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5 Points Gallery is pleased to present "The Long Exhale", bringing together work by our ten artists. As the pace of summer begins to soften, "The Long Exhale" invites visitors to pause, look closely, and linger. The exhibition offers a refreshing mix of painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture, with each artist offering a distinct creative perspective.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday August 21, 2026 from 6 - 9 pm. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from August 20, 2026 through September 12, 2026.

In King Nobuyoshi Godwin's painting, inspired by the giant African Shoebill Stork, it is unlikely that the massive bill will be used on its companions.

"THE LONG EXHALE": A GROUP EXHIBITION
(photo-collage of artworks by Jenny Blazing, Anne Gregory, Teddy Devereux, and Yuko Nogami Taylor)

5 Points Gallery is proud to present "Fail, Repeat", a new exhibition by featured artist, Todd Levins. Celebrating the creative process of experimentation, refinement, and persistence, Levins' finely crafted furniture and sculptural woodwork reveal the natural beauty and character of wood through clean lines, thoughtful construction, and refined craftsmanship. Working with carefully selected hardwoods, he creates contemporary pieces that balance functionality with artistry, inviting both everyday use and lasting appreciation. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from July 16, 2026 through August 15, 2026.

Please join us for the Third Friday Reception on Friday July 17, from 6 - 9 pm, to meet the artist and experience this exceptional body of work as well as a variety of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work.

"When I was growing up, someone told me that every 81st wave was a big, rogue wave, which of course I believed and tried to count. So this is my 81st wave." Teddy Devereux.

"UTOPIA DINING TABLE" by Todd Levins
(solid white oak with steel fasteners, finished in satin polyacrylic, 32” x 69" x 30", 2” thick top)

5 Points Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by featured artist, Susan Woodson. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, Woodson explores the space between observation and imagination in paintings rich with color, texture, and movement. Through layered surfaces, bold marks, and expressive gestures, she creates abstract compositions that reflect both careful examination and imaginative interpretation of nature. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from June 18, 2026 through July 11, 2026.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday June 19th from 6 – 9 pm to meet the artist and experience this vibrant new body of work as well as a variety of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work.

You can almost feel the warmth in this painting by Anne Gregory from her Mandala Series.

"INTO THE WOODS" by Susan Woodson
(acrylic, 30" x 24")

5 Points Gallery is pleased to present a nature-inspired exhibition of abstract paintings by our member artist, Kerry Burch. Drawing from nature’s shapes, contours, and earthy tones, her work combines bold color and layered texture to evoke shifting pathways and quiet moments found in the landscape. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from May 14, 2026 through June 13, 2026.

Please join us for our next Third Friday Reception on Friday May 15th from 6 - 9 pm where you can view a variety of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work.

SPECIAL EVENT: Friday May 22, 2026 from 6 - 9pm!

Please join us on Friday, May 22, 2026 from 6 - 9pm, for a one night only launch party at 5 Points Gallery featuring Jim McKeon's work before it heads out for its international exhibition. Artist talk at 7:30 pm.

"THE FOREST FLOOR" by Kerry Burch
(acrylic and pastel, 30" x 20")

We are very excited to have been featured in a recent article by The 9th Street Journal, an online news publication based in Durham, NC that reports on local North Carolina stories, art, and culture. The article, written by Jothi Gupta, details the origins of 5 Points Gallery, the roles that our member artists play in running our cooperative gallery, and includes interviews with several of our member artists.

"To Yuko Nogami Taylor, 10 is the ideal number: not too many artists struggling for attention, and not too few paying the bills. As a founding member of the 5 Points Gallery in downtown Durham, Taylor has been there since the beginning. She was there when they had 12 artists, and she was there when they had eight.

Known for its local art and diverse, contemporary collection, 5 Points Gallery is also an artistic cooperative made up of 10 local artists. Without a gallerist or manager to rely on, each artist must be more than just a creator. The artists have become financial planners, marketers, designers, and salespeople."

Please check out the rest of the article linked below!

