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October Issue 2004
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Dianne Rodwell, Joyce Blunk, and Gerry Lynch
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will present the following exhibitions including: Flux, featuring works by Dianne Rodwell in the Upfront Gallery from Oct. 1 - 30, 2004; Transformed Objects: Painting and Assemblage, featuring works by Joyce Blunk in Gallery 1 from Oct. 1 through Nov. 13, 2004; and Curly Metal, featuring works by Gerry Lynch in the Artspace Lobby from Oct, 1 - 30, 2004
Dianne Rodwell
Flux, Dianne Rodwell's exhibition of recent encaustic paintings have been created using pigmented and unpigmented beeswax.
Rodwell has been painting full-time for almost thirty years. She has been a resident Artspace artist since the building opened in 1986. Rodwell is very interested in exploring new media and is always seeking new ways to express her artistic passion. The NC native has exhibited extensively and has received numerous awards during her 30-year professional career including two National Grumbacher awards. Selected local collections include Duke Medical Center, Greater Raleigh Convention & Visitors Bureau, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, SAS, Shearson Lehman Hutton, UNC Women's & Children's Hospital, and Wake Medical Center.
Joyce
Blunk
Joyce Blunk's sculptural collages enshrine objects symbolizing poignant human preoccupations and vivid life issues, such as loss and melancholy, and the irrevocable passage of time. Architectural box constructions and ledges feature prominently, with Blunk arranging natural or manmade items within the wooden boxes or on the display platforms in ways that experiment with space and exploit the symbolic meaning of the objects and their presentation. Some of the boxes indicate an interest in deep space by incorporating the illusion of distant landscapes beyond a window. A contrast is created between the romantic beauty of the landscape and the starker reality of the foreground. For Blunk, isolating objects in constructed settings of serenity and beauty evokes a sense of compassion, pity, or pathos. An ordinary item is transformed, as it is presented in a formal or ceremonious way, altering the viewer's perception. Surface treatment such as patinas and the buildup of various textures, paint, and markings add to the poignancy derived from a relentless state of deterioration and change that occurs over an extended period of time.
This exhibition also features works from a series in which Blunk has painted, marked the surface, rubbed and scratched away the ground, sometimes even scraped a hole all the way through a multi-layered gessoed surface. The process is reminiscent of the way children over-correct and over-erase until the surface has become disturbed, disrupted, or completely worn away. The paintings are illusions of cuts and scars, less about the trauma and pain the lacerations might suggest, but rather more about the ability to mend and heal.
Blunk holds an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her paintings and box sculptures have been widely exhibited throughout the United States, as well as internationally. She is the recipient of three North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has been awarded residency fellowships in Austria, Ireland, France and Germany. She has maintained a studio in the mountains of North Carolina for the past 28 years.
Gerry
Lynch
Gerry Lynch enjoys trying to manipulate metals such as copper, lead and steel into baroque forms that tend to defy the heaviness and durability of the materials.
Lynch is an affiliate member of the Artspace
Artists Association and maintained a studio at Artspace for several
years.
Artspace is a non-profit visual art center dedicated to presenting
quality exhibitions and education programs in an open-studio environment.
Guided tours of exhibitions and artist studios are available for
groups of 10 or more. Artspace is located in Historic City Market
in Raleigh. Artspace is fully handicap accessible to persons with
disabilities. Needs will be accommodated upon request.
Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts; by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, with funds from the United Arts campaign and the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council; by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission; and by individuals; businesses; corporations; and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the center at 919/821-2787, e-mail at (artspace@bellsouth.net) or at (www.artspacenc.org).
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