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March Issue 2007
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers New Round of Exhibitions
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is offering several new exhibits including: New Works, featuring a juried exhibition of works by members of the Artspace Artists Association, on view in Gallery 1, from Mar. 17 through Apr. 28, 2007; all these things, they don't belong to me, featuring works by Lee Gruber Clark, in the Upfront Gallery, from Mar. 2 - 31, 2007; Capturing the Light, featuring works by Sharron Parker, in the Artspace Lobby Gallery, from Mar. 2 - 31, 2007; and Patterns of Seeing: Personal Landscapes from Kathleen Hayes and Jeffrey Krolick, on view in Gallery 2, from Mar. 2 through Apr. 13, 2007.
New Works is
an annual juried exhibition for members of the Artspace Artists
Association. The Association is a professional artist membership
organization. Artists are accepted into the membership through
a jury process that occurs twice per year. The exhibit represents
work created within the past twelve months. It is an opportunity
for Artspace artists to present their most current and innovative
work.
This year's juror is Jerry Jackson. Jackson received an AA (1980)
from Wingate University and a BFA (1983) and MFA (1996) in Ceramics
from East Carolina University. Jackson served as curator at the
Rocky Mount Arts Center for three years and has served as the
Cultural Arts Administrator for the Arts Center at the Imperial
Centre for Arts and Sciences, Rocky Mount, NC, for the past eight
years. Working as an assemblage artist he has participated in
over 100 solo and group exhibitions throughout the Southeast,
Estonia, and Finland. Although trained as a ceramicist, his artistic
endeavors have focused on found object assemblage for the past
10 years. While balancing an artistic and arts administrative
career, Jackson has served as juror for numerous regional exhibitions
and serves on the board of various state arts organizations. He
is currently a member of the North Carolina Arts Council's Touring
Artist Directory.
Jackson will be selecting work for exhibition as well as award
recipients. The Award Presentation will begin at 8pm in Gallery
1 during the First Friday Gallery Walk on Apr. 6, 2007.
Lee Gruber Clark
Lee Gruber Clark presents an exhibition of mixed media collages. Combining collaged representational imagery with stream-of-conscious mark-making, Clark creates heavily distressed, thickly impastoed surfaces. Clark aims for distinct elements to retain their individual qualities while contributing to an overarching unity. She notes that "understanding this organic wholeness - and exploring various means to express it - is a focus to which I return over and over again, in my mind and with my art."
Clark earned an MFA in painting from UNC-Greensboro and a BA in Art and English from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her work is part of private and museum collections, including the Warhol Museum and the Creative Spirit Center in Midland, MI.
Sharron Parker
Sharron Parker presents an exhibition of new
work exploring the qualities of light - the prism of colors that
come together to create light, and the sensation that color, and
light itself, creates in us.
Parker received an undergraduate degree from Duke University,
Durham, NC, and a masters degree from UNC-Greensboro, studying
education, art, and interior design. She continued her study in
textiles with classes at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC,
where she has returned to teach workshops in felting. Her work
has been exhibited throughout the US, and through the Art in Embassies
program in Turkmenistan and Armenia. She has been a feltmaker
for 27 years.
Kathleen Hayes
Both Kathleen Hayes and Jeffrey Krolick, although
working in different media, focus on the landscape through their
work. Although not necessarily the traditional landscape, Hayes's
mixed media paintings and Krolick's photographs, both focus on
the texture, form, and color of the landscape.
Krolick's photographic images are not landscapes in the traditional
sense but rather, what he refers to as "appropriations of
the seasonal textures, colors, and shapes from a unique locale
- Emigrant Lake, Oregon." Krolick records images from the
lake on medium format color negative film, which is then scanned
and printed using archival paper and inks. By squaring these elements
within the camera frame, Krolick aims to wed the local gestalt
of a small niche of the landscape with his own search for a familiar
compositional order, and in rare instances, with his discovery
of a previously unrecognized or unappreciated natural order. The
photographs are about design and composition as well as about
the recollection of a childhood memory in Holley, NC.
Kathleen Hayes, through her Field series, interprets details
of texture, form, and color found in grassy landscapes. Just as
a field of grass is comprised of many small, similar units that
form a complex, greater whole, similarly, each work of art is
constructed of thousands of individual units. I these works, the
mesmerizing repetition and deceptive monotony of fields are constructed
in three-dimensional relief. The works are constructed from acrylic
on paper, cut into pieces and individually adhered to the surface
of a stretched linen canvas or panel. For Hayes the "field"
- normally the background in a painting or other artwork-becomes
the object. From a distance, the works look like heavily textured
surfaces, but upon closer examination, their depth becomes apparent,
and their "mosaic-like base pulls the viewed into the interior."
Hayes earned a BA in printmaking from Sonoma
State University and an MFA in visual art from George Washington
University. She is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council
Individual Artist Award. Recent exhibitions have included a solo
show at Loyola College Julio Art Gallery, Baltimore in 2006 and
the 2004 Fiber Art Biennial at Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia.
She has shown regularly at SOFA New York and Chicago since 2002.
Her work will be included in the upcoming show Pulp Function
curated by Lloyd E. Herman at the Fuller Museum in Boston
and traveling nationally through 2010. Hayes lives and maintains
a studio in Baltimore, MD.
Jeff Krolick earned an MFA in sculpture and worked for many years
as a craftsman, metalsmith, and sculptor. Photography has been
his preferred medium for the past 17 years - using it to discover/uncover
relationships in the seemingly mundane scenes of everyday life
and the natural world. He recently began exhibiting his work again
after pursuing a career for many years as a counselor and administrator
in the community mental health field. Krolick's work has been
included in a number of shows this year including solo exhibitions
at the Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA and Rike
Center Art Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, as well
as groups shows in Kansas City, Boston, Philadelphia and New York
City. Krolick's work has been recognized with awards from the
Silver Eye Center for Photography, the Society for Contemporary
Photography, and the International Photography Awards which selected
him as Fine Art Photographer of the Year in 2005 and nominated
him for a prestigious Lucie award.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call Artspace at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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