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Reynolda show unites masters of mid-century Masters
If you haven’t yet seen Reynolda House’s exhibition “Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” add it to your holiday to-do list.
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Closing is another painful blow
Millicent Greason-Spivak's decision to close Urban Artware is easy to understand, but tough to take.
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In the groove: Curator from Winston-Salem assembles an extraordinary show about vinyl records at Duke's Nasher museum
Winston-Salem native Trevor Schoonmaker has organized substantial exhibitions at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art in the four years since he became its curator of contemporary art.
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Back up and running: Delayed reopening of SECCA highlighted another year with few outstanding art shows to see
The big story on the local visual-art scene this year was mid-July’s reopening of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art after it had been closed for a year and a half while undergoing building repairs that cost $1.8 million.
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Deep Blues: Rik Freeman's exhibit at Delta Arts Center is about more than music
The ostensible subject of Rik Freeman’s paintings at the Delta Arts Center is the blues, the globally influential African American music tradition in which both jazz and rock’n’roll are rooted. Most of his 16 paintings in “The Chittlin Circuit Review,” at the center through Jan. 15, feature images of a black man playing an acoustic guitar, the blues’ primary musical instrument in the pre-
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All Is Vanity: Gallery displays plethora of Polaroid portraits by pop art's high priest
Nearly 25 years after his death and 40 years after his paintings of soup cans and other commercial products revolutionized the art world, Andy Warhol remains an icon of post-modern art, arguably the late 20th century's most influential American artist.
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Attempts to legislate its elimination won't stop local manifestations of international folk-art form
Graffiti has been a hot topic in Winston-Salem lately. Last month it was on the city council's agenda in the form of a proposed ordinance forbidding minors from buying spray paint within the city limits or possessing it near public properties. Presented as the latest tool for fighting the "graffiti problem" in the city, the ordinance passed unanimously.
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A Bygone Era: Christenberry's photo exhibit shows area bypassed by modern world
The ostensible subject of William Christenberry's photographs is the rural South, specifically Hale County, Ala., where he grew up. On a deeper level, these photographs are about isolation, loss, memory, death and the passage of time -- and about the kind of timeless, haunted beauty that Christenberry sees in all these processes.
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NO THEME: 'Dimensions 2010' show offers some interesting pieces, but nothing that is truly cutting-edge
As usual, there's no particular theme for the latest annual jurored show in Associated Artists of Winston-Salem's "Dimensions" series, but it turns out to consist largely of two-dimensional, figure-based art, with numerous references to architecture.
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Transience: Influence of artist's early life evident in work
Growing up in a housing project in Bridgeport, Conn., in the 1960s and '70s, Leonardo Drew lived alongside the city dump. Even as a child he evidently found a special kind of beauty in the decay and corrosion he observed when exploring that site.
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GRAND 'OL EXHIBIT: Photos feature flag, symbolism
In a society that takes its symbols seriously, few symbols are more emotionally loaded and potentially contentious than the U.S. flag. Photographer Sheila Pree Bright of Atlanta employs this fact to her advantage in the portrait photographs that make up "Young Americans," her solo exhibition at Winston-Salem State University's Diggs Gallery.
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Visual-art lovers were left hanging this year
The extended shutdown of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the extended downturn in the national and local economies loomed large among factors that rendered 2009 a bummer for visual-art lovers in Winston-Salem.
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Collected Wisdom - Reynolda House show features art selected by WFU's student buyers
It has been almost 48 years since a group of students at Wake Forest University came up with the idea of an art-buying trip to New York on behalf of the university. They wanted to establish a student-directed art-acquisition program as an integral part of an art department, which Wake Forest still lacked in the early 1960s.
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Snapshots in Time: Exhibit shows artist's collection of old photos whose stories are unknown
John Foster was a child in Winston-Salem's Ardmore neighborhood when he began pursuing two of his favorite activities -- making art and collecting things. Those pursuits would prove to be defining factors in his life as he grew up to become an artist, art teacher, graphic designer and voracious collector of folk art and found objects.
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Bright Spots - Unremarkable exhibit has some good work
Celebrations of cultural diversity have become ubiquitous in the art world in recent years. Among local institutions reflecting this generally salutary trend is Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, whose latest exhibition to engage the cultural diversity theme is on view through Nov. 20 at Associated Artists Gallery.
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Artist's work a look into the soul of book, himself
When Leo Morrissey delves into a book, he does it literally. Using a razor-edged blade, he cuts into it layer by layer. When he is finished, the book looks as if it has been excavated in tiers, like a miniature open-pit mine.
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Testing the Limits: Artist's project misunderstood right off the bat, but it drew attention to art
Mark Jenkins' September project for the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art provided a lesson in the difficulties faced by a self-described "street artist" working within an institutional context. The project also provided a revealing test of the art tolerance of law-enforcement authorities in the "City of the Arts."
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EXHIBIT: Towle to show 'Earhart' work
Like untold numbers of American boys and girls, I loved comic books when I was a child. I also loved to draw, and one of my favorite scenarios of my
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THE ART OF MATHEMATICS: For artist with
Geometry is the field of mathematics concerned with the properties, measurement and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces and solids. But for artist Vandorn Hinnant, geometry has a
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Expressing Themselves: Two solo shows feature distinct approaches to to the influences of expressionistic methods of figure painting
It has been about 35 years since figurative painting re-emerged as a vital form of contemporary art after several decades in the shadow of abstraction and conceptual art. Key to that development was the increasing popularity of an expressionistic strain of figure-painting sometimes called Neo-Expressionism. This approach to painting -- itself something of a throwback to German Expressionism -- has been continually revisited by later generations of artists, including two who now have solo shows in the Downtown Arts District.
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Exhibit showcases works from 6 Raleigh galleries
For its summer exhibition "Gallery Nomads," the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art invited six galleries in Raleigh to showcase selections of works by artists from their respective "stables." On view at the center through Aug. 29, the resulting exhibition is reminiscent of a contemporary-art fair, a series of mini-
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Worth the trip to Salisbury: Waterworks always does a fine job, and two collections especially stand out this time - one by ceramist Sharif Bey
Thanks to its consistently varied, generally high-quality exhibitions program, the Waterworks Visual Arts Center continues to distinguish itself among nonprofit visual-art venues in North Carolina's smaller cities and towns.
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A Thousand Words: Literary themes and allusions to paintings play an important role in the photography of Eileen Neff
Eileen Neff was a student of literature before she studied painting, but she ultimately settled on photography as the medium best suited to her artistic aims.
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'INSIDE OUT': SECCA project is welcome return of public art to city
Nearly six months after the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art closed its main building at 750 Marguerite Drive (off Reynolda Road) to prepare for a year-long, $1.8 million renovation, the most expensive and complicated part of that process has yet to get started. For now, the renovation is still officially scheduled to be complete in time for SECCA to reopen at the beginning of 2010.
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An Uneven Field: Display of college students' photographs finds some gems that stand out from the crowd
Nowadays just about everyone is a photographer -- or thinks he is -- thanks to the advent and mass popularization of digital photography. But to be a photographer requires more than just the ability to operate a camera-phone. It demands a special quality of attention to the visual world and an ability to adequately translate what you see -- and what you think or feel about it -- into a photographic image.
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