The Lived Body
Subverbal Collective
May 5-25, 2017
Read MoreCan I Keep You by Erin Canady
> Past Exhibits
ULTRALIGHT
Exhibition run May 5-25, 2017
ULTRALIGHT is an exhibition of artwork about disability, created by artists living with disabilities. VAE is offering a platform for artists who identify as living with disabilities to take back the narrative that is so often controlled by the medical field, media, and stereotypes. ULTRALIGHT seeks to exhibit work that challenges the viewing public to leave their preconceived notions and sympathy at the door, and experience artwork that tells the real story of living disabilities and the current state of access. The exhibition breaks access into three parts: physical, communication, and attitude.
Collective Behavior by Maggie Evans
April 22 - June 3, 2017
Maggie Evans is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. Using drawing, painting and site-specific installation her work examines human collective behavior and the hierarchies, homogeneity and social divisions that result.
Off Route Journals
Off Route Journals
presented by Betsy Peters Rascoe, Mike Cindric, & Sam Cox
Join us as we celebrate the unique people and landscapes of Eastern North Carolina.
April 7 - 27, 2017
Opening Reception: April 7, 6-10pm
Project Statement
North Carolina’s coastal plain has a fertile landscape and rich agricultural and cultural history. Yet, the counties between Interstate 95 and the coast remain a blank spot on many North Carolinians’ mental maps. Most experience the region as a blur of pine trees, fields, and gas stations as they rush towards the beach. What can we learn by slowing down and engaging Eastern North Carolina in a conversation on its own terms?
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Michael Bambuch / United Arts Council
Micheal Bambuch
United Arts Council - March
I'm not cool enough to talk about myself in the third person. I'm a photographer, original from the northeast(New Jersey and Massachusetts), that has landed in Apex, North Carolina.
I shoot people. I love conceptual. I want my photos to be dynamic, to shape a perception, whatever you feel it might be. I do not have formulas and I never went to art school. I won't be able to explain or defend my work with gregarious themes and deeper meanings. I subscribe to the idea that you can just shoot something and like it. It doesn't have to go further than that. If you find something deeper, kudos, I've done something to elicit a response. I suppose that's what art is about? My photographic inspirations are Ritts, Lagrange, Blumenfeld, Wolf, Avedon and Walker. I don't think my work necessarily looks like their images, but they drive a lot of what I do.
e1ev1n I Warren Hicks
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Warren Hicks
February 22 - April 8
Artist talk, April 8, 11 am
A conceptual self-portrait composed of time, events, locations, and professional and social interactions — all relative to the times and number 111 and 1111 — captured by 170+ iPone screenshots over a 2 year period.
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Ely Urbanski
February 3 - 23, 2017
I have been collecting clothes from friends, family and my previous exhibitions visitors. These clothes are the matrices for my monoprints on fabric. Most of the clothes have a story, they were worn for a long time, the person who owned the clothes had an emotional attachment to it, they only used them in special occasions, etc. What I noticed is that those clothes have one thing in common: they are stories of relationships. A material reminder of an interaction with a living person, with someone they missed or a particular situation in their lives.
I believe that what I transfer to the substrate (a piece of fabric, a reclaimed sheet) is not only the material image but also part of the memory|energy of the clothes and their owners|users.
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SEE ATTACHED / DEPTH / FLUSH
Triple Threat
January 6-26
First Friday (redo) January 13 6-10pm
For the month of January VAE will be showcasing three exhibitions in our Main Gallery.
Read MoreDreams Deferred
A community art project inspired by Langston Hughes' poem, "Harlem"
Documented by Ariyah April & Veronique Moses
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Janet Coleman / Aloft on Hillsborough
Janet Coleman
January-March
Animals, landscape, people and objects are often common themes in my work. By defining forms through layering of texture and color, I search for the accidental image. These images often serve to guide the piece, and ignite inspiration from memory, experience or dreams.
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Brian Davis "Elevation V2"
December 21, 2016 - February 3, 2017
First Friday Receptions: January 6 & February 3, 2017 6-10pm
Brian Davis lives and works in Northern Virginia. Born in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida, Mr. Davis was raised in Guam and South Carolina. He has taught New Media and Sculpture at The George Washington University and American University. Mr. Davis has a B.F.A in General Studio from Winthrop University and an M.F.A in Sculpture from the University of Florida.
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George Gregory / Open Gallery at Red Hat
George Gregory / Open Gallery at Red Hat
My production process often leaves me with scraps of wood that are too small to incorporate into my work, but too big to throw away. I find myself saving these scraps for potential use in the future. After much deliberation, I found myself dipping these scraps into acrylic paint and laminating them together. This process was the inspiration for Pixel-ed.
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GIMME LOCAL SHOPPE
A shopping wonderland filled with free-range, locally-sourced, handmade wares.
Read MoreANNUAL HOLIDAY EXHIBITION
November 9th – December 21, 201
Main Gallery
The Annual Holiday Exhibition features work by VAE members at a price range that is perfect for gift giving! Come in to see and purchase works under $300 for all of your holiday needs.
DECK THE GALLERY
November 9th – December 21, 201
Main Gallery
It's time to decorate for the holidays. Unfortunately, Brandon dropped the box of ornaments, when we were putting the decorations away...in March, and broke them all.
So, we asked our creative community to make beautiful ornaments for all of your holiday needs! Come by this season to pick up the perfect decoration for your home, or the perfect gift for a friend!
See Attached
VAE will be going back in time to the early 1990s when the state of the art technology of the email attachment was invented. Since then it has changed information exchanges in a major way. It also opened doors for an arts organization to receive and accept submissions, free to both artists and organizations, it has allowed for the growth and opportunity.
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DEPTH
January 6-26, 2017
Main Gallery
VAE will be showcasing the fantastic works created by our Three Dimensional Artist Group in the upcoming exhibition, DEPTH.
VAE's Three Dimensional Artist Group is a supportive network for artists who explore ideas and techniques and offer each other feedback. Artist are encouraged to bring a current work, but are by no means obligated to. This group is open to anyone who works with a three dimensional medium or would like to. All artists’ groups are free to VAE members and $5 for non-members.
Evan Reed: Architecture for the Inclement
First Friday Receptions: November 4 & December 2, 6-10pm
Evan Reed was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and has lived throughout the United States. He develops forms by collecting and exploring the properties of material, many of which are discarded items, sourced from his community. The works pull from a variety of visual references including architectural forms, modes of transportation, and tools. His work is concerned with themes of Spirituality, History, Place, and Humor.
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Marie Leabo-Arondeau / HagerSmith PA
October - November 2016
Community Exhibits
"An abundance of light, a scarcity of light, how light defines the subject, how light is the subject, how light and subject get together and boogie a bit. Into the Light is a celebration of all of these things." - Marie Leabo-Arondeau
THE LAB: Separation & In Between
October 7 - 27, 2016
THE LAB
Separation & In Between
Jan-Ru Wan accompanied by Jody Casselly + Jude Casseday