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March Issue 2010
Artspace in
Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Shannon Johnstone and Wake County
Teachers
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will present the following exhibits including: Milkbones, featuring works by Shannon Johnstone, on view from Mar. 5 - 27, 2010, in the Artspace Lobby and Wake County Teacher Exhibition, on view through Mar. 19, 2010, in the Education Room.
Shannon Johnstone
Working with both traditional
medium format film and digital editing and photography, Mary Shannon
Johnstone seeks to expose the hidden and create what she refers
to as visual poetry. She is drawn to emotive themes, metaphors,
natural light, and anything both sad and beautiful. Her recent
series Milkbones plays with shadows of her dogs and sidewalk
chalk drawings, as the images act out the dogs' dreams and desires.
Johnstone received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago ('96), and MFA in photography from Rochester Institute
of Technology ('01). She has had solo exhibitions in Chicago,
Durham, Raleigh, and Rochester. She is the recipient of numerous
awards, including three Best of Competition awards in the North
Carolina Annual Photographers Exhibition. Her work has appeared
in American Photo, Outdoor Photography, Popular Photography,
and Peterson's PhotoGraphics. Her work was also selected
by Algonquin Books as the cover image for If You Want Me To Stay,
a novel by Michael Parker.
In 2008, Johnstone was chosen as one of 15 photographers for the highly competitive Pause, To Begin photography project. Most recently Johnstone was awarded the 2009 Carter Foundation Scholarship from Maine Media Workshops. She is also one of Photolucida's 2009 Critical Mass Top 50 photographers, which was awarded by vote from over 200 gallery directors and curators nationwide. Her work is featured on the 2009 cover of the North Carolina Literary Review and the Winter 2009 issue of Visual Overture Magazine. Johnstone is a tenured Associate Professor of Art at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC
The Wake County Art Teachers were invited to submit work for a juried art exhibition at Artspace. Juried by a panel of Artspace Artists, this exhibition highlights the fine work being created by local art instructors.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at
919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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