Even though Lulu Zilinskas is a SILS graduate student, she does her printmaking in the Hanes Art Center John C. Henry Print Studio. See our facilities featured in this story about her from the College of Arts and Sciences: https://www.unc.edu/discover/graduate-student-combines-passion-for-art-and-the-library/
Visual Art Specialist Mark Soderstrom’s exhibition Tertiary Measurements is now on view by appointment until February 21, 2021, at the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill.
This exhibition focuses on the comparative perspectives between various world-views using a variety of media to create “evidential artifacts of the stories, phenomenon, historical situations, and cultural aspects they present.”
Each of the works in “Tertiary Measurements” relates to an incident or memory that has captured the artist’s attention influenced by his ongoing interest in pseudoscience, psychology, and sociology and his quest to understand how individuals and cultures come to various beliefs and “how these perspectives are perceived from opposing paradigms.” This unique collection of created artifacts and art objects transport the viewer into a realm of world views and alternative realities which are both playful and thought provoking.
You can make an appointment on the Preservation Chapel Hill website here: https://www.preservationchapelhill.org/art-exhibitions.
You can also see more of Mark’s work at his website here: https://www.marksoderstrom.com/.
Steven M. Brent, a member of the “New, New Painters” who earned his MFA degree at UNC-Chapel Hill, died Dec. 4, 2020. A link to his obituary is below.
joy tirade is the artist name of Joy Meyer. She holds an MFA from UNC, Chapel Hill. Previously, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from University of Virginia with a BA in Studio + Art History. She has exhibited internationally in British Columbia, Norway, Lithuania, and South Korea. Nationally she has shared work at The Mint Museum, The Ackland Museum, CAM, Masur Museum, the Carrack, LUMP, Fluorescent Gallery, Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Red Ink Studios, and LACDA. She lives and works in Oakland, California where she facilitates a community painting collective | @community.painting.club
Greetings! Along with best wishes for 2021, I wanted to send along a few quick updates.
1) The wonderful lecture by Michele Frederick about curating the Reflections on Light show on view now (and also virtually) at the North Carolina Museum of Art is available on the museum’s youtube channel. She gives a great behind-the-scenes look at how the museum came to produce this particular show but also how museums produce shows more generally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=82&v=Yq0WRXfPO5I&feature=youtu.be
2) The Studio Store is newly updated and at the moment is a bit of a memory lane of images. With few exceptions, these images have not been out in the world, and they are not part of any previous editioned set of prints. As I’ve been reorganizing the studio, my flat files have been yielding many different types of prints from a wide range of eras. I’m enjoying rediscovering these prints as I prepare to convert my studio to a giant darkroom (some 5×7 and 8×10 black and white negatives I want to play with). I’ll probably have another round of prints to list before everything goes dark for a while starting around January 18th, which not coincidentally, is when our spring semester begins at Duke 😀.
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Again, best wishes for 2021—
MJ
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Brightwork Series presents: Çukurova Plain by Ayla Gizlice
Thursday, November 5 – Sunday, December 20
Ayla Gizlice is a Turkish-American artist born in Raleigh. Çukurova Plain examines presentations of Osmaniye, her father’s hometown, in her own American one. The work serves as an introduction to this space apart from the tension that is electrified by current events and media portrayals. The space has been set aside as a respite from this tension, using humor and reflection to subvert the stereotypical American narrative of Middle Eastern life and landscape.
Viewing by appointment only.
Congratulations to MFA candidate Krysta Sa, who has received The Center for European Studies 2021 Jean Monnet Center of Excellence EU Research Award for her project “Ancestral Soak: Sea Bathing in the European Union.”
Greetings! I know it’s been a while. I’ve succumbed to the lure of updating folks via twitter and instagram (those tempting links are at the very bottom), but here is some recent news all in one place and only slightly longer than a short novella.
Firstly I’m tickled that Outside Amarillo is on view now as part of Reflections on Light at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Through February 14th, 2021. The museum is allowing timed entry Wed-Sun with masks and distancing. More information about visiting safely is on their website.
https://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/52512
Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection: Featuring objects from 16 countries and spanning more than 2,500 years of art history, Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection celebrates the diverse collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art. Bringing together artworks from different cultures, continents, and histories, Reflections on Light showcases how artists from many eras—from ancient Guatemala to 20th-century Ghana—responded to, used, and revered light.
In other news, I’ve followed my good friend and potter Matt Hallyburton (http://hallyburtonpottery.com/) into the world of having an online studio store presence. A picture I made recently that screamed, “Make me into a holiday card!” meant that I had to really hustle to get the store ready to go in time. It’s turned out to be real pleasure to configure the store, and it’s been a great excuse to pull together some personal favorites. Give it a look, and if you are thinking you might write holiday cards this year for the first time in a decade, well, nothing says the holidays like a big box lid full of cherry tomatoes in various stages of ripeness.
https://mjsharp.bigcartel.com/
I’m also excited about the very latest work I’ve been up to—this summer and fall I’ve been shooting with a panoramic view camera as well as 4×5, 5×7, and 8×10 formats. Some of that work is at the link below (and with any luck, it’s a little bit mobile-friendly). I enjoyed a slice of one of the new photos (Tomato Proscenium) as my phone lock screen so much that I made an actual little image file that you’re welcome to right-click and download to use as your phone wallpaper. That’s the second link. Fair warning, I like to keep my phone screen really cleared off (as opposed to my frighteningly crowded office/studio in real life). If you’ve got a million icons on your phone screen, you may want to stick to your phone-supplied color or texture.
http://mjsharp.com/Windows/Still_Lives-Mobile2020.html
http://mjsharp.com/Phone_screens/Tomato_Proscenium.html
Wishing you a safe, happy, and restorative holiday season!
MJ
MJ Sharp | mj@mjsharp.com | www.mjsharp.com
