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June Issue 2006
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Offers New Exhibitions
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is currently offering several exhibitions including: Artspace Summer Arts Program Instructor Exhibition, on view in Gallery 2, through June 3, 2006; New Figures & Swimmers, featuring paintings by Peter Butler, on view in the Upfront Gallery from June 2 through July 1, 2006; and Foundations, featuring paintings by Ashley Lathe in the Lobby Gallery from June 2 through July 1, 2006.
Trying to decide on your Summer Arts Program classes but not exactly sure what a monoprint or a polaroid transfer looks like? Come to the Artspace Summer Arts Program Instructor Exhibition and see works of art created by our professional instructors.
Peter Butler
Peter Butler's work has always revolved around the figure. Often even landscape and still life paintings imply the figure. In his new series of work the figure is primarily presented against a featureless background. In works depicting underwater swimmers the figures are seen from above - the forms distorted by the water. The disassembling of the form aims to suggest sensuous abandon.
Butler has been a member of the Artspace Artists Association for 12 years. His oil paintings and monotypes have been exhibited throughout North Carolina. Butler currently lives and works in Clinton, NC.
Ashley Lathe
Ashley Lathe's Foundations exhibition
resulted from a backyard excavation project. Blocks and pavers,
buried after years of earth settling, were uncovered and Lathe
immediately saw them as artifacts of another time and culture.
Like tombstones in a forgotten cemetery, these once geometric
forms of baked clay remain as testaments to those individuals
who left them, as well as to their own unique function and meaning.
This series of work attempts to frame this meaning, to recreate
them as works of art, and to acknowledge the significance they
quietly possess.
Lathe graduated from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC,
in 1992 with a degree in Graphic Design. Today he teaches art
classes and works full-time as a visual artist. Lathe lives
in Charlotte, NC, with his wife and son.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call Artspace at 919/821-2787 or at (www.artspacenc.org).
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