"Downtown gallery finds that 10 is the magic number"

5 Points Gallery is pleased to feature "Cellscapes and Cosmic Visions", an exhibit by our member artist, Teddy Devereux. Inspired by the idea that stars can look like cells in the sky, her fused glass artworks shimmer with depth and movement, drawing viewers into a space where microscopic forms and distant galaxies seem to echo one another. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from April 16, 2026 through May 9, 2026.

Please join us for our next Third Friday Reception on Friday April 17th from 6 - 9 pm where you can view a plethora of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Artists will be on hand to discuss their work.

Kerry Burch's painting, "Spring Time" (pictured below), captures the first true exhale of spring -- when the landscape is still waking up, and color is beginning to insist. Soft greens push up against dusty pinks and warm ochers, as if the earth is remembering itself in fragments. Each shape feels like a field, a garden plot, or a pocket of life just beginning to stir. You decide!

"SPRING CELLSCAPE" by Teddy Devereux
(fused glass on aluminum, 20" x 16")

5 Points Gallery invites you to experience the intuitive, layered new work of Annie Nashold, our upcoming featured artist. Rooted in storytelling, her paintings and mixed media pieces weave together narrative portraits, abstracted figures, subconscious drawings, and family archives, allowing stories to unfold organically in imagery that feels both intimate and universal. You are invited to come discover for yourself.

Please join us for our 3rd Friday Reception on Friday, March 20th from 6 - 9 pm where you can view a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Our artists will be on hand to discuss their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from March 19, 2026 through April 11, 2026.

"Sometimes you notice a moment in the landscape that you never went looking for." --- Jenny Blazing

Jenny Blazing's new series, "Carolina Happenstance", explores those unexpected encounters. Rather than the grand vistas we deliberately seek out, these paintings are inspired by fleeting alignments of light, atmosphere and form that briefly arrest our attention and shift our sense of place.

"WHERE DID YOU GO?" by Annie Nashold
(acrylic mixed media & collage, 30" x 24")

5 Points Gallery kicks off our featured artist line-up with an exhibit by Anne Heartt Gregory titled "Horizons". These new paintings are vibrant renditions of abstract landscapes that imply moving to higher ground. What’s just over the horizon? You are invited to come discover for yourself.

Please join us for our 3rd Friday Reception on Friday, February 20th from 6 - 9 pm where you can view a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. Our artists will be on hand to discuss their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from February 19, 2026 through March 14, 2026.

As one gallery visitor commented, "Each of Annie Nashold's paintings could be a novel." Indeed, you'll want to read between the lines in her latest works. "Untitled" by Annie Nashold is pictured below.

"RADIANT" by Anne Heartt Gregory
(acrylic painting, 22" x 22")

5 Points Gallery is pleased to present to all who can come, our Winter at 5 Points: Gallery Members Exhibit, bringing together new and recent works from the gallery’s member artists in a winter presentation shaped by distinct voices, materials, and ways of seeing. Start the New Year off right and join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday January 16th from 6 - 9pm where you can view a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture by our ten Triangle-based artists. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through February 14, 2026.

In this whimsical painting by King Nobuyoshi Godwin (pictured below), a few animal friends watch their favorite show on "cub tv".

"FORGOTTEN PLACES" by Kerry Burch
(acrylic painting, 12" x 16")

Please join us for 5 Point Gallery's Third Friday Holiday Reception on Friday, December 19th from 6 to 9 pm. The evening offers a warm and festive way to enjoy local art and reflect on the year’s close. The current exhibit presents new work in a variety of media, with a special focus on Susan Woodson's "Under the Trees", a series that follows the subtle play of light and movement beneath the forest canopy. All works will be available for last-minute holiday purchases. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through January 10, 2026.

Do stop in to eat, drink and be merry while surrounded by the works of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. The moon is aglow in "Pepper Moon", a timeless painting by Yuko Nogami Taylor (pictured below).

