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September Issue 2005
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Fiber Invitational and Works by Amanda Micheletto & Marriott Little
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is presenting several exhibits including: Tracings, Fiber Invitational, on view from Sept. 17 through Nov. 5, 2005, sponsored by Bank of America, in Gallery 1; Regional Emerging Artist Residency Exhibition, featuring works by Amanda Micheletto, on view from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1, 2005, in the Artspace Lobby; and There's Something About Red, featuring works by Marriott Little, on view from Sept. 2 through Oct. 1, 2005, in the Upfront Gallery.
The Fiber Invitational aims to highlight innovative, contemporary fiber work as created by seven artists from Canada, Japan and the United States. Featured artists are Lia Cook (CA, USA), Jane Gee (Australian native, resides in USA), Jamie Murphy Hlynsky (RI, USA), Mindy Yan Miller (Canada), Kyoko Nitta (Japan), Sylvia Ptak (Canada), and Erica Spitzer Rasmussen (MN, USA).
Artspace organized this exhibition working with a jury of fiber artists in the community. The final selection of pieces for the exhibition was done by Vita Plume, Textile Artist and Assistant Professor in the Art & Design Department at North Carolina State University working with Artspace's Director of Programs & Exhibitions, Lia Newman.
A small exhibition brochure will be available, with text by Plume discussing the relationship in the overall exhibition of the use of materials and processes that allude to a strong implied relationship to memory and the absence of the physical body.
Mindy
Yan Miller
Mindy Yan Miller will be working in Gallery 1 on Sept, 11-16, 2005, installing black & white, life sized silhouettes of friends and family rendered in hair and pins directly on the gallery walls.
Amanda
Micheletto
Amanda Micheletto spent the last seven months working in Studio 106 as part of the Regional Emerging Artist Residency program. Established in Jan. 2000, the Regional Emerging Artist Residency is a program that provides emerging visual artists with time and space to explore their work in a supportive, thriving, artistic environment. The residency includes a private, rent-free studio with 24-hour access. Recipients are selected through a call to artists held twice a year.
During her seven-month stay at Artspace, Micheletto has encouraged herself to explore the objects of every day. She incorporates objects such as hair, toothpicks, skewers and matches, into weavings that are both aesthetically pleasing and interesting investigations of our shared human environment. She especially enjoys human hair as a material because it incorporates interest, whether good or bad, and a pleasing aesthetic on it's own. But when trapped in a material like silk thread, it becomes something else entirely. The transformation of these every day objects is the driving force of Micheletto's work.
Micheletto was born in Rockford, IL, and raised in Nashville, TN. In 1999, she attended the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN, where she developed her love of textiles and fibers of all kinds. Micheletto graduated from the Craft Center and Tennessee Tech University in Dec. of 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree - weaving concentration. She went on to become an Artist-in-Residence at the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino, CA, where she developed an affection for the ocean and a new appreciation for collecting natural things to incorporate into her weavings. Micheletto moved to Durham, NC, in July of 2004 and shortly after was awarded the Regional Emerging Artist Residency at Artspace. She is married to Stephan Blouin, a furniture maker, and has two cats, Li Mu Bai and Willis.
Red - the most symbolic of all colors.
It is the color of life; the color of love - angerwarheat hearthappiness.
It imparts more emotional sensations than any other hue. The tension,
tactility, and turbulence in these paintings perhaps will inspire
some of the same in the viewer.
Marriott Procter Little
Marriott Procter Little is a Raleigh native who received a degree in Art History from Duke University. A professional artist for thirty years, she has won awards in watercolor, oil, pastel, and most recently, acrylic on canvas. These new acrylic paintings represent a transition from traditional subjects to more intuitive and subjective abstraction. Her works can be found in many corporate collections and private collections in the states and abroad.
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