Nathan Lupo

Cemeteries exist not only as final resting places for the departed, but as plots of land set aside for the erection of tangible reminders of their lives. Since humankind first began signifying the spot where a body lies, grave markers have been the object of fascination as they invoke, if not memory, then an imaginative […]

George Bireline offers a lesson, of sorts, in modern painting styles with the collection of his work now on view at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh. Featuring work from the 1960s to paintings completed just this year, the show transitions smoothly from the vibrant color fields that have been emblematic of Bireline’s work since his […]

Walking into the main gallery at the Raleigh Contemporary Art Museum to view its current show, some kind of dream, visitors immediately encounter Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s brilliant and encompassing work, “During Sleep,” looming like a jungle in the background. The Berlin-based artist has woven 120 pounds of black yarn around and between 40 beds […]

The inspiration for George Jenne’s exhibition The Five Cent Fallen Colossus, up now at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, came in part from his own attraction to the over-indulgent brilliance of the carnival atmosphere, but also from a friend who opted, out of curiosity, to work for three months for James E. Strates Shows Inc. (which, […]

How do we process the constant stream of information that, thanks to modern technology, seems to bombard us every minute? This is the question Georges Le Chevallier tackles with his exhibition of mixed media paintings currently on view at Artspace. The question could not be more timely in our post-Sept. 11 world, a world in […]