5 Points Gallery is proud to present "Susan Woodson: Under the Trees", an exhibition that explores how light and color shape the sensory experience of being under a canopy. Layered greens, warm earth tones, and flashes of orange and red suggest sunlight, shadow, and the quiet wonder of time in nature. A companion series of vibrant bird paintings, also by Susan Woodson, adds a playful counterpoint to the meditative abstractions.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday November 21st from 6 – 9pm, to meet the artist and experience her latest work. Enjoy the works of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from November 20, 2025 through January 10, 2026.

"Urban Sprawl", a fused glass and walnut artwork by Teddy Devereux, represents how cities start to spread out into the surrounding countryside, eventually resulting in deforestation.

"WHAT APPEARS" by Susan Woodson
(acrylic painting, 40" x 30")

5 Points Gallery is pleased to present "Jenny Blazing: Beyond", an exhibition of abstract landscapes where edges become places of change, where light shifts, colors collide, and new possibilities open. These works push past the familiar, expanding horizons both outward and inward, and invite viewers to see transition not as an ending but as momentum. Rooted in her Carolina surroundings, Jenny Blazing’s paintings carry us into spaces of exploration and discovery beyond the known.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday October 17th from 6 – 9pm, to meet the artist and experience her latest work. Enjoy the art of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from October 16th through November 11, 2025.

Audiophiles, crate-diggers, and vinyl enthusiasts! How fab would your collection look housed in this handsome console by Todd Levins?

"SHAH AUDIO CONSOLE" by Todd Levins
(southern yellow pine cabinet)

5 Points Gallery is proud to showcase the luminous work of Yuko Nogami Taylor, where the elegance of Japanese Nihonga tradition meets the quiet strength of southern flora. In these paintings, ordinary plants become extraordinary symbols of resilience, humility, and hope. Her work invites viewers into a contemplative space of stillness, where the steady growth of plants reflects the persistence of human spirit.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday September 19th from 6 - 9pm, to meet the artist and experience her inspiring works. Enjoy the art of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from September 18th through October 11, 2025.

Ever felt the Earth's heartbeat through music? In Jim McKeon's Earth Song (pictured below), an Indigenous shaman channels the voice of our planet under the starry sky, reminding us of the sacred connection we share. It's not just a song; it's a call to listen more deeply.

"MOON OKRA - PRAYERS" by Yuko Nogami Taylor
(Nihonga style pigment painting on silver-colored leaves on wood panel, 30" x 24”)

5 Points Gallery proudly presents “Bullish on Art”, our Members Showcase celebrating the creative force of Durham’s vibrant art scene. Virtually all of our artists live in Durham, and all have deep ties to the region. Their work reflects a broad range of contemporary perspectives shaped by life in the South. The exhibition features paintings, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media works, and finely crafted furniture by ten Triangle-based artists.

Join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday August 15, 2025 from 6 - 9pm. Enjoy the varied works of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. Artists will be on hand to chat about their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from August 14th through September 13, 2025.

Theoretically, there are some 200 distinct shades of blue. Jenny Blazing captures many of them in this airy landscape. (Boundless & Blue, acrylic painting incorporating hand-painted original paper on stretched canvas, 30x30 inches, pictured at right)

"BOUNDLESS & BLUE" by Jenny Blazing
(acrylic painting incorporating hand-painted original paper on stretched canvas, 30" x 30”)

5 Points Gallery is thrilled to present King Nobuyoshi Godwin’s "2025 Artist to Have a Good Day Exhibition Featuring American Animals", where his joyful, number-filled paintings bring together a cast of creatures to celebrate peace, unity, and friendship. King, an autistic artist, uses vibrant color and repeating numbers to express the simple beauty of togetherness. Each canvas is a reminder that harmony across differences makes for a truly good day.

Amble in for our Third Friday Reception on Friday, July 18, 2025 from 6 - 9pm. Enjoy the varied works of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. Artists will be on hand to chat about their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from July 17 through August 9, 2025.

