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August Issue 2005
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Several New Exhibits for Summer
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will present several exhibits including: Retrospective - Sarah Calhoun Jessup (1940 - 2005), on view in the Upfront Gallery from Aug. 5 - 27, 2005; Paper and Stone, featuring mixed media works by Kelly Sari, on view in the Lobby from Aug. 5 - 27, 2005; Artspace Summer Arts Program Youth Exhibition, on view in Gallery 2, from Aug. 9 - 13, 2005; Carrie Scanga, Summer 2005 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, on view in Gallery 1, from Aug. 5 through Sept. 10, 2005; and Digital Ex Votos, featuring mixed media works by Tom Chambers, on view in Gallery 2, from Aug. 20 through Oct. 7, 2005.
Sarah Jessup was born in Bordeaux, SC, and
graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree. She worked as a draftsman in Ohio and Florida during
World War II before pursuing her Master of Fine Arts degree in
art education from the University of Florida. Jessup was a long-time
tenant at Artspace as well as a member of the Capital Art League,
Wake Visual Arts, and the Durham Art Guild.
Kelly Sari
Kelly Sari's exhibition, Paper and Stone, will feature two-dimensional mixed media works produced from relief sculptures that Sari casts in stone. Her work is inspired by her passion for community, nature, and philosophy. Sari studied bronze casting at the University of Santa Cruz California. She received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and completed a Certificate for Public Art in 1998.
Sari's art has been exhibited throughout the
US and Europe, including the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art and
the Berlin High School of Art. In 2001 Sari received the United
Arts Grassroots Regional Artists Grant and completed a 60' mural
in downtown Clayton, NC. In 2002 Sari and Millbrook Elementary
students completed a cement tile mural for the Neonatal Unit at
Wake Med Hospital.
For one week Gallery 2 at Artspace will be brimming with vibrant
paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, masks, decorative
chairs, mixed media assemblage pieces, and handbuilt clay works
created by more than 300 youths from the Artspace Summer Arts
Program. This program provides intensive-yet-fun, project-oriented
classes for youths (rising 3rd-10th grades) along with College
Prep classes (ages 16-18).
Carrie Scanga, Summer 2005 Artist-In-Residence, began working
in Gallery 1 in early July and continued her residency through
Aug. 4. She has spent the past year moving between artists' colonies,
allowing her work to be the grounding element in her life and
the means for developing relationships with the places and people
she encounters in each new setting. For her Artspace residency,
Scanga has continued her exploration of enchanted forests, narratives
about adolescent girls, invented landscapes, and influences from
the American visual vernacular.
Scanga often works intuitively and has allowed her experiences
in Raleigh to shape the work for her exhibition. She has been
working with paper in many forms, creating drawings on paper,
along with paper maché and folded paper structures.
Scanga holds an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle
and a BA from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She has been
awarded fellowships by the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
MA, The MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the
Arts. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at the Hudson D.
Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA entitled The First Flower
of Spring; a two-person show at El Conteiner, Quito, Ecuador;
and group shows at the District Fine Arts Gallery, Washington,
D.C.; Shreve, Crump, and Lowe, Boston, MA; and the International
Print Center New York, New York City.
Tom Chambers
Digital Ex Votos
will feature new work by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Tom Chambers.
He was born on a farm in a religiously conservative area of Southeastern
Pennsylvania. After high school, he joined the Navy and spent
a year on a patrol boat base in Vietnam which profoundly influenced
his outlook on life. Drawing from his experiences, Chambers creates
digital photomontages using photographs he has taken throughout
the United States and Mexico. The works often depict children
in perilous situations.
Using children and animals symbolically, Chambers creates surreal
landscapes that speak to issues of human vulnerability. Through
the juxtaposition of conflicting imagery such as animal/human,
spiritual/sensual, and natural/man-made, Chambers attempts to
create improbable, yet imaginable views of the world.
Chambers earned a BFA from the Ringling School of Art & Design. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo and group exhibitions at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; 40 amp Gallery at Conduit, Austin, TX; University of Tampa, Tampa, FL; The Alternative Museum, New York, NY; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA; the Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY; and the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL. Chambers has received numerous awards and honors for his work including a 2000-2001 Visual Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
For further info check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call Artspace at 919/821-2787 or at (www.artspacenc.org).
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