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May Issue 2007

Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Tisha Edwards and Gretchen McLaren

Gallery C in Raleigh, NC, will present the exhibit, New Horizons, featuring recent paintings by Tisha Edwards and new jewelry by Gretchen McLaren, on view from May 11 through June 19, 2007.

Tisha Edwards

Gallery C welcomes the return of Tisha Edwards who is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and one of Raleigh's most thought provoking young painters and showed with the gallery from 1999 until taking a hiatus in 2004. The artist returns with a brand new body of work featuring sureal images full of beautiful and strange people and creatures set in fantasical landscapes. Her work combines Asian aesthetics, Native American mythology, Circus culture, tornadoes and just about anything else her imagination can conceive. Of her own work the artist writes, "What I want most is to impart to the viewer a sense of wonder and strangeness. My work is meant to be romantic, comical, beautiful, tragic and entertaining."
 
Gretchen McLaren

Paired with Edwards in this Spring show is Gretchen McLaren, a remarkable jeweler and metalsmith who's one-of-a-kind designs combine gold, silver and semi-precious stones in works of elegant simplicity. McLaren is a graduate of East Carolina University and has continued her studies at the Penland School of Crafts also here in North Carolina. The artist has been producing jewelry and exhibiting nation-wide since 1996. "My work speaks of the simplicity of form through the qualities of quietness, cleanness and elegance while reducing elements to their simplest geometric forms of the circle, triangle and square. I search for the spirit in each piece," says McLaren. Gretchen has only recently joined Gallery C and this will be here first exhibition at the gallery.

For more information check our NC Commercial listings, call the gallery at 919/828-3165 or visit (www.galleryc.net).

 

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