Anthony Ulinski Artist and studio furniture maker Home Gallery About Events Contact Join Email List I began my career in the arts as a studio furniture maker in 1976. My furniture and sculpture have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Fair, Funeria in San Francisco, and the John Elder Gallery in New York. In 1993 I began painting, studying with Elizabeth Lentz, Jacob Cooley, and Beverly McIver. I had my first solo show of paintings in 2001 at Hager Smith Design Gallery in Raleigh. Since then, I have had solo shows every year, and regularly participate in juried and invitational group shows. My work has been featured in arts magazines and on book covers. My awards include painting fellowships at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center. I continue woodworking, accepting commissions and creating new work for galleries and exhibitions. I also teach woodworking and painting workshops. I have taught at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Arrowmont School of Crafts in Tennessee, Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey, Haystack in Maine, the Durham Arts Council, the Pocosin Arts Center in Columbia, North Carolina, and East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Ulinski approaches still life as a sculptor would, dwelling on the outline of things, on their volume and play of light, rendering objects on a table top or window sill like Cezanne did with the cone, cylinder, and sphere. -- Leah Stoddard, Director, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA It is praise to Ulinski that the domesticity and sacred ordinariness in these paintings would have appealed to someone like Emily Dickinson, no stranger to loss or minutely observed beauty. One of her poems reads: "There's a certain Slant of light, / Winter Afternoons -- / ... When it comes, the Landscape listens -- / Shadows -- hold their breath." Like these lines, Ulinski's paintings solemnify that moment when the light pauses in reverence before moving on. -- Nell Joslin, Raleigh News & Observer Experience Dovetail Woodworks, founder and proprietor, 1976-present Painter and sculptor, 1993-present Solo exhibitions “New Work,” National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2016 “The Places in Between,” 2012-2014: Edith C. Lumpkin Gallery, Louisburg College, Louisburg, NC Artspace, Raleigh, NC Durham City Hall, Durham, NC Boykin Gallery, Wilson Arts Council, Wilson, NC Nature Art Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC Lone Leaf Gallery, Washington NC Imperial Arts Centre, Rocky Mount, NC "Life Composed," 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2011 "Urban Landscapes," Upfront Gallery, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2010 "Flatlands," 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2010 "Landscapes," Lone Leaf Gallery, Washington, NC, 2009 "Still life," Zely and Ritz, Raleigh, NC, 2009 "New Work," Allenton Gallery, Durham, NC, 2008 "Still Life," Cary Town Hall, Cary, NC, 2008 "The Tea Shop," Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007 "Teaism," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2006 "New Work," Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 2005 "New Work," Peace College, Raleigh, NC, 2005 "Small Works in Oil and Encaustic," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2005 "In praise of shadows," Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC, 2004 "At Table," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2003 "Ordinary Life," Green Tara Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2002 "Shadows & Light," Peace College, Raleigh, NC, 2002 "Studio furniture and sculptural urns," Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC, 2002 "Still Life," Hager Smith Design Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2001 "Paper & Light," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2000 "Reliquaries & Urns," Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 1998 Selected group exhibitions "Four Ways with Wood," Imperial Arts Centre, Rocky Mount, NC, 2017 "hush, hush," with Kiki Farish, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2016 Anthony Ulinski and Lynn Nash, Arts of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City, 2016 Penland School of Crafts Series, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, 2016 “Vistas,” Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2015 “FRESH,” Artspace, Raleigh, NC 2015 “Pocosin Arts,” Imperial Arts Centre, Rocky Mount, NC, 2015 Highlights of the Municipal Art Collection, Miriam Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2013 “The Edge,” The Galleries, Cabarrus County Arts Council, Concord, NC, 2013 “Via Penland,” Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC, 2009, 2010, 2012 “Lines of Communication,” Eno Gallery, Hillsborough, NC, 2012 "Dinner at the Frank," The Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC, 2011 Clayton Art Faire, Clayton, NC 2011 (award of excellence) Anthony Ulinski and Friends, Rebus Works Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2011 "Location, Location, Location," Cabarrus County Arts Council, Concord, NC, 2011 Educator Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2011 NC Artist Exhibition, Betty McCain Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2011 "Inside-Out," Eno Gallery, Hillsborough, NC, 2011 "NEW," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2011 "Handcrafted," Imperial Arts Centre, Rocky Mount, NC, 2011 Fine Contemporary Craft National Exhibition, Artspace. Raleigh, NC, 2011 "Landscapes," Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010 "Multi-tasking," The Galleries, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC, 2010 Retrospective 25, Miriam Block Gallery, Municipal Building, Raleigh, NC 2009 Clayton Art Faire, Clayton, NC, 2009 (award of excellence) "Painters Under Pressure," 311 Martin, Raleigh, NC, 2009 "Reconsidered: Summer Artists-in Residence," 1999-2008, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2009 "Planes and Pedestal," Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, NC, 2009 "NEW," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2009 Instructors Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN, 2009 "Via Penland," Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC, 