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Visual Arts Events
17 Events (viewing events 1 through 17)
Cullowhee -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., Jan. 26, 2012 - Fri., May. 25, 2012 )
WCU Fine Arts Museum: EXHIBITION: Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011
In partnership with the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the Fine Art Museum presents Pat Passlof: Selections 1948-2011 honoring the work of painter and accomplished Black Mountain College alumna Pat Passlof. The show will feature a selection of paintings by Passlof, representing over 60 years of her career, from her time at Black Mountain College to her most contemporary work as a central, though under-recognized, figure in the development of Abstract Expressionism. This comprehensive exhibition occupies two NC venues simultaneously and includes a partner exhibit at the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center's storefront museum in downtown Asheville....
Related event: Reception Thursday, January 26, 6 – 8:00pm.
Free.
Raleigh -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., May. 3, 2012 - Sat., Jun. 16, 2012 )
Adam Cave Fine Art: EXHIBITION: A Matter of Context: New works by Will Goodyear
Will Goodyear’s New Exhibit Continues Style of Historical Examination Through Abstract Expressionism - In an exhibit of new works opening May 3rd at Adam Cave Fine Art , artist Will Goodyear combines the best elements of abstract expressionism with subject matter ranging from urban growth and self-portraits, to social, political, and historical iconography..... In “Legacy of Inequality,” Goodyear examines the proposed 2012 NC Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman, comparing this legislation with the 1875 amendment that banned interracial marriage until 1978. Other works continue to explore a popular theme for the artist: the growth of urbanism in North Carolina and, in particular, in the capital city of Raleigh.... Will Goodyear earned both a BFA (2002) and an MFA (2010) from East Carolina University.... Goodyear, who is also an accomplished musician, lives in Raleigh with his wife Debra and daughter Ainsley. His artwork is represented exclusively by Adam Cave Fine Art.
Preview Party with the artist - May 3rd, 6-9 pm; First Friday Reception with the artist - May 4th, 6-9 pm.
Durham -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., Feb. 16, 2012 - Sun., Jun. 17, 2012 )
Nasher Museum of Art: EXHIBITION: Alexander Calder And Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art pairs some 34 masterworks by Alexander Calder with the work of seven contemporary artists whose practices are bound to Calder's legacy as modern sculptor. While a well-known, even beloved figure, Calder is not often considered an important point of reference for contemporary artists. This is the first exhibition to explore Calder's significance for an emerging generation of sculptors, reconsidering his influence and innovation through a presentation of his own work alongside the work of contemporary artists. The seven other artists in this exhibition-Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows and Jason Middlebrook-have taken important cues from Calder including a return to hands-on production, the creative reuse of materials and explorations of form, balance, color and movement. Both directly and indirectly influenced by Calder, all seven artists look toward modernist forms and ideas, challenging and recontextualizing what is for many a familiar art history. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, organized the exhibition, which is accompanied by a fully-illlustrated catalogue.
Nasher Museum of Art. -- 919-684-5135 , http://www.nasher.duke.edu/$.
Raleigh -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sun., Dec. 11, 2011 - Sun., Jun. 24, 2012 )
North Carolina Museum of Art: EXHIBITION: Reflections: Portraits by Beverly McIver
Reflections: Portraits by Beverly McIver celebrates the last decade of Beverly McIver’s work. McIver, a native of North Carolina, is renowned for her expression-filled, emotive canvases that commemorate her life and the lives of those closest to he r— in particular, her mother, Ethel, who passed away in 2004, and her sister, Renee, who is mentally disabled. The exhibition highlights these two subjects in McIver’s work, focusing solely on her self-portraits and on portraits of Renee and other family members. “All of my portraits are self-portraits,” says the artist. “I use the faces of others who reflect my most inner being.” McIver is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art, examining racial, gender, and social identities through the lens of her own experiences as an African American female artist. The history of her family, particularly the struggles surrounding her sister’s disability and her mother’s death, allows McIver to contemplate and illustrate the complicated emotions that arise from these situations, such as depression, frustration, tender compassion, and innocent joy.
NCMA Exhibition Hall(s). -- 919-839-6262 , http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/overview/Free.
