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September Issue 2006
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Offers Two Group Exhibitions
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce its two upcoming exhibits: NEW: 4 Young Painters, featuring works by Robert Igoe, Patrick Leger, Brian Shaw, and Nathaniel Underwood and Emotional Rescue: Three From New Orleans, featuring works by Carl Bergman, Deborah Luster and David Halliday. Both exhibitions will be on view from Sept. 8 through Oct. 27, 2006.
NEW: 4 Young Painters will highlight the work of the newest of the new-guard emerging from the fine arts program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The exhibit will give a glimpse into the next generation's idea of painting, from the unique viewpoint of four promising young artists, ready to make their mark on the medium. This exhibition was curated by Adeline Talbot, Hodges Taylor Gallery representative in the Greensboro/ Triad area.
Robert Igoe is currently living in Greensboro, NC. He earned his BFA and MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Igoe has been a graduate assistant for two years and has had several shows in the Carolinas. His self-portraits are based on realistic interpretations of himself. Igoe has a strong focus on tradition, the viewer's perception and creating an aesthetically pleasing work of art.
Patrick Leger is currently living in Greensboro. He received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Leger uses oil painting to create a forbidding urban landscape. His intense figures are often blurred and fade into the background of the night.
Nathaniel Underwood
Nathaniel Underwood received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, in 2006 received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has had several solo shows at galleries including an exhibition in 2006 at the EUC Art Gallery in Greensboro and in 2005 at Ohio University Eastern Art Gallery in St. Clairsville, OH. Underwood's realist style and work with oil paints focus on furniture and everyday objects, which he depicts in an unusual light. The backgrounds are all relatively bare, usually taking place in a white art studio. Primary colors are used to paint chairs and other everyday objects which seem pop out of the canvas.
Brian Shaw received his BFA from The Myers School of Art at The University of Akron, OH, and his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Upcoming exhibitions include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Awards Exhibition, Chelsea, NY, in 2008. A featured work in the exhibition, The Ocean, depicts small buildings and other objects being swept away by a crystal blue body of water. He lives in Chicago, IL.
Emotional Rescue: Three From New Orleans is an acknowledgment of three fine art photographers, Carl Bergman, David Halliday and Deborah Luster who continue to live and work in New Orleans one year after the impact of Katrina, despite their obvious physical and emotional hardships. The exhibit includes work created before and since the hurricane. In each case, the exhibition acknowledges the work of these thriving artists in the context of a stilted, yet long overdue, emotional rescue.
Carl Bergman
Carl Bergman in 1976 received his BS in Photography from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. Since then he has had many exhibitions both solo and two-person. He taught photography at The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, and is currently living and working in Louisiana as a photographer. Bergman's work focuses on the city of New Orleans and its complex history. His haunting photographs show the devastation and preservation of New Orleans before and after hurricane Katrina.
David Halliday was born in Glen Cove, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1979. He continued his photographic education through workshops he attended at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, and The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine. He currently lives in New Orleans. Establishing intimate connections with his subjects has always been important for Halliday. His subject matter centers around portraits, still lifes, figure studies, and landscapes. His work has been exhibited widely and included in many public collections including New Orleans Museum of Art. With the exception of a series of platinum portraits, he produces all of his photographs as sepia toned silver gelatin prints. Because of his subject matter and process, these warm tone photographs have been described as reflecting "his desire to reclaim the past or cherish the present in the form of soft, tranquil, frozen moments in time".
Deborah Luster, a former NC resident, currently lives in New Orleans. Her photography education has centered around workshops across the country with first Keith Carter, then Craig Stevens, Linda Connor, Larry Fink, Charles Harbutt, and others. She says, "I learned there wasn't a right or wrong, I just had to shoot for myself." Ten years after the 1989 murder of her mother, with help from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the prestigious $10,000 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize sponsored by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, Luster began the project photographing prison inmates that culminated in the exhibition and book One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. Printed on painted aluminum plates, this photography has been described by Keith Carter as "a supremely intelligent mix of nineteenth-century materials and twenty-first century aesthetics, with a healthy dose of Joseph Campbell symbolism thrown in. There's a certain mythology at work in these images." Luster's work has been widely exhibited and is in public collections which include MOMO San Francisco, The Whitney Museum, and The Houston Museum of Art.
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