Comedy Night: MEZCLA edition!
On Saturday August 12, 8-9:30pm, VAE will host four hilarious Latinx comedians in conjunction with our MEZCLA exhibition, curated by Claudia Corletto. This is the first of three Comedy Nights happening this year. The goal is to showcase talented comedy performers while creating deeper experiences of our exhibitions, encouraging new community connections, and giving you a chance to laugh your head off for 90 minutes. Who doesn't need a good laugh nowadays?!
For August, comedy guru and host Adam Cohen is bringing Rene Luna, Freddy Valoy, Kenyon Adamcik, and Carlos Valencia to tickle your funny bones. That's a whole lot of silly under one roof-- don't miss it! Doors open at 7 so you can check out our amazing MEZCLA exhibition. Show starts at 8!
Cost: $10
Ages 18+
>> FUTURE COMEDY NIGHTS
While you've got your babysitter on the phone, have her pencil in these dates too!
Comedy Night: Black On Black edition!
Saturday, November 4, 8-9:30pm
Comedy Night: Feminine Spectrum edition!
Saturday, April 14, 8-9:30pm
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
Ignite Gallery Owners Speed Date
MONDAY, AUGUST 14TH @ VAE RALEIGH
SPEED DATES are thematized 30-minute one-on-ones with area smartypants who can answer your pressing professional questions! This time, we are excited to host four gallery owners from the Triangle area to answer your questions about how to get your work seen and out into the world. Space is limited. Grab yourself a date before it's too late!
HOW IT WORKS
This is your chance to pick some smart brains in a relaxed, comfortable environment! You should come with a few questions you want to ask your guru(s) during your 30-minute meeting(s). The Speed Date registration form will give them a little background on you before you meet so you won't have to start your conversation totally from scratch.
This event will be held from 2-6 pm on Monday, August 14. That time frame is just when the gurus are available to meet. You get to pick who you meet with and when (depending on availability). You are not expected to be at the event the whole four hours it's happening. Pick and choose to suit your needs and schedule!
REGISTRATION
STEP ONE: Complete the registration form through Wufoo [CLICK HERE]. You will be asked for your contact information and a short survey of questions to help the gurus understand your needs. This event is FREE for current VAE members and $10 for non-members.
Questions/prompts Include:
- What are the five words that BEST describe your creative work?
- What kids of marketing do you currently do?
- What marketing outreach do you enjoy doing?
- What are the main challenges with marketing your creative work?
STEP TWO: Once you've completed step one we'll give you a link to an outside scheduling service called Sign Up Genius where you will choose the guru(s) and time(s) you want – remember! MAX is TWO gurus + time selection per registrant. Once you've done that and hit submit, you're 100% registered!
MEET YOUR DATES
Shelley Smith Anchorlight, Raleigh
Anchorlight is an interdisciplinary creative space, founded with the intent of fostering artists and small businesses at varying stages of their development. The space provides exhibition, performance and production space in addition to artist studios and residency opportunities.
Shelley Smith is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Raleigh, NC, and a Master of Art + Design candidate at the NCSU College of Design.
Laura Ritchie The Carrack, Durham
The Carrack is an artist-centered, volunteer-run, zero-commission exhibition and event space in downtown Durham. The mission of the organization is to empower local artists to forge productive cultural and social-economic ties with their community through professional exhibit and performance opportunities.
Laura Ritchie is the co-founder and director of The Carrack. She is passionate about creating opportunities across the arts and is working with her community to build safe, inclusive space for underrepresented and emerging artists. Currently, she is in pursuing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Duke University.
Stacy Bloom-Rexrode, The Block Gallery, Raleigh
The Block Gallery connects local artists to community through ongoing exhibitions and public outreach. Located on the first and second floors of the Raleigh Municipal Building, five to six exhibitions are displayed each year and feature works by artists who live or work in Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Orange or Wake County. Exhibitions are scheduled through a call for artists, juried by a selection panel of visual arts professionals, Raleigh Arts Commissioners and City staff.
Stacy Bloom-Rexrode is the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections with the Office of Raleigh Arts. She also holds a MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Studio Art-Painting and Sculpture.
Kelly McChesney, LUMP, Raleigh
Lump has served the community by providing a space for the presentation of thought-provoking art, while acting as a pipeline between NC and the world of contemporary art.
Kelly McChesney, re-directed her efforts as director of Flanders Gallery to serve as the Director of Lump as it transitioned into a non-profit entity. McChesney is known for eyeing emerging contemporary artists and for supporting up-and-coming artists.
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.
