George Hage - Aloft RDU

George Hage - Aloft RDU

10020 Sellona St, Raleigh, NC 27617

Nov., 2018 - Jan., 2018

George Hage Art + Apparel is hand designed and hand printed design out of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. George is a published artist and songwriter born in North Carolina and local to "the Triangle" - Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. Obsessed with music and comic books at a young age, George continues to uniquely infuse these passions into his artwork. George has had the opportunity to design works for Hopscotch Music Festival, Moogfest, Lincoln Theatre, The ArtsCenter, and various bands and venues. He has also created t-shirt designs, beer labels, and painted mural work for breweries like Big Boss Brewing, Trophy Brewing Company, and Mystery Brewing. Additionally he has done cover work for local publications and conventions, branding and logo designs for apparel and businesses, and poster work for the Carolina Hurricanes. When he's not designing and creating hand, screen printed goods, catch him performing with Jack the Radio and New Reveille.

Victoria Powers - HagerSmith

Victoria Powers - HagerSmith

300 S Dawson St, Raleigh, NC 27601

October - December

FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION DECEMBER 7, 6-9PM!

Victoria Turner Powers has exhibited professionally since 1988, and is a multimedia artist, who has worked, and continues to work in a variety of new media, and to experiment using new techniques with old media. Primarily, a painter, and so particularly interested in the use of color in her work,  she has painted large abstract acrylics, impressionistic style paintings in oil, realistic style in watercolor, and alcohol ink paint on a variety of surfaces.

Victoria has also worked in other diverse media such as handmade paper collages and vessels, weaving, felting, foil relief etchings, and recycle art, sculpture, mixed media, and black and white 35 mm film photography. Working with abstraction in oil paint, and then once again in acrylic on canvas, are more recent concentrations for her.

Victoria grew up in Newark, Delaware and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in high school where she graduated from Myers Park.  She then went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in art education and fine art as a painting major.

Victoria worked simultaneously as a professional artist and a full time art teacher most of her working career.

Victoria is a twice certified national board for professional teaching standards certified art educator who was awarded the North Carolina Art Educator Teacher of the Year award in 2009. She retired from full time teaching in 2014 to devote more time to create her own art.

Victoria was fortunate to have had the opportunity to run her own private art gallery, Victoria Powers Studio Ten, in the downtown Raleigh City Market area, The Blake Street Studios, for four years prior to relocating to her home studio in Northwest Raleigh. From there she is currently creating new works of art, is teaching private and small group lessons, and welcomes creating works for others by commission.

On a personal note, Victoria enjoys year-round lap swimming, singing and playing percussion around the triangle in the duo band called The Boomers, and being “mama V” to three adorable grandchildren!

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

Eddie Lohmeyer

Computer-Generated Imagery, 1908

November 2 - December 28

Computer-Generated Imagery, 1908 is an interactive installation that utilizes projection-mapping to animate sequences of continually-evolving glitch patterns. Each pattern is a corrupted video file of Emile Cohl’s animated film Fantasmagorie (1908). These animations are projected in layers onto the walls and screens of three “dead” computer monitors. When participants touch the circuit board pattern on the wall, they cause the projected patterns to slowly rewind, fast-forward, or reset in their respective loops, producing an on-going field of generated patterns. These animations pay homage to the absurd transformations of line and shape witnessed in Emile Cohl’s hand-drawn animated film. By evoking Cohl’s animations on the familiar interface of older CRT monitors, I consider the ways in which our experience of interactive media technologies indicates a return to earlier animation practices. That is to say, the vitality of forms within the animated image—whether in old or new modes of production—engages the senses through technical illusions and plays of movement.

