Category Archives: Charlotte area

The Little Museum That Could,

New Year’s festivities this year in Charlotte had nothing on what happened the day after.   For January 2, 2010 presented one of the shining lights thus far this year on the NC cultural scene: the opening of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.  It marked the culmination of a dedicated effort by Andreas Bechtler, a [...]
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Local Flavors: The Light Factory’s 2010 Annuale

One of the most striking things about the Light Factory’s Third Annuale is its homegrown feel.  Of the six artists (out of more than 130 in the national call)  selected by juror Alex Nyerges, Director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,  five reside within but a few hundred miles of the gallery.   Chalk [...]
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Mark Flowers at Hodges Taylor Gallery

Glimpses of memory conjoined with a collage aesthetic in these journalistic paintings… Mark Flowers: Visual Memory was on view this past May, 2010 at Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte
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Barbara Schreiber at Joie Lassiter Gallery

“It’s a small show, but potent” is how Joie Lassiter described the current work in her gallery to me when I visited recently.  It is an accurate description I think.  Barbara Schreiber’s work is deceptively light from afar, almost cheery at first glance with her bold saturated colors and playful compositional schemes. But then at [...]
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People’s Biennial Field Report – 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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