Vol. 16, No. 3 March 2012 - Carolina Arts

Guilford College, Greensboro, NCcontinued from Page 23at the college he earned two distinguishedawards: the Bruce B. Stewart Award forExcellence in Teaching by an UntenuredFaculty Member (2007) and OutstandingFaculty Adviser Award for the State ofNorth Carolina granted by the NationalAcademic Advising Association in 2010.His work is represented in numerous publicand private collections including theThe Southeastern Center for ContemporaryArt (SECCA) in Winston-Salem,NC, will present the exhibit, Woman onthe Run, featuring an installation by artistTracey Snelling, on view from Mar. 1through May 27, 2012. A reception andgallery talk will be held on Mar. 1, beginningat 7pm.It’s a dark and stormy night, with neonmotel signs providing the only glow. Outof the shadows of dingy back alleys andtired brick storefronts, there is a womantrying to slip away. The only thing sheleaves behind is the hollow sound ofspiked heels clattering on the sidewalk.What has she done? Where is she running?Film noir intrigue comes alive in Trac-Page 24 - Carolina Arts, March 2012Weatherspoon Art Museum and GuilfordCollege Art Gallery, The Rhode IslandSchool of Design Museum of Art, and theMuseum of the City of New York, NY.For further information check our NCInstitutional Gallery listings, call TerryHammond at 336/316-2438 or e-mail to(thammond@guilford.edu).SECCA in Winston-Salem, NC,Offers Works by Tracey SnellingTracey Snelling, Woman on the Run (detail) 2008.Image courtesy of the artist.ey Snelling’s stage set installation Womanon the Run at The Southeastern Center forContemporary Art.SECCA Executive Director MarkLeach says, “Snelling’s work is continuallyevolving as it changes in the eyesof each person who walks through hersculptural maze. While she leaves a constellationof clues as to who the womanis, and what she’s done, Snelling presentsno answers. In a sense, the mystery of thestory becomes the core of an exhibitionthat never reaches a full conclusion.”In Woman on the Run, Snelling evokesa world of black & white Hollywoodcrime thrillers where the lines betweengood and evil becomes tantalizinglyblurred. Within the exhibition space Snellingcreates a world unto itself, whereaudiences will walk through pieces of acity and an abandoned motel room. Thewoman is the protagonist, and the questionremains what did she do and did shereally do it?Snelling builds sets of all scales, fromtoy model to lifesize, that map the seedy,but unmasked sides of cities across America.This exhibition brings cinema to life,and invites the viewer inside to navigate aworld of femme fatales, gritty theatre, andcontinued above on next column to the rightTable of Contentsthe questions of female representation infilm. The viewer lives the mystery and followsa trail of clues through film, video,sculpture and environment.SECCA Curator of Contemporary ArtSteven Matijcio says, “In anticipation ofthe River Run film festival and the filmlovers it brings out, Snelling’s Womanon the Run allows people to experiencecinema in an expanded field. Without abeginning or end, the audience is thrustinto the middle of a retro crime dramawhose meaning accumulates with everyadditional step through the set. One canonly really know this experience by becomingpart of its world.”The exhibition was collaborativelyproduced by The Frist Center for theVisual Arts in Nashville, TN, and SECCA.Woman on the Run recently showed atthe 21C Museum in Louisville, KY, andwill be presented at the newly re-namedVirginia MoCA this Fall.The Southeastern Center for ContemporaryArt is an affiliate of the NorthCarolina Museum of Art, a division of theNC Department of Cultural Resources.SECCA is also a funded partner of TheArts Council of Winston-Salem andForsyth County. Additional funding isprovided by the James G. Hanes MemorialFund.The NC Department of Cultural Resourcesannually serves more than 19 millionpeople through its 27 historic sites,seven history museums, two art museums,the nation’s first state supported symphonyorchestra, the State Library, the NCArts Council and the State Archives.The NC Department of CulturalResources serves as a champion forNorth Carolina’s creative industry, whichemploys nearly 300,000 North Caroliniansand contributes more than $41 billion tothe state’s economy. To learn more visit(www.ncculture.com).For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listing, call theCenter at 336/725-1904 or visit (www.secca.org).Carolina Clay Resource Directoryis our attempt at Carolina Artsnewspaper to create a focal pointfor info about the clay communityin both North and South Carolina.We may not be everything somewant, but we’ll try and bring ourreaders the most news about what’sgoing on, where you can find it,and info about the individuals andorganizations involved in the Carolina community. Whether you callit clay, pottery, ceramics - if you don’t see what should be here - justlet us know about it so we can add it to the mix.For the Carolina Clay Resource Directory go to:www.carolinaarts.com/ccrd/carolinaclay.htmlFor the Carolina Clay Resource Directory Blog go to:http://carolinaclayresourcedirectory.wordpress.com/