February Issue 2001
New Exhibitions Opening At Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC
Large expressive canvases; delicate, precise renderings; small elegant abstractions: artists Danielle Garland, Karen Parker, and Carolina Rust each transpose visual reality and memory through three singular and powerful bodies of work in the exhibition, Philos, on view through Mar. 11 at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC. "Philos is a doctrine that no single view of reality can account for the phenomena of life. The language and reality of objects connect these artists, the artists manifest that language and their life views in richly different ways," comments Director Denny Mecham.
Danielle Garland's large gestural impasto and layered paintings are filled with painterly energy. She says, "I am drawn to particular images such as the industrial patterns or a concrete overpass, the urban landscape... a specific scene." The image is rehashed, reorganized, and broken down, becoming more mark-making and surface than landscape, a negotiation between the subconscious and the conscious. Garland received an MFA in painting in 1997 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and has taught at UNC-Charlotte since 1998.
Karen Parker's beautifully rendered paintings of natural objects placed in a carefully constructed environment entitled, Paintings from the End of the Earth, is the artist's search for an internal balance between space, object, and self. Of her installation Parker says, "Given that the attainment of harmony within oneself is the ultimate state, I strive to create that harmony in my work." Parker graduated in 1995 from Ohio University with an MFA in painting. During this past year, she taught at Sawtooth Center for Visual Design in Winston-Salem, NC, Mitchell Community College in Statesville, NC, and the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury.
Caroline Rust's installation integrates objects and painting, evocative fragments of objects and saturated color. One is reminded of a private journal, opened for others to read, the pages arranged on the walls. Rust says, "My work is an exploration of what power dwells inwardly. I am reminded of small hidden doors in old houses." Rust received an MFA in painting from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, in 1997. She currently teaches in the Department of Art and Design at Winthrop University.
During this exhibition period, artwork by Rowan County High School Students will also be featured in the Young People's Gallery.
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