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December Issue 2005
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Kara Hammond and Paula Frances Peek
Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC, is proud to present, Illusions of News, featuring new paintings by Kara Hammond and Paula Frances Peek. The exhibit will be on view from Dec. 2 - 31, 2005.
Kara Hammond lived and worked as an artist in Brooklyn, NY, until 2004, showing most notably with Joseph Rickards Gallery, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, White Columns, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and Momenta Art. She has had seven solo exhibitions since 1997 and has been included in several national and international exhibitions.
Hammond has been a recipient of two generous Pollock-Krasner grants, and has been awarded residences, including the World Views Program at the World Trade Center in 2001 and the MacDowell Colony in 2004. She has lectured as a visiting artist/teacher in various institutions across the country and is currently Assistant professor of Drawing at the College of Charleston. A Native of North Carolina, Hammond completed her BFA at East Carolina University in 1985 and her MFA at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1989.
Paula Frances Peek currently lives and works in Waverly, AL. She has had solo shows at Coleman Center for the Arts and Culture, York, AL, in 2005, and at the Biggin Gallery at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, in 1999.
Peek received her MFA from Auburn University and her BFA from Barton College in Wilson, NC. She is currently represented by Bare Hands Gallery in Birmingham AL. Since 2002 she has worked as an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Auburn University.
"My creative research has consistently focused on memory, both collective and individual, and incorporates imagery associated with power, movement, and freedom," says Peek. She will be exhibiting a collection of paintings of the "Roads of Alabama- Highway 280".
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