August Issue 2000
Durham Arts Council in Durham, NC, Features Works of Michele Richards Natale
Tranformations is the title of an exhibit of mixed media works by artist, Michele Richards Natale that will hang in the Allenton Gallery of the Durham Arts Council Building in Durham, NC, through Aug. 21, 2000.
This exhibit represents the female figure in several different mediums by Natale. The symbol has been an ongoing theme in her work since she started painting the female form about twenty years ago. Natale has now begun to study the form in three dimensions with her recent clay sculpture, where it continues to evolve into expressions which chart her personal transformation.
Natale earned a 1983 BFA with Honors in Painting
from UNC-CH, where she was a recipient of the Kachergis-Sharpe
Award and studied with Peter Plagens. Her work was chosen by curator
Howard Fox for the 1984 North Carolina Artists Exhibition at the
North Carolina Museum of Art. In 1990, Natale received a City
of Raleigh Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant. She has exhibited
actively in the Triangle since 1980, and was represented by Marita
Gilliam Gallery until the gallery's 1998 closing. She is currently
represented by North Carolina Craft Gallery in Carrboro and Green
Hill Gallery in Greensboro. In addition, Natale has written art
reviews for publications including: The Independent (1986-7),
The Arts Journal, ArtVu, The Chapel Hill News (1995-7),
Juxtapoz, and since September 1997, writes a weekly art
column for Spectator Magazine.
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