Annie Nashold's mixed media paintings continue to be as intriguing as they are colorful. (see "Down the Line" by Annie Nashold, pictured at right)

"DOWN THE LINE" by Annie Nashold
(acrylic mixed media, 30" x 24")

"Big Curves, No Brakes" showcases Todd Levins’ handcrafted furniture, where graceful curves and fine craftsmanship coalesce. Todd creates minimalist furniture using industrial tools, which naturally favor straight lines and right angles, to re-infuse the curves that existed before the wood was milled as lumber. Working with walnut, oak, maple, and southern yellow pine, he builds pieces that attract the hand as well as the eye.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday June 20, 2025 from 6 - 9pm. Enjoy the varied works of our ten Triangle-based artists in a range of media including painting, sculpture, fused glass, mixed media, and finely crafted furniture. Artists will be on hand to chat about their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery from June 19th through July 12, 2025.

Anne Heartt Gregory continues her Mandala Series with this luminous energetic painting, "Radiant Blue", pictured at right.

"RADIANT BLUE" by Anne Heartt Gregory
(acrylic on canvas, 22" x 22")

Ever felt like the earth is trying to tell you something? "Listen", the current exhibition by our featured artist Jim McKeon, is an artful reminder of the profound connection indigenous peoples share with our planet. It is a touching invitation to slow down and listen. Can you hear the whispers of the caretakers and the cries of the protectors?

Who wouldn't want this little fledgling, painted by Susan Woodson, to land on a wall in their home? ("Pretty Bird", oil painting by Susan Woodson pictured at right).

Please drop by the gallery for our Third Friday Reception on Friday May 16th from 6 - 9pm to view the latest works by our nine local artists, ranging from sculpture and painting to fused glass and mixed media. Artists will be on hand to talk about their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through June 14, 2025.

"PRETTY BIRD" by Susan Woodson
(oil on canvas, 30" x 20")

5 Points Gallery is thrilled to present "Through a Dark Wind", an exhibit by our featured artist, Annie Nashold. In her new body of work, themes of culture, connection, and individuality emerge, as she delves into the power and mystery of knowing and not knowing. Her paintings explore the strength, love, trauma, and humor we all share as she accepts the complexities of her soul and the pictures it inspires.

Pop in for our Third Friday Reception on Friday April 18th from 6 - 9pm to discover what our nine local artists have been up to ranging from sculpture, painting, fused glass, and mixed media. Artists will be on hand to talk about their work. This exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through May 10, 2025.

One glance and you'll be all smiles like the animals in this painting by King Nobuyoshi Godwin ("The cow is having a good day because it's with the weasels, 44" pictured below).

"JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE FEELING" by Annie Nashold
(acrylic, mixed media and collage, 18" x 14")

5 Points Gallery invites you to join us for “Defying Gravity”, an exhibition of works by Anne Heartt Gregory. Her abstract paintings veer off the path of initial intention and land in lively terrains that whirl, undulate, and ultimately rise up. A sense of tenacious optimism persists throughout.

Need some good vibes? We got you covered! Come by our Third Friday Reception on Friday March 21st from 6 - 9pm to take in the audacious offerings of our 9 local artists ranging from sculpture, painting, fused glass, and mixed media. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through April 12, 2025.

One glance at this tranquil new work by Yuko Nogami Taylor ("Okra" pictured below) and you are sure to be spirited away by its delicate charm.

"PASSAGE" by Anne Heartt Gregory
(acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48")

5 Points Gallery is thrilled to welcome Kerry Burch as our newest member and to present her featured artist exhibition. Kerry’s abstract paintings unite bold color, texture, and line, drawing inspiration from landscapes, maps, plants, and neurons. Painting primarily with fast drying acrylics and glazes, she creates rich layers and dynamic depth across both small and large canvases.

Please join us for our Third Friday Reception on Friday February 21 from 6 - 9pm to take in the offerings of our 9 local artists ranging from sculpture to painting, fused glass, and mixed media. The exhibition will be on display in our downtown Durham gallery through March 15, 2025.

In the image to the right, Teddy Devereux plays around with an exquisite piece of limited edition "graffiti glass" and creates this stately steed.

"HORSE PLAY" by Teddy Devereux
(fused glass on aluminum canvas, 20" x 16")