-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- so what is a folly, exactly…? | Fabulously Fabricated on ’tis folly: architectural structures at the Cameron
- Assignment 2 – The Folly | Fabulously Fabricated on ’tis folly: architectural structures at the Cameron
- chris vitiello on Amy White at the Chapel Hill Public Library
- Press for Presence is Progress at Through This Lens | Presence Is Progress on A Progressive Present
- Phil Oderberg on Amy White at the Chapel Hill Public Library
Triangle area
- Charlotte area (5)
- Eastern NC (7)
- the great beyond (13)
- Triad area (5)
- Triangle area (75)
- Western NC (4)
Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Fiber optics
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 [...]
Posted in Triangle area Tagged Ann Flaherty, Exchange Gallery, fiber, Raleigh, Visual Art Exchange 1 Comment
Elke Brand at VAE
Digital collages and a weirdly wonderful kaleidoscopic view of photographic havoc in this trio of images. Brand’s photographs are much like a pinhole camera meets fish eye lens all at the same time. I enjoyed their rambunctiousness and would love to see some of her images printed large. I think that effect might really drive her point [...]
Posted in Triangle area Tagged collage, digital manipulation, Elke Brand, Exchange Gallery, photography, Visual Art Exchange Leave a comment
Therapeutically speaking…
Jeanne Bessette’s two paintings on display at VAE’s storefront Exchange Gallery deal with the intuitive but also contain her explorations of the primal essence of things. You get the sense that Bessette’s work is a metaphysical exercise ongoing somewhere in the deep layers and glazes of her images. I’m not quite sure how successful the therapeutic part [...]
Posted in Triangle area Tagged Exchange Gallery, Jeanne Bessette, painting, Raleigh, Visual Art Exchange Leave a comment
Expressions in Plaster
Steve Staresina at VAE’s storefront Exchange Gallery: working in notions of the timeless in a Modernist vein. His medium of choice is fresco and I like the fact there’s a sustainable and re-claimed work factor to his paintings. His surfaces are simply amazing to look at and worth the time to check out up close. [...]
Posted in Triangle area Tagged Exchange Gallery, fresco, painting, Steve Staresina, Visual Art Exchange Leave a comment
Final Summer Postcard from Albuquerque: Furniture is Art at the National Hispanic Cultural Center
A show hinging on a myriad of cultural handcraft artistry and traditions that span several cultures and generations is a tall order for any exhibition. The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque has tackled it head on however with this robust exhibition of the wares of both contemporary and historical furniture builders in New Mexico. [...]
Free Verse Color
My vote for best local exhibition name of the summer: VAE’s “Nothing Rhymes With Orange” (juried by Assoc. Professor Kathleen Rieder of NCSU’s College of Design) “Nothing Rhymes With Orange” at Visual Art Exchange in downtown Raleigh through July 29, 2010
Posted in Triangle area Tagged juried show, Kathleen Rieder, mixed media, Nothing Rhymes With Orange, Raleigh, VAE, Visual Art Exchange Leave a comment
City Depicted: Luke Miller Buchanan at Rebus Works
This is the last weekend for this little gem of a show at Rebus Works in Raleigh. Buchanan has succeeded in combining his painterly collages with ongoing glimpses of Raleigh to form a visual diary worth close look. A counterpart to the show is also at Stitch on Hargett Street downtown. There Buchanan’s pastel colors [...]
Views of the city at Stitch
Mini-portfolio of Luke Miller Buchanan’s drawings now on view at Stitch in Raleigh – a lively concurrent counterpart to his larger scale work at Rebus Works: Luke Miller Buchanan’s drawings on view at Stitch through this Saturday, July 24, 2010 (thanks and image credits to the artist and to Rebus Works )
Putting Their Heads Together – Janelle Howington at 311 West Martin
Meditation, contemplation and some flat-out intense observation of the subject in this series by artist Janelle Howington. Look for blustery strokemaking that renders a certain sumptuousness to the prints which is then bolstered in her paintings and drawings. Is ‘chiseling’ of the features an appropriate term at work here? I think so, at least in [...]
Design Matters