Be brave: Eat ice cream, see art, support Brother Wolf tonight – Asheville Citizen

Painter’s first solo gallery show brings quirky characters to life

 

The curious characters that populate Julie Armbruster‘s paintings don’t start as gestating seeds — they sprout from her mind fully formed. Potato Boy, the WoodChucks, Elmore, the Golden Unicorn and Professor Wunderbar “just came out of the surface of the painting,” said Armbruster in her Wedge studio in the River Arts District.

Her adventurous, intuitive approach to drawing and painting accounts for Armbruster’s signature far-out, fairytale style. “It is such a dynamic way of painting because I don’t have a plan that I am following the whole time,” said the 34-year-old full-time artist. “It is fun.”

For her solo show, opening Sept. 6 at The Satellite Gallery, this cast of characters on canvas, so to speak, is more than lively. They come to life.

With the help of longtime collaborator and friend designer R. Brooke Priddy, Armbruster created a massive window installation featuring sculptural rendering of her characters. “The technical aspect of (the nine panels in the show) is to the point that you feel like you can pull the characters out of the painting,” she said. “And I just thought that I would love for that to happen, so I’ve been

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