Chapel Hill -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Fri., Mar. 30, 2012 - Sun., Jul. 1, 2012 )
Ackland Art Museum: EXHIBITION: Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper - 3/30/12 - 1/7/12
While most recognized for his large scale, multi-media assemblages, Thornton Dial’s drawings are his most prolific body of work, spanning from the early 1990s into the present. Organized by the Ackland Art Museum, Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper will feature 50 of Dial’s earliest drawings from 1990-1991, a pivotal moment in his artistic career. The Ackland Art Museum is well known for its extensive collection of works on paper and in particular, its outstanding collection of drawings, making it a natural venue in which to explore this less-known but highly significant portion of Dial’s oeuvre. The works in the exhibition – characterized by flowing lines, color washes, and images of women, fish, and tigers – provide a touchstone of Dial’s creative process.
Ackland Art Museum. -- 919-962-2211 , http://www.ackland.org/Free.
Cullowhee -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., May. 17, 2012 - Fri., Jul. 20, 2012 )
WCU Fine Arts Museum: EXHIBITION: WNC Art Educators Biennial Juried Exhibition
Related event: Reception Saturday May 19 2- 4pm. CALL: WCU Fine Art Museum seeks applications for the WNC Art Educators Biennial Juried Exhibition, May 17 – July 20. Open to artists who are professional k-12 Art Educators ages 18 and older living in or west of Charlotte, NC. No restrictions on size or media. Juror: Mary Stewart, Director of Foundation Art Programs at Florida State University. Theme: Native Flora & Fauna of the Southeastern U.S. Application fee: $20 per applicant. $1,000 in prizes.
Fine Arts Museum. -- 828-227-3591 , http://www.wcu.edu/museum/109.htmFree.
Charlotte -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Fri., Apr. 20, 2012 - Mon., Jul. 23, 2012 )
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art: EXHIBITION: Picasso: Select Prints and Ceramics
Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest figures of the modern era, is represented by a series of lithographs, etchings and ceramics through which the artist explores subjects ranging from Spanish cultural traditions to quaint depictions of animals. The 29 works range in date from the 1930s to the 1960s and capture the potent expressiveness of the master’s hand even in the most contained and simple of compositions.
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Raleigh -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sun., Mar. 18, 2012 - Sun., Jul. 29, 2012 )
North Carolina Museum of Art: EXHIBITION: El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa brings together the work of the internationally celebrated artist El Anatsui in a career retrospective. This exhibition represents an unparalleled opportunity for Museum audiences to view the depth and breadth of Anatsui’s work and its development over time, as well as to explore essential aspects of contemporary African art. This expansive exhibition traces Anatsui’s three-decades-long career, including his early work making use of traditional symbols in Ghana; driftwood pieces created in Denmark; and chainsaw-carved wood work, metal assemblages, and draping bottle-top sculptures produced in Nigeria. Anatsui’s metal sculptures — constructed from thousands of Nigerian liquor bottle tops pieced together—transform a simple material into a stunning monumental form. While many of his works make use of found objects—including bottle caps, milk tins, and cassava graters—the artist says that his sculptures are less about recycling or salvaging than about seeking meaning in the ways materials can be transformed to make statements about history, culture, and memory.
NCMA Exhibition Hall(s). -- 919-839-6262 , http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/overview/Free.
Cullowhee -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., May. 17, 2012 - Fri., Aug. 3, 2012 )
WCU Fine Arts Museum: EXHIBITION: Lasting Impressions : Print Portfolio of Contemporary Native American Artists
From the Permanent Collection of the Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University - Lasting Impressions is a collaboration between master printer Jack Lemon and 10 Native American artists. The artists worked together to create a portfolio of prints representative of the current trends in contemporary Native American art. The purchase of this collection was made possible by a grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.
Related event: Reception Sunday, 15, 2pm Family Day/YAM
Free.
