Here’s the press release. Go to the Flood Gallery’s web site for more.
Title: No Fear of Content
Artist: Jim Buonaccorsi
When: August 23 – September 27, 2008
Where: Flood Gallery in the Phil Mechanic Studios Building
Reception: Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 from 7pm – 10pm, with Complimentary refreshments
ASHEVILLE, NC— (August 2008) Flood Gallery Fine Art Center is proud to present the first Asheville solo exhibition of artist Jim Buonaccorsi, entitled “No Fear of Content.” Buonaccorsi’s work, on view August 23rd through September 27th, acts as salt in the open wound of complacency and translates life’s fears and meanings into a universal language. This underlying theme essentially discredits the idea of “art for art sake.” Buonaccorsi’s work is saturated with historical references, and offers its viewers an opportunity to change history by not repeating it.
Buonaccorsi’s work has been included in over one hundred and thirty exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at City Gallery Chastain in Atlanta, Georgia, 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida, Fugitive Art Center in Nashville, Tennessee and Marshall Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. His work has received numerous awards including the Reese Collection Annual Purchase Award at the University of Tennessee and The Martin and Doris Rosen Award at the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He also received a Georgia State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant and the M.G. Michael Award for outstanding research and two Senior Faculty research grants at the University of Georgia.