For one week in 1938, curious New Yorkers eagerly queued to view – and respond to – a series of astonishing black-and-white images of rural and small-town America in a special exhibition at the International Photographic Exposition held in Grand Central Station. Although never conceived as fine art photography, the exhibition would be among the [...]
A quick follow-up on Matt’s review from last week and an interesting new item worth noting: The Carrack Modern Art has gotten off to a rousing start after a few months of innovative programming in their downtown Durham space. Thus far the no-commission, free to artists space is basing its operations on the strength of work-both the [...]
Catherine Howard paints pictures of women, some nude, on polyester. The paintings are a mixture of soft and hard with pencil marks, watery blurs of color wash and the occasional body part defined in thick naturalistic colors. The lack of detail has the interesting effect of drawing you closer in an attempt to bring the [...]
Beyond the dashing color and lively linework in each of Guy Wilkins’ paintings lies a story. He is after all a painter who maintained a concurrent career as a journalist and the influence of his alternate career provides a structural framework for his work which is on full display in a show at LabourLove in [...]
On the surface there don’t necessarily seem to be that many similarities between Galia Gur Seev‘s large format Table and Seder works and Park McArthur‘s Presence is Progress – all of which are on display at Through This Lens this month. Yet there are intriguing parallels running through all the work, particularly as related to [...]
You have to head on down to Through This Lens in Durham kinda quick to catch this show as it ends this weekend. But the trek is worth it. A recent addition to the art blog’s very own contributor list, artist Park McArthur is the driving force behind Presence is Progress, a community based art [...]
