March Issue 2002
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Susan Brenner, Valentina DuBasky, and Jerry Uelsmann
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, announces the opening of two solo painting exhibitions by artists, Susan Brenner and Valentina DuBasky. The exhibitions will be on view from Mar. 4 through Apr. 27, 2002.
Susan Brenner
In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Susan Brenner will present works on paper executed in acrylic. For subject matter, Brenner uses rope twisted, tied or otherwise manipulated. The rope is suggestive of the human body refering to what is hidden within the body and to the external environment surrounding it. Patterns, disjunctions, striations in the exploration serve to communicate the ideas of the internal and external body.
Brenner received her undergraduate degree at the San Francisco Art Institute and her Master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Southern California. She has had numerous solo shows including the Mint Museum of Art, University of Colorado at Denver, and Davidson College. Brenner also has participated in group exhibitions at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Koslow Rayl Gallery in Los Angeles and Tryon Center for Visual Art Gallery to name a just few. In addition to her active exhibition schedule, Brenner was awarded a North Carolina Arts council Visual Artist Fellowship, a Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and a Southern Art Federation/ National Endowment for the Arts-Regional Visual Arts Fellowship.
Valentina
DuBasky
To her second show at Hodges Taylor, Valentina DuBasky brings a new group of oil on paper. In this group of work, the artist explores her characteristic animal subject matter through thickly layered paint. However, the settings of her new work are more spacious, combining earlier landscape interests with those in animal imagery. The paintings display DuBasky's inspiration from ancient cave and Egyptian tomb paintings together with greater use of perspective.
Once a North Carolina painter, DuBasky has moved her studio back to New York City. A recent exhibition of DuBasky's paintings was held at the Art Center Gallery at Silpakorn University in Bangkok Thailand as well as solo shows at Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art in New York City, Friesen Gallery in Seattle, Washington and in Sun Valley, Idaho. In 2001, The artist was awarded a U.S. Department of State Artist in Residency Grant to work in Thailand. DuBasky was also a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. DuBasky's work is in the collections of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, National Museum of Women in the Arts and Seattle Museum of Art among others.
Hodges Taylor continues its series of solo photography exhibitions in the Photography Room with Jerry Uelsmann's Other Realities. The exhibition runs through Mar. 30, 2002.
Jerry Uelsmann is a legend in the photography
world nationally and internationally. His complex photographs
are created by using individual aspects of several different negatives,
placed in separate enlargers, and combined to create one complete
image. The result is usually surreal and always haunting. He studied
at Rochester Institute of Technology under well-known photographer,
Minor White. White's own technique inspired the young Uelsmann
to make prints with great tonal scale and degree of sharpness,
which make the photographs visually rich. It is important to note
that Uelsmann's work anticipated, if not inspired such image software
programs as Photoshop.
Uelsmann's work has been exhibited widely with more than 100 solo
shows to his credit, including international exhibitions at the
American Cultural Center in Paris, France, Photo Gallery International
in Tokyo, Japan, the American Center for Culture in Prague, Czech
Republic and numerous others. Museums here in the United States
include the Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New
York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, Philadelphia
Museum of Art.
Uelsmann's photographs are in the permanent collections of the
National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Modern Art in
Kyoto, Japan, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, Baltimore
Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, and more. The artist is the recipient of a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship
and a Photographer Award for Outstanding Achievement from the
Photographic Society of Japan. He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic
Society of Great Britain, and a founding member of the Society
for Photographic Education.
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