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June Issue 2006
McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, Features Alumni Exhibit
The McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte,
NC, will offer the exhibit, Revisit: Alumni Exhibition,
featuring works by Shaun Cassidy, Maja Godlewska, and Peggy Rivers.
The exhibition will be on view from June 2 through July 29, 2006.
Revisit features new work by former Affiliate Artists Shaun
Cassidy, Maja Godlewska, and Peggy Rivers. The exhibition is curated
by McColl Center's Director of Programs Ce Scott. Each of these
talented area artists is contributing recent works some of which
were created exclusively for the exhibition.
Sculptor and educator Shaun Cassidy created
site-specific sculptures for Revisit. The artist intends
for the sculptures to "invite viewer interaction, challenging
them to contemplate emotionally charged interior spaces."
Cassidy designed sculptures for the interior and exterior spaces
of the McColl Center. According to the artist, the works attempt
to exploit the majestic, vertical nature of the gallery.
Cassidy, who received his MA from University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at Winthrop University
in Rock Hill, SC. He has exhibited across the nation, including
venues in Vermont, Nebraska and New York. Cassidy's work has been
featured in major periodicals, including Sculpture Magazine
and the Wall Street Journal.
Polish-born Maja Godlewska paints images that
are inspired by the human body, including "notions of beauty,
permanence and decay." Inspired by Baroque and Rococo frescoes,
her works are made of stained fabric and chalk paint brought from
her native Poland. To gather ideas for her compositions, Godlewska
has traveled extensively, photographing existing frescos. Her
trips have taken her to dozens of sites in Germany and Poland.
Godlewska will continue her research in Europe this spring and
summer.
Godlewska received her MFA in Painting and Graphic Art from the
Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. She has exhibited around
the world, including exhibitions in the United States, France
and Germany. She is currently teaching full-time at the University
of North Carolina, Charlotte, Department of Art.
Peggy Rivers will also contribute paintings to the Revisit
exhibition. Simultaneously ancient and modern in style, Rivers'
paintings document her perception of the human condition. The
body of work she will exhibit was created over the past year and,
according to Rivers, "The work represents a substantial synthesis
of several aspects of my painting in the last decade." In
an effort to reflect the truth behind her imagery, the artist
purposefully defies most rules of good composition.
Rivers began painting as a teenager and received her MFA from Columbia University in New York. She is currently a full-time teacher in the Art Department at Central Piedmont Community College.
All three artists in Revisit cite their
residency at McColl Center for Visual Art as a major influence
on the work they make today. Godlweska elaborates, saying, "My
residency at McColl Center led to my current ideas. Afterwards,
I began to work on the series of paintings in which human form
was dissolved in the organic landscape. The residency was part
of the journey, an important step, a great chance to focus on
nothing but the work."
McColl Center for Visual Art is located on North Tryon Street
in the heart of Charlotte. The Center's goal is to advance creativity
through artist residencies, exhibitions and other educational
programs about contemporary art. McColl Center for Visual Art
is supported by the Annual Fund Drive of the Arts & Science
Council; the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency; the
National Endowment for the Arts and the generosity of other public,
private and individual contributors.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Center at 704/332-5535 or at (www.mccollcenter.org).
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