PROJECT STATEMENT

My work explores the intersections between body and technological apparatus, particularly in how physical computing technologies and interactivity can open up participants to novel sensory and perceptual experiences. Through site specific sculptural and video installations, my work prompts a politics of the body that reconsiders our habitual encounters with technologies through new avenues of play and engaging with unfamiliar haptic interfaces. Here, I consider embodied experience through speculative, imaginary worlds that bring together nature and the technological, organic and machinic, biological and cybernetic. Likewise, I work to upend and play with the media interfaces we have developed a nostalgic affinity for, often through intentionally deconstructive approaches: glitch, physical modifications to hardware, and found assemblage. The bizarre and playful encounters with these strange media unveil the very nature of our normal attitudes and perceptions toward communication technologies.

Stacked - Yvette Cummings Arendt

Stacked

Yvette Cummings Arendt

October 24 - December 8, 2018

ARTIST BIO

Yvette L. Cummings received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. While still enrolled at DAAP she was director of the 840 Gallery, interned at the Contemporary art Center of Cincinnati, and was the recipient of the Wolfstien Travel Fellowship to Spain. Following her graduate work, Cummings became an instructor for the University of South Carolina Department of Art. She was awarded the Stephen J. Dalton Teacher of the year from USC University in 2011. Cummings is currently a Teaching Associate at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. Her work has been exhibited in multiple group and solo exhibitions throughout the south and midwest. In 2013 Cummings collaborated with James Arendt to participate in Free City Public Arts Festival, Flint Public Arts Project: Chevy in the Hole with their socially engaging installation titled “Righting Itself”. Her work can be found in both public and private collections and has been featured in the 701 Center for Contemporary Art 2015 South Carolina Biennial in Columbia SC as well as Contemporary South at Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, NC. Cummings was Most recently the recipient of the 701 CCA Prize 2016 for South Carolina artists under 40. Yvette L. Cummings currently resides in Conway, South Carolina where she devotes her time to her studio work, teaching, and family.

ARTIST STATEMENT

This work presents a moment of transition between experiences of recalled child abuse and the dynamics of motherhood. I am interested in exploring the relationships my daughters have with one another and the complicated path of youth, beauty and femininity. Girls are constantly told how they should present themselves and are held to an innocence that gets twisted in the adult gaze. Beauty is seen as trouble, but girls are expected to be beautiful. As I have watched my daughters in their youth, I reflect on the trouble that was brought to me as a survivor of child sexual abuse. The scattered memories of my experiences echo in the awkwardness of traversing out of childhood and into self-awareness.

The struggles of adolescence include navigating the dynamics of family, sibling rivalry and rapid transitions into adulthood. I depict my daughters during these times in relation to one another, and with myself. The narratives present overt physical strain and gesture to relay the message of conflict. My eldest daughter repeatedly confronts the viewer with her gaze. The compositions are purposeful in the postures of the girls. They are representing their age, but we feel voyeuristic in our participation.

I use damask and floral patterns to flatten the spatial aspects of the work. These very traditional, elegant patterns create a visual abstraction and represent the confusion that occurs over time and space. The figures are pushed to the foreground, making the viewer confront them leaving nowhere else for their eyes to go. The figures, in contrast to the patterns, challenge our role in the gaze we place on adolescence and the expectations that come with beauty.

Mary Storms - Aloft Raleigh

Mary Storms - Aloft Raleigh

2100 Hillsborough street, Raleigh
10-4 Monday-Sunday

Oct. 10 - Dec., 2018

Mary Storms expresses her artistic vision through abstract mixed-media landscapes.  As a self-taught artist, with a degree in biology, Mary is intrigued and inspired by the natural environment. Her intent is to provide the viewer with a sense of the symbiotic relationship between primeval elements - stone, soil, water and sky - and the life these elements nurture.

Mary’s canvases are noted for their rich textures and intense color, from bold and vibrant to quiet and subdued. In addition to acrylic paint, she uses sculpting paste, along with layers of torn or cut handmade paper and recycled magazine paper. To add additional depth, portions of some layers are scrubbed or scraped off. Paint is applied with brushes, palette knives and her hands.

