Anthony Garcia-Copian / HagerSmith
Anthony Garcia-Copian
September/October
When I paint, I paint abstract memories. Sometimes the memory is foggy and has been replaced by an imaginary sediment, a residue that has made one memory solid and the other fluid.
Everything in art is a memory.
I have empathic traits, therefore I paint the images of the emotions that I am able to absorb from strangers and from those who surround me.
The only expectation that I have from my art is pleasure.
- AGC
Katie Ree / AJ Fletcher
Katie Ree
AJ Fletcher Foundation
August - October
Katie Ree
AJ Fletcher Foundation
August - October
I am a wanderer, explorer, and experience-r of nature. I interpret the landscape around me and try to express the wonder and beauty I feel surrounded by. I currently work in and around the Durham, NC area and love the forests, rivers, streams, and creeks. I often start a painting on location and finish in my studio. My needs are minimal - some watercolors, a nice rock, sun if I’m lucky, paper, and ink.
My work is a deeply spiritual experience for me. I endeavor to capture not only what I see but that which is unseen. There are lines connecting us all and I try to share them. Each painting is both a meditative experience and a means to push myself to notice more. What colors are really in a sky, a field, a river, a mountain? What lines and spaces make up a tree? How do you express the gentle breeze, the whispering of trees, the sound of a peaceful sky? How do you be still and one with yourself and the world around you?
I hope to create images and objects that people want to live with. That speak to them as creating them has spoken to me. Most importantly, I hope to share my love of nature and landscapes. I hope to inspire others to look around more closely. To see the beauty we are surrounded by. My hope is that we can all come back to ourselves, our best selves, in nature.
soundCARVING: a self-portrait by Dana Raymond w/ Robert Bailis
soundCARVING: a self-portrait
Dana Raymond with Robert Bilas
August 23 - October 7
soundCARVING: a self-portrait
Dana Raymond with Robert Bailis
August 23 - October 7
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artwork includes static and dynamic objects, installations, and performance. Underlying all my creations are systematic structures ranging from graphic to mechanical and musical to conceptual. The rhythmical expressions I achieve are the result of an imaginative merger of the rational and the irrational.
My main objective is to activate space. I fabricate forms, however, they play a supportive role to the empty volumes I energize and shape. My forms are as necessary as the sounds a musician creates in and around silence. My passions are ultimately derived from shaping the emptiness of spatial voids.
A secondary objective is to explore the relationship between part and whole. My intrigue with integral components, independent and interdependent, stems from my desire to conceptually understand a whole solely through its compositional parts.
Hearsay
September 1 - 21
Hearsay is an exhibition to look at the state of current events through the critical lens of art.
Hearsay
September 1 - 21
Hearsay is an exhibition to look at the state of current events through the critical lens of art.
Raed Al-Rawi
Michael Baum,
Kristen Baumlier-Faber
Joseph Bigley
Monique Cleveland
Mila de Sousa
Linda Hames
Jeanne Hearn
Andea Horton Morton
Leatha Koefler
Nicole Lawson
Nat Lazakis
Larry Lean
Maria Lindseth
Babatola Oguntoyinbo
Nancy Ping-Robbins
Nicholas Portanova
Leah Preiss
Caroline Redding
Jennifer Seaver
S.K. Simmerman
Debra Singer-Harter
Natacha Sochat
Jusmeily Tejada
Martha Thorn
Charles Tipton
Robin Wright
Kelly Sheppard Murray / UAC
Kelly Sheppard Murray
United Arts Council
August - September
Kelly Sheppard Murray
United Arts Council
August - September
Artist Bio/Statement
Kelly Murray has been working as an artist, educator, and designer for more than 20 years. Since 2000, she has taught studio and art appreciation to adult learners of all ages at Wake Technical Community College. By teaching art majors and students with limited knowledge of the arts, Kelly has observed how people interact with and appreciate visual culture. She has supported hundreds of students in finding their own creativity to employ for personal and professional pursuits.
Kelly’s teaching informs her approach to her fine art and design. By working with audiences of varied aesthetic perspectives, Kelly is prepared to find a way to meet a client’s or community’s needs and purposes. For the last 15 years, Kelly has worked with numerous design and fabrication companies to create sculptures, dioramas, small models and murals for nature, science and history centers.
Environmental issues, land development and the relationship of human activity and nature has been a core interest for Kelly throughout her career and the primary focus of much of her personal fine art production. Kelly has been exploring encaustic wax painting for the last 10 years. This passion for molten wax is derived from years casting metal using lost-wax metal casting. Encaustic painting was a natural way to bring her sculptural background and pursuit of painting together because it can easily translate into two or three-dimensional compositions.
