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December Issue 2004
Artspace
in Raleigh, NC, Offers New Exhibitions for End of Year 2004
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is presenting several new exhibition
for the end of the year 2004. Included are the exhibits: Marked
Time, featuring works by Ashlynn Browning & Betsy Puckett
in Gallery 2 will be on view from Dec. 3 through Jan. 29, 2005;
Archetypes: Photographic Works, featuring works by Alison
Overton will be on view in the Upfront Gallery will be on view
from Dec. 3 through Jan. 1, 2005; and Dreaming Eden, featuring
works by Cathy Kiffney in the Lobby Gallery will be on view from
Dec. 3 through Jan. 1, 2005.
Ashlynn Browning and Betsy Puckett were brought together for Marked
Time based on their shared interest in mark-making. Although
working very differently, there are some inherit similarities
between the two artists and their approach to art-making.
The body of work exhibited by Browning focuses on her desire to
capture time, hold it still, and examine herself through this
process. Memories, layers of experience, and an ever-shifting
concept of identity are the driving forces behind this self-portrait
based series. The images consist of oil, collage, charcoal, and
graphite on paper and canvas. Browning has always found a mixed
media approach to be the most effective means of visually representing
ideas of ambiguity and layered meaning. There is also an emphasis
on drawing and on varied line quality: lines which are emotionally
descriptive, inquisitive, and often drawn "blindly."
Browning earned BA degrees in Studio Art and English from Meredith
College and her MFA from UNC-Greensboro. She is a 2002 recipient
of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and through the organization
recently exhibited her work at CUE Art Foundation in New York.
Browning maintains studio space in downtown Raleigh and is represented
by Lee Hansley Gallery.
When Betsy Puckett creates her work, she considers the myriad
shapes and forms of culture around the world and the lines of
connection between us all. She works to generate surfaces and
images that speak to these relationships. These lines, both literal
and figurative, work to control the chaos of everything: nature,
time, life and people themselves. But in each wood grain, fruit,
vegetable, cloud, smell, and lost "time" exists chaos.
The chaos - natural growth, decay, and expansion without explicit
rules - surrounds us. We in turn try to capture it and make it
manageable; this is how we exist. We live in chaos, but we seek
out organization and control. Puckett strives for a balance of
the chaos and order through her artwork. She "works for a
breath within the tension, a moment where chaos can be viewed
as meditative."
Puckett earned her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia
Commonwealth University, with a minor in Art History. She earned
her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the Lamar Dodd School of
Art at the University of Georgia, where she taught Art Appreciation
to undergraduate students.
Alison Overton's photographic study, Archetypes, is a visual
exploration, neither literal nor linear, of architectural details
of various historic structures in our state. For this portfolio
Overton used a Holga 120S toy camera, making multiple exposed
prints and over-painting the prints with transparent oils. The
resulting images have a mysterious quality, presenting an altered
view of time and space.
Overton earned a degree in Environmental Design from NCSU in 1982.
Her work has been exhibited in New York City, Colorado, West Virginia,
South Carolina and in over sixty exhibits in North Carolina. Currently
represented by Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, Overton's work is
held in corporate collections, including SAS Institute and Saks
Fifth Avenue. This exhibit is funded by a Regional Artist Project
Grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County
and the North Carolina Arts Council.
For over 20 years North Carolina artist Cathy Kiffney has been
creating colorful one-of-a-kind ceramic wall works, tiles, and
vessels. Her recent works are narratives involving stylized characters
of birds, butterflies, moths and animals. Using imagery from ancient
myths and fantasy and from the natural world of flora and fauna
Kiffney carves and sculpts intricate surface textures into the
clay. She is known for her imaginative uses of many different
glazes in her palette that allow her to achieve the distinctive
and vibrant surfaces that characterize her art.
Kiffney is a member of the Artspace Artists Association, the Piedmont
Craftsmen's Guild, and Carolina Designer Craftsmen Guild, from
which she was awarded the 2003 Dino Reed Award. Kiffney currently
shares a new studio in the forest in Orange County, North Carolina,
with her husband, painter Mark Brown.
Artspace is a non-profit visual art center dedicated to presenting
quality exhibitions and education programs in an open-studio environment.
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 Artspace at 919/821-2787, e-mail at (artspace@bellsouth.net)
or at (www.artspacenc.org).
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