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February Issue 2003
Davidson College in Davidson, NC, Offers New Exhibitions in the Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center
An exhibition entitled, Woman's Work: Reconsidering Women at Work and at Home, will be in on view at the William H. Van Every Gallery through Feb. 28, 2003. This exhibition of works by Terri Dowell-Dennis, Ursula C. McCarty, and Elizabeth Brim examines the social conventions affecting the development and education of young women for future roles in the workplace and at home. An exhibition of work by Joe Fiore will also be on view in the adjoining Edward M. Smith Gallery through Feb. 21, 2003.
Terri Dowell-Dennis fashions mixed-media works from photography, tarpaper, and kitchen utensils. Her pieces include underlying references to Biblical passages and generations of teachings that have dictated the "virtuous path" to wives and mothers.
Ursula C. McCarty references quilting and embroidered samplers in her work. She stated, "I am interested both in honoring women's traditions within the domestic sphere, and in examining the systems within our culture that have confined women to very narrow paths."
Elizabeth Brim fabricates precise representations
of women's clothing (high-heeled shoes, aprons, and hats) and
dainty domestic items (pillows and tuffets) in forged steel. The
nature of her medium represents the imposed burdens of beauty,
poise, and homemaking.
Joe Fiore is a graduate and former instructor at Black Mountain
College in North Carolina. In 1995, art historian and critic James
Thompson wrote in Black Mountain Dossiers that " .
. .Fiore demonstrates an engagement with the landscape painter's
central problem: to make a dynamic yet ordered picture whose combination
of calligraphy, color, rhythm, and composition is a simulacrum
of nature's own set of relationships."
This exhibition draws from the collections of the Black Mountain
College Museum and the Asheville Art Museum, and hopes to bring
attention to efforts to establish a permanent home for the Black
Mountain College Museum.
For more info check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call Brad Thomas, at 704/894-2519 or e-mail at (brthomas@davidson.edu).
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