Winston-Salem -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sat., Feb. 18, 2012 - Sun., Aug. 5, 2012 )
Reynolda House Museum of American Art: EXHIBITION: A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing Gallery - Beginning in the late nineteenth century, new fortunes in the United States made it possible for many city-dwellers to commission country estates. Wealthy industrialists could work in town, and, by train or automobile, escape deteriorating urban centers to enjoy healthy air and breathtaking scenery, even at the end of each day. A widespread belief in the cultural and salutary benefits of rural life, plus the availability of money, prime land, and growing legions of professionally trained landscape architects, set the stage for ambitious residential landscape designs across the country. From 1895 to the waning years of the Great Depression, thousands of American estates were created from Mount Desert, Maine, to Santa Barbara, California. Together their designs comprise an important, virtually unexamined art movement. Seven such places are the subject of this photographic exhibition. American landscape design before the Country Place Era was shaped largely by the ideas of Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852) and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), both of whom designed home grounds in a romantic, picturesque style, while also responding to the "spirit of the place"—the genius loci. By the end of the century, wealthy Americans had begun to develop more Eurocentric tastes, particularly after the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Inspired by the Beaux-Arts buildings and plan of the fabled White City, by grand tours of Europe, and by new magazines and books such as Charles A. Platt's Italian Gardens (1894), many patrons requested features seen in England, France, and Italy for their American country homes and gardens. In the years following Olmsted's death, strong polarities divided the field. The stylistic battle between formality and naturalism—viewed as more distinctively American—took on a regional cast. Many midwestern landscape architects looked to indigenous plants and naturally occurring landforms for design inspiration; those practicing in the East tended to be more interested in Europe. The period's most artistically successful landscape designs integrated the two poles of inspiration, deriving vitality from each. During the 1910s, a host of other influences came to shape increasingly eclectic landscape designs. Gardens became more personal as landscape architects were asked to design private landscapes to not only satisfy their clients' day-to-day needs but to express their horticultural passions, remind them of their travels, or provide settings for their collections of sculpture. Many projects—including those in this survey—were the result of long collaborations between landscape architects and clients, whose sophisticated ideas often challenged convention. Women, able to breach gender barriers in the profession through their long-standing association with domestic gardens, brought unique horticultural skills and cultural perspectives to the art of residential landscape design. All these forces contributed to a heightening of the imaginative quality of landscape design. In the 1920s and 1930s, an increased emphasis on abstract color, form, and space in gardens reflected the influence of French modernism and other developments in painting and sculpture. The era's most artistically distinctive gardens continued to be guided by the force of the genius loci—expressed as a celebration of view and the ineffable spirit of place. The greatest American gardens of the period integrated this celebration with artistic expression. As fortunes shrank during the Depression, the demand for American country estates diminished, and when the United States entered World War II in 1941, private construction ceased altogether. After the war, land use patterns changed dramatically and the unique set of cultural and intellectual circumstances that had given birth to the Country Place Era dissipated. Since that time, most of the era's estates have disappeared, too. But the examples in this exhibition do survive and most are now accessible to the public. By illuminating their meaning, we hope to encourage thoughtful stewardship of them and of other significant American landscape designs. Related event: ... illustrated lecture by Robin Karson, curator of Reynolda House's current exhibition, "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era," on Tuesday, May 15 at 5:30.
Reynolda House Museum of American Art. -- 336-758-5150 or 888-663-1149 , http://www.reynoldahouse.org/index.php$.
Winston-Salem -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Tue., Apr. 24, 2012 - Sun., Aug. 5, 2012 )
Reynolda House Museum of American Art: EXHIBITION: "See Yesterday... Today" - Uses QR Codes to Connect to Outdoor Visitors
A new project ... will allow people enjoying the trails, green space and lawns of Reynolda to see archival images of the historic estate and landscape. Called "See Yesterday...Today," the project uses QR Codes placed on simple signs in eight locations across the estate. When the codes are scanned with a smartphone, a web page with archival information and an image about the location loads on the phone. The project coincides with the museum's exhibition on view through August 5, 2012, "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era," which celebrates the landscape design of estates built during the same time period as Reynolda.... "See Yesterday...Today" invites outdoor visitors to see the Reynolda landscape as visitors to the Reynolda estate might have experienced it in the late 1910s and early 1920s, using archival photographs and images. Much of the material for the project is taken from Reynolda 1906-1924 a book published in 2011 by the museum's founding director and granddaughter of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds, Barbara Babcock Millhouse. Eight locations between the estate's front entrance and the boathouse at the foot of Sunset Hill, on the backside of the historic house, are marked with green signs labeled for the project. Two additional signs are located in the front garden of the historic house, planted this spring as a Shakespeare Garden of Flowers and Verses. These two locations offer rare historic images of a Shakespearean pageant held in Winston-Salem in 1916 to mark the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death. Katharine Smith Reynolds selected verses to accompany flowers grown in Reynolda's greenhouses for the celebration. The museum has created a how-to video for the project, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6eIcUUTvlw&context=C4466672ADvjVQa1PpcFNIUHNT8m-D4uzC-sIIzSqn_QAVa7EpJTY=, and more information is available at reynoldahouse.org/seeyesterday.
