OCAC article about MFA candidate Charlie Dupee
Learn more about the work of MFA candidate Charlie Dupee in this great article from the Orange County Arts Commision: https://artsorange.org/human-way-dupee/
Learn more about the work of MFA candidate Charlie Dupee in this great article from the Orange County Arts Commision: https://artsorange.org/human-way-dupee/
Now, Where Were We?
Jon Rollins
March 14th – June 6th 2021
Preservation Chapel Hill at the Horace Williams House is proud to present Now, Where Were We?, a solo exhibition by Jon Rollins, on view from March 14th to June 6th, 2021.
Jon’s latest work uses scrap materials left over from years of artmaking. His practice is anchored by materials. They serve as both a starting point and a form of resistance to generate ideas, decision, and action. The beginning of a work is guided by a question about a material: “What is this and how can it surprise me?” This desire to challenge his own expectations leads him to combine artmaking media with nontraditional materials, including house paint, tape, found paper, or anything scavenged from the studio. As a work progresses, he shifts from free exploration of the materials to a more methodical, editorial mode, seeking intention and structure. He continues in these cycles of intuition and elaboration, addition and erasure, until the work reaches that state of surprise: confused, but clear; sometimes obvious, but always unexpected.
Jon Rollins (b. 1991) is an artist based in High Point, North Carolina. He received his BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Jon’s most recent solo show was at COHAB.Gallery in High Point (2020). His work has been exhibited in Madrid, Basel, Miami, New York, and throughout North Carolina.
The exhibition is open by appointment only. To make a viewing appointment, please contact Will Thomas at wpaulthomas@gmail.com . A video walkthrough of the exhibition and price list will be available on March 14th at preservationchapelhill.org/art-exhibitions . To learn more about Jon’s work, please visit jonrollins.com or his social pages @jon_rollins.
Image: Card (may be kept until needed), enamel, acrylic, silkscreen ink, pastel, crayon, marker, pencil, newsprint, paperboard, sketchbook paper,
game card, and notecard on canvas, 10 x 10 in, 2020
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 😀.
https://mjsharp.bigcartel.com/
Again, best wishes for 2021—
MJ
MJ Sharp | mj@mjsharp.com | www.mjsharp.com Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection https://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/52512 https://www.instagram.com/m.j.sharp/ https://twitter.com/mjgrabscamera
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.”