and portraiture to decode ...

Deborah is an environmental artist whose work is dedicated to raising awareness about endangered birds. Her feathered artwork is made from recycled plastic as a way to amplify her message about how we need to take better care of our planet in orde...

Justin Leitner is a full time, professional artist based in North Carolina with over 20 years of experience. His work strives to capture the silent energy of nature with the use of powerful color combinations, intuition and texture. Subjects rang...

In 2005, I took a welding class that changed my life. Seven years earlier my husband, our two boys and I arrived in the US from the UK to live and work for a year. I stayed at home looking after the boys–a big difference from my normal daily life...

Annie Nashold was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from Duke University with a degree in Art Studio and with studies in Art History and Religion. She also attended Penland School for Photography. Cook...

I have always been an artist at heart, since I was very small. My creativity flows like a river, and is greatly inspired by Nature and Spiritual Consciousness. I discovered that I download a lot of my images from Source Consciousness, which makes ...

Adrienne Oates was born and raised in Durham, NC. She attended an art middle school & high school in Durham called Durham School Of the Arts. She then went to Radford, VA to get her BFA in ceramics at Radford University. While she was there she ...

José Pereira, JP, as his friends call him, is a Portuguese artist from the Azores Islands who has been working with metal art since 1986. JP is skilled in metalwork spanning from blacksmithing, ornamental iron, structural steel and stainless steel...

Paula Siwek is an artist-educator initially from New York City, after graduating from Goddard College with a BA in Photography in 1981. She moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, where she earned an MFA in Photography in 1990...

Lori Vrba is a self-taught multi-media artist based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her imagery and assemblage is rooted in themes of memory, illusion, loss, and revival with the southern sensibilities of storytelling. Her work is held in privat...

The piece is called La Catrina, after the iconic Mexican images. The subject goes by the name Viy; she is an indigenous Mexican woman, also queer. She began the photo session by blacking herself out with charcoal dust and oils. As she said, “I’m s...

During my senior year at NC State’s School of Design, I attended a visiting designers lecture. When he was asked his opinion of a book he had designed, he admitted he hadn’t read it as he doesn’t have time to read the books he designs. Mustering...