Vol. 15, No. 7 July 2011 - Carolina Arts

Cheryl Newby Gallerycontinued from Page 29At twenty seven years old, Williams isthe youngest artist represented by the gallery.Established in 1983, the gallery representsthirteen well-known and emergingartists. Williams is the first GeorgetownNew Bern ArtWorks & Company inNew Bern, NC, will present an exhibitof works by Anne Cunningham and JaneFaudree, on view from July 8 throughAugust 19, 2011. A reception will be heldon July 18, fro, 5-8pm.native to be represented by the gallery.For further information check our SCCommercial Gallery listings, call thegallery at 843/979-0149 or visit (www.cherylnewbygallery.com).New Bern ArtWorks & Company inNew Bern, NC, Features Works byAnne Cunningham and Jane FaudreeWork by Jane FaudreeA native of Greenville, NC, Jane Faudreewas born into a small college townrich with love for academics and the arts.Her love for the visual arts eventually ledher to study with master painter, LuanaLuconi Winner, who was trained in theDuke University in Durhan, NC, is presentingthe exhibit, Flesh & Metal, Bodies& Buildings - Works from Jonathan Hyman’sArchive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials,on view in the Special CollectionsGallery at the William R. Perkins Librarythrough Oct. 16, 2011. The exhibition wascurated by Professor Pedro Lasch, of theDepartment of Art, Art History & VisualStudies, at Duke University.classical vein.Faudree has developed a style of paintingthat is influenced by Winner and alsoby her infatuation with the American andFrench Impressionists. She paints almostentirely in oils, with palette knife moreoften than brushes. Much recent work isdone outside, rather than in the studio.Landscape and seascape are favorites, yetFaudree is constantly trying new subjectsand techniques.Since 1990, Anne Cunningham hasbeen on an exciting exploration using metalssuch as copper, brass and aluminum tocreate large and small free-form shapes.“Every day is an experiment” - discoveringnew ways to texturize and shape themetals, layering with papers, weaving cutstrips, applying inks, dyes, chemicals andpaints. With no constricting boundaries,her work continues to change and evolve.For further information check our NCCommercial Gallery listings, call thegallery at 252/634-9002 or visit (www.newbernartworks.com).Duke University in Durhan, NC,Features Works by Jonathan Hymanand fellow artist working on this topic,I decided to select works that elucidatethe relationship between the iconic metalbuildings and the human body. In thisshow, the World Trade Center (WTC)appears transfigured in murals on thesurface of other buildings, reincarnated inassemblages of scraps and remains, andinscribed on the very skin of those whomourn and remember.”According to Lasch, Hyman’s photographs“capture largely impermanent,spontaneous expressions created andencountered by people in their everydaylives.”photography with painting, sculpture, tattooing,and other media employed by hundredsof individuals who created the WTCmemorials represented in their specificsocial contexts. Unlike much other workproduced and compiled around 9/11/2001,Hyman’s archive enables a multi-layereddialogue about issues that go far beyondthis specific subject, such as public andprivate memory, violence, corporate spectacleand vernacular aesthetics, art andsocial class, race and sexuality, patriotismand nationalism.Lasch also offers, “Many of the imageproducers involved in this archive’scomplex assemblage do not considerthemselves artists, but all are committedto the importance of remembering 9/11through material representations that exceedlanguage, writing, and the ubiquitouselectronic media associated with the videoloops of the crashing and smoking Towers.As we enter the second decade afterthe tragedy of 2001 and its military responses,we may also reestablish the valueof material culture and memory. Havingalready disappeared as physical objects,most of the memorials documented byHyman were also ignored by TV and othermedia of the digital age.”