In the opening frames of the documentary Fully Awake: The Black Mountain College Experience, one is enticed by a heady list of artists who were part of the phenomenon known as Black Mountain College. Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Arthur Penn, David Tudor, John Cage, Merce Cuningham, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, M.C. Richards, Charles Olsen, […]
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Romanian artists Dan and Lia Perjovschi open the vaults
States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi Nasher Museum of Art Duke University Through Jan. 6, 2008 “The archive has always been a pledge, and like every pledge, a token of the future.” Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever Dan and Lia Perjovschi grew up in Romania during a dark historical moment of repression and scarcity, the […]
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Ashlynn Browning and John Maggio interpret the natural world
Ashlynn Browning: Bridging the Inner Landscape John Maggio: New Works on Paper Lee Hansley Gallery Through Aug. 25 In Ashlynn Browning’s artist’s statement for her show Bridging the Inner Landscape at the Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, she describes how a spring residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts affected her “much more than […]
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Tama Hochbaum’s world and welcome to it
The Way I See Us: Family Portraits Photographs by Tama Hochbaum Horace Williams House Preservation Society of Chapel Hill 610 E. Rosemary St. 942-7818, chapelhillpreservation.com Through July 29 There is something archetypal about the grounds at the historic Horace Williams House. Just walking up to the place gives rise to childhood memories of playing in […]
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Otherworldly goods
Floating Worlds: Kyung Jeon, Taiyo Kimura, kozyndan, Andre Yi Branch Gallery 401c Foster St., Durham 918-1116, www.branchgallery.com Through July 28 A young man puts his pet cat’s head into his mouth. Happy cartoon children engage in acts of terror. A partially destroyed bridge against a blank color field somehow resolves itself as a landscape painting. […]
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In his ninth decade, Irwin Kremen celebrates a lifetime of art
Irwin Kremen: Beyond Black Mountain (1966 to 2006) Through June 17 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University There is a Kabalistic notion that at the moment of one’s death, all one’s days come together at the locus of the soul. “Gather Your Days” is the term for this phenomenon; it is also the title […]
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Beautiful mistakes
Sometimes damaged goods can give rise to artistic inspiration. For photographer Leah Sobsey it was a batch of tainted photographic paper. The specter of 19th-century botanist Anna Atkins whispered in her ear, and Sobsey set out to explore the art of the photogram. Pioneered by Atkins, the photogram is defined by webster.com as “a shadowlike […]
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Persistent memory
When Harrison Haynes returned to North Carolina after living in New York City, ubiquitous elements such as kudzu and corroded cars began to creep into his art. Haynes continues to navigate his return with work fueled by an implosion of present and past. In his current exhibition of new paintings at Branch Gallery, Going Home […]