Skipping Sundays
In "Skipping Sundays," Evans Smith reflects on her Methodist upbringing in a rural North Carolina town, revealing how a steadfast belief has always remained just out of reach. Through imagery, she explores the complicated dynamics of religion and faith, as well as the feelings of isolation that can occur when one's beliefs differ with those of those around them. How is it that some can wholeheartedly embrace traditional faith while the rest of us are left questioning?
EXHIBITION EVENTS:
10/2 | First Friday Opening Reception and Book Signing | 6:30 - 8:30pm
10/31 | 4:00-7:00, Closing Reception
*In addition to VAE's open house Monday & Wednesday 9-12, the exhibition can also be by appt.
The show runs from October 2nd - October 31st
FEATURED ARTIST:
Heather Evans Smith
This show is currently on exhibit at The Jobe House.
Shadows
Every culture, every person, every landscape knows shadow. September is its natural season, when the light grows long and golden, the world tilts toward darkness, and something in us turns reflective.
For one artist that might mean the literal shadows of a landscape at dusk; for another, the mythological underworld, the hidden self, or the silence between things.
Shadows is an open call for all media and all interpretations, from the observed world to the deeply personal.
EXHIBITION OPENING: 9/12/2026, 2:00 - 5:00PM
The show runs from September 12th - October 31st
ARTISTS ON EXHIBITION:
Patrizia Ferreira | Lucy Malmin | Leatha Koefler | Jessica Tracey | Kat Wilson | Leslie Pruneau | Cindy McMorris | Olivia Squires | Sterling Bowen | Kelly Hutzel | Anastasia Beane | Mary Louise Kasper | Marcelle Kick | Brett Morris | Allison Tierney | Matt Tracey | Tiffany Minton | Christopher Resh | Elle Joseph | Zachery Thomas | Lisa Marie Kwesell | Tricia Sauls | Karen Rose | Dain Kim | Nicholas Portanova | Jacqueline Maloney | Sarah Weir | Nick Dahlstrom | Vincent Whitehurst | Korrin Cheatwood | Emily Eve Weinstein | Kristen Solecki | Janet Danforth | Stephanie Witchger | Karin Schneider | Kat Harrison | Hiba Chohan | Faten Aloui | Claudia Cole | Mynor Escobar | Colleen Regan
This show is divided between Rebus Works and Birdland.
Lauren Collins, Mary Ann Anderson, Jessica Dupuis at Dock 1053
October 2, 2020 - February 26, 2021
Location: DOCK 1053
1053 E Whitaker Mill Road
Raleigh, NC 27604
Lauren Collins
Artist Statement
a vision
a meditation
an urge
a gut feeling
I now believe that these are direct communications through worlds — veils are broken in order for this conversation of speaking and listening and channeling.
Sometimes in the form of words, sometimes shapes, sometimes just a texture or feeling.
Created from light + love — dissolving fears and uplifting dreams.
Sometimes it is only a whisper, so faint that everything else must completely disappear from sight and sound in order for it to live with me in solitude for a moment.
And only just for that moment.
And then it is gone.
Other times it is so loud and blinding that it is all i know to be real — like i have to know; i have to feel it and communicate it to the world, or else it will fill me from the inside out, all the way, expanding from my bones to the thin veil of my skin.
They live in the shadows and begin to shuffle into the light in order to speak their language to the world;
and i am only their translator.
Mary Ann Anderson
Artist Statement
My paintings are informed by philosophy and art, especially:
- Chinese and Japanese art – transcending time and space
- Kandinsky’s conceptual premise that painting can help us to a greater consciousness
- American abstract expressionist art and conceptual art
These mixed media pieces are made using graphite, acrylic varnish and acrylic paint on synthetic paper (Yupo).
Artist Biography
Mary Ann Anderson has presented solo exhibitions at Visual Art Exchange and Artspace in Raleigh, at Duke University, the Durham Art Guild and GoldenBelt in Durham; at the Ackland Museum Store and Chapel Hill Library in Chapel Hill; and The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, NC. Her art studies have included classes at Ox-Bow, a program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.
Jessica Dupuis
Artist Statement
Invisible and visible boxes surround us every day, from standards of society and institutions to houses, studios, and offices. Within these structures, individual perceptions and senses vary, just as our memories and attachment to objects differ from one person to another. For me, the physical form of sculpture functions as a journal; architectural spaces that are open for the viewer to explore.
My work evolves from a process in which I use a combination of clay slip and discarded materials such as newspaper, cardboard, and furniture and transform them into art objects.
Artist Biography
Jessica Dupuis was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her BFA with a concentration in ceramics and print media from Alfred University. Dupuis exhibits her work regionally and nationally. She has been a resident artist at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Women's Studio Workshop as well as a recipient of the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award and an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council. She is an Assistant Professor of Art in Ceramics at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
ALTARES DEL DÍA DE MUERTOS at Centro
ALTARES DEL DíA DE MUERTOS is a collaborative installation between VAE Raleigh and Centro. In honor of Día de Muertos 3 artists responded to traditional ideas of the altar, a central icon of the holiday which is celebrated from November 1-2. Alma Leiva, Cynthia Velasquez, and Kevin Quiles Bonilla’s altars honor Latinx lives past, present, and future.
This window installation is a part of VAE’s ongoing project centering the Latinx community, De Aqui y De Alla.
Toilet Paper Art Benefit Auction : Call to Doodie
Toilet Paper Art Benefit Auction : Call to Doodie
Do you need a creative outlet as you have distanced your social interactions? We’re you able to find toilet paper? VAE is the launching the Toilet Pape Art Benefit Auction. We are asking artists to do their duty and create original art, drawings, sketches….doodie doodles if you will…… on an end off the ol’ bog roll and send them in.
Toilet Paper Art Benefit Auction: Call to Doodie
Auction closes at 7PM on April 7. Bid on the art.
Proceeds benefit the NC Artist Relief Fund.
For the past three weeks, 94 artists have come to heed the call to doodie during theses social distance times. In an attempt to foster creativity and bring about some levity, VAE asked artists to create original works of art on a square of toilet tissue– also know as doodie doodles–and donate them for auction. The response has been nothing to sneeze at and we are flushed with amazing works on TP. Bidding on these amazing doodie doodles is open until 7 PM on April 7th.
Proceeds from the auction will go to benefit the NC Artist Relief Fund which has been created to support creative individuals who have been financially impacted by the outbreak of COVID-19.