Friday October 4 | 5 PM
Featuring artists Sally Anger & Jack Saylor
LOOKOUT LOUNGE GALLERY PRESENTS ARTIST SALLY ANGER
Sally Anger grew up in the coastal town of Beaufort North Carolina, and has been a full-time, professional artist for two decades. This is how one patron describes her art:
The paintings of Sally Anger offer a glimpse into a realm where the prosaic images of life are transformed into the exotic and the extraordinary. Her canvases are forged in realism and tempered with impressionistic and abstract elements, all subtly alloyed to present a compelling and intelligent look at her subjects.
In this realm a simple portrait becomes a window, a portal into a human universe captured in an expression or a tilt of the head, light of the eyes, the anticipation of imminent movement. These are real people, candid and vulnerable, frankly captured between heartbeats in an unguarded moment when secrets are divulged. They cipher your emotions back to you with ironic and intelligent redirection.
~ Gary Goldstein
Sally has participated in art shows up and down the East coast, including many solo shows. She takes her inspiration from the beauty of the people and landscape of the Crystal Coast. She lives with her husband in Beaufort NC.
A show of her work will be on display for the month of October 2024. Come meet the artist during the Fall Art Walk at a reception on Friday October 4, 5-7 PM at Inlet Inn in Beaufort NC.
Where in the Inn: Lookout Lounge | Floor 3 | Elevator available
Also see Jack Saylor on October 4
5:30 PM | Maritime Museum
FALL FIRST FRIDAYS KICK OFF OCTOBER 4?
STATEMENT BY THE MARITIME MUSEUM
Fall First Fridays are back, and back in a big way! Join us as we kick off our Fall First Fridays on October 4, 2024 and welcome back celebrated artist Jack Saylor! Jack has been painting the coast for the last 30+ years and we are honored he has chosen to present a long-awaited show at the Maritime Museum and Port Of Call Museum Store!
“This year marks the 30th anniversary of my very first solo exhibition, “Beyond The Lighthouse”, which was held at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort in 1994″, Jack told us. “And now, three decades later, I am thrilled to once again have my work exhibited at the place it all began for me.”
So are we! Jack will have several drawings, sketchings and paintings available for sale at Port Of Call on First Friday. Also on display will be Jack’s original painting, “Under The Black Flag”, a special painting created for the Museum’s Queen Anne’s Revenge exhibit opening.
We look forward to seeing you at our first Fall First Friday of 2024 as we celebrate one of the best, An Evening With Jack Saylor!
About Jack Saylor
North Carolina native Jack Saylor received his degree in Art from Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. Upon graduating he moved to Spain, then Italy where he began his pursuits as an artist while also working as a product designer for Sarreid, Ltd., a U.S. based home furnishings importer. Over the next 10 years Jack would travel back and forth between Europe and the U.S. working side by side with artists and artisans in their centuries old studios and workshops throughout Spain and Italy. During this time Jack became very knowledgeable in old world studio practices involving numerous art forms and materials utilized in the creation of the products he was designing, while at the same time continuing to further develop his painting skills.
Living in Europe amongst some of the greatest art ever created afforded Jack the opportunity to study intensely the art of Western and Northern Europe, particularly the Italian Renaissance and Dutch 17th Century which remain sources he draws upon today. This combined with his personal experiences along the Mediterranean deeply affected the young artist and provided the inspiration for the work he is creating today.
Source of Power
To launch his full time painting career Jack moved to the coast of North Carolina. The sea, a lifelong passion and deeply powerful source for Jack would now be his home and would allow him to again tap into those deeply ingrained inspirations and experiences of his years along the Mediterranean. A particular highlight for Jack came in 2007 when he worked with the State of North Carolina to create a large still life painting depicting artifacts recovered from the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship “The Queen Anne’s Revenge”. The only painting of its kind ever created. In 2023 Jack was included in the publication The Art of the State, a book written and curated by Liza Roberts featuring the most notable artists working in North Carolina today.
The artwork of Jack Saylor is extensively held in private and corporate collections throughout the country.