“How are we to always remember,if we let the few archives representingthese vernacular memorials disappearalong with them?,” adds Lasch. “Whenthose honoring their dead with tattoos areburied, and every mural has been paintedover, what buildings and bodies willhouse their memory? The WTC attackswill surely never be forgotten, but withoutarchives such as Hyman’s our collectivememory will be shaped exclusively by themonotony of state monuments, and thegeneralizations of mass media.”Produced by the Duke University RareBook, Manuscript, and Special CollectionsLibrary, Flesh and Metal, Bodiesand Buildings is part of a cycle of eventscommemorating the tenth anniversary of9/11 at Duke University. A related reception,panel discussion, and talk includingJonathan Hyman and Pedro Lasch willbe held on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in theMary Duke Biddle Rare Book Room.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listing, call theLibrary at 919/660-5968 or visit (www.library.duke.edu/exhibits).FRANK in Chapel Hill, NC,Features Works With Little ColorFRANK, the Franklin Street Arts Collectivein Chapel Hill, NC, will present theexhibit, BLACK & WHITE, on view fromJuly 5 through Aug. 21, 2011. A receptionwill be held on July 8, from 6-9pm.Work by Barbara TyrolerSometimes we can best understand athing by its absence. In this new show,FRANK artists will be contemplating thenature of color by creating artworks withoutit. With black, white, and all the graysin between, FRANK will be a beautiful,pure play of black, white, and grays - ofshade and tint. Shade is the addition ofblack pigment to a color and tint is theaddition of white.Shades and tints then become darker andlighter grays. How do artists translatethis into their respective media: into clay,wood, metals, pen, or paint? What doesthe spectrum between black and whitesay to artists and to viewers about thenature of color as it changes betweendark and light? This show will be a visualfeast, engaging viewers as well as daringFRANK and invited artists to take a stepaway from color, into the world of black,white and gray.Organized by FRANK artists SudieRakusin, John Rosenthal, Anita Wolfenden,and Sasha Bakaric, it will include invitedartists Bill Neville, Beatrice Coron,Andy Fleishman and Nadine Zenobi, aswell as FRANK members and consignmentartists.Work by Beatrice CaronWork by Sasha Bakaric9/11 Memorial Masks on Bicycle, Manhattan, NY2003, by Jonathan HymanOver the last ten years, New Yorkbasedphotographer Jonathan Hyman hasbeen documenting vernacular artworkcreated by Americans on the side of theroad and in public places in response tothe September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.His images depict a range of subjects andartistic styles - murals painted by graffitiartists, farmhouses painted with Americanflags, and firefighters with elaboratememorial tattoos.This exhibition brings together a smallselection of photographs from Hyman’svast documentation of US vernacular 9/11memorials.Lasch noted, “As a guest curatorPage 30 - Carolina Arts, July 2011T.C.’s Back, Manhattan, NY 2003, by JonathanHymanAs a body of work, Hyman’s archiveconstitutes a complex process of artistic,social, and political mediation. Havingearned an MFA in painting in addition tohis photographic training, and countingartists like Leon Golub among his friendsand mentors, Hyman is no stranger tothe non-photographic media that appearframed within his pictures. His workbridges the medium of documentarycontinued above on next column to the rightTable of ContentsWork by Nadine ZenobiWhat happens when artists are askedto move away from color, restrictingthem to the use of only black and white?The mission of the Franklin Street ArtsCollective is to support the arts communityof Chapel Hill and the region,expand community appreciation of thearts through educational programming,and promote the Town of Chapel Hill andNorth Carolina as a major arts destination.For further information check ourNC Institutional Gallery listings, call thegallery at 919/636-4135 or visit (www.frankisart.com).The deadline each month to submit articles, photos and ads is the 24th of the monthprior to the next issue. This would be July 24th for the August 2011 issue and Aug. 24for the September 2011 issue. After that, it’s too late unless your exhibit runsinto the next month.But don’t wait for the last minute - send your info now.And where do you send that info?E-mail to (info@carolinaarts.com) or mail to:Carolina Arts, P.O, Drawer 427, Bonneau, SC 29431If you don’t see your art or an article about your gallery’s exhibit here -you just didn’t send it by deadline or at all.