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May Issue 2009
Artspace in
Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Sharron Parker, Diane Feissel,
and Sarah Lindley
Artspace in Raleigh,
NC, is presenting several new exhibits including: Capturing
the Light, Part II, featuring works by Sharron Parker, on
view in the Upfront Gallery from May 1 - 30, 2009; Fabrication
Series, featuring works by Diane Feissel, on view in the Lobby
Gallery from May 1 - 30, 2009; and Housing Petronella,
featuring works by Sarah Lindley, on view from May 1 through June
27, 2009.
Sharron Parker
Capturing the Light, Part II, presents a series of felt works inspired by Sharron Parker's travels in Greece and Turkey, where she studied many Roman artifacts. Parker found Roman glass particularly compelling, with its shaded iridescent colors, fractured patterns, and sometimes encrusted surfaces. She was also drawn to marble statuary. In this new work Parker attempts to capture some of the qualities of the glass and the stone "cloth."
Parker received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a masters degree from UNC-Greensboro, studying education, art, and interior design. She continued her study in textiles with classes at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, where she has returned to teach workshops in felting. Through the Art in Embassies program, Parker's work has been exhibited in Turkmenistan and Armenia, and it has also been exhibited through the US. She has been a feltmaker for 29 years.
Diane Feissel
In this most recent series of paintings on printed fabric, Diane Feissel has allowed herself to be influenced by the printed surface on which she is working, inventing a narrative in reaction to the fabric pattern within each panel. Animals play a large role in Feissel's narratives. She notes that they hold great potential for shape-shifting and anthropomorphism, with ever-changing identities as we humans project onto them our ideas, stories, and motivations. Animals' identities and their concerns truly unknown to us can only be a product of our fabrication. Typical for Feissel, even within this small format, she explores the relationship of two and three-dimensional space, as well as the relationship and fabricated narrative between the existing print and the painting.
Feissel studied painting at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, and continued her studies through classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Studio Escalier. Feissel moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998, exhibiting work at Hang Art, The Los Gatos Art Museum, Studio Gallery, 66balmy, LIMN Gallery, and other venues. Her work was selected for the 2005 Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition at Fraser Gallery in Washington, DC, and she was a finalist in Artist's Magazine's Annual Art Competition in both 2005 and 2006.
In Oct. 2005, Feissel was one of a select group of San Francisco artists exhibiting in Paris through the Le Génie de la Bastille Invitational. In 2007, she exhibited her work internationally at Galerie Cupillard in Grenoble, France with painter Juliette Lemontey. Since relocating to Raleigh in 2007, she has exhibited at Flanders Art Gallery, Flanders 311, Visual Art Exchange, Artspace, the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, and Morning Times Gallery.
Sarah Lindley
Sarah Lindley's solo
exhibition, Housing Petronella, presents five works from
a series of Dutch Cabinet Houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Lindley's skeletal renditions of these source objects are constructed
entirely out of black clay slabs. Stripped of their natural color,
mass, and contents, she renders the forms like three-dimensional
drawings in space. Along with the source objects, Lindley's work
raises questions of obsession, gender, class, control, and the
stability of the domestic environment.
Lindley is an Associate Professor of Art at Kalamazoo College,
Kalamazoo, MI, where she teaches sculpture and ceramics. In her
sculptural works Lindley explores the domestic environment through
the representation and deconstruction of furniture forms typically
used for preservation and display. Born and raised in Cleveland,
OH, she holds an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle,
WA, and a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred,
NY. Lindley has been an Arts and Industry Resident at the John
Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, and a studio member
and instructor at Lill Street Studios, Chicago, IL. Her 2009 exhibitions
include Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Next Iconoclasts, Oregon
College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR; NCECA Clay National
Biennial, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ; and
the CEBIKO World Ceramic Biennale, Incheon, South Korea.
Artspace, a thriving
visual art center located in downtown Raleigh, brings the creative
process to life through inspiring and engaging education and community
outreach programming, a dynamic environment of over 30 professional
artists studios, and nationally acclaimed exhibitions. Approximately
95 artists hold professional memberships in the Artspace Artists
Association. Thirty-five of these artists have studios located
at Artspace. Artspace is located in Historic City Market in Raleigh
at the corner of Blount and Davie Streets.
Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, the Raleigh Arts
Commission, individuals, corporations, and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call the center at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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