Mary’s  award-winning work has been exhibited in multiple venues throughout North Carolina and is included in many local, national, and international private collections.  She is currently represented by Gallery444 in San Francisco, CA and the Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash, NC. In addition to these two galleries, select pieces can also be viewed by appointment at her home studio in downtown Raleigh.  All of her work can be viewed on her website.

m u r m u r a t i o n

m u r m u r a t i o n

October 5 - 27

Building on the success of last year's Sleight of Hand exhibition, Lori Vrba passes the curator's torch to Tobia Makover. This year's exhibition, m u r m u r a t i o n , will continue to push the boundaries of photography while doubling the artists, and tripling the exhibition space.  

As part of the Click! Photography Festival’s world class programming, m u r m u r a t i o n celebrates all things photographic while engaging the audience with exceptional artists.

Artists: Greg Banks, Anne Jarrell Berry, Addison Brown, Brooke Caudle, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Tobia Makover, Heather Evans Smith Photography, Dawn Surratt, Lori Vrba and Melanie Walker

The month-long celebration takes place every October and brings together photography lovers, engaging exhibitions, and dynamic programming while fostering dialogue between photographers and community members. All in hopes of inspiring artistic excellence, professional development, and promoting a strong photographic art community.

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. 

Kate Robinson - Blind Spots

Kate Robinson

Blind Spots

September 7  - September 27

ARTIST STATEMENT

In a search to connect more deeply with her sense of place, community, environment and what it means to care for it, Kate Robinson will construct suspended structures that investigate the complex, sometimes invisible links between all things. Inspired by pop-up book mechanics and moments of odd ingenuity that happen when "factory-made" solutions break down, Robinson pieces together accumulated materials to construct spaces. In her practice, Robinson references ecosystems and the intimate relationships that form webs between parts in an effort to mimic and embody those ties. Robinson's interests lie with creating spaces that invite the viewers to interact with her work by putting in motion simple processes that reveal these convoluted relationships.

For this particular project, Robinson will construct panels from primarily collected materials and reused hardware to piece together an interactive space for the community. The idea is for visitors to be able to push, pull, spin, zip, pivot, hoist, and roll features that set in motion a small reaction unexpectedly in other parts of the exhibition. Ultimately, Robinson is asking the community to play the role of physical motion to bring the pieces to life and place yourself within it as a part of the intricate systems to which we are all bound. 

ARTIST BIO

Kate Robinson is a MFA graduate of University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a background in painting, drawing and printmaking and current practice in mixed-media and site-specific installation. 

Holly Wong - Mind/Forest

Holly Wong

Mind/Forest

August 22 - October 6

ARTIST STATEMENT

When considering the physicality of the body, it brings up feelings of weight and pressure but yet a counter balance of elusiveness and lightness. My work is a constant process of assembling, deconstructing and then making whole once again. The intent of this work is to visually express the nature of though, how thoughts move in our brains, and how thoughts may concentrate or synergies into patterns as demonstrated by the networks of thread.

I create installations that address the subtle and ephemeral nature of psychological states. through the action of sewing, I build and construct and then by cutting and resewing, structures are reconstructed again. It is very much the way I feel about the process of life. It grows, becomes, falls apart sometimes because of our own actions, and then there is the attempt to repair. But yet in the process of repairing, we become stronger than before. 

ARTIST BIO

Holly Wong is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco, California.  She was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New Genres.  Holly creates installations and photographs, integrating non-traditional approaches with more traditional sewing techniques associated with the history of women.  Her approach is both non-conventional but also deeply rooted in her history and culture.

She has been awarded visual arts grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial fund, the George Sugarman Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and a Gerbode Foundation purchase award. She is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and has had over 50 group exhibitions and 10 solo exhibitions at venues such as the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the University of San Francisco and the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont.

