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December Issue 2005
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers Three New Exhibitions
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is presenting several new exhibits including: New Drawings, featuring works by Ashlynn Browning in the Center's Loggy gallery, on view from Dec. 2-31, 2005; From Our Hands, featuring works by Lisa F. Pearce, on view in the Upfront Gallery from Dec. 2 - 31, 2005; and Naughty, featuring works by Michael Thrush, on view in Gallery 2,, from Dec. 2, 2005 throgh Jan. 27, 2006.
Ashlynn Browning
Ashlynn Browning presents an exhibition of new works utilizing oilstick, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and collage.This combination of media best enables Browning to express ambiguity and layered themes of time, memory, and personal identity. Blind contour drawing and the gesture of writing are important elements in her work, emphasizing immediacy and providing evidence of the artist's hand.
Browning earned BA degrees in Studio Art and English from Meredith College and an MFA from UNC-Greensboro. She maintains studio space in Raleigh where her work is represented by Lee Hansley Gallery.
Lisa F. Pearce
Growing up in a military family, Lisa F. Pearce often moved around. She notes that her lack of roots created a sense of fragmented time. Through her artwork, Pearce attempts to create order and control among disconnected objects, places, and experiences. Working in series, her recent work speaks of time and change, through both the concept and the nature of the media utilized. The final forms, derived from cast metals, glass, and clay, are like time and change in that they are unpredictable, with sometimes unwanted results. The constant is always a false sense of control.
Pearce was born in Nuremberg, (formerly) West Germany and moved throughout the mid- and eastern parts of the United States with her family. She currently resides in NC with her husband and two children. Pearce earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Meredith College and has taught art in North Carolina for 14 years. Her work is in numerous private collections and she has several public works of art in the piedmont area.
Michael Thrush
Michael Thrush's Naughty aims to deconstruct the spectacle of media and pop culture into what he notes are "deliciously naughty color schemes." Thrush plays on the psychological fantasies encoded in our material culture and presents a society in an apparent state of unease. The large-scale work analyzes pop culture through both the paradigm of a personal narrative and a framework of social commentary.
Thrush earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Temple/Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, in 1997, and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, in 2002. Thrush was chosen as a finalist for Sotheby's Artlink 2003 International Young Artist Auction and his work was exhibited in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Russia, and Israel during the summer of 2003. His work has also been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums throughout the country, including Gallery Alexy, Philadelphia, PA; the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL; Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana; Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL; the Pleiades Gallery, New York; and Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Thrush is currently an adjunct professor at the Art Institute of Atlanta and is represented by the Steve Martin Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
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