BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1951 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. Studied with artist Mark English, Robert Heindell and Bernie Fuchs "Illustrators Workshop ", Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY.

Arless and his wife Patsy currently live in Raleigh, NC. 

Fine Arts collections include Mint Museum, Morris Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Senator Russell Long, David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Blount, Inc., Charlotte Hornets NBA, Hunter Museum of Art, Texaco Inc., AT&T and IBM.

Art displayed in the Embassy of Republic of Zimbabwe and International artist in watercolor competition, London, England.

Selected Solo Exhibition
1981 - 2019
Over 70 solo exhibitions including ( 13 ) Augen Gallery, Portland, OR, (9 ) Hidell Brooks Gallery and ( 13 )Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

BMG First Look, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, NYC
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Gallery M, Denver, CO
McIntosh Gallery,Atlanta, GA
Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Seattle, WA
Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
Red Piano Gallery, Hilton Head Island, SC
Brunner Gallery, Covington, LA/ Baton Rouge, LA
Cudahy's Fine Arts Gallery, NYC
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont, NC
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

Shain Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Selected Group Exhibitions
1981 – 2024

The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
Hickory Museum of Art,Hickory, NC
Princeton Gallery of Art, Princeton, NJ
Art Space Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL
Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, TX
Dos Lunas Gallery, Taos, NM
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Tew Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Greg Thompson Fine Art, Little Rock, AR

Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL                                                                                                      

Raised in creative family, art found me, and I embraced it. The exuberant energy I had for art as a child is still within me.

My dad, Bennie R. Day was a woodcarver and brother, Ben Day was an artist and university professor teaching design for over 30 years, had a wonderful influence on my love for art.

Served in the US Army for three years and worked as an Illustrator for " Infantry Magazine ".

At Ringling College of Art, I met my wife, Patsy Mauldin. We later opened an Illustration / Design Studio, " Twoday Design " for 7 years. Among some of our clients were the Mint Museum, Romare Bearden catalog and poster , Busch Gardens, Williamsburg poster, World Golf Hall of Fame program, covers for the Charlotte Motor Speedway programs and Coca-Cola Corporation posters.

Started doing watercolors in 1981 after seeing an exhibition by Joseph Raffael at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and was inspired to go into Fine Arts. In 1988 I did my first Gouache Collage Painting and now in 2016 I've decided to use Acrylic paint on gesso board for my collages.