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May Issue 2008
McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte,
NC, Features Works by Summer Artists-in-Residence
The Summer Artists-in-Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, spans May 27, 2008 through Aug. 25, 2008. Participating artists includes Claudia Borgna, Bill Gaskins, and Hongsock Lee. Their work is comprised of a variety of media including installation, photography, metals and sculpture. The Artists-in-Residence have exhibited internationally and nationally.
Claudia Borgna is an installation artist from London, UK. She examines what she refers to as "evolution of landscape," a process started and effected by modern lifestyles and consumerism. Her site-specific creations explore relationships between discarded materials and the environment, resulting in a romanticized appreciation of current surroundings. Borgna has participated in residences in Europe and the United States. She received her undergraduate degree in Foreign Literature from Genoa University in Italy and a second degree in Fine Art at the London Metropolitian University.
Bill Gaskins is a photographer from Princeton, NJ. He explores the complexities and contradictions of American life attempting to complicate, humanize, and sometimes affirm the many ethnic notions regarding African American men and the Cadillac. His work uses large-scale color photographs and is expanding upon his current work, The Cadillac Chronicles. Gaskins is a faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City in dual departments - Photography and Critical Studies. He received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, MA from Ohio State University, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.
Hongsock Lee, who works in metals and sculpture is from Cranston, RI. He is a jewelry designer who conceives his contemporary, modernistic jewelry as small sculpture. The two primary inspirations for his work, which often features angular shapes and streamlined forms, are geometry and nature. Lee's work has been showcased in many exhibitions, including SOFA Chicago, Smithsonian Museum Craft Show, and the Palm Beach International Sculpture Biennale. He received a BFA from Konkuk University, Korea and a MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithig from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
McColl Center for Visual Art is an artists' residency program and gallery dedicated to promoting contemporary art and supporting artists regionally, nationally and internationally. The Center's goal is to present art and artists in a way that engages and enriches the public while revealing the creative process through open studios, outreaches, community projects, and educational programs.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Center at 704/332-5535 ext. 29 or visit
(www.mccollcenter.org).
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