Kelly is interested in exploring the ways her experience as an exhibition designer, fabricator, sculptor and painter can be brought together for clients on commercial, public art and fine art projects.
indelible marks: what we’ve been, or might, or never will
indelible marks: what we’ve been, or might, or never will
Eliza Kiser | Emily Malpass
August 4-24, 2017
Opening Reception: August 4, 6-10pm
Project Statement:
When we see the word “collaboration,” we think of each other. Throughout changes to our families, identities and approaches to art-making over the last four years, we continue to share ideas and dream of our future as artists and friends. The work you see around you is our attempt at using our art-making to work through the questions and struggles in our lives at this moment, and to explore ideas about the identities and veneers we have worn, shed, cultivated, lost, clung to, or will never experience.
Rick Carlson / UAC
Rick Carlson
United Arts Council
August
Artist Statement
Twelve years ago I started my own graphic design business. In-between design assignments, I paint. Contemporary impressionism best describes my style. Like the early Impressionists, it is my fascination of how light interacts with form and color. The final result is not a representation, but instead my interpretation of the subject. Simplifying the moment and making the most impact. As an artist, I try to embellish on this and create a piece that is unique and appealing to the viewer.
Randy MacNamara / Aloft RDU
Randy MacNamara
Aloft RDU
August - October
Randy MacNamara
Aloft RDU
August - October
Artist Statement
“It is like being lost in a jungle,” Dr. Mirzakhani said, “and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks — and with some luck you might find a way out.”
MAKING
my mind moves in the cool muck
at the bottom of a dark and tan creek
slipping through
mud molds my thoughts into holes
they collapse as I withdraw
pulling up roots to wear as a wig
stripped I splash about
in colored light biting the edge
shadows bend my vision
my instincts feel rugged resistance
a stone pried and plucked from suspension
plumes of sediment bloom downstream
I chase after a billowing liquid cloud
expanding in pools then riffles
rocks and gone
bloomed
bloomed
Sarah Tector @ Art of Style
Sarah Tector has taken over Art of Style's front window in conjunction with VAE's upcoming call Multiples.
Working with my hands has always been a natural fit and source of fulfillment. While deciding where to go in life and what to study I was fortunate enough to have parents that said to pick a field that would make me happy. Metalsmithing satisfied many parts of my creative brain; designing and making in 3D, using mixed materials, and fantastic tools. And while I have made silverware, bowls, and pendant lights amongst other things, jewelry is the most recognized form of what I can do. Treating it as small-scale sculpture, my pieces catch the eye when on the body or not. I create clean, geometric, and architecturally influenced pieces in sterling silver, cast bronze, powder coating, and other mixed materials. These are mainly one-of-a-kind, limited edition, and production pieces of jewelry and most recently collaborations, allowing me to push myself out of my creative comfort zone and the opportunity and challenge of artistic evolution.
Copy Center
Copy Center
An off-site group show curated by J.S. Wright and Kyle Hazard
@ 17 East Martin Street
Raleigh NC, 27601
Artists
Sarah Parker
Derek Wycoff
E. E. Keely
Ricardo Vincent Jose Ruiz
J. S. Wright
Alec Castillo
Tyreese McDurmont
MEZCLA
MEZCLA
August 4 - 26
Curated by Claudia Coreletto MEZCLA is an exhibition rooted in the principle that Hispanic and Latinx artists are the only authors in shaping the narrative of how Hispanic and Latinx culture is formed in the United States.
MEZLCA
August 4 - 24
Curated by Claudia Coreletto MEZCLA is an exhibition rooted in the principle that Hispanic and Latinx artists are the only authors in shaping the narrative of how Hispanic and Latinx culture is formed in the United States.
Claudia Corletto was born in New York City and raised in Houston, Texas. She divides her time mentoring creatives and teaching art to children in communities where access to art by people of color is limited or non-existent. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Carrack Modern Art Gallery (Durham, NC), Pleiades Gallery (Durham, NC), East End Studio Gallery (Houston, TX), ARTernate (New York, NY), Halle Cultural Arts Center (Apex, NC). Claudia was the resident artist for Playdate with an Artist from September to October in 2015 at Marbles Kids Museum. She created a modern mola installation with kids, which still hangs in the museum, teaching them about the traditional art form from Panama and Colombia, and helped us celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Claudia is also a member of the collective the Mamis and the Papis, a collective of womxn, femmes, and gender nonconforming folks that play music and raise funds for non-profits doing work that matters in the community such as The Carolina Abortion Fund, NC Field's Poder Juvenil Campesino Program, and SONG (Southerners on New Ground).
