GARDEN VARIETY

GARDEN VARIETY

August 2 - September 29

THE GARDEN VARIETY is VAE's Main Gallery exhibition for THE EVERYDAY PROJECT. 

THE EVERYDAY is a multi-venue, multi-discipline, cross-disability project with the curatorial goal of highlighting universal experiences, told from the disability perspective, presented in an audacious way.

THE GARDEN VARIETY was an open, international, juried call for art. 

ACCEPTED WORKS

Angela Barker - When It Ignites
Gaetane Cummings - Let's stay together, Person of colors!
Travis Donovan - Grounded
Carina Earl - Letting Go, Symbiosis
Jennifer Markowitz -  Fleshmap: First Manic Episode, San Francisco, 1985, Fleshmap: England 2005
Christopher McGuire - Patent Pending
Ken Morgan -  THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
Jeff Newell - The lines that explore time
Jean Shortall - I'm Just a Little Different

Shelby Scattergood

Shelby Scattergood 

Transfer Co. 
500 E Davie St, Raleigh, NC 27601

As a part of THE EVERYDAY project, Shelby Scattergood will be showcasing her work in her first solo exhibition. 

BIO

Shelby Scattergood is a photo-realistic portrait artist specializing in works that capture the complicated evolution of mental and physical illness. She received a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from the University of North Carolina of Greensboro in 2016. Shelby is an emerging artist who has exhibited throughout the Eastern US in galleries such as the African American Atelier, the Jones Carter Gallery, The Rob, and the CVA in Greensboro. In 2017 Shelby was named the Grand Prize Winner of the NC Artists Exhibition.

Shelby currently works and resides in Richmond, VA.

ARTIST STATEMENT

At sixteen I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Fibromyalgia. At nineteen it was Depression. Twenty-one it was Binge Eating Disorder (B.E.D). Twenty-three it was IBS and PCOS. As my body and self have since become a collection of struggles and over-comings, so too has my artwork. Using photo-realistic subjects often concealed in, consuming, or wearing metaphoric objects these portraits draw from my experiences with physical and mental illness and visualize them for others to witness. It is through my portraiture that I seek to understand mental and physical disorder, personal struggle, physical pain, and isolation. It’s with the conclusions I make through my work that I visualize the trials of my conditions and extend knowledge to the viewer, allowing them a window into the realities of these struggles.