ART VENUE

Alley Cat Arts

Behind the South end of Speeder and Earl’s, the former Whiting Fiber Company is rambling and myriad. Up the stairs, Elizabeth Bunsen operates Alley Cat Arts out of 420 Pine Street. Alley Cat Arts is a studio/gallery featuring painting, wall sculpture, jewelry, singing bowls, and music. Open by chance or by appointment, Bunsen has frequented this airy upstairs spot for the past eight years.

On the day we visited, Bunsen and her student Jensen were working on her clever Kaleidoscopic Loop dee loos. Groups of four, sixteen and eventually thirty-six 12” x 12” canvas squares combining paint, collage and found objects will cover the gallery wall. Although grouped by fours as a semiabstract whole, each individual panel can be rotated to generate a different view; the same looping, curving, fluid panels, rearranged and rotated, manage to follow each other toward a coherent whole regardless of the arrangement. Kaleidoscopic indeed, as the effect on the viewer is of seeing the same thing differently within the same circumscribed space.

First Friday Art Walkers will also see a zoo of Boone Wilson’s art. Boone’s eleven-year old son, a student at Charlotte Central School, already has two solo shows to his credit. A Cheetah, a White Tiger recumbent, Ganesh and Mojo Monkey are some of the bright, colorful oil on canvas (approx. 32” x 36”) works that might recall a viewer to Gauguin’s Tahitian paintings. Detailed and whimsical without being too childish, his works afford First Friday Art Walkers a chance to really get in on the ground floor of a young artist’s career.

LEE T. FREEMAN

 

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