2009 Holiday Show, Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008 Penland Artists, Hager Smith Design Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2008 "N.E.W.," Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC, 2008 "Five Views," Carteret Contemporary Gallery, Morehead City, NC, 2008 "NEW," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2008 "The Study Group," The Collectors Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2008 Three Person Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh. NC, 2007 Cary Fine Arts League 13th Annual Exhibition, Cary, NC, 2007 (first prize) "NEW," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2007 "Never Exhibited Work," Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC, 2006, 2007 "Interpretations of Still Life," Miriam Block Gallery, Municipal Building, Raleigh, NC, 2006 "Teaism," Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2006 "NEW," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2005 "Hand to Hand," Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, NC, 2005 "The Triangle’s Best Art," Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2004 Annual Juried Show, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC 2003, 1995 (merit award) "New," Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC, 2003 (second prize) Annual Competition, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC, 2003, 1997 "New Works," Artspace, Raleigh NC 2003 Artists Association of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem NC 2003 Raleigh Fine Arts Society Annual Exhibit, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, 1993-2002 "Nine/Eleven," Autonomy II Gallery, Raleigh, NC, 2001 Winter Invitational, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, NC, 1998 "Functional Fine Art & Craft," Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2002 "Grand Arts," Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro, NC, 2002 Urns, Funeria, San Francisco, CA, 2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA, 2001 "Homegrown," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, ” Winston-Salem, NC, 2001 "New Talent III," John Elder Gallery, New York, NY, 2000 "The Vietnam War: Art Expressions, Then and Now," The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH, 2000 SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, IL, 1999 Smithsonian Craft Fair, Washington, DC, 1998 American Craft Council Southeast, “Spotlight '97,” Hickory, NC, 1997 Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery, “Blaze of Glory,” Winston-Salem, NC, 1997 American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD, 1989 Fellowships and grants Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, returning fellow, 2002-2015 Vermont Studio Center, 2003, 2004 Artspace summer residency, Raleigh, NC, 2000 United Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grants 1997, 2000 Teaching Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2009 Arrowmont School of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2009 Pocosin Arts Center, Columbia, NC, 2010 Peace College, guest lecturer, Raleigh, NC, 2002, 2003 Artspace, Raleigh, NC, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2011 Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, 2010 “Surface Alchemy,” private workshop, Point Richmond, CA, 2001 “Bombori and Beyond,” private workshop, Point Richmond, CA, 2000 Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ, 1998 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (assisted Alphonse Mattia), Deer Isle, ME, 1997 Reviews "Spotlight: Understated," a review of "hush, hush" by Jessie Ammons, Walter Magazine, December 2016 “Landscapes Alive: Anthony Ulinski finds art and beauty in the farms of Eastern North Carolina,” Liza Roberts, photos by Missy McLamb, Walter Magazine, October 2013 “The places in between,” Lisa Boykins Batts, Wilson Times, June 20, 2013 “Seeing beauty in between,” David Menconi, photos by Juli Leonard, Raleigh News & Observer, April 7, 2013 "Featured Artist: Anthony Ulinski," North Carolina State Bar Journal, Summer 2005 “Best Arts Exhibits 2004,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald Sun, January 2, 2005 “A Certain Slant of Light,” Nell Joslin, Raleigh News and Observer, April 16, 2004 “Durham Art Guild offers Still Life to Sculpture,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald-Sun,April 21, 2004 “Exhibitions show history of art in N.C.,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald-Sun, February 18, 2004 Wood Art Today: Furniture, Vessels, Sculpture, Dona Z. Meilach (Schiffer Design, 2003) “Furnishings and Feeling,” Max Halpern, Raleigh News & Observer, December 13, 2002 “Durham Art Guild Exhibit,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald-Sun, August 11, 2002 “Fitting Tribute,” Michele Natale, The Spectator, Raleigh NC, August 23, 2000 "The Light in August," Kate Dobbs Ariail, IndyWeek, August 16, 2000 “Paper, Clay Transform into High Arts,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald-Sun, August 11, 2000 “Woodworkers in the United States: Anthony Ulinski,” Caryl Brt, Japanese Woodworking, May 2000 “The Creators: Anthony Ulinski,” Sarah Avery, Raleigh News & Observer, January 19, 2000 “Treasured Objects,” Hannah Miller, Custom Woodworking Business, September 1998 “Taking It Personally: Anthony Ulinski,” L. Burnham, The Spectator, Raleigh NC, January 28, 1998 Visual Art, Michele Natale, The Spectator, Raleigh NC, October 9, 1997 Eye on Art, Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, July 20, 1997 “Form and Function,” Kate Dobbs Ariail, The Independent, Durham NC, May 14, 1997 “CD Solutions,” Barbara Church, Raleigh News & Observer, February 1, 1997 “Fine Furniture Is An Art Form Of Its Own,” Blue Greenberg, Durham Herald-Sun, May 23, 1987 “The Artist and the Craft,” Kim Devins, The Spectator, Raleigh NC, July 17, 1986 Education Mathematics and economics, Beloit College, Wisconsin Self-taught in woodworking and design Sculpture study with Kristina Madsen, Makiti Koto, Bob Trotman Painting study with Elizabeth Lentz, Beverly McIver, Jacob Cooley, and Margie Stewart Personal Born March 24, 1954 in Bandung, Indonesia Married to author Kim Church Join Email List Powered by artspan.com Artist Websites