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July Issue 2008
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Works
by Susan Martin, Meredith Brickell and Eileen Doktorski
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will offer three exhibits
including: Territiories, featuring works by Susan Martin,
on view from July 4 - 26, 2008, in the Artspace Lobby; Drawn,
featuring works by Meredith Brickell, on view from July 4 - 26,
2008, in the Upfront Gallery; and Summer Artist-in-Residence,
with Eileen Doktorski, from July 1 - 30, 2008, in Gallery 1.
Susan Martin
Susan Martin's current work focuses on homesteaded
landscapes that could exist, may exist, or have existed. Martin
notes that the way new occupants decide to mark, decorate, and
protect their territory can produce a visual language that is
revealing, as well as confounding. Her small works start as line
drafts built up on tracing paper before becoming more carefully
orchestrated landscapes that are presented as prints, drawings,
and paintings. Martin's current influences include desert communities,
portable homes, and glossy shelter magazines.
Martin is an artist currently living in Raleigh, utilizing traditional
printmaking and painting as her primary media. She earned a degree
in Studio Arts from the University of Redlands. Along with her
training and great respect for the time-honored craft of printmaking,
Martin also has a professional background in the evolving field
of digital printmedia.
Meredith Brickell
The exhibit Drawn reflects Meredith
Brickell's interest in place - both the physical realm and one's
intangible impressions of it. She takes into account all aspects
of her visual environment including the things we see in precise
focus, as well as indistinct shapes in the periphery. Most recently,
she has been investigating the relationship between two-dimensional
images and three-dimensional forms. For Brickell, this pairing
imitates the way we see (two-dimensionally) and experience (three-dimensionally)
our surroundings, and has led her to new work in a variety of
formats including drawings, large ceramic vessels, and wall pieces
constructed from clay and metal.
Brickell received a Bachelor of Art and Design from North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics
from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. She was a Core student
at Penland School of Crafts and a past Artspace Regional Emerging
Artist-In-Residence. Recent solo exhibitions include Colors
of Shade, Philadelphia Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and
Weights and Measures, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Brickell was recently awarded the Silver Prize for her piece,
Gather, in the 2008 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale at the
Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan and will present her work at
their Biennale Workshop this summer. Brickell also was awarded
a one-month artist residency for this Fall at Guldagergaard, the
International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark.
Eileen Doktorski
Eileen Doktorski will begin her residency in Artspace's Gallery 1 in early July. Her studio will be open to the public throughout the month, allowing visitors to experience the creative process.
For her Artspace residency Doktorski will be focusing on expanding Deluge, a mixed media installation inspired by the aftermath of Katrina and other natural disasters, as well as by other emotionally traumatic events more personal to Doktorski. The installation addresses issues of material consumption, disconnection with nature, and the relationship between a parent and a child.
Deluge is comprised of cast figures and found objects. Through this installation, Doktorski aims to explore the struggle suffered from displacement and abrupt life changes. The two female figures - a woman and child - brace themselves against a metaphorical storm. The figures appear to be caught in a flooded stream strewn with household belongings and torn tree limbs. For Doktorski, their struggle and the installation as a whole, evokes the human will to survive traumatic events.
Doktorski received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland and has received awards for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Recently she was awarded a 2007 Individual Artist's Project grant and a 2008 Visual Artist Fellowship, both from the Utah Arts Council. Doktorski's works have been presented in Utah at the Salt Lake Art Center, the Springville Museum of Art, and the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; in Montana at the Holter Museum of Art; in Massachusetts at the Attleboro Art Museum; and in Connecticut at Artspace and the Housatonic Museum of Art. Doktorski is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Utah State University in Logan, UT.
Doktorski will have an exhibit in Gallery 1, from Aug. 1 through Sept. 8, 2008.
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.
The Center 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, contact Lia Newman, Director of Programs & Exhibitions
at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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