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September Issue
2008
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers Works
by Lauren Van Hemert, Casey Porn and Printmakers
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is offering the following
exhibitions including: Out of the Box, featuring works
by Lauren Van Hemert, on view in the Upfront Gallery from Sept.
5 - 27; Drawing Conclusions, featuring works by Casey Porn,
on view in the Lobby gallery from Sept. 5 - 27, 2008; and Now
In Print, a Printmaking Invitational, featuring works by six
artists, on view in Gallery 1 from Sept. 13 through Nov. 15, 2008.
Lauren Van Hemert
For her new exhibition, Out of the Box, Lauren Van Hemert created wearable pieces of art using unconventional materials and techniques. Her goal was to bring the jewelry out of the jewelry box and onto the wall as an intregal part of a three-dimensional artistic composition so that it could be enjoyed when it is not being worn. Van Hemert has always been inspired by the everyday items often taken for granted such as postage stamps, labels, photographs, posters, and advertisements. This exhibition takes her interest in ephemera to a new level by incorporating assemblage, collage, image transfer techniques, and found objects, to create mixed media panels in which an element of the panel can be removed and worn.
Van Hemert attended Indiana University in Bloomington where she studied to be a journalist. After moving to Raleigh with her family seven years ago, she started experimenting with image transfer techniques, polymer clay, and Precious Metal Clay.
Van Hemert is a 2005, 2006, and 2007 Niche Award Finalist and was awarded Second Place in Jewelry as one of the Best Artists and Artisans of North Carolina (Kennedy Promotions). She received Second Place in Mixed Media at the Coconut Grove Art Festival, Coconut Grove, FL, this past February and has been included in exhibitions at the North Carolina Craft Gallery, Artspace, Piedmont Craftsmen, and the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville. She exhibits locally and nationally and has been featured in Ornament, Southern Living, American Style, and Our State magazines and on Home and Garden Television.
Casey
Porn
Casey Porn was awarded Artspace's Regional
Emerging Artist-in-Residency for January-July 2008. Porn paints
bold graphic images, often of humanized animals. Using black and
white line work, she illuminates her subjects against brightly
painted backgrounds. During her residency she experimented with
a variety of materials and introduced metallic spray paint into
her compositions. Her close-of-residency exhibition, Drawing
Conclusions, features animal portraiture set against baroque
and art nouveau-inspired wallpaper backgrounds. Before beginning
each painting Porn spends a great deal of time sketching ideas
in pencil and ink. This exhibition will be an opportunity to see
several of these drawings as well, in various stages of completion,
along with the accompanying paintings.
Porn graduated from North Carolina State University College of
Design with a degree in Art and Design. She lives and works in
Raleigh, with three small dogs that somehow find their way into
most of her paintings.
John Ford
Oscar Gillespie
Artspace presents Now In Print, a Printmaking Invitational featuring the work of six artists currently working in the United States. The exhibition presents a glimpse into the diverse methods and techniques within contemporary printmaking today. The exhibition features a large woodcut banner from Cannonball Press (NY); intaglio monotypes by John Ford; deconstructive screenprints by Julia Freeman (WA); engravings by Oscar Gillespie (IL); multiple color woodcuts by Endi Poskovic (MI); and vitreopgraphs by Dan Welden (NY).
Artspace, a thriving visual art center located
in downtown Raleigh, brings the creative process to life through
inspiring and engaging education and community outreach programming,
a dynamic environment of over 30 professional artists studios,
and nationally acclaimed exhibitions. Approximately 95 artists
hold professional memberships in the Artspace Artists Association.
Thirty-five of these artists have studios located at Artspace.
Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, the Raleigh Arts
Commission, individuals, corporations, and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call Artspace at 919/821-2787 or visit www.artspacenc.org.
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