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December Issue 2004
Rebus Works
in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Stacey Kirby and Works from
the Penland School of Crafts
Rebus Works in Raleigh, NC, will present the exhibitions, A
Salt Revenue II, featuring works by Stacey Kirby and Via
Penland, featuring works by artists associated with Penland
School of Crafts, on view from Dec. 5 through Jan. 15, 2005.
Stacey Kirby is a Raleigh artist who graduated from UNC Chapel
Hill with a double major in journalism and studio art. She has
worked at Penland School of Crafts and The Womens Studio Workshop
in books and paper. Kirby recently was featured in an exhibition
called, What the Book?, at Flux Factory in Queens, NY and
will be in the upcoming Crosscurrents exhibition traveling
from the North Carolina Museum of Art to The Mint Museum of Art
in 2005.
Kirby's artist's books have been collected by individuals and
organizations such as the Duke University's Perkins Library Artists
Books Collection. She resides right next door to Rebus Works at
BLAM! Studios.
Kirby's A Salt Revenue II is an installation that consists
of a constructed diorama that explores issues regarding walls,
barriers and boundaries; both visible and invisible.
A diorama is a miniature scene wholly or partially three dimensional
depicting figures in a naturalistic setting.
"The construction and existence of visible/invisible walls
is of my utmost concern. Walls/barriers/boundaries are created
daily for a variety of reasons. Photocopied reproductions of documentation
of the Berlin Wall and the war that the United States is currently
waging on Iraq are combined to create A Salt Revenue II.
Two-dimensional imagery is used to construct a three-dimensional
environment. This installation calls attention to universal boundaries
that reinforce right vs. wrong, black vs. white, inside vs. outside,
front vs. back, and us vs. them. Our boundaries and walls OBSTRUCT
our sight and hinder our movement along certain paths. These obstructions
create a hierarchy of value and importance among sides. Are we
keeping it in or keeping it out? How do these obstructions come
into being?"
The exhibit, Via Penland, is being offered to celebrate
Rebus Works' one-year anniversary. It will include works by artists
associated with the Penland School of Crafts - through teaching,
working, and/or attending the school and/or by artists who live
in the surrounding area of Penland, NC.
Finely crafted works which can be found in Rebus Works' Storefront
space will include: books, ceramics, glass, metals, iron, photography,
printmaking, textiles and wood. This years artist are: Lisa Colby,
Day Dotson, Loretta Forde, Celia Gray, Harriet Hoover, Ipso Facto,
Shawn Ireland, Annalisa Jensen, Claire Kelly, Victor Lytvinenko,
Marc Maiorana, Brian McGee, Leslie Patterson, Cynthia Rohrer,
Staci Sawyer, Anthony Schafermeyer, Aaron Sober, Melissa Sullivan,
Hong-Ling Wee, and David Wilson.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the gallery at 919/754-8452 or at (www.rebusworks.net).
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