Accepted Artists and Works
Olisa Corcoran - Beneath/Within, Flora from Fauna, Hunger
Michelle Durango Lopez - Arraigado, Arraigado
Hayden Folger - Head First, Morning at the Market, The Laborer
Anthony Garcia-Copian - Mangos y Platanos
Ernesto Hernandez - Mi Madre y Yo
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas -Two Women Walk into a Bar, Peck, not Prick I'm Your Green Honeycreeper, Baby
Vanessa Morales -Radio Active Confetti, Shards
Karen Rose -Mexican Poppies, Burros Crossing
Jeannifer Jean Sandoval - Dulce de Algodon, Molcajete
Dolores Santos Priego - Purple Hair
Natacha Sochat - Move Over Andy, Un Pajarito Errante, American Hispana III
Michael Tolleson (Robles) - Her Moment, Taken Out For a Spin, Carnaval
Ray Pfeiffer / HangerSmith Design
Ocean Study: Meditation #22
July-August
Songs Without Words: Meditations
For me, music and photography have always been inextricably linked. Artists use both forms to tell stories, elicit feelings, or otherwise express the inexpressible. This idea was stated quite succinctly by Graham Nash who once observed: "To me there's absolutely no difference between photography and music. After all, I'm just playing with frequencies: light or sound."
The “Meditations” series, represents the ways photographs, like music, can tell stories without the need for words. Each image is a visual representation, or meditation on an idea expressed in much the same way as if improvised by a musician. Expressing thoughts that are often difficult to put into words.
These images are an exploration of musical meditations represented by the never-ending ebb and flow of ocean waves as they caress the beach. Classical composers would often create works intended to put the listener in a state of thoughtful calm or meditation. Music designed for the listener to relax and explore their inner thoughts. For me, listening to the ocean will produce the same effect. I approached this series in the same vein, listening to the sounds and recording my responses as I listened.
About Ray
Ray is a Visual Anthropologist based in Raleigh, NC. Rather than use words, he creates images to illustrate an idea, or create a narrative for the viewer to follow. When not searching for stories to tell, Ray has guest lectured, taught photography, and understanding creativity, for many educational and civic groups. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Panorama Photographers, he is also the moderator for the photographers’ forum at Visual Art Exchange, as well as an event/exhibition coordinator for the annual Click! Photography Festival. He also bakes great cookies.
Recurring dream
RECURRING DREAM
Katie Byrum | Jade Hoyer
July 7 - 27, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, July 7, 6-10pm
Project Statement:
Recurring dream is collaboration between poet Katie Byrum (Brooklyn, NY), and visual artist Jade Hoyer (Minneapolis, MN). Byrum’s poem, To the River House (recurring dream), is a poignant work on coming-of-age, of quiet hometowns and nostalgia. Inspired by Byrum’s work, Hoyer addresses these ideas through printmaking (woodcut and silkscreen) and installation.
National Fly Killin' Week by Chance Murray
National Fly Killin' Week
June 21 - August 4
First Friday Receptions: July 7 & August 4
Artist Talk: TBD
One day I walked into my house and it was full of flies. “ have mercy, I am going to need a whole lotta fly swatters” so I made some, 100 to be exact. Later that same day, the interior of my house looked like World War two for flies. The next thought was, there ought to be a national damn holiday for this. So I now present you with how opening day for National Fly Killing Week would look, kinda like Disney world if it was opened by your Uncle Bubba. complete with parade, a celebratory hornworm drop at midnight, souvenir fly swatters and pointers on how you may wish to decorate your own home for National Fly Killin week.
National Fly Killin’ Week is real. Believe it. If you still don’t believe it, come see for yourself. After all, there’s a week for everything else…
ARTIST BIO
Chance Murray is a Southerner first, and an artist second. Using skills grafted from farming his large-scale mixed media works cobble together traditional painting, woodworking, and pure redneck engineering, producing vivid and slightly skewed scenes of rural life. these conjured images often come from a place both hard to describe yet somehow familiar, casting the viewer into a crudely altered world. Roughly scribbled text, often severing as comic relief, sprawl across the surface enhancing these scenes, sometimes providing description while sometimes, or simultaneously, flipping the image on its head, changing and confounding any sense of meaning. Chance is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist award, He lives and works in Cedar Grove, N.C.
