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September Issue 2007
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers New Round of Exhibitions
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is presenting several exhibitions including: Regional Emerging Artist-in-Residence, featuring works by Emily Cash in Studio 106, on view through Jan. 2008; Time-Based Media Invitational, on view in Gallery 1, from Sept. 15 through Nov. 2, 2007; Shadow in Translation, featuring works by Melinda Fine and Wendy Savage, in the Upfront Gallery, on view from Sept. 7 - 29, 2007; and sub rosa by Shaun Richards, Regional Emerging Artist Residency Exhibition, on view in the Lobby Gallery from Sept. 7 - 29, 2007.
Emily Cash
Artspace is proud to welcome Emily Cash as the new Regional Emerging Artist-in-Residence. Cash was born in Poplar Bluff, MO, and raised in Raleigh, NC. She earned a BA in Art from Meredith College and an MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill. Cash's work deals with obsession - of drawing, mark-making, mechanical devices, food, and the body. As Cash works on her drawings, she tries to capture the detailed and disturbing nature of the psyche. She is interested in the paranoia of one's own body image, and she connects this systemic paranoia to mechanical devices. Cash's drawings concentrate on the way these two elements work together and the tension they create. While in residence at Artspace, Cash plans to continue to investigate the inner working of the human body as if it were a factory or a machine, simply using pen and ink. Cash's highly detailed drawings map the internal environment of cells and muscles in obsessive detail.
Ryan Roa
Artspace presents a Time-Based Media Invitational featuring the work of thirteen artists from the United States and the United Kingdom. The exhibition features single-channel video works along with installation and video sculptures, web-based works, and one incorporating a performative element. The exhibition was curated by Lia Newman, Artspace's Director of Programs & Exhibitions, along with local professors and artists David Colagiovanni, Patrick Fitzgerald, Mary Shannon Johnstone, Pedro Lasch, Joyce Rudinsky, and Francesca Talenti.
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
Featured artists include Christopher Cassidy (NC), Derek Coté (VA), Scott Hazard (NC), David Kasdorf (PA), Christopher LaVoie (MD), Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (MD), Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand (TX), Patrick Manning (NM), Bob Paris (VA), Alex Pearl (UK), John Richey (NY), Ryan Roa (NY), Rebekah Tolley (NH), and Mike Wirth (NC).
The work of Melinda Fine and Wendy Savage is
about the process of understanding and thinking. More specifically,
the current body of work exhibited in Shadows in Translation
explores how we relate concepts of language such as cognition,
sentience, consciousness, idea and imagination while learning
to translate between English and Japanese. Through their
work, the two artists attempt to find common ground between such
disparate languages.
Melinda Fine
Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina,
Fine received her MFA in creative writing from UNC-Greensboro
where she studied with Fred Chappell, Robert Watson and Lee Zacharias.
She studied printmaking with Beth Grabowski at UNC- Chapel Hill
and attended graduate school in graphic design in the School of
Design, NCSU. Currently she is an assistant professor of art at
Meredith College where she teaches graphic design and typography.
She was juried into Artspace in 2003. Fine prefers to paint in
acrylic or create abstract pieces of oil pasteland letraset on
paper.
Wendy Savage
Wendy Savage holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and a BA in Visual Arts from Florida Sate University. She owns and operates a photography and design studio working predominantly in fine art photography, digital illustrations, and graphic design. Savage is a visiting artist instructor teaching book design, photography and digital imaging workshops at Meredith College Art Department, Raleigh, NC. Since 1984, she has been employed as a medical photographer and digital imager at NC State College of Veterinary Medicine.
Shaun Richards
Artspace's Emerging Artist-in-Residence (Jan.-July
2007) Shaun Richards' work has evolved from an interest centered
on the South - the history, traditions, and the rural - to the
confluence of technology and globalism within contemporary life.
Richards questions notions of beauty, artifice, materialism, nostalgia,
and the subtle contradictions that make living in the South a
unique experience.
His recent work expands upon these themes by combining mixed media,
stencils, and traditional modes of painting. Through the use of
different media, Richards' narratives have extended to include
more proletarian constructs coupled with reflections on ethics,
personal politics, social dynamics, and psycho-social influences.
Richards was born in Brunswick, GA, in 1977 and grew up in Franklin,
VA, a small rural community in the southeastern part of the state.
He grew up surrounded by corn, cotton, and soybean fields, along
with the ever-present odor of the local paper mill.
Richards attended Hagerstown Junior College in western Maryland
before transferring to the University of North Carolina - Wilmington,
where he earned a BA in Art in 1999. In 2003 he enrolled in Empire
State College as a non-matriculated graduate student. The program
afforded him a studio in Manhattan with weekly studio visits and
critiques from established artists, critics, and curators. Richards
left NY in the spring of 2006, returning to the South in favor
of lower costs of living and to attempt to pursue art full time.
He moved to Raleigh and in Jan. 2007 he was awarded the Regional
Emerging Artist in Residence at Artspace.
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Gallery listings, call the Center at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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