Free.
Wilmington -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sat., Apr. 28, 2012 - Sun., Aug. 19, 2012 )
Cameron Art Museum: EXHIBITION: Out of Fashion
Out of Fashion is a group exhibition curated by Steven Matijcio, Curator of Contemporary Art, SECCA that metaphorically exploits the current state of mill products in North Carolina in light of a global market while paying homage to the once economic industrial staple in the state. Both Mary Tuma, the artist whose work is in Out of Fashion, will be at the opening reception. The exhibition [is] in the Hughes Wing.
Related event: Opening reception (for two concurrent shows) Friday, April 27, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
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Wilmington -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sat., Apr. 28, 2012 - Sun., Aug. 19, 2012 )
Cameron Art Museum: EXHIBITION: Julie VonDerVellen: Tailored Narratives
Julie VonDerVellen: Tailored Narratives is an exhibition that ... tells stories through fashion about relationships, and personal stories of families and friends articulated through finely made, full-scale paper clothing. Julie’s intricate constructions are made entirely of handmade paper derived from recycled cotton clothing. This emerging artist, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is debuting at the Cameron Art Museum in her first museum exhibition. Julie VonDerVellen will be at the opening reception. The exhibition [is] in the Hughes Wing.
Related event: Opening reception (for two concurrent shows) Friday, April 27, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
$.
Charlotte -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Fri., Mar. 2, 2012 - Mon., Aug. 27, 2012 )
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art: EXHIBITION: Mid-Century Modernism: 1957 and the Bechtler Collection
Works in all media drawn exclusively from the museum’s permanent collection that focus on 1957 and surrounding years, the height of the Bechtler family’s art acquisitions. Works by key figures of the modern movement such as Max Ernst, Barbara Hepworth, Sam Francis and Alberto Giacometti reveal a wide variety of styles and approaches during this period of post-war modernism. Twenty-eight artists are represented by 41 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints.
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Raleigh -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., Jan. 19, 2012 - Fri., Aug. 31, 2012 )
Gregg Museum of Art & Design: EXHIBITION: Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton - The Powers of Costume
Opening Reception, Janaury 19 from 6-8pm
Extended through August 31st.
Free.
Winston-Salem -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Sat., Mar. 31, 2012 - Sun., Nov. 25, 2012 )
Reynolda House Museum of American Art: EXHIBITION: Mystical Visions, Divine Revelations: Religion and Spirituality in 19th-Century Art
"This small, focused assemblage of works from the museum’s collection will lead the viewer to consider the different ways American’s contemplated the mystical and the divine during this dynamic period in our history.... During the 19th century, attitudes toward religion ranged from the creation of revivals and utopian communities to an interest in the occult, séances, and attempts to communicate with the dead. The transcendentalists looked for evidence of the divine in nature, while followers of Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg sought to reveal the spirits that animated the natural world. Archaeological discoveries from the ancient world led some Americans to a deeper exploration of myth and paganism. In literature, art and music American romantics expressed the sublime power of God’s creation. This exhibition features works by Edward Hicks, George Inness, and William Rimmer, brought together in a new context that enlivens our understanding of 19th-century American religion and spirituality."
Northeast Bedroom Gallery -
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Chapel Hill -- Fri., May 25, 2012 ( Thu., Aug. 11, 2011 - Tue., Dec. 31, 2013 )
Ackland Art Museum: EXHIBITION: Highlights from the Permanent Collection - through 12/31/13
The Ackland Art Museum presents a major reinstallation of highlights from its diverse permanent collection of over 16,000 works of art. The first presentations include The Western Tradition, from Ancient art to twentieth-century art; Art from West Africa; and Art from China and Japan. A gallery of South Asian Art will be added in the summer of 2012.
Ackland Art Museum. -- 919-962-2211 , http://www.ackland.org/Free.
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