Under Pressure: The Performance Exhibition
Under Pressure: The Performance Exhibition
July 7 - 27
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
First Friday, July 7 - Various
July 8 - Ginger Wagg & Charles Chace - Drum Power
July 12 - Reflex Arc - Crowmeat Bob & Ginger Wagg
July 14 - Cara Hagan - The Body in the Breath (In Color!)
July 15 - Heather Gordon and Chris Vitiello - Typeface
July 19 - Chandler Thomas - /Skein/
July 20 - Andi Steele - Ignorance is Bliss
July 21 - Stephanie Leathers - Valve
July 22 - Debra Wuliger - Wisdom Collects
July 26 - The Upward Dogs
July 27 - Julia Casten - Privilege Coffee
Performance Exhibition Project Seed Grant
As a part of the Under Pressure: Performance Exhibition, VAE gave away two $250 grants to artists whose work is performance based and are looking for resources to begin new projects, further their current practice, and continue their creativity.
Grant Recipients
Stephanie Leathers
Bio-
Stephanie Leathers is a choreographer, educator, photographer, performer and Durham native. In addition to connecting and collaborating with members in the community, she is the organizer of Sunday SITES, a site-responsive investigation to infrastructural change. Currently, Stephanie teaches at American Dance Festival’s Samuel H. Scripps Studios and is a Dance Educator for Durham Public Schools. Learn more about her work at stephaniepleathers.com.
Maria Lindseth
Bio-
A kaleidoscope human, born in the USSR, grew up in Prague and residing in the US since 2005, I've had formal art education as a youngster but swayed away to freedom of my own art soul. An enthusiastic artiscientist with solid background in diverse fields, I enjoy challenges and a fast paced environment. I've received BS in Microbiology from Arizona State University and worked as a scientist before returning to art full time. I've always regarded art as this absolute freedom and joy. Similar to that feeling when you are Skipping and catching wind on your face. My goal is to bring that feeling to viewers through my work. To achieve the goal, I use acrylics and mixed media with a variety of application methods including palette knives, household objects and palmar action. My abstract work is centered on diversity and beauty of People and Nature, and the complexity in human souls. The elements of exploration and discovery in my often vibrant and dynamic work facilitate connection and exploration in viewers.
Under Pressure: The Print Exhibition
Under Pressure: The Print Exhibition
June 30 - July 27
VAE sought artists to submit works that had been created through any and all of the printmaking processes that utilize pressure. Pressing ink into paper has served as a catalyst for reproducing ideas in both in text and image throughout history and VAE wants to show how artists are using these techniques today.
Under Pressure: The Print Exhibition
July 7 - July 27
VAE sought artists to submit works that had been created through any and all of the printmaking processes that utilize pressure. Pressing ink into paper has served as a catalyst for reproducing ideas in both in text and image throughout history and VAE wants to show how artists are using these techniques today.
ACCEPTED WORKS
Olivia Adams Preserved
Dylan Bannister Identity Withheld - Venus
Anna Butler Two Sides of the Same Coin
Hunter Davis La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg
Kimberly Edwards Mother Tree
George Gregory Labels
Melissa Hill Spring Trillium
Sarah Kinard Comma
Joyce Watkins King Jeans Geology
Megan Klosterman Untitled 03
Ann M Lawtey Into the Pool
Sydney Lee Sounds Like, Looks Like
Emily Lees A Glimpse Beyond
Jessie Mathers Nestled in love, Through the crack
Moira McManus Today & Tomorrow
Barbara Rizza Mellin Safe Harbor (spring)
Nick Osetek Howl (Positive)
Jonathan Prichard Skeleton
Adrian Rhodes Beeball, Dearest
Robert Simoneau Seven-letter Word
Susan Soper Calm
Matina Marki Tillman Thrill of Flight(I), The social thinker
Miriam Weirich OF YOU
Georgia Welch Moral March
Jessica White The Calling, Lead Army
Robert Witchger Sound Side, Winter
Heather Youngblood Confessions
Artwork Drop-off
Wednesday, June 28 - Friday, June 30 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday, July 1 11 am - 4 pm
HUNG
June 2 - 22, 2017
Opening Reception: June 2, 6-10pm
Project Statement
Liz Kelly and Sarah Tector have come together in this collaborative effort to explore their mutuality while pushing each other towards new ideas. Tector is known for her clean, geometric and architecturally influenced jewelry and Kelly for her elegant and strong functional pottery. Turning their attention towards home adornment, H U N G explores pendant lighting and functional wall pieces. This exhibit reflects a partnership of craftspeople exploring new processes and each other’s visual language.
