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June Issue 2005
The Garden Gallery in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Mickey Gault, Susan Phillips and Elaine Reed
The Garden Gallery in Raleigh, NC, will celebrate the work of three North Carolina artists, Mickey Gault, Susan Phillips and Elaine Reed, in a special exhibition entitled, Transition, to run June 19 through July 31, 2005. This will be the first time the three artists have been shown together.
Mickey
Gault
Mickey Gault of Raleigh began working in clay 30 years ago and she has never looked back, she says. "I found clay to be the medium in which I could express my personal sense of journey, first as a potter and later as a sculptor and painter."
More recently, Gault has been working in wood, cement, paint and mixed media. However, the clay work will always remain at the core of her art. Gault's work deals with the mythical and archetypal symbols that reside in her personal history as well as the story of all peoples, she explains. "I use symbols from many cultures and make up my own as well, for this is the way artists have always communicated".
Gault is an award-winning member of Artspace Artists Association and Triangle Sculptors Education Association. Her work was included in the 2002 North American Sculpture Exhibition.
Elaine
Reed
Educated at the University of Miami, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, Elaine Reed's oil-painting-on-porcelain objects are informed by her desire to create more than a beautiful form, but a way of integrating design with the form, she says. She uses stoneware clay, glaze and reduction firing to achieve her forms, which began by perfecting pottery skills.
"Those skills remain essential to my sculpture today," says Reed. "As in architecture, there is a container forum involved in the idea. The thing contained comes from our past the idea of who we are, and from where we come. My past forms the connections with the past of others."
Reed has taught art on the college level and in public schools. Her work is included in numerous collections, among them the NC Museum of Art, R.J. Reynolds Corporation, Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, Glaxo Corporation, and the NC State University Art Museum. A resident of Raleigh, Reed also has received numerous awards and honors during her more than 30 years as an artist.
Susan
Phillips
Susan Phillips has worked in stained glass and mixed media for more than 20 years. She is best known for her politically biased, mixed-media constructions and her glass dioramas, viewed only through a lens in the top. Her inspiration? I watch, I listen, I judge, I create, she says.
A Washington, DC, native and graduate of UNC-Greensboro, Phillips has been the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited throughout the Triangle/Triad region, including a three-person show at the Duke University Museum of Art. She is a member of Carolina Designer Craftsmen, Piedmont Craftsmen, and Artspace, and has maintained a studio in Apex, NC, since 2000.
With 2000-square-feet of exhibition space, The Garden Gallery features contemporary art in a wide range of prices by some of North Carolinas finest artists, along with select pieces by artists from California, New York and Arizona.
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