A Tribute to the Life and Artistry of Nadine C. Allen

Original Show: Glade Church Gallery, March 27 - April 2, 2005
This gallery collection demonstrates the diversity of Nadine Allen ’s life and art, showing a sample of various periods of her artistic career.

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Titles and Descriptions

Entering the Sanctuary:

• Untitled - This early work (left) was started when Nadine was 18 years old and was completed in 1975.
• The Old Family Barn - early work
• Untitled -Nadine’s first painting created in 1975.
• Untitled
• Untitled
• Untitled - Nadine’s family cemetery in Independence, VA

Altar area

• Dancing Butterflies III
• Dance of the Butterflies
• Metamorphosis
• Lasting Spring

Sanctuary: back and side wall

• Resurrection, A Promise Fulfilled - a part of Nadine’s ‘Crosses’ series. The Tau cross was her favorite of this series.
• Spiraling
• Boxed In
• Walking My Labyrinth
• It Is Finished
• Tapestry of New Mexico
• Symbols of Ireland
• Footsteps To The Cross

 

Transept:

• Bottles of Scotland
• Winter Thaw

The World is My Neighbor Collages:

• The Rebuilding of Churches
• Violence Is Everywhere
• Untitled

• Untitled
• VPI & SU Beef Center
• Untitled
• Cemetery, Taos Pueblo
• Untitled
• The Resurrection
• Sculpture: John
• Refreshment Time
• Mowing Machine
• Untitled

Educational Wing Hallway:

not listed

Office Hallway:

• Celtic Crosses Screen
• A Portrait of Nadine by Alex D. Wind, local artist
• Nadine’s Biography (not pictured)
• My Treasure - a card created for Nadine by her Tuesday evening art class the night after her mother’s death in 1999.

 

We are grateful to the following persons for their generosity in allowing these works to be shown: George Allen, Charlie and Mary Woerner, Glade Church, Edd and Judy Sewell, and Alex Wind.