SAVE THE DATE
FRIDAY, MAY 10TH!

RECEPTION FOR TODD CARIGNAN
SATURDAY, MAY 4TH
2-5 PM

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The Village Gallery in Oriental welcomes Todd Carignan as its May Artist of the Month.   

Todd Carignan was born and raised in Wilmington, NC. His parents had him in private art lessons at eight years old, where he really fell in love with drawing and painting. After high school, he attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he received his BFA in Sequential Art and a minor in art history.
 
He has worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, concept designer, portraitist, and gallery fine artist. He experiments in many mediums, but his true passion is oils. Todd teaches drawing and painting classes at the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum's School, with special focus on portraiture, figurative and landscape. Carignan also teaches various drawing, painting and cartooning classes at DREAMS of Wilmington, a non-profit after school arts education program for children.
 
In the spring of 2014, he was the fine arts judge for the Wilmington Art Association's annual Juried Spring Art Show. The following year he was the judge for the North Carolina Silver Arts Festival. In 2018, he had a one man show at the MC Erny Gallery, which focused on his travels through India and his association with Homes of Hope, a nonprofit that builds orphanages in India. In Fall of 2019, he will be the featured artist at New Elements Gallery, in Wilmington, NC. Carignan is a member of the Portrait Society of America, the American Impressionist Society and the Oil Painters of America. He has won multiple awards, painted judges and university donors, and has art in collections all over the United States and internationally. He currently has his art studio at the Artworks Art Village, in Wilmington, NC, where he lives with his wife, Mailyn, and two sons, Everett and Xavier.
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Please follow him on facebook and instagram for updates on art shows, classes and workshops.

The Village Gallery is located at 300 Hodges St. in Oriental NC.

Dan Beck
"Contemporary Impressionist"

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Dan Beck is an Exhibiting artist at the Village Gallery.
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Wanderlust was Dan's primary motivation in the decade following his graduation from high school.  Dan took to the road, working jobs that included ranch hand in Arizona, construction on the beach of Florida, refinishing furniture in Louisiana and four years in the infantry, including a two year tour in Germany.  Wherever he went, Dan filled sketch books and journals for his own enjoyment. Then in Colorado after a couple of years in college, he realized the thing that meant most to him was his sketch books. So, he quit his job and college, sold everything he had and decided that commitment to one path was where all the previous had led him. Dan has studied at the Art Student League of Denver, with numerous contemporary painters and has continuously studied the impressionist masters.
 
Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan is an experimenter by nature, as well as being firmly rooted in the tradition of Impressionism. His love of nature and a deep respect for the tradition of art serve as both guide and inspiration to his goal of "making a contribution" to the world of painting. Dan's paintings evoke a timelessness and dignity that are the underlying themes in whatever he paints.  "Painting is a balancing act between opposite ideas - direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic.  It seems to me that although a painter is deeply involved with his own private investigation, his real aim is to communicate something to the viewer that resonates on a uniquely personal level."
 
Dan now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina with his wife and two daughters.

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The Village Gallery is located at 300 Hodges Street, across from Oriental’s harbor.

Come, relax, sit on our porch and enjoy the Village Gallery overlooking the Oriental Harbor.