SEPTEMBER 7–OCTOBER 5
SEEING THE WEAVE: TEXTILE BASED ABSTRACTION FROM THE PIEDMONT
Reception: September 7–5:00-7:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Maria Britton + Joy Drury Cox
Thursday, September 20, 6:00-7:30pm
Belk Rm 421 at the Library
Meet and Greet Breakfast with Maria Britton and Joy Drury Cox
Friday, September 21, 9:30-11:00am
Smith Gallery
Artist Talk by Barbara Campbell Thomas
Thursday, September 27, 6:00-7:30pm
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Lecture Hall
This exhibition brings together a set of works by women artists living in North Carolina who are connected through a common interest in crossing textile arts and painterly abstraction. Works chosen reflect how ideas associated with traditions of textile based abstraction spill across the landscape of contemporary art production.
Featuring work by:
Maria Britton (Chapel Hill, NC)
Barbara Campbell Thomas (Greensboro, NC)
Martha Clippinger (Durham, NC)
XCHANG Textiles (Oaxaca, Mexico + Durham, NC): Collaboration between Clippinger and weavers Licha Gonzales Ruiz + Agustin Contreras Lopez
Joy Drury Cox (Durham, NC)
Julia Gartrell (Durham, NC)
Kayla Anderson (Chicago, IL; work made during Elsewhere Residency, Greensboro, NC)
Jennifer Schmidt (Brooklyn, NY; work made during Elsewhere Residency, Greensboro, NC)
This event is free and open to the public