Born in 1951 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. Studied with artist Mark English, Robert Heindell and Bernie Fuchs "Illustrators Workshop ", Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY. “My dad, Bennie R. Day was a woodcarver and brother, Ben Day was an artist. and university professor teaching design for over 30 years, had a wonderful influence on my love for art. Raised in a creative family, art found me and I embraced it. The exuberant energy I had for art as a child is still within me.”
Fine Arts collections include Mint Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Senator Russell Long, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Blount, Inc., Charlotte Hornets NBA, Hunter Museum of Art, Texaco Inc., AT&T and IBM.
Art displayed in the Embassy of Republic of Zimbabwe and International artist in watercolor competition, London, England.
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ARLESS DAY
BORN:
1951, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
EDUCATION:
1972
Graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022
Morris Museum of Art , August, GA
2019
Shain Gallery,Charlotte, NC
2017
Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2015
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Hidell Broooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2014
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2013
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont, North Carolina
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2011
BMG First Look, Bernarducii Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2010
Brunner Gallery, Covington, Louisiana
2009
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2008
Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Brunner Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2007
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
Brunner Gallery, Covington, Louisiana
2006
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Brunner Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2005
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
2004
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Gallery M, Denver, Colorado
2003
Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2002
Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, Georgia
2001
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2000
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
The American Art Company, Tacoma, Washington
1999
Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
Texaco Incorporated, White Plains, New YorkHunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, Columbus, Georgia
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum, Manhattan, Kansas
Hickory Museum, Hickory, North Carolina
Art in Embassies Program, Washington, District of Columbia
The Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Los Altos, California
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
Senator Russell Long’s Office, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Senator Bill Cassidy’s Washington, DC
IBM Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina
AT&T, Atlanta, Georgia
Charlotte Bobcats NBA, Charlotte, North Carolina
Federal Reserve Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina
Blount, Incorporated, Montgomery, Alabama
Garden State Park, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Stroebe-Zine Corporation, Portland, Oregon
BASF Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina
Pappas Properties, Charlotte, North Carolina
Price Waterhouse, Charlotte, North Carolina
Kennedy, Covington, Lobdell and Hickman, Attorneys, Charlotte, North Carolina
Troutman and Sanders Attorneys, Washington, District of Columbia
Guest Quarters Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina
Fidelity Investments, Charlotte, North Carolina
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2014
Contxt.,Ringling College of Art and Design
Fox-Smith, James, Country Roads, Cover Story, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
2012
The Gettysburg Review, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
Front and back cover with eight addition images
2010
Janet Batet. The Landscape: That Window To The Human Soul, Art Districts Magazine,
Miami, Florida, April-May.
2009
Fox-Smith, James. Country Roads, Cover Story, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February.
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2008
Faure, Stephen. “Lost In His Work”, Inside Northside Magazine, Mandeville, Louisiana,
July/August.
2006
Fox-Smith, James. Country Roads, Cover Story, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, June.
2004
Bean, Shaw. The Florida Contemporary.”, The Florida International Magazine., Miami, Florida,
October.
Frontier Magazine, Denver, Colorado, “Arless Day”, May/June: Art Experience.
2002
Stone, Sandra. “Scale and Illusion.”, Arless Day: Recent Collages, Exhibition Catalogue, Augen
Gallery, November.
2000
Gruber, Richard, Ph.D. “Dream Journey”, Arless Day, Exhibition Catalogue, Jerald Melberg,
Galllery, Charlotte, North Carolina, September.
1999
Mayfield,Mark. “Day Dreams”, Southern Accents, Birmingham, Alabama, January/February:
64-67.
1996
Arial, Kate Dobbs. “A Collage Montage.”, The Independent Weekly, Charlotte, North Carolina,
January 24.
“The Sounding Room. Arless Day: Recent Collages.”, “Arless Day: Recent Collages.”Exhibition
Catalogue, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, June.
1995
Day, Jeffrey. “Collages Explore Interior Spaces.”, The State Newspaper, Columbia, South
Carolina, February 26.
Twardy, Chuck. “Fragments of Collage.”, News and Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina,
December 22, p.19.
1994
Leland, Nite and Williams, Virginia Lee. “Creative Collage Techniques”, p.39. North Light
Books, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Day’s Collages Blend Architecture Artistry.”, The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, September, 30.
1993
Smith, Shaw. “Constructing The Best Of All Possible Worlds.”, Arless Day: Recent Collages,
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, October.
1989
Seawright, Sandy. “Exhibits: Think Steel, Paradise.”, Arless Day: Recent Collages., Charlotte
Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, April.
1987
Ritts, Edwin E. “Directing Natures Energy.”, Arless Day: Recent Works, Exhibition Catalogue,
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1986
Price, Ann. “Day - Realist or Surrealist?”, State - Times, Baton Rouge, Louisiana March
“Window Bouquet” 9 5/8” x 5 15/16” collage on canvas
“Window Breezes” 9” x 8 1/2” acrylic collage
“Daylight” 17” x 21’ acrylic/gouache collage
“Japanese Rose” 24” x 30” acrylic collage painting on canvas
“Bird Patterns” 12” x 16” acrylic collage painting on canvas
“Bayou Memories” 11 11/16 x 14 11/16 (Art size) 21” x 24” (Matted & Framed)
“Utopia” 16” x 20”
“Sailors Place” 1/3 11 9/16 x 9 7/8 (Art Size) 20” x 17” (Matted & Framed) unique variation collage painting
“June Lily” 24” x 30” acrylic collage painting on canvas
“Twilight on the Pond” 8 7/8 x 14 7/8 (Art size) 20” x 33” (Framed) acrylic collage painting on canvas