| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
March Issue 2009
Upstairs Artspace
in Tryon, NC, Observes Black Experiences with Exhibitions
The Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC, opens its 2009 season with The Hannon Barbershop Project, an installation by Kipp McIntyre and Logan B. Hannon that celebrates a special gathering place in one of Tryon's historic African-American neighborhoods. Using artifacts, visual art and craft, and barbershop-related activities, McIntyre and Hannon hope to generate public dialogue about community issues of commerce, culture, social change and values. An installation highlight is a display of dolls crafted by the neighborhood women from found or discarded materials.
A second exhibit is This New Day: Black Artists from Upstate to Mountain, featuring work by Erica Harper, painting, Mary Harris, Joshua Jackson, Mike Smith, drawing, Winston Wingo, painting and sculpture, all from Spartanburg, SC; and Carola Jones, mixed media, Sylva, NC. Marie T. Cochran and Victoria Casey-McDonald, Sylva, NC, collaborate on a site-specific installation, love/loss/love, about enduring lessons of struggle and resilience in Afrilachian culture.
Both exhibitions will be on view through Apr. 11, 2009.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the center at
828-859-2828 or visit (www.upstairsartspace.org).
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2009 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts Online, Copyright© 2009 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.