Community Exhibition Program I Spring
Community Exhibitions Program schedule for the Spring Call-for-art.
The Following is the upcoming Community Exhibitions Program schedule for the Spring Call-for-art.
AJ Fletcher
August - October I Katie Ree
Aloft Raleigh
October - December I Cathy Foreman
January - March I Adam Coulter
Aloft RDU
August - October I Randy MacNamara
November - January I Leslie Bailey
HagerSmith Design
July & August I Ray Pfeiffer
September & October I Anthony Garcia-Copian
November & December I Brian Imfeld
United Arts Council
July I Jennifer Potter
August I Rick Carlson
August & September I Kelly Murray
September I Mary Ann Anderson
November I Jane Cheek
November & December I Lloyd Konneker
December I Saundra Rubiera
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.
Artist Critique
VAE invites area educators and art professionals to do short individual critiques of your work. The next critique is scheduled for Monday, July 24th from 7pm - 8:30pm, at VAE Raleigh! Kathleen Rieder, Associate Professor of Art +Design Art at NC State, will be our guest critic.
Kathleen Rieder has been a teaching faculty member in the Department of Art + Design at NC State since 1989. With an emphasis is in Design Studies, her courses ranging from drawing, painting, color theory, mixed media, 2D Design and 3D Design.
In addition to teaching, she actively exhibits her art. She has been selected three times to exhibit in the NC Artists Exhibition at the NC Museum of Art and has exhibited at the Hanes Art Center at UNC Chapel Hill; the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro; Meredith College; NC State College of Design; the Louise Wells Cameron Museum in Wilmington; and more recently at the Caldwell County Arts Council and the Mahler Gallery in Raleigh.
The critique session is open to any medium/style of work.
Each artist may bring one piece to be critiqued and each artist will have an equal amount of time to receive feedback.
The registration fee is $5 so that VAE can pay our guest critic for their time and knowledge.
Under Pressure: Performance Exhibition Project Seed Grant
Deadline for entry - 11:59 pm on July 14, 2017
As a part of the Under Pressure: Performance ExhibitionE, VAE is giving 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.
Under Pressure: Performance Exhibition Project Seed Grant
Deadline for entry - 11:59 pm on July 14, 2017
As a part of the Under Pressure: Performance ExhibitionE, VAE is giving 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.
ELIGIBILITY
This opportunity is open to any artist whose work is performance based anywhere.
Entry to the call or acceptance to the exhibition is not a requirement for entry to the seed grant.
APPLICANTS MUST SUPPLY
>documents of three recent works
>a short bio
>project statement that outlines what funds will be used for
ACCESSIBILITY
VAE wants to make this opportunity as accessible as possible. If you have any trouble with the online form, please email Kyle or call 919.828.7834.
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
VAE PROM
VAE PROM
June 24, 7-10pm @ VAE
Join us for the weirdest prom you've ever been to (probably)! VAE's first ever prom night fundraiser will be a visual smorgasbord of all things prom, with dancing, awkward portraits, custom boutonnieres + corsages made on-site by artists, punch (spiked, naturally), snacks, a prom king + queen competition, tacky glitz, and of course your amazing outfits!
Theme: ALL THE THEMES! Over the Rainbow, Under the Sea and everything in between!
Attire: Come dressed as your favorite prom theme!
Tickets: $50 for couples, $30 individual
Ages 21+
WANT TO BE A PROM SPONSOR AND GET SWEET PERKS? CLICK HERE!
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.
PROJECT POSTCARD
PROJECT POSTCARD IS BACK!
A blank postcard, a stamp and a few USPS restrictions were the only guidelines given for VAE’s inaugural Project Postcard. In today’s culture we so rarely mail things. This project encouraged students to think about the ways in which we communicate our creative ideas.
Postcards are displayed May 5 - 15, 2017 in the windows of
VAE Raleigh
Holly Grove Middle School
Holly Springs High School
Homeschool
JF Webb High School
Leesville High School
Longleaf School of the Arts
NCSU
Reedy Creek Middle School
Roxboro Community School
Salem Middle School
Southern Wake Academy
The Waldo School
Vance Granville Community College
Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy
White Oak Elementary School
311 Gallery
Apex Friendship High School
Carnage Middle School
Dillard Drive Middle School
Durant Road Middle School
Enloe High School
Heroic University
Millbrook High School
Saint Timothy's School
Sanderson High School
Wakefield High School
United Arts
Apex High School
Broughton High School
Garner High School
Holly Ridge Middle School
Ligon Middle School
Martin Middle School
North Garner Middle School
Partnership Elementary School
Rand Road Elementary School
Ravenscroft
Rolesville High School
Southeast Raleigh High School
Turner Creek Elementary School
The Lived Body
The Lived Body
Subverbal Collective
May 5-25, 2017
Can I Keep You by Erin Canady
The Lived Body
Subverbal Collective
May 5-25, 2017
First Friday Reception: May 5, 6-10 pm
“My body is my point of view on the world not just another object in the world.”
