Monthly Archives: March 2010

’tis folly: architectural structures at the Cameron

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

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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Buzz Kill benefit at Antfarm

Upcoming Buzz Kill silent auction benefit for Antfarm in Raleigh coming up this First Friday night.  Posted in detail at New Raleigh site here and also the Antfarm blog. (images courtesy Antfarm & New Raleigh)
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Robert Barnard Memorial Exhibition

I think it’s safe to say Robert Barnard, who passed away just this past February 5th, was an educator first and foremost.  He focused much of his work as a professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Art Department on the theory of education – designing classes for the training of art teachers, securing grants for research into art education, [...]
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Depicting the Personal at UNCW

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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5 spot

George McKim  has been preoccupied of late with a template he has made of the number 5 and the number is rampant throughout the show of his work currently on view at Lee Hansley’s Gallery in Raleigh.  The template provides a framework that sees frequent use in his paintings – not unlike the numbers and [...]
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Walnut Creek Wetlands Center designed by Frank Harmon

Recently opened center for environmental and wetlands education in Raleigh.   Color-field aesthetics meet modernist vernacular sustainability- plus, no doubt, the coolest sliding barn doors in town… Walnut Creek Wetlands Center by Frank Harmon Architect, (opened to the public in September, 2009)
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Disparate dichotomies – John Rosenthal’s “Looking In, Looking Out”

There are some intriguing divisions running through John Rosenthal’s photographs.  His show at Through This Lens in Durham this month doesn’t shy from this fact and in actuality he dives right in, tackling the idea head on and presenting it as a major theme for the exhibition.   The photographer has created a sizable, wide ranging [...]
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Small Walls of Color to Help Save the Color Wall

I have to admit when I started graduate school at NCSU’s College of Design several years ago, I was not familiar with the Color Wall- a kinetic light sculpture by the late design school professor Joe Cox installed in the D.H. Hill Library in 1972.  It had fallen into a state of neglect, was no [...]
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Presence Is Progress – A Community-based Public Art Project

Remember “Happenings?” Probably not; unless you are an aging baby boomer like me.  “Happening” was a term coined by writer/artist Allan Kaprow in the late 1950s to describe a performance or other art activity, which emphasized a collaborative relationship between the artist/performer and the audience.  Although these events were carefully planned, spontaneity and unpredictability ensued, [...]
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