Anthony Ulinski

I began my career in the arts as a studio furniture maker in 1976. My furniture and sculpture have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Fair, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Fair, Funeria in San Francisco, and the John Elder Gallery in New York.

In 1993 I began painting, working with Elizabeth Lentz, Jacob Cooley and Beverly McIver. I had my first solo show of paintings in 2001 at Hager Smith Design Gallery in Raleigh. Since then, I have had solo shows every year, and regularly participate in juried and invitational group shows. My work has been featured in arts magazines and on book covers.

My awards include painting fellowships at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Vermont Studio Center.

I continue woodworking, accepting commissions and creating new work for galleries and exhibitions.

I also teach woodworking and painting workshops. I have taught at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina , Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine , Arrowmont School of Crafts in Tennessee , and Peters Valley Craft Center in New Jersey . This winter I will teach painting workshops at the Durham Arts Council and at Pocosin Arts Center in Columbia , North Carolina , and a woodworking workshop at East Carolina University in Greenville , North Carolina .


Ulinski approaches still life as a sculptor would, dwelling on the outline of things, on their volume and play of light, rendering objects on a table top or window sill like Cezanne did with the cone, cylinder, and sphere. Leah Stoddard, Director, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA

It is praise to Ulinski that the domesticity and sacred ordinariness in these paintings would have appealed to someone like Emily Dickinson, no stranger to loss or minutely observed beauty. One of her poems reads:

There's a certain Slant of light,
On winter afternoons...
When it comes, the Landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath...

Like these lines, Ulinski's paintings solemnity that moment when the light pauses in reverence before moving on. Nell Joslin, Raleigh News & Observer

Fellowships and grants

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2002-2004, 2006-2009
Vermont Studio Center 2003, 2004
Artist in residence, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2000
United Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grants 1997, 2000

Major commissions

North Carolina Museum of Art
Exploris
Sumitomo
Mitsubishi
Northern Telecom (Nortel)

It is praise to Ulinski that the domesticity and sacred ordinariness in these paintings would have appealed to someone like Emily Dickinson, no stranger to loss or minutely observed beauty. One of her poems reads:

There's a certain Slant of light,
On winter afternoons...
When it comes, the Landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath...

Like these lines, Ulinski's paintings solemnity that moment when the light pauses in reverence before moving on. Nell Joslin, Raleigh News & Observer

Solo exhibitions

Landscapes, Lone Leaf Gallery, Washington, NC 2009
Still Life, Zely and Ritz, Raleigh NC 2009
New Work, Allenton Gallery, Durham, NC 2008
New Works, Cary Town Hall, Cary NC 2008
The Tea Shop, Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill NC 2007
Teaism, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2006
New Work, Meredith College, Raleigh NC 2005
Small Works in Oil and Encaustic, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2005
New Work, Peace College, Raleigh NC 2005
North Carolina State Bar Building, Raleigh NC 2005
In Praise of Shadows, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC 2004
At Table, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2003
Ordinary Life, Green Tara Gallery, Chapel Hill NC 2002
Shadows & Light, Peace College, Raleigh NC 2002
Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery, Winston-Salem NC 2002
Still Life, Hager Smith Design Gallery, Raleigh NC 2001
Paper & Light, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2000
Reliquaries & Urns, Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, Durham NC 1998

Selected group exhibitions

Via Penland, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC 2009
Retrospective 25, Block Gallery, Municipal Building, Raleigh, NC 2009
Painters Under Pressure, 311 Martin, Raleigh, NC 2009
Clayton Annual Juried Show, Clayton Town Hall, NC 2009 (award of excellence)
Reconsidered: Summer Artists in Residency, Artspace, Raleigh, NC 2009
Planes and Pedestal, Green Hill Center, Greensboro NC 2009
New, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2003, 2006, 2007 (first prize), 2008, 2009
Arrowmont Instructors Exhibition, Gatlinburg, TN 2009
Holiday Show, Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill NC 2008
Via Penland, Rebus Works, Raleigh NC, 2009
Penland Artists, Hager Smith Design Gallery, Raleigh NC 2008
Five Views, Carteret Contemporary Art, Morehead City NC 2008
The Study Group, The Collectors Gallery, Raleigh NC 2008
Tangible Gestures: Three Person Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2007
Annual Juried Competition, Cary Fine Arts League, Cary NC 2003, 2007 (first prize)
NEW, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC 2003 (second prize), 2004-2007
Diminutive Masterpieces, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine 2006
On the table, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine 2006
Interpretations of Still Life, Raleigh Municipal Building, Raleigh NC 2006
Teaism, Bickett Gallery, Raleigh NC 2006
Hand To Hand, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro NC 2005
The Triangle’s Best Art, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh NC 2004
Annual Juried Show, Durham Art Guild, Durham NC 1995 (merit award), 2003
Annual Competition, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville NC 1997, 2003
Artists Association of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem NC 2003
Functional Fine Art & Craft, Artspace, Raleigh NC 2002
The Art Club, Peace College, Raleigh NC 2002
Grand Arts, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Arts, Greensboro NC 2002
Raleigh Fine Arts Society Annual Exhibit, Meredith College, Raleigh NC 1993-2003
Funeria, San Francisco CA 2001
Holiday Show, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington NC 2001
Nine/Eleven, Autonomy II Gallery, Raleigh NC 2001
Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia PA 2001
Homegrown, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC 2001
New Talent III, John Elder Gallery, New York NY 2000
Distinguishing Nature, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville NC 2000
The Vietnam War: Art Expressions, Then and Now, Dairy Barn, Athens OH 2000
Winter Invitational, Green Hill Center, Greensboro NC 1998-2002, 2005, 2008
SOFA, Chicago IL 1999
Philadelphia Furniture and Furnishings, Philadelphia PA 1999
A Fine Thing, Finer Things Gallery, Nashville TN 1999
Smithsonian Craft Fair, Washington DC 1998
Craft and Small Works, Gallery 225, Raleigh NC 1998
Spotlight '97, American Craft Council Southeast, Hickory NC 1997
Men at Work, Forum and Function Gallery, Raleigh NC 1997
Blaze of Glory, Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery, Winston-Salem NC 1997
Spirituality, McConley Design Studio, Raleigh NC 1996
Objects of Our Desire, Salem College, Winston-Salem NC 1994
Furniture, New Elements Gallery, Wilmington NC 1990
American Craft Council Show, Baltimore MD 1989

Anthony Ulinski: Landscapes, Small oils and encaustics
311 Gallery
311 Martin Street, Raleigh, NC
April 2010

Anthony Ulinski: Still Life
Sartori & Halbritter Fine Art
Vienna, Austria
Fall 2010

Anthony Ulinski and Marsha Owens
Horace Williams House
Chapel Hill, NC
October 2010

Untitled
Upfront Gallery
Artspace
Raleigh, NC
December, 2010

ongoing gallery exhibits

Penland Gallery
Penland Road
Penland, NC
828 765 6211


Tyndall Galleries


Carteret Contemporary Art
1106 Arendell Street
Morehead City, NC
252 726 4071


Artspace
201 E. Davie Street
Raleigh, NC
919 821 2787


Lone Leaf Gallery
101 W. Main Street
Washington, NC
252 947 2961


Dovetail Woodworks & Fine Art
24 Commerce Place
Raleigh, NC
919 832 1446
Friday evenings 6:30-8:00
and by appointment