Spare Room • The Lab

Spare Room

Guilia Piera Livi
Aug. 3 - Aug. 31

I interpose objects of the everyday to distort our sense of space, explore our ability to inhabit rooms, and merge
the dreamlike with the rigid. My geometric objects and paintings focus on materiality to investigate light, shadow, and the weirdly functional. I think of paintings as they exist in the home, decorating our lives, using us to give them purpose. And inversely, objects become paintings to question abstraction and reality. My work focuses on the acute and the polite, the domestic and the utilitarian.

My current studio practice deals with the issue of interior space and design. I work to understand how we as humans find art objects to be aesthetically pleasing, how we choose to live among them in our homes. We live in a time when we rarely accept appliances that only serve one purpose, which prompts me to investigate how paintings can be multifunctional to highlight the absurdity of convenience. This question of domesticity comes from a curiosity of the curated home space, how the imperfections of home life can be contrasted with the polish of interior design. By paring abstraction with accessibility, I aim to critique these spaces, both the home and where we shop for the home, questioning the commodification of art objects and what that means for the artist. What is the role of the artist in a society with an aspiration to be modern?

If an object starts as a tiny point in space and slowly grows into the utilitarian object by which we call upon it, what does it look like just before that moment of realization? Can we still assign purpose? A subtle shift in scale, a light that’s too bright, and a water source that cannot be as clean as its linen surface. A color palette that leaves you with feelings of nostalgia and warmth, yet slight unease. Misbalance. Misbehavior.
Pick out your painting. Where will you put it?

King Nobuyoshi Godwin

King Nobuyoshi Godwin 

United Arts Council
410 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603
Monday - Friday 10 - 4

My favorite things

September 7 - 27th

King sees what is true to him. King speaks his feeling through his paintings. King feels all of what is important for life, love and expresses them through his paintings. He believes in his works, and all of them are purely precious to him. 

King sees colors and numbers with feelings. They dance on his canvas, and those are his friends. 4500 is the happiest number, and 7 is sad, yet 77 is a good day! When he paints, he smiles. He enjoys feelings are freely cast in his canvases. King thinks being autistic is pretty lucky because he can see beautiful trees and talk to them. King enjoys his life and he knows exactly what he likes. He swims like a fish and plays Taiko drums like he calls heaven.

BIO

King was Born 1991 in Raleigh NC and diagnosed with autism when he was two and a half years old. He attended the Special Education program of Wake County School Systems and received a certificate from Leesville High School in Raleigh NC in 2012. King attended UNC at Greensboro for one year, living away from home in the college dorm for the Beyond Academics Program in 2013. King became a painter in 2013. In addition to his parents, Thomas & Yuko Taylor and a brother Malik Nobumasa Godwin, he has many other supporters of his painting career. King currently lives in an apartment attached to parents home independently. He is a proud team member of the Special Olympic Raleigh Racer Swimmers and a performing member of Special Japanese Taiko-Drum ensemble

ARTIST STATEMENT

"My name is King Nobuyoshi Godwin. I have autism. Being autistic is ok. I can see trees in my mind and talk with them. It's blue and it's ok. When I paint I feel good because it's my job, and I am proud of it. I think people enjoy and think my painting is good. I like drawing animals. They are sweet. That is 4400 and purple. If I sell my paintings I can buy more paint colors. And that is purple and that is 4400."

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.

Theresa Devine

Theresa Devine

United Arts Council
410 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603
Monday - Friday 10 - 4

August 3 - September 29 

As a part of THE EVERYDAY project, Theresa Devine will be showcasing her game works for the months of August and September. 

BIO

Theresa Devine, MFA, is an Assistant Professor in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. She is an artist and a scholar whose interdisciplinary research draws on the subjects of games, play, psychology, aesthetics, ethics and social transformation. Theresa received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi in 1991 and her MFA in Painting at the University of Houston in 1994. In her studio artwork, she explores games, toys, and play. 

