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March Issue 2005
Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, Features Works by William Ratcliffe, Jane Wells Harrison and Jill Eberle
Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, is presenting the exhibit, Beneath the Surface, featuring works by William Ratcliffe, Jane Wells Harrison and Jill Eberle. The exhibit which will take viewers beneath the surface of everyday life to discover hidden beauty within will be on view from Mar. 4 - 29, 2005.
William Ratcliffe's series of black and white photographs embraces chance and the accidental nature of experimentation. Ratcliffe says his emphasis on light has become a form of self-exploration, explaining, "I believe that the eye can lead us to some amazing places if we really look, and if we allow ourselves to see."
Ratcliffe, a photographer for more than 10 years, lives in Radford, VA, and currently attends the university there. In 2003, his work won the PFS Special Photography Award at the Radford City Juried Show.
Jane Wells Harrison, Lenoir resident and art instructor at Caldwell Community College, will share her works of encaustic collage and watercolor sketches. Harrison says that each step of encaustic collage is as important as the previous or next, and that each step is affected by its relationship to the others.
"When a viewer contemplates the works, the image can provoke an experience that mingles visual data with memory, imagination, and sensibility. Creating work that invites participation in this mysterious process is my goal, and a meaningful viewer experience is more valuable than any explanation the artist can provide."
Harrison's works have been shown both nationally and internationally and have won multiple awards including Best in Show, Encaustic Works 2003, at the Fourth International Biennial Exhibition, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Harrison earned a BS-HE from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MFA from East Carolina University.
Jill Eberle is an artist, mother, wife and teacher who enjoys the challenge of bringing emotional content to inanimate things. She will be showing a number of oil paintings and bronzes which have been characterized as being "illusionistic" or "surreal" in nature. Of her work, Eberle says she starts with objects that simply seem interesting and pleasing together and explains, "I don't intend for the results to be cryptic, somber or mysterious, yet they often turn out this way."
Eberle was raised in a beach town in southern Connecticut and in the mid-seventies attended Ithaca College, earning a BFA in Theatrical Design. She spent the next twelve years in New York, then sailed off to the Caribbean, where she resided on board a small yacht for six years. Later she relocated to coastal North Carolina, began painting and earned an MFA from East Carolina University. Eberle is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at East Carolina. Her work has been shown regionally and at several universities around the country.
Berkleys Corner Deli is the community sponsor of this exhibition.
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