Category Archives: Eastern NC

‘Bird by Bird’ at ACME Art Studios

By Dave Delcambre | Published: April 3, 2010
Catching up with last month’s Third Friday in Wilmington before I get to this month’s First Friday in Raleigh…Below are a few notes and images from current exhibition at ACME: Karen Paden Crouch is able to coax her wrought metal medium to provide not just emotional life to her three-dimensional work but also compelling tactile [...]
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Structured Memories

By Dave Delcambre | Published: April 2, 2010
Mel Chin’s sculpture The Structure of Things Given and Held is a puzzling work.   It is a large outdoor sculpture (16′ wide x 18′-6″ tall) of two girls standing upon raised pedestals, facing each other and balancing on their heads a wireframe structure resembling a loose architectural sketch elevation of a house.  Enigmatic at [...]
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People’s Biennial Field Report – April 1, 2010

By stevenmatijcio | Published: April 1, 2010
SECCA is one month into its cross-state, high & low, far & wide search for creative talents to participate in the nationally touring exhibition/campaign titled People’s Biennial. For what we’ve seen thus far, and what we hope to see before the submission deadline on April 30, I thought it was high time to file a [...]
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’tis folly: architectural structures at the Cameron

By Dave Delcambre | Published: March 31, 2010
Nowhere in the world of architecture does idealism spread its wings more than in the folly.  The very etymological roots of the word will tell you so.   As related to architecture,  the word has been dated from the 1650′s denoting “a sense of costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder.”   [...]
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“Diva Made” at Bottega Gallery in Wilmington

By Dave Delcambre | Published: March 30, 2010
More power to Bottega Gallery which just opened an all female, all local artist show.  (The roster includes Kate Cathey, Michelle Connolly, MJ Cunningham, Jude Eden, Bonnie England, Leigh Fowler, Angela Johnson, Rachel Kastner, Kelly Marquis, Erica Morgan, Abby Spangel Perry,  Colleen Ringrose, Monika Winters-Sanchez, Dixon Stetler, Pamela Toll and Gayle Tustin.)  The work in the [...]
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Depicting the Personal at UNCW

By Dave Delcambre | Published: March 28, 2010
Photographing America is a well behaved documentary photography show.  It accomplishes what alot of documentary photo shows set out to do:  capture an era and cultural scene at a given moment in time.  It is festooned with photographs of roadside scenes, working class people shown right where they’re comfortable (ie. at work), dramatic landscapes, archetypal [...]
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tight times in Wilmington

By Dave Delcambre | Published: March 17, 2010
from WWAY:   Budgetary woes at the Cameron  and city leaders respond
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