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December Issue 2003
Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, NC, Presents Exhibition at Local Restaurant Featuring Works by Mildred Long
The Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, NC, presents an exhibition of works by Mildred Long at Enoteca Vin, a local restaurant in Raleigh. The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 31, 2004.
The Contemporary Art Museum is organizing this exhibition series as part of its programming as a "museum without walls." Currently, CAM is in the midst of a $2.5 million capital campaign to redevelop a historic property as its new home in Raleigh's fast-redeveloping downtown Warehouse District. Through partnerships with venues such as Vin, CAM is able to continue its mission of supporting new and innovative works by regional artists. The Contemporary Art Museum will curate artists for the series from across North Carolina, focusing on photo-based media.
Since opening four years ago, Enoteca Vin has become closely aligned with the arts community. Vin's urban setting is conducive to art, attracting art patrons and artists alike. The restaurant has supported the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Ballet, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Contemporary Art Museum through in-kind donations, sponsorship, volunteer efforts and by hosting special events. Through Vin's ongoing relationship with the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), it became apparent that the restaurant can provide a new means of support by serving as an adjunct gallery space for the museum.
Mildred Long is originally from Wilmington, NC, and has recently returned to live in Hillsborough, NC, after being away for over eight years. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994 with a degree in American History. For the past five years, she lived in New York where she worked for Sotheby's auction house and rediscovered her love of photography by working with private collections of photographs and walking the streets of the city with her camera.
Most recently Long completed the general studies program at the International Center of Photography in New York. She is glad to be back in her home state of North Carolina where she now explores the changing landscape and culture of the region through the eyes of her camera. The work exhibited at Vin features familiar landscapes which the artist has venerated with simple and somewhat iconographic compositions. Shopping carts and satellite dishes are transformed into objects of beauty. Long's work has recently been exhibited at Exploris Museum in Raleigh and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC.
Here is what Long says about her work. "After eight years away from my native North Carolina, I returned home with fresh eyes and a new perspective. I am amazed not only by the changes taking place but also my seemingly new surroundings that I had always taken for granted. I have used my camera to reacquaint, observe, explore and question. I set out to discover the way we live as revealed through the spaces that we make our own. In places that are often overlooked, I have found symbols representative of our culture that also demonstrate a relationship between the natural and manmade worlds".
The Contemporary Art Museum is a non-profit organization supported by its members, individual contributors, corporate and foundation support, the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission, 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, and the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Contemporary Art Museum is an educational organization, linking visual literacy to contemporary life.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call Nicole Welch at 919/836-0088, e-mail at (internet:nw@camnc.org) or on the web at (www.camnc.org).
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