Pauline Dove Art Gallery
Forever Transient
Andrew Leventis, Kenny Nguyen, Colby Caldwell, Brent Dedas, James Henkel, Susan Jedrzejewski, Deb Koo, Jennifer Minnis and Desiree Thomas
Exhibition Dates: May 20 – August 9
‘Forever Transient’ visually investigates the meaning behind transience, impermanence, continuous change and the desire to preserve and prolong the temporary moment. Inspired by Dutch still life paintings and vanitas, each artist exemplifies a different creative approach and skill set to artistically render the fragility of time. Time does not sand still. It marches forward and looks back retrospectively at the past. Therefore, the experience of time is never linear, but cyclical.
‘Forever Transient’ exhibits 8 nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. Through varying processes, each artist composes their work to include vibrant references, and in some cases direct interactions, with nature and humanity. Andrew Leventis’ hyper realistic refrigerator still life paintings, echo the elements of Dutch still life techniques, but with a contemporary and refreshing update of a classic art form. Brent Dedas’ “honeybee drawings” incorporate the assistance of live honeybees landing and crawling on his drawings, which Dedas then turns into cyanotype prints. Colby Caldwell, brings his flatbed scanner along on his nature walks, instead of a camera, and scans natural flora found on the forest floor. James Henkel arranges fragments of glass from destroyed vessels to create organic shapes, therefore showing transience through destruction, change and reformation. Susan Jedrzejewski also explores the imperfect and unpredictable patterns of the natural world through the process of photo transfer on canvas and panel. Debra Koo’s paintings preserve moments in time such as social celebrations, family, friends and gatherings around the abundance of food and frivolity. Desiree Thomas turns ordinary into extraoridnary, featuring common food items such as spam and packaged chips, often set against the background of a blue sky. Vietnamese artist Kenny Nguyen’s work honors his Vietnamese and American cultural heritage in organic and abstract forms using paint and Vietnamese silk in creative, unconventional ways. Jennifer Minnis’ work focuses on a threefold view of humanity in spirit, mind and body, capturing moments of time in paint that cause the viewer to question the thoughtful intentions of the portrayed subject.
“Whether skillfully rendering mundane routines, reimagining a personal archive, or concentrating on the minute details of a moment already gone, these artists bring to life something as connected to the temporary as it is to the everlasting. The small becomes the meaningful, the part becomes a whole. It is not the need for retrospection, but the will to render the complicated nuances of time, memory and fragility that give this collection of works its power. It is within these elapsed moments that the painting lives and continues to evolve, forever.” ~ Group Quote
2024 Annual Juried Student Art Show
2024 Annual Juried Student Art Show
Exhibition Dates: April 1 – May 10
Awards Ceremony and Reception: April 12 at 5 – 7 p.m.
Parr Center Theater, Ground Floor 0110, 1201 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show, recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Students who have works featured in the show receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award; Foundation Purchase Award; first, second, and third place awards; along with a variety of others. Each year, select student artwork is chosen for this celebratory exhibition to showcase our Visual Arts students’ work completed in their studio classes.
The juror for this year’s Student Show is Marge Loudon Moody. Moody is a Professor Emerita of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where she taught for over 30 years. Widely exhibited both nationally and internationally Moody’s work exists in private and public collections worldwide. Currently, the Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries at Levine Campus in Matthews host a selection of Moody’s work from her new exhibition ‘Intangible Words.’ ‘Intangible Words’ broadly investigates environments inspired by Moody’s travels and imaginations. Through the use of bright colors, abstract forms and continuous reworking of the composition, Moody creates the “essential” feeling of certain environments.
Land/mark
Kenny Nguyen
Land/mark
Kenny Nguyen
Exhibition Dates: January 8 – March 15
Workshop Dates: January 24 and March 14 – Time is TBD
As a Vietnamese immigrant now living and working as an artist in the United States, much of Nguyen’s work explores ideas related to cultural identity, displacement, reconciling with the past and the artistic fusion of Vietnamese and American cultures.
Nguyen uses silk, in tribute to his Vietnamese culture, deconstructs it into strips, and then dips it in paint. Thousands of these strips creates sculptural works of art that Nguyen calls “deconstructed paintings.” The action of deconstruction and reconstruction, and transformation of the fine silk into a sculptural painting echoes Nguyen’s journey forging his own identity while continuously incorporating all of the unique elements that make Nguyen who he is today.
Each work of art by Nguyen is carefully arranged and pinned into place. As a result, each installation never looks the same twice. The folds and drapes take on a three dimensional form undulating like waves across the wall. While stationary, each piece has an element of movement as the delicate strips of fabric catch slight drafts of air from ventilation, or passers by. These thoughtful and intentional artistic interventions by Nguyen engage the viewer visually and invite them ‘Land/mark’ will feature new works by Nguyen as well as an interactive workshop for students to see and learn Nguyen’s process of creating deconstructed paintings.
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Dove Gallery
Reflexions
Itala Flores
October 23 – December 7, 2023
Reception: November 15, at 5 p.m. in the Dove Gallery
Central Piedmont student, Venezuelan artist Itala Flores brings a black tie affair to the Dove gallery as it transforms into a world of high class fashion. Flores uses her meticulous sense of design and creative use of materials to create formal dresses made from recycled materials such as; paper plates and discarded theater tickets. This new exhibition by Flores showcases the best of her sculptural and fashionista abilities.
Where others see refuse Flores see a world full of creative possibilities. In Flores’ hands small bits of discarded paper or forgotten fliers and photographs take on a new life and purpose. No longer scraps, they become part of a larger element, playing a role in the formation of upscale evening dresses.
Flores’ exhibition demonstrates to students that one does not need the finest, or most expensive materials to create art. Instead through a keen eye and intricate assemblage practices, Flores creates art from readily available materials.
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Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
CENTRAL CAMPUS, NORTH CLASSROOM
Clay Art Bender
Greg Scott
June 23 – December 8, 2023
North Classroom Building, 1320 Sam Ryburn Walk, Charlotte, NC
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Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
CATO CAMPUS
Stories From Within
Annie Nashold
July 13 – December 8, 2023
Cato III, 8120 Grier Road, Charlotte, NC 28215
Storytelling is central to my work where images emerge through narrative portraits, abstracted figures, subconscious drawings, and family archives. The beauty of nature, humanity, memory, experience, mystery, color, and dreams inspire me.
During the Pandemic, I have spent many hours in the studio experimenting and playing with materials and imagery. By June 2020, I found myself drawing every evening with gel pen and small sketchbook. I begin with no intention when drawing. I don’t know whether the subconscious mind is seeping up into the conscious mind or if the conscious mind is seeping down into the subconscious mind, either way I do not question it. The journey involves embracing the mystery of stories that unfold. I look and I respond, I feel and I respond, I wonder and I respond, I don’t know and I respond. I just let it all happen as it does.
Working in mixed-media I create paintings, drawings and collages. Layering color, drawing, and collage create a tapestry of expressive imagery. Acrylic paint, Oil Pastels