December Issue 2000
Art on Paper 2000 Represents 91 Artists at Weatherspoon
Art On Paper 2000, one of the Triad's most eagerly anticipated visual arts highlights, is open and will run through Jan. 14, 2001, at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery at UNC - Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
Since June, Weatherspoon director Nancy Doll and curator of exhibitions Ron Platt have been visiting galleries across the nation, seeking works by emerging and established artists to bring back to Greensboro. Thanks to their efforts, visitors to the gallery can view a survey of works by 91 up-and-coming artists from across the country, including 18 from North Carolina, who were selected by guest juror Nancy Princenthal. Triad area artists included are Vito Ciccone, Sandra Halat and Adele Wayman of Greensboro, and David Finn and Beverly Noyes of Winston-Salem.
Other North Carolina artists represented are: Betsy Birkner, Eric Olsen, Vee Plunkett, Robert Porter and Marek Ranis of Charlotte; Jayne Bomberg, Lisa Creed, Tricia Townes and Sherri Wood of Durham; David Estey of Cramerton; John McIver of Hickory; Virginia Tyler of Hillsborough and Leni Newell of Raleigh.
Art on Paper 2000 provides a rare opportunity for visitors to view a broad range of contemporary works on paper and of paper.
In a statement about the curatorial process, Doll offered the following, "It is generally challenging to try to characterizes conceptual or formal threads that run through the works of multiple artists or to identify shared preoccupations with certain subjects. It is also interesting to reflect upon the choices one makes as a curator, to see what ideas and visual forms one is drawn to. In the case of Art on Paper 2000, a number of commonalities assert themselves within the overall body of works included."
"Our curatorial sensibilities found common ground in the wide variety of current styles and approaches. We are both enthusiastic for artists who reinterpret or commingle tradition genres and themes as well as for those who manipulate age-old drawing materials such as charcoal, pastel, ink, and paper itself to sensuously tactile and/or chance effect. We also gravitate toward figurative art that remarks upon phychological and social conditions, often through skewed depictions or situations, and to repetitive, informal, often highly personal systems of notations or mark-making, sometimes part of a larger personal or conceptual program".
Art on Paper 2000 represents works by artists from Maine, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Texas, California, Illinois, Indiana and New York. Some of those included are Laylah Ali, John Currin, Spencer Finch, Tom Friedman, Susanne Kühn, John O'Reilly, Julie Roberts, Joe Scanlan, Maki Tamura and Pae White. Works by UNCG Department of Art faculty will round out the show.
Now in its 36th year, Art on Paper 2000 is made possible by a $20,000 donation from the Greensboro company, xpedx, formerly Dillard Paper Co., which has supported the exhibition since its inception. The exhibition grew from a partnership made in 1965 between Herbert Falk, Sr., then president of the Weatherspoon Gallery Association, and Stark Dillard of Dillard Paper Company.
"We are proud to continue the tradition started by the Dillard Paper Co. in 1965 as the primary sponsor of Art on Paper," said Harrison Stewart, an xpedx spokesman. "We think it's important to give back to the community that, in turn, has supported us through the years."
As in years past, the xpedx contribution will enable the gallery to purchase selections from this year's exhibition to add to its Dillard Collection, which today stands at more than 500 works. Some of the artists in the collection have gained substantial reputations since they were identified in their early careers for inclusion in the collection. Among the artists represented in the Weatherspoon's Dillard Collection are Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Yayoi Kusama, Brice Marden, Lari Pittman, Matthew Ritchie and Nicola Tyson.
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