Anthony Garcia-Copian / AJ Fletcher
Anthony Garcia-Copian
AJ Fletcher Foundation
May-July
When I paint, I paint abstract memories. Sometimes the memory is foggy and has been replaced by an imaginary sediment, a residue that has made one memory solid and the other fluid.
Everything in art is a memory.
I have empathic traits, therefore I paint the images of the emotions that I am able to absorb from strangers and from those who surround me.
The only expectation that I have from my art is pleasure.
- AGC
SCOPE '17
SCOPE '17
June 2 -22
SCOPE is a survey of the southern landscape. While being bold, beautiful, provocative, and enticing the landscape is also set in histories, cultures, and people. These histories, cultures, and people affect and are affected by the political and societal landscapes, that make the South as we see it and talk about it today.
SCOPE '17
June 2 -22
SCOPE is a survey of the southern landscape. While being bold, beautiful, provocative, and enticing the landscape is also set in histories, cultures, and people. These histories, cultures, and people affect and are affected by the political and societal landscapes, that make the South as we see it and talk about it today.
ACCEPTED WORKS
Randy Akers Emit Grove
Phoebe Alicia Art is Everywhere
Rick Bennett Last Light
William Breazeale Shopping Center
Larry Brown Evolution of Strange Fruit
Edde Burgess Edge of the field, Where the light comes in
Lisa Ellis Sailaway
Melinda Fine The eyes have it
Gina Franco "Life's a Drag"
Leif Gann-Matzen Idol
Ursula Gullow Night Terrorscape
Dawn Hummer Makin Hay
Brian Imfeld Our Vantage Point Because The Destination
Judy Jones Virgin Pines, Reconstruction: Fine Food
Carolyn Kerecman Appalachia, Paradise Lost
Randy McNamara Beach Blanket Bingo
Joan Meade Set Rock Creek Falls
Colin Murasko The Velvet Cloak Inn (d. 2017) Raleigh, NC
Libby O'Daniel Mehlynn
Eric Raddatz Kittrell Farm
Eric Saunders Not Quite Frozen No. 2
Austin Sheppard Forefathers' Guise
Matthew Smith Lava Flow
Emily Smith Grandmother's Mantel, Sweet One
Maggie Snoke Joey
Mary Starke On the Ground, Gloves Don't Matter
Sterling Stevens After the Tempest
Richard Stickney Soul Food
JP Trostle State of the Nation
Chris Vitiello The ability to sustain damage by choice
Anne Willson Open Vine
AWARDS
The Brancato Award - 1st - Erin Ethridge Baptism
The Brancato Award is given each year to an artist whose work has a unique take on landscapes. The Brancato Award is the First Place award for VAE's annual SCOPE exhibition. Kathy Brancato was a valued member of the VAE community who painted innovative landscapes. Kathy was also very supportive of her fellow artists and this award will allow her creative spirit to encourage other artists.
2nd - Tricia McKellar Landscape + Memory
3rd - Jeff Murphy Pier
Sheila Hall / United Arts Center
Sheila Hall
United Arts Council
The bold and vibrant hues of SJ Hall’s art give us pause as we go about our otherwise busy routines of life. Passionate crimsons, royal purple and gold denote culture and ceremony. Bright yellows and orange reflect the warmth of the sunlight or floral gifts of nature. Hall paints and creates from experiences, memories, dreams and visions.
Originally from North Carolina, SJ Hall ventured to Alaska in 1981. For eighteen years she taught art to children and adults of all ages. Having retired after thirty plus years as an educator, principal and supervisor Hall now paints for enjoyment and on commissioned works. Sheila Judge Hall is best known as an Alaskan artist whose work can be found in several art collections in Anchorage Alaska. She has been a featured artist in Anchorage Wild Salmon on Parade Sculpture Project, Transformed Treasures Salvation Army Benefit art exhibitions and has donated art to many charitable silent auctions. Her colorful artwork is among many private art collections from Anchorage to North Carolina. Living and working in Alaska for over twenty years exposed Hall to a multitude of nationalities and cultures, which influenced her art. Visit sjhallartwork.com to see some of her work and shopvida.com/collections/sheila-j- hall for wearable art. Hall has returned to her native state and now works from her home “Color Speaks Studio,” in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sheila Judge Hall is a graduate of East Carolina University, School of Art and Design, and the University of Alaska Anchorage. Hall is currently a professional artist in Raleigh, NC and a member of NC Artspace. She is a proud wife, mother and grandmother.