March Issue 2002
Hart-Witzen Gallery Features Works by Emerging Artists for Charlotte's First Friday Gallery Crawl in April
Six emerging artists including Mark Mcleod, Jon Rajkovich, Gwen Bigham, Kaminer Haislip, Frank McCauley and Kathryn Hefner come together to show their art for a two-day exhibition titled Issue Apr. 5 & 6 at the Hart-Witzen Gallery, in Charlotte, NC.
Mark Mcleod is an installation artist, creating experiences rather than objects. McLeod composes with minimal elements, which allude to familiar forms emphasizing those things resolved to the memory. One finds a fascinating familiarity of personal history with McLeod's installations, like moments that transcend time, yet record it. Recently, McLeod has installed his work at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota and in the Accessibility Exhibit in Sumter, SC.
Jon Rajkovich's wall sculpture combine the modernist grid with thick slices of island-like shapes. Objects embedded within these "shelves" act as ground for multiple suggestions and sensual delight.
Gwen Bigham uses delicate materials, such as wax, thread, or human hair to create works that bring to one's consciousness issues of nurturing, separation or isolation yet the position of positive or negative experience is left to culminate in the viewer's individual awareness. The visual language Bigham uses "is constantly working to change our perception of place and idea", according to Tom Stanley, Winthrop University Gallery Director. Bigham has shown recently in the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.
Kaminer Haislip's silversmithing expertise is evidenced through various explorations in jewelry and metals. Haislip finds inspiration in the images from Art Deco, using geometric form and layering to emphasize line and shape in a piece. Haislip's art is an eloquent statement of form and function.
Frank McCauley's paintings present psychological portraits of what could be called the common individual, warped in extracting something beneath the surface, something best implied in the slippage between the recognizable and the unexpressed. McCauley disrupts narrative flow, piling up disjointed fragments, emphasizing their role as personifications of concepts. McCauley's works dwell on the surface of uneasiness, while individually mesmerizing.
Kathryn Hefner's photography speaks of strange, disconnected, but realistic rural settings. Personal iconography within the work is presented to the viewer for intimate interpretation. Hefner creates structure in the photographs with objects and situations that are obscure, even melancholy. In this current series, Hefner shoots rural settings in a large format with palladium printing.
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