Beehive Studios presents a group show with three Triangle artists.  OIL-POP-LIGHT includes oil on canvas by the late Lloyd Skidmore III, pop expressionism by Ian Sands and gathering light through the photography of Teresa Pigeon.

Lloyd Skidmore III - Excerpts from The News & Observer; Dec. 2006

It wasn't easy to tell Lloyd Skidmore III what to do.  He wasn't interested in conforming.  He was a painter, a construction worker and a music promoter who once staged the Miss North Carolina pageant.  A maverick is how his friend Peter Eichenberger described Skidmore, who died Nov/2006 of pulmonary complications.  "Lloyd is a paint-spattered oracle, a canary in the coal mine of conformity."  "The man is always mixed up in some mad scheme, always doing something creative and unexpected." Armed with a half-inch paint brush, Lloyd declared war on boredom, drabness and mediocrity.
http://www.myspace.com/lloydskidmore

Ian Sands

Originally I’m from Yonkers, NY though I’m told I was born in the Bronx. Ms. Cimillo was my fourth grade teacher, best teacher ever.
Middle school was no fun. I didn’t much like art class at all. My mother practically had to bribe me to sign up for art in high school. “Just try it one year.” Thank God for mom. I took every art class they had.
After that I went to art school, moved to NC, tried hang gliding once, worked in corporate America, learned to play hockey, got my teacher license, figured out pancakes taste best with bananas cooked in, bought a book about HTML, and joined the SCBWI.
Now I'm the new Art Teacher at Apex High School. I teach Art One, Art History and next year, Computer Art & Animation.
http://www.ponywombat.com/

Teresa Pigeon

Photography is powerful.  It can preserve a moment, a glance, an action, a place, even an emotion exactly as it was. This has fascinated me since I first picked up a camera as a child, and I continue to enjoy discovering the beauty in the ordinary through photography. However, the art of photography is much more than simply capturing an image; it can be one of the most personal and revealing art forms. Looking at someone’s photographs, you are forced to see the world from their perspective - a glimpse into the things that have inspired the life of that artist.

I find my inspiration in nature, and in capturing the magic of the people, places and things in our daily lives.
http://www.pigeongallery.com/index.html

Live Music

Blair Cook               http://www.myspace.com/blaircookmusic
Leah Magner          http://www.myspace.com/leahmagner  
Lizh                           http://www.myspace.com/lizhmusic

Cost: Free