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October Issue 2004
Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, NC, Offers Group Exhibition Focused on the Body
Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, NC, is presenting the exhibition, The Body Show: 33 Artists Intepret the Human Figure. The invitational exhibition features works by 33 artists inspired by the human figure. The show will be on view through Nov. 6, 2004.
This is the largest exhibition ever mounted in the ten-year history of Craven Allen Gallery. The selected artists are showing one to three pieces, with each work relating to the human figure. Both long established and up-and-coming artists are featured in the show, in a dazzling range of media.
Highlights of the show include three ceramic faces by painter, printmaker, sculptor and UNC faculty member Juan Logan, of Chapel Hill, NC. In one of these, entitled Say Nothing the beautiful craftsmanship and gorgeous blue glaze of the sculpture belie the disturbing subject, a gagged African American face. Logan's artwork has been featured in over 250 solo and group exhibitions across the country, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Laura Ames Riley has cast a new work in bronze called Traces of Life, in which vegetation seems to sprout spontaneously from the finger of a hand. "I've been thinking about how we relate to nature in an increasingly unnatural world and I wonder about the irreversible evolution of man and his machines, his technology, and how this affects every aspect of life," says Riley. "Will we evolve with an instinctual memory of what connects us to our natural origins and a heightened respect for all living things?"
Riley has shown widely; recent exhibitions include the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Green Hill Center for NC Art, and SECCA.
Ippy Patterson's charcoal nudes have an elegant line that is especially impressive given their large scale. Patterson grew up in a copper mining camp in northern Chile, studied drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated from Brown. Her works have been shown and published widely; and she was a long-time illustrator for the New York Times.
Longtime Craven Allen Gallery artists participating in the show include the critically acclaimed collage artist Kathryn DeMarco with a life-sized, nude self-portrait; illustrator David Terry's sensitive ink drawings of men; and Paul Hrusovsky, whose bold mixed media paintings are as much about texture as line. The reclusive, acclaimed photographer Caroline Vaughan has three new prints, including a provocative nude in an abandoned swimming pool and a touching image of a mother and child.
Also included are Craven Allen Gallery artists from outside North Carolina, including New York's Doug Deneen, back with a humorous montage of pieces; the always surprising George Jenne, known for his ingenious installations; and Suzanne Arbanas, who continues to live and work in Sarajevo, painting haunting portraits of the people in her adopted homeland.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/286-4837 or at (www.CravenAllenGallery.com).
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