-Merleau-Ponty
In this group exhibition six artists have chosen to engage with Merleau-Ponty’s notion of der Leib or the body as lived body. As a phenomenologist, Merleau-Ponty sought to describe the world of human experience and to describe the world as experience.
One essential structure of human existence for his view is the body. For Merleau-Ponty, the body was not merely an anatomical physical object in the world (der Körper) but a necessary part of the order and the structure of existence. It is how humans engage with the world and how knowledge is directly acquired. The body also organizes and structures our phenomenological knowledge of being a being-in-the-world.
In this exhibition we engage with this notion of the body in six unique ways.
SUBVERBAL COLLECTIVE IS AN ARTS COLLECTIVE BASED OUT OF THE RALEIGH/DURHAM AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOUNDED IN 2016 BY SIX VISUAL ARTISTS WHO ARE CURRENT AND RECENT GRADUATES OF UNC'S MFA PROGRAM, SUBVERBAL SEEKS TO PROVIDE A SPACE FOR CRITIQUE, DIALOGUE, AND COMMUNITY.
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.
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.
Works and Artists
Theresa Devine Till Disability Do Us Part
Ken Morgan New York School, Snake Charmer
Eduardo Lapetina Searching for the music in us
Brian Markuson Bees, My lips are sealed
David Adelman Elegy, Ability, and Glitch
Jeff Newell Entering the World, A Bird in the Hand
Shelby Scattergood Blind Faith
Anthony Garcia-Copian Witches of Depression
Cary Brief Cat and mouse
Jean Shortall POLIO INDUCED INSOMNIA
King N. Godwin Me and my family are together “71”, Hawaii is cool because there are starfish in the ocean
Mitchell Price Pirate Baseball
Evan Webster Future, No One Is Perfect
Luis Rosario Central Park
Jessica Baisey Incomplete
Darryl Johnson The Goddess Comforts the Blind
Wiley Johnson Darnkness Streams
David Chadderton Mystical Infusion
Sherry Spencer Out of the Woods, Speak to Me
Awards
- 1st - Theresa Devine In Sickness And In Health
- 2nd - Shelby Scattergood Popcorn
- 3rd - Eduardo Lapetina Where the intangible hovers
- Honorable Mention - Rea Rossi Cilia
- Honorable Mention - Heather Youngblood In my head.
Project Seed Grants Awardees
Darryl Johnson -
Part One. “Beautifully Disabled”
In this piece I challenge traditional concepts of feminine beauty. For example is a disabled woman considered beautiful? I know the question can be considered “offensive”, but I believe it is valid. After all, when was the last time a beauty care or clothe advertisement featured a disabled woman. This piece will feature a beautiful disabled woman.
Part Two. “Divine Suffering”
Typically when society sees someone with a physical disability we think of how much pain or suffering that individual must endure. Usually the topic ends there. I believe some types of pain have a nobler purpose. Christians see the suffering of Christ on the cross as being divinely inspired. Christians have taken the crucifixion, which was a common instrument of capital punishment at the time, and elevated it to a greater purpose that they believe was divinely inspired. I believe that the suffering that I must endure as a disabled person is divinely inspired. Perhaps my very practiced ability to bear some of my limitations teaches others humility or compassion. Maybe they become inspired and think "Me too- but the grace of God." Thus my disability becomes something greater. It is transfixed to that of noble teacher.
Part Three. “The Goddess Comforts the Blind”
Social isolation and evil mockery are some of the hardest things my wife and I endure because of my disability. No matter where we go, naturally some places are better than others, when we are together we always hear, sometimes in a whisper other times in a shout "why oh why is she with him." Is she pretty but "stupid". Perhaps she "feels sorry for him because he's so low." Oh this whole thing must be some type of fraud. "Everyone knows that the pretty don't marry the blind."
Cary Brief- Life Under the Sea
Hand painted wood 3D cutouts exploring Life under and around the sea and humans' affect on it. Octopus, starfish, crabs and fish coral etc. They are large colorful, hand painted fun images that have multi layers and lots of depth coated in an epoxy for an intensifying effect. "I started this project in 2016 but due to disability and a move I haven't been able to work on it as much as I'd like to." The funds will be used for materials so I can finish the project.