Gallery Cor

10/21/2026

Off to a new collector’s home. We have so much appreciation for our clients. Thank you for supporting the arts in Asheville.
The Catch is really about the energy of a moment when instinct, precision, and survival all come together. The earthy browns, warm ochres, smoky blacks, and bits of cool blue give the painting a natural, almost weathered feeling, Beneath layers of encaustic and watercolor is a cracked fresco surface that feels ancient and worn while loose lines move across the image, keeping things a little raw and alive. It’s less about the actual catch than the feeling of being caught in the middle of it.

10/12/2026

09/08/2026

Hanging at Gallery COR now!

Kenn Katora amazes us again.
Incredible work based on a topographical map of Asheville. Just gorgeous.

Title: nc.avl
mixed media on paper on panel w/artist’s frame
45” x 33.5”

this painting is ridiculous. You have to come see it in person to take in all the fine details.

09/06/2026

Just delivered this one to Gallery COR

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner I
48 x 36 acrylic on wood panel

Before Hurricane Helene permanently altered the Hickory Nut Gorge, where we live, I often lamented that we never saw bluebirds at our feeders or in our yard. We saw other generalists like house finches and goldfinches, but no bluebirds. As the land began to heal and support organisms again, especially with the return of abundant insect life, bluebirds have shifted into our local ecosystem and yard. Bluebirds prefer scattered trees and require a clean sightline to hunt insects. 
The goldfinches, house finches, cardinals and many other birds still freeload off of our feeders, but suddenly our feeders are even more colorful; we’re starting to see birds that prefer forest edge ecosystems and scattered tree habitat instead of dense forest habitats. Birds that require deeper forest and older trees have declined in the area. Experts estimate that our gorge lost between 30 and 90 percent of our trees as a result of wind, floods and landslides from Hurricane Helene. Upcoming works will investigate the resulting shift in species. This is the first in that new series. 

09/05/2026

Welcome Richard Johnson to the Gallery COR family. We’ve appreciated your work for many years and are so proud to have you on board CV

08/23/2026

Fresh Morning, Broken World 36 x 36 acrylic on wood panel is off the wall and headed to its new home. Thank you Mike!

08/22/2026

New work by Lauren Betty is in da house!

Blue Ribbon 
48”x72”
Fabric, paper, acrylic, patina

Strange name for a horse I thought, as I was putting my foot into the stirrup to begin my 8 day backcountry trip into the Teton Wilderness.  As sure footed as her name, this 16.1 hand draft/ cross, flea bitten grey mare took me on an epic adventure through Wyoming that I will never forget. With her guidance, I traveled close to 100 miles in backcountry, slept under the stars, escaped into wild wilderness territory that ,maybe,  20 people see in a year.  Untouched waterways, waterfalls, extreme altitudes, plateaus, rock cliffs, mountains and meadows.  This painting was created in the days after my return to the studio, and it could only be of the magestic creature, my sure footed trail partner, Blue Ribbon.

08/21/2026

Off to Maryland. Thank you, Kate and Brad.
The Space Between I
48 x 72 acrylic on wood panel.
By Gallery COR artist L Rowland

We know that nature is an interconnected web of interaction and existence. Magnolias are the matriarchs of the forest. They are the first angiosperms / flowering plants and support myriad species like cardinals, who eat the protein rich seeds and shelter in the strong branches of magnolias. But the connections in life are so much deeper than this.
Physical bodies like trees, birds, humans, and even stones are not solid, but matter suspended in a dynamic and complex energy field. This is not conjecture, this is proven. All things are connected. All things interact. All things are energy.
In this painting I present multiple categories of connection. The magnolia’s strong and glorious boughs and flowers have a symbiotic connection with the cardinals. I also gave the cardinals auras in this painting to suggest their energy field and sentience. The iridescent marbling which reoccurs in my work, represents life force, the living, pulsing energy of life.

08/20/2026

The Day After by Beth Elliott is off and running. Thank you Laura!

08/19/2026

Off to an its new forever home. Thank you Mary for supporting the arts in Asheville and thank you Moni for creating wonderful and inspired works.

Over the Top Meadows
40x40 acrylic on wood panel

Ever since taking on The Pisgah Project, I’ve been surprised, even astonished, by how many spots around Asheville and the surrounding areas offer unique views and perspectives of Mt. Pisgah. Recently I was invited to the home of a client on what used to be a dairy farm. The former pastures are now yards and homes, young trees taking root, and in the distance, this mountain that changes very little in our lifetimes. I love these unexpected glimpses of her, seeing her different ridges and wrinkles. She’s so gorgeous!