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March Issue 2006
Trizec Properties in Charlotte, NC, Offers Exhibition at Bank of America Plaza
Trizec Properties at Bank of America Plaza in Charlotte, NC, offers the exhibit High Fiber - Transforming Material, featuring works by eight national and international artists, on view through Nov. 4, 2006.
North Carolina has earned
an esteemed reputation as a center for crafts and is renowned
for it's important role in textile industry. Internationally celebrated
artist Sheila Hicks, who was one of the forerunners of the Fiber
Art movement, is included in the exhibition, with an important
piece Baby Time Again. The other seven artists are from
across the United States, all have a strong current link to North
Carolina, and all create thought provoking works that invite the
viewer to look at material in a new light. Trizec Properties'
commitment to high quality contemporary art is underscored in
this the fifteenth annual exhibition at Bank of America Plaza.
Hicks' work is represented in museum collections worldwide, in
the United States her work may be seen at many museums including
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art New York,
Smithsonian Museum of Art and Mint Museum of Art. In Baby
Time Again Hicks creates an organic environment using utilitarian
clothing and plays with light, layers and negative space.
Jan-Ru Wan
Jan-Ru Wan uses cultural references to investigate links between her native Taiwan and her life in America, creating sculptures that envelope the viewer. Wan is a professor at East Carolina University.
Mary Tuma's Dancing Girls is an ascendance of tricycles dressed in lace, net and ribbon. This exhilarating and playful piece is suspended above the viewer and explores the transitions and transformations in life's journey. Tuma is a professor at UNC Charlotte.
Pate Conaway creates monumental knitted sculptures, this 35ft scarf was created and the ball and needles utilized in his performance piece at MOCA Chicago. Conaway is currently in residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art.
Mary Babcock's and Kerry Phillips' work Isoline is a weaving of maps, in its creation it breaks down the borders that usually confine and define us, leading boundaries to be reinterpreted. Babcock teaches at Appalachian State University.
North Carolina artists
Ila Selzer's exquisite plant forms and Erika Diamond's Grape
Maps are on view in the elevator lobbies.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call Joie Lassiter Gallery at 704.373.1464 or at (www.lassitergallery.com).
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