Author Archives: Dave Delcambre

Josh George

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 26, 2010
Following up on my review of Josh George‘s work at Gallery C in last week’s Indy which can be viewed here, thought a few extra pics of George’s work posted here were warranted as well.   George’s skills with layering and collage really emerge in close up examination of his surfaces.  It’s where the real [...]
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Lump at 15

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 23, 2010
Recently I had the great pleasure of interviewing Lump‘s Bill Thelen.  I approached him with a few questions and (which Bill was gracious enough to answer even hanging in through my rather convoluted, circuitous, and stop-and-go e-mail trail) as I was curious to learn more about the early days of Lump, memorable exhibitions from those [...]
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Excelling in Community at the Excelsior

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 10, 2010
The Excelsior Barber Shop in Durham wins the award for the Doing the Right Thing show in the area this month I think: thinking outside the box with an innovative concept, plus a great story to boot.  NY artist Rory Golden on a visit to Durham recently stopped in for a haircut by proprietor Howard [...]
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Tabular Tales

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 6, 2010
On the surface there don’t necessarily seem to be that many similarities between Galia Gur Seev‘s large format Table and Seder works and Park McArthur‘s Presence is Progress – all of which are on display at Through This Lens this month.  Yet there are intriguing parallels running through all the work, particularly as related to [...]
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A Progressive Present

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 5, 2010
You have to head on down to Through This Lens in Durham kinda quick to catch this show as it ends this weekend.  But the trek is worth it.   A recent addition to the art blog’s very own contributor list, artist Park McArthur is the driving force behind Presence is Progress, a community based art [...]
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Amy White at the Chapel Hill Public Library

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 4, 2010
It’s nice to see a public library support the visual arts, especially the really adventurous, unexpected kind. Following up on her Text/Image work recently shown at Lump in Raleigh, fellow Independent critic and artist Amy White has offered up precisely that kind of work. It is an exercise in multiplicity as her paintings,  text work [...]
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Director Turned Collector

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 2, 2010
Fortune Smiles: The Tyche Foundation Gift at the Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill Former Ackland director Charles Millard did not exactly slip quietly into his retirement. Graced by the good fortune of fortuitously owning an artwork in his own personal collection that gained signfiicant value through the years, Millard decided when the time was right to [...]
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Typology Through Photography

By Dave Delcambre | Published: August 1, 2010
New Genre Pictures at Flanders Gallery For the most adventurous gallery show of the Triangle’s summer you need look no further than Flanders Gallery in Raleigh for this rambunctious show of  photographers (Sam Falls, Lucas Blalock, Thomas Hauser, and Bill Sullivan) working across a variety of subjects and styles.  The show is accompanied by a [...]
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Design Matters

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 31, 2010
The AIA’s Design Award winners at Golden Belt I gotta give some credit to Golden Belt for taking on the task of this exhibit of NC Chapter American Institute of Architects (AIA) design award winners.  Goodness knows in this economic climate that the suffering architecture biz can use all the good publicity it can get. [...]
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Fiber optics

By Dave Delcambre | Published: July 30, 2010
I’m writing a concurrent article on the craft of quilting at the moment so I enjoyed seeing how Flaherty’s has reworked some of her castoff pieces of fabric and papers in this show at Visual Art Exchange’s storefront Exchange Gallery.   Like many things fiber these are best viewed in a manner in which surface [...]
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