En Masse

En Masse

December 7 - January 4, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION DECEMBER 7, 6-8PM!

United Arts Council
410 Glenwood Ave.
Raleigh, NC 27603

En Masse is an exhibition of VAE’s artist groups community. Over the past year each artist has attended one or more group meetings where they discuss and critique each other’s work. VAE offers five different groups that meet each month: Photographer’s Forum, Plein Air Painters, Textile and Fiber, Abstract and Contemporary, and Metalsmith. For more info on the groups check out the Artist Groups page.

ARTISTS

Lynn Alker
Sterling Bowen
Kelly R Johnston
Marie Lawrence
Patricia Ligon
Tina Marcus
Scott McRae
Jason Noble
Anna Payne Rogers
Lynn Russell
Cara Smelter
Teresa Stephens
Brooke Suffridge
Barbara Thomas
Debi Vought
Qing Wang

Carlos Vargas

Carlos Vargas

September/October

HagerSmith
300 S Dawson St, Raleigh, NC 27601
10-4

First Friday - October 5th
6-9

ARTIST BIO

Carlos Vargas was born in Miami, Florida and attended UNCC (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), receiving a B.F.A. in Art ,with concentrations in graphic design and digital media, in 2018 . His body of work ranges from graphic design to experimental video to even digital paintings . Carlos recently presented one of his video pieces (To + Fro) at the annual Digital Graffiti festival in Alys Beach, Fl. Carlos' main inspiration comes from stories. Since he was a little kid, Carlos would read fantasy stories and and analyze them. This analysis would become the basis of each and every one of his pieces. When not creating work, Carlos is playing or running tabletop games with his friends. 

ARTIST STATMENT

All artist have their own style when it comes to art. Picasso had cubism. Andrew Warhol had Pop Art. I have Ink blots. This series is an ongoing collection of self-expression. These ink blots are not created but rather form when I reach a state of relaxation. Because of this, no two ink blots are exactly the same much like no two moments in life are ever the same. My goal in this series is to present  the viewer with a glimpse into who I am both as a person and as an artist. 

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.

M Y C O M E T A M O R P H I C

M Y C O   M E T A M O R P H I C

Nicole Asselin
Exhibit design in collaboration with Cecilia Mouat
June 6 - July 28

Biodesign is an emerging movement that addresses designs’ connection with the natural world. Essential within the biodesign lexicon are mycelium composite materials. Mycelium is the vegetative, filamentous part of a mushroom, usually found underground. When grown within a nutrient rich substrate, the mycelium and the substrate bind together forming a stable, easily regenerated material. This growing process can be tailored to express a wide range of properties and affordances applicable for design applications. Mycelium composites are currently in use commercially as viable replacements for plastics and packing material as well as insulation, foam and leather.

This emerging design medium utilizes a transdisciplinary lens that expands the essential and timely conversation of designs’ relationship with nature and sustainability. It moves beyond the antiquated approach of simple resource conservation, developing a paradigmatic shift- inviting new ways of making that promote life-giving cycles and challenge dominate modes of production and consumption. These composite materials work with biological events as essential design components – not designing like nature, designing with natural processes. In conversation with the current concerns surrounding environmental issues, contemporary discourse in design is asking how to generate new materials and new cycles of use. Mycelium-based materials actively bring nature, science and design together to reimagining ways of producing and valuing materials.

Globe by Leroi DeRubertis

GLOBE

Leroi DeRubertis
June 20 - August 11

Artist talk: Aug. 11 @ noon

ARTIST STATEMENT

Leroi DeRubertis draws small pieces with wire. She assembles them en masse, speaking to both individual and collective humanity.