BILL THELEN _low_hanging_fruit Spectre Arts 1004 Morning Glory Ave., Durham 919-213-1441 www.spectrearts.org Through Nov. 8 Artist talk Nov. 6, 8 p.m. On the 1984 single “Erotic City,” Prince made a complex move. Claiming a performance by Parliament-Funkadelic as inspiration, the sly musician (who at times has been identified only by a wordless symbol) pushed the […]
Amy White
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Dance reviews: Tere O’Connor at the American Dance Festival
As the lights came up at the American Dance Festival on July 16, we encountered a slight woman in a green dress. She fluidly walked subtle floor patterns, her hips punctuating spatial shifts. This was the opening statement of Tere O’Connor’s BLEED. For those who’d attended ADF performances that week of the choreographer’s other three […]
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Gabriel Dawe’s Plexus No. 25 activates the connection between spectator and spectrum
GABRIEL DAWE PLEXUS NO. 25 CAM Raleigh Opening reception June 5 Through Aug. 31 Aswath of rainbow light cuts diagonally across CAM Raleigh’s main gallery. When you approach the shimmering, spectral form, thousands of tautly strung colored threads come into focus, revealing the luminous presence as a material one. This is Plexus No. 25, the […]
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The eco-philosophy of Taj Forer in Stone by Stone at Flanders Gallery
Stone by Stone: Taj Forer Flanders Gallery Through April 30 “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.” Henry David Thoreau [“Walking”] […]
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Collaborative ‘zine Hateful takes over Lump Gallery
Hateful Lydia Moyer and Tory Wright Lump GalleryThrough March 30 The word “idioglossia” describes a secret language shared by twins. Lydia Moyer and Tory Wright are not twins, but they have cultivated their own secret visual language in a collaborative ‘zine called Hateful, a virtually wordless collaged compendium of archival images, cut, pasted and photocopied […]
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Closing Sunday at NC Museum of Art: Project 35: Volume II
NC Museum of Art“Despair” by Stephen Sutcliffe PROJECT 35 — Volume IINorth Carolina Museum of ArtPart II closes Jan. 13Part III Jan. 20-March 24Part IV April 2—June 2 When it comes to good art, sometimes late is better than never. In August of last year I wrote about Volume I of Project 35, Independent Curators […]
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The precision tools of Leigh Suggs
Leigh Suggs: Red White Black and Blue Light Art+Design Through Oct. 25 Once in a while an artist will hit upon a mode of production so deeply personal, idiosyncratic and hermetic that it verges upon the compulsive. Yayoi Kusama’s multitudes of painted dots come to mind, as do Ginny Bishton’s tonal collaged abstractions done in […]
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NCMA delivers an international roster of contemporary video artists
Project 35 North Carolina Museum of Art Part 1 (of 4) runs through Oct. 28 Series concludes June 2, 2013 There’s a small dark room at the North Carolina Museum of Art that has the potential to radically expand your knowledge about contemporary art. From now through the beginning of June 2013, you might consider […]
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Artists who make shutter-less photographs at the Ackland
Adding to the Mix 5: Hiroshi SugiMoto’s “Lightning Fields No. 176” (2009) Ackland Art Museum Through Oct. 21 In Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s stunning “Lightning Fields no. 176” (2009), a fearsome storm appears to have raged upon the surface and left slashes of lightning strikes across a void of black. The scale of the work is substantialit […]
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José Lerma’s parables of power failure at CAM Raleigh
The Credentialist CAM Raleigh Through Sept. 2 When you stand on the small white pedestal at the site of the king’s third eye, the curtains along the gallery’s back wall are set aglow, magically illuminated in an almost blinding wash of platinum light. Only one person at a time can stand upon the pedestal, a […]