Her work as lead of the Studio 4 Gaming Innovation research lab focuses on researching games to redefine and explore what they can be and how they can be used in concert with art to initiate transformation in our society. 

In both her artwork and scholarship, She is interested in discovering how art and play can be understood in order to be activated for social change. She believes that through a greater understanding of art and play, a road to creating a more just, tolerant, and inclusive world can
be exposed and that this path can be opened up for others to make discoveries
of their own. 

STATEMENT

Ce n'est pas un jouet: This is not a toy.

Why do we forget to play when we grow up? Why do we hurt each other? Everywhere I look I see distrust, miscommunication, and misunderstanding. This is followed with greed, selfishness, and pain. How can play help us to understand each other? 

Can play transform us and our world? Play is how we learn and gain trust from each other, so can it liberate us from the cycle of hurting each other? 

Through toys and games, I explore the intersection between adversity and play. Play is a serious venture and as the title says, it is not a toy. I invoke Magritte with this title because his work showed us that possibilities are only limited by our imagination. I believe that through play we release ourselves from adversity and open the door to new possibilities. 
 

Effy Francis

Effy Francis 

United Arts Council
410 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC 27603
Monday - Friday 10 - 4

August 3  - 31

As a part of THE EVERYDAY project, Effy Francis will be showcasing their unique body of work for the month of August. 

ARTIST BIO

Effy Alece Francis was born in Marietta, GA in 1992. Publishing under the trade name E. Alece, they work primarily in digital media. Under their mother's influence, Effy was self-taught from age 10. Believing the human body to be the ultimate art form, Effy imbues their pieces with surreal eroticism and symbolism. Coming out as non-binary transgender in 2017, Effy's artwork speaks to their experience and intersecting identities as a queer, disabled individual. Currently based in Columbia, SC, Effy has shown their work at: VAE Raleigh, Ultralight 2 2018 and 701 CCA Open Studios 2013.

STATEMENT

My work speaks to deep emotions coupled with soft imagery. Loneliness, love, death, and heartbreak are a few of the themes I paint; using flowers, intricate shapes, muted palettes, and beauty in the human form.

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.

Danny Laffey • HagerSmith

Danny Laffey • HagerSmith

300 S Dawson St, Raleigh, NC 2760
Hours m-f 9-5

July-August 2018

Danny Laffey is an abstract artist living and working in Raleigh, NC.  Danny's work is inspired by the emotive power of color. Danny strives to achieve an image that is both vibrant, calming and captivating.  Color and contrast are at the core of Danny's paintings as he works to portray the image as he sees it in the moment. His work has been displayed in Scranton, PA, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Raleigh in solo exhibits, group exhibits and private collections. 

The paintings themselves can be perceived in a multitude of ways.  The use of a horizon line, creating a distinct break in the painting, signifies the need for me to express my vision of the world around me.  Using an element of movement and depth in one portion of the painting, while contrasting it both with color, but also in application on the other half.  It is in this break that I strive to convey my view of an ever-changing, fast-paced and complicated world with the simple and serene in all of our lives.  These two opposing viewpoints of the world around us are represented by varying colors and depths which are indicative of feeling and mood characteristic of each painting.  I view my work as way to understand both emotion and reaction to all of the countless aspects of life.  My goal is to create paintings that both bring the viewer in and create a sense of calm.  The works are void of any figurative references. Color is the sole mode of communication, giving the viewer a more introspective and serene experience.  

Jane Cheek • Aloft RDU

Jane Cheek • Aloft RDU

10020 Sellona St, Raleigh, NC 27617
 

July-September 2018

"Hi! I am mixed media artist who loves working with bright colors and metallics. I enjoy exploring both form and feeling through modern abstract expressionism with occasional nods to pop art and fauvism. Once upon a time, I graduated from North Carolina State University with a BA in Visual Arts Applications. I taught art at a K-8 charter school in Durham for five years before deciding to stay home with my kids. I now spend my days unschooling our three sons and working in my home studio."