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September Issue 2004
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, Features Exhibitions by Maja Godlewska and Craig Potton
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in Charlotte, NC is presenting several exhibits including, Painting 2000 - 2004, in the Cone Center Main Gallery, through Oct. 2, 2004, featuring works by Maja Godlewska and Sense of Place: Interpretations of Nepal, New Zealand and Antarctica, on the Rowe Arts Main Gallery, through Oct. 2, 2004, featuring photographs by Craig Potton.
Maja Godlewska
The UNC-Charlotte's Department of Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by one of their newest faculty members, Maja Godlewska. A native of Poland, Godlewska has exhibited her work significantly throughout Western Europe since 1990, and has been awarded artist residencies on four continents. A Master of Fine Arts graduate of the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland as well as the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, Godlewska moved to Charlotte in 1997 and has made a notable impact in the regional cultural community.
The exhibition was planned in conjunction with UNC- Charlotte's annual celebration of International Week.
Craig Potton
A 78 piece exhibit of compelling landscapes spanning three continents is on view at UNC-Charlotte's Rowe Arts Gallery featuring internationally renowned New Zealand artist, publisher and conservationist, Craig Potton. The exhibit, entitled, Sense of Place: Interpretations of Nepal, New Zealand and Antarctica, reflects the people and cultures living within the natural and built environments. All of Potton's work explores the profound relationship between individuals and place. Sense of Place is made possible, in part, through generous support from the North Carolina Arts Council.
Potton holds a masters degree in Eastern religions and his working life has spanned teaching, full-time work for the conservation movement, photography, writing and publishing. During the 1980's he wrote and produced a number of handbooks to New Zealand national parks which helped him build a strong international reputation as a leading photographer of wilderness landscapes. Potton's work is regularly published in New Zealand despite the fact that photography as an artistic form is not as widely supported there when compared to Europe and the United States.
Potton's publications have grown over the past two decades to include large format photographic books each of which features 100-plus pages of images that capture "the eccentric natural architecture" of the lands of New Zealand and its sub-Antarctic Islands, the Dry Valley and Ross Sea areas of Antarctica and the Nepal Himalaya. Since the 1980's Potton's photographic publications include: Images of a Limestone Landscape, Yesterday's New Earth, Tongariro - A Sacred Gift, Above New Zealand, New Zealand Under the Southern Sky, and more recently, Offerings from Nepal (1995), Moment and Memory: Photography in the New Zealand Landscape (1998, reprinted 2001), and Improbable Eden (2003).
Emmet Gowan, Professor in the Hummanities Council and Visual Arts, Princeton University wrote of the photos in Moment and Memory that they represent, "a triumph, a real work of affirmation. I like the unrestrained affection for beauty." In addition, Robert Adams, internationally renowned photographer and author of Beauty in Photography wrote, "not only are the pictures astonishing, but the text speaks to me too."
The exhibit coincides with the University's annual International Festival. The works, presented in the Rowe Arts building galleries, are arranged in suites of images developed under several themes. The suites include: a grouping of images depicting people in personal or ritual offerings entitled, Nepal/Varansi offerings; images of limestone formations depicted up close with abstract reflective qualities entitled, Limestone Landscapes; images of larger landscape scenes primarily in visually dramatic contexts entitled, Land; images of individuals standing amidst a forested road, entitled, New Romantics; and finally, single images and several dyptichs of the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
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