Imagine you and I are having a conversation. I happen to mention The Louvre, The Tate, The Met, The Prado, MoMA and MOCA. Through the simple act of naming I am also necessarily invoking the cities in which these storied museums are to be found. When I say “Louvre,” you think Paris; when I say […]
Amy White
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André Leon Gray adds it up at Flanders Gallery
figment of the pigment New work by André Leon Gray Flanders Gallery Through May 1 I used to serve coffee to Huey Newton. Now, this may not immediately seem relevant to André Leon Gray’s show of new work, figment of the pigment, at Flanders Gallery in Raleigh, which is, after all, the subject of this […]
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Plastic CameraWorks 2 at Rebus Works
Plastic CameraWorks 2 Rebus Works Through March 27 The gallery owner had to convince me that the deer in the photograph were fake. Even now, I can mentally return to the image and buy into those deer as real. Positioned as they are, in contrast to what you would call a “man-made” setting, they stare […]
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Isabel Chicquor’s cinematic photo diptychs at Through This Lens Gallery
Side by Side: An Exhibition of New Work by Isabel Chicquor Through This Lens Through Feb. 13 The first image is in tight focus and has a palette of subtle hues. The second is in grainy black- and-white with a range of soft gray tones. In the first, we see the upper torso of a […]
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The LoDi Project opens its doors just in time for the Day of the Dead
Día de los Muertos The LoDi Project 1126 N. Blount St., Raleigh 272-3631 Through Oct. 31 It’s great that the architects who designed the space for The LoDi Project, a new gallery in Raleigh, kept the original floors of the remodeled former furniture factory. They’ve been painted in dark tones and stretch across the space […]
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A new conversation about Picasso at the Nasher
Picasso and the Allure of Language Nasher Museum of Art Through Jan. 3, 2010 “Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.” Gertrude Stein, from “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” her 1924 text portrait of the painter Florence, 1996: Jenny Holzer projects the words “I Am Losing Time” against a stone […]
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Nine shots by Daniel Amoni in Carrboro
Across the Street: Photographs by Daniel Amoni Nested Through Oct. 30 Shows in Carrboro’s tiny Nested Gallery necessarily require editorial restraint. Accordingly, its new show, Daniel Amoni’s Across the Street, is a collection of only nine photographs, described in the gallery notes as “urban snapshots” that Amoni captured on walks taken mainly in San Francisco, […]
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The revolution according to Jean Toche at the Franklin Center
Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency John Hope Franklin Center Through Nov. 29 The individual works are untitled, identified only by the date of their creation. “October 30, 2004” presents an almost ghoulish image of the artist’s face, digitally pushed to an unnatural pink. It’s an older face, with wiry white facial […]
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Beyond Beauty at Nasher Museum of Art
Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library Nasher Museum of Art Through Oct. 18 Several years ago I saw a billboard for Life magazine that read, “We don’t take sides. We take pictures.” This message struck me as preposterous. All images communicate a point of view, from the seemingly innocent snapshot to […]
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Jerstin Crosby harshes our mellow at Lump Gallery
IF YOU BUILD IT WE WILL BURN IT Lump Gallery/Projects Through Sept. 26 The first impression one receives upon entering Jerstin Crosby’s new show at Lump Gallery is that a maze has been constructed in the gallery space, a labyrinth of black, painted two by fours, a bare infrastructure dividing the space. It’s a conflicting […]