Doug Stuber

Last year Bleecker Street Studios–the Triangle’s most significant installed sculpture, which took almost six years to build–finally opened. With the permanent sculpture, a composite of wood, steel, concrete, bricks, glass–and sweat, lots of sweat–sculptor Ted Bleecker had completed his masterpiece. Most other large sculptures, like the Albert Paley piece at the Roanoke, Va. airport, are […]

Instead of low-balling collectors with inexpensive “art as Christmas gifts,” Raleigh-based Garden Gallery’s The Christmas Show instead grabs you with a stunning array of abstractions by artists Wayne Taylor, Nancy Tuttle May, Margaret Senter, Susan Phillips, Thomas Teague, Martha Harris and Thomas Hughes. The works are welcome pieces, cutting through the typical decorative art seen […]

Artist Dona Croughen pulls up to within a couple inches of a canvas, surveys the details she has added and continues to paint using the composition in her mind’s eye. Croughen is a naturalist who creates organic paintings that often sing lyrically, even if the song is a primal yelp. Her paintings range from pure […]

Paul Friedrich’s Onion Head Monster and his band of post-hip, fully deconstructed merrymakers are animations of a technique that may be unique in the two-dimensional cartoon world. “I write an outline for a story, then a script,” says Friedrich. “I break down the script to panels, sketch a thumbnail storyboard, then, once the characters are […]

NCCU celebrates a native photojournalist by doug stuber Photojournalist Alexander “Alex” Rivera Jr. may never be as well known as Margaret Bourke-White or Alfred Eisenstadt, but this may not be just because there is a bias against lionizing African Americans in general. It is also because Rivera, himself, felt it far more important to support […]