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May Issue 2008
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers New
Exhibitions
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will offer several
new exhibitions including: Rescue, featuring works by Rachel
Herrick, on view the Lobby Gallery, from May 2 - 31, 2008; Marine
Ephemera, featuring works by Gretchen Morrissey, on view in
the Upfront Gallery from May 2 - 31, 2008; Veronica's Veils,
featuring works by Herb Jackson, on view in Gallery 1, from May
2 through June 28, 2008; and Artspace Summer Arts Program Instructor
Exhibition, on view in Gallery 2, from May 14 through June
7, 2008.
Rachel Herrick
Rachel Herrick's new work explores good intentions
as well as failures to communicate. This series began with Herrick's
discovery of a 1928 lifeguard handbook depicting rescue techniques
that resulted in disabling or crippling the drowning victims in
an attempt to pull them to safety. The violent holds, chokes,
kicks, and punches illustrated in the book caused Herrick to contemplate
how anyone managed to actually get out of the rescues alive. She
came to see these struggling swimmers as metaphors for all of
the complicated relationships in our lives.
Herrick is an artist based in Fuquay Varina, NC, whose mixed media
work focuses on cultural landscapes and communication. Her work
has been featured in galleries across the US including the William
Penn Foundation, Philadelphia; The Collectors Gallery, Raleigh;
and Vision Gallery, Atlantic Beach. Originally from Maine, Herrick
earned a BA in Writing from Methodist University. Since 2006,
she has worked as the Exhibitions Director at Visual Art Exchange
in Raleigh.
Gretchen Morrissey
Gretchen Morrissey's exhibition, Marine
Ephemera is a fusion of sketches, renderings, repeat patterns,
and hand-pulled prints of jellyfish, cephalopods, seaweeds, rays,
corals, plankton. Beginning with observation of the marine eco-system,
Morrissey's designs are culled from memory, shaped by her experiences
and perspective. With an interest in repetition and natural rhythm,
patterns evolve, conveying a sense of fluidity without a particular
beginning or end. The shift between vivid pigments and the embossed
white-on-white hand-pulled prints reference the past and future
of the fragile marine eco-system.
Morrissey utilizes techniques and processes that involve alternative
technologies in printing that are safer to the artist and the
environment, using water-based inks and solar plate etching.
Morrissey holds a Master of Science degree in Textile Design and
Materials Technology from Philadelphia University. After
graduating she served on the Textile Design Faculty at Philadelphia
University from 1996-2003 and at Moore College of Art and Design
in Philadelphia from 2003-2005 where she coordinated studies for
traditional hand-printed textile design and alternative techniques
in digital textile design. Morrissey's work has been exhibited
in galleries and museums throughout the United States and is in
numerous private collections internationally.
Herb Jackson
Herb Jackson's Veronica's Veils series
began in 1980. To date there are nearly two hundred paintings
in the series. Jackson's Artspace exhibition presents Veils ranging
from 1985 through the present. The large-scale works on canvas
are comprised of nearly one hundred layers of acrylic paint mixed
with fine pumice. Layers are applied and scraped off, incised
with a variety of tools such as palette knives and nails. For
Jackson, Veronica's Veils represent the meditative, almost
mystical quality of creating works of art, whereby the process
holds as much significance as the final paintings.
Jackson lives and works in Davidson, NC, where he currently serves
as the Douglas C. Houchens Professor of Art at Davidson College.
In 1999, Jackson was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest
civilian honor bestowed upon an individual by the state of North
Carolina. Jackson's work has been exhibited in solo and group
exhibitions throughout the US, as well as internationally including
in England, Peru, Portugal, New Zealand, Brazil, the Soviet Union,
Switzerland, Italy, and Canada. Jackson's work is in over one
hundred museum collections including in the Whitney Museum of
American Art, NYC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Mint
Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
GA; the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and the British
Museum, London, England.
Trying to decide on your Summer Arts Program
classes, but not exactly sure what a cast sculpture or encaustic
painting looks like? Come to the Artspace Summer Arts Program
Instructor Exhibition and see works of art created by our
professional instructors.
Buy artwork and help send a child to the Artspace Summer Arts
Program, 20% of the sale price of work purchased from the Instructor
Exhibition will support the Scholarship Fund, providing underserved
youths with the opportunity to attend the Artspace Summer Arts
Program.
Artspace, a thriving visual art center located
in downtown Raleigh, brings the creative process to life through
inspiring and engaging education and community outreach programming,
a dynamic environment of over 30 professional artists studios,
and nationally acclaimed exhibitions. Approximately 95 artists
hold professional memberships in the Artspace Artists Association.
Thirty-five of these artists have studios located at Artspace.
Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, the Raleigh Arts
Commission, individuals, corporations, and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the center at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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