The Art of Jerry Lee Kirk
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March 3, 2020 'Iredell Arts Council Welcomes Charlotte Artist Jerry Kirk, Statesville Record
March 6, 2018: 'NoDa Brewing Showcases Local Artists', Creative Loafing
WBTV NEWS, Charlotte, NC: 08.27.13: Hiddenite Center Celebration
July 26, 2013: 'Artist to Display Expressionist Style works in Hiddenite', Hickory Record
July 13, 2012: 'Unveling the Streets of Charlotte', The Clog, Creative Loafing
November 9, 2012: 'Jerry Lee Kirk adds Narrative to Art', The Clog, Creative Loafing
December 11, 2011: 'Charlotte Painter Started Creating Early', The Charlotte Observer
February, 2009: 'Featured Artist', Interview, NoDa News, Charlotte NC
Sept. 21, 2008: 'Festival Painters Take Art in the Park to Heart', The Charlotte Observer
May, 2006: Q&A with Weird Charlotte.com
June, 2004: 'Chaos is Easy', The Blotter, Raleigh NC
Nov., 2003: 'Sanctuary Down the Road' Tess Gadwa, Charlotte Magazine
"...Look at Kirk’s art, or at his piercing brown eyes, and you’ll notice a certain intensity. In his paintings,some figures brood, while others exult, but each work strives to create a vidid emotional state. The art is meant to mean something. Pastel decorator art it is not. You can see this intensity in the bold colors, emphatic lines, and fragments of poetry woven into Kirk’s expressionistic style. You can see that same intensity in Kirk’s entire attitude towards work. Some people might envision an artist’s life as a pleasant second career or an excuse to stay out late and avoid the responsibilities of a regular job. But at age forty-three, Jerry Kirk has spent his career defying the stereotype.
“He’s the hardest working, highest production artist I have ever met in my life... he paints religiously,” says fellow NoDa artist Steve Holt. "His enthusiasm doesn’t flag. He’s been very prolific. He amazes the rest of us,” agrees Rusk Masterton. Both artists have known Kirk since the early days of NoDa...”
July 23, 2003: 'A Refuge for Art', Creative Loafing Magazine
June 4, 2003: 'Right Side of the Tracks... find Sanctuary at New Gallery', Creative Loafing Magaine
Jan. 13, 2001: 'Underground Charlotte Artists' Scott Lucas, Creative Loafing Magazine
Nov. 5, 1999: 'Night Moves: In Search of the Artistic' Tony Jameson & Olivia Fortson, Charlotte Observer
April 3, 1998 : 'Jerry Duty - At 38, Charlotte artist Kirk comes into his artistic destiny' Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer