July Issue 1999
Just Racin' at Green Hill Center
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, located in the Greensboro Cultural Center in downtown Greensboro, NC, is a non-profit gallery focusing on North Carolina Art. The Center proudly celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
One of the exhibitions we have planned during this special year is most unique - an unorthodox pairing of artists and motorsports racing. Just Racin': Art on Wheels, on view through Aug. 27 provides artists and the public with an opportunity to reflect on the rapidy expanding cultural phenomena linked with stock car racing.
Celebrating another anniversary in the world of motorsports, the exhibition commemorates the beginnings of the Winston Cup Series, 5O years ago with the first Grand National Stock Car Race held at the Charlotte Fairgrounds in 1949.
The idea for Just Racin' was born out of a desire to attract a new audience - auto racing fans. Green Hill's intention has always been to attract a broad and diverse audience; from families to businesses to racers. Motorsports participants are as varied as their brightly colored paint schemes on the specially designed race cars that duel at nearly 200 miles per hour. The Guggenheim Museum presented a motorcycle exhibition last year that was a huge success. We think Green Hill's Just Racin' exhibition will attract similar record breaking crowds.
Curator, Roger Halligan, invited over 30 artists to create works, choosing them on the strength of their work and their ability to give a wide variety of views on the culture surrounding racing. Halligan states, "I asked the artists to give us their new and personal responses to the sport that grew up on the back roads and dirt tracks of North Carolina and the South."
The artists are a diverse group that range from well-known sculptor Luis Jimenez to outsider artists Ricky Needham and Brooks Yeomans. They explore every media, including photography, video, sculpture, drawing, painting, fiber and printmaking. Green Hill plans to travel Just Racin' to other venues and has produced a 4 color, 32 page catalogue, designed by Tom Woods with an essay by visual art critic and free lance writer, Kate Dobbs Ariail.
Participating artists include: Robbie Barber, Mark E. Brown, Mark Burleson, Mary Dalton, Chris Flory, Donna Foster, John Gall, Tim Hailey, Art Haney, Luis Jiminez, Mark Kingsley, Bob Kowski, Stacy Lambert, Joan Mansfield, Dan Millspaugh, Ricky Needham, Roy Nydorf, Gail Ritzer, John Rosenthal, Ann Rowles, Greg Shelnutt, Ginger Spangler, Tom Stanley, Linda Tavernise, Bill Thelen, Kathy Triplett, Mary Todd-Shaw, Larry Volk and Brooks Yeomans.
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