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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Words a Plenty – “Text as Image” at Lump
The current work on view at Lump, replete with more artistic applications of text than you might ever imagine possible, is at various turns awe-inspiring, bewildering and a little confounding, a bit aloof at times, but more often than not pretty fun to peruse. It’s worth the effort to delve into the show as there [...]
Dispatch: Mexico City
I made a trip to D.F. (aka Mexico City) last week, from April 13-18, with some fellow art-wise North Carolinians. We went for the Zona Maco art fair, and I highly recommend visiting Mexico City to anyone interested in developing a global perspective of contemporary art. The museums and galleries are good, and the artists [...]
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The Latest Stuff – “New Works” juried exhibition at Artspace
A few pics from the juried show now up at Artspace’s Gallery One… It’s a full show, with much to be seen and as with most juried shows, the work runs the gamut though strong work in painting and mixed media predominates. Lisa Stroud and Melinda Fine have the market on painterly surface markings [...]
Paintings for Painters – Ashlynn Browning’s new work at Horace Williams House
There’s not a better fit between exhibition space architecture and art on display in the Triangle area right now than the current show at Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill this month. In fact, there might not be a similar confluence as effective this whole year. Ashlynn Browning has crafted a series of paintings [...]
Constructed Splash – Jesse Green at Morning Times
Jesse Green’s paintings explore design and cultural significance through a highly physical and energetic painting style. He utilizes large washy areas of color, aggressive brushstrokes and fluid linework overlaid with various architectural symbols, some quite nebulous, such as building facades and gridded structural system. This lends the work a mediating quality that hovers between the [...]
Nature Made – Ripley Whiteside at the ArtsCenter
The natural world is always elusive. There is day to day immediacy that we all interact with and are most sensitive to in the weather and our immediate surroundings and also the regularity contained within seasonal change. But the bigger picture is more clouded and nebulous. Enter the artist Ripley Whiteside whose work is now [...]
André Leon Gray’s figment of the pigment at Flanders Gallery
Issues concerning race and culture continue to reverberate in our society and it looks like they will be around for quite some time. For all the great strides made in recent decades, there is no doubt that there is still alot of ground to be covered as vast differences in equality and opportunity exist. [...]
His Cup Runneth Over – James Henkel at Artspace
Photographer James Henkel is a Penland kind of guy. Even though he lives and teaches in Minnesota a large part of the year, he’s still able to maintain a studio in western NC. The influence via Penland and western NC’s craft traditions is apparent in his photographs (I think of them almost as portraits) of [...]
Dustin Spagnola exhibit in Asheville, NC
Paintings by Dustin Spagnola are currently on display at Ananda Hair Studio located at 22 Broadway in downtown Asheville. In his book, The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord writes about the fetishization of commodities in relation to mass media. “All that was once directly lived has become mere representation,” he says. “Images have supplanted [...]
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