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| - Third Fridays, 6-9pm as part of the Third Friday Culture Crawl |
| - By appt., 919 949-4847 |
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Text Messages: Clay and Print
New Work by Bonnie Campbell
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A series of vessels that began as worries and ended as prayers.
OCT 15 - NOV 27, 2008 |
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RECEPTION: Friday, October 17, 6-9 pm
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These objects use utilitarian design, wheel thrown vessels, letterpress printing, and desktop publishing as a starting point for expressions of personal and cultural memory.
The texts are remnants of poems, stories, and dreams - fragments read and remembered, that haunted me, words that become incantations and offerings.
Embedding these messages in clay and firing them in the kiln is an attempt to distill and purify anxiety, transmuting a worried mind, shape-shifting the objects and the words that mark them. They become vessels - reliquaries, eggs, boxes, amulets - that carry messages from a world both found and imagined.
Closed and open, these containers are both practical and spiritual. Like worry beads and rosaries, talismans and totems, they belong to the class of things that marry language and matter, and assume that some things can¹t be seen by looking directly at them.
Bonnie Campbell is a Durham potter and graphic designer. She graduated from Berea College in Kentucky, where she was trained as a studio potter in the Ceramic Apprenticeship Program. Currently she is the Art Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. |
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PAST SHOWS |
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Handed Down: Wall Quilts and New Fiber Work by Jeana Eve Klein
AUG 1 - SEPT 25, 2008
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On the Side of the Road: Paintings by Sarah Powers
JUNE - JULY 2008
A close look at the small details that make up our landscape.
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Boundary Lines: Ceramics by Meredith Brickell
APRIL - MAY 2008
An examination and representation of place—both the physical realm and our intangible impressions of it.
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Bull City Bicycles: Curated by Phillip Barron
MARCH 7-28, 2008
This exhibit gathers historic and contemporary photography of bicycles in Durham. A celebration of the aesthetic simplicity, utility, and joy of bicycles, this exhibit documents Durham’s sense of place from two wheels.
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Art-Tender
JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2008
Art-tenders Mark Cunningham and Jake Wood (bartenders next door at Piedmont) created 500 drawings on Bev Naps. Drawings were sold for a dollar each at the close of the reception.
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Co-Signed Paintings by David Alsobrooks
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2007
A partnership scores of nameless, unsusupecting individuals and the Efland artist who trolls the countrysie for evidence of these people, most often found in handmade signs. From David... “While I recycle the wording, I don’t attempt to replicate the original signs themselves. In general, the paintings have nothin in common with the appearance of the original expression. In a sense, the artmaking process is reliant on both ends of this spectrum. The paintings are collaborative—they are Co-Signed.”
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Plazas (Palaces): Sketchbook Paintings by Stephen Gibson
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2007
This exhibit featured twelve framed small paintings, a few dozen unframed drawings, a small mural made directly onto the foyer wall, and a few of the actual sketchbooks Dave has made and Stephen has filled up over the last few years. Gibson is the author of the 2001 H&B title City of Midnight Skies.
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Landscape: Photographs by Pamela Pecchio
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2007
A small series of large prints. Pam is a former Old West Durham resident.
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Silkscreen Prints : Jeremy Kerman
JUNE - JULY, 2007
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Type High and Kickin' : A Group Letterpress Show
APRIL - MAY 2007
A variety of high brow and low class letterpress work from five Southeastern letterpress printers
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Josef Beery (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Trade Union Press (Ayden, North Carolina)
Ray Duffey (Raleigh, North Carolina)
Convivio Bookworks (Lake Worth, Florida)
Horse & Buggy Press (Durham, North Carolina)
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Birdhouses: Photographs by Rob McDonald
FEBRUARY - MARCH 2007
Rob McDonald lives in Virginia. Self-taught as a photographer, Rob holds a doctorate in American literature and specializes in the literature and culture of the American South. The photographs in the Birdhouses portfolio, taken from Rob’s travels across four states from 2002-2006, represent a personal exploration of the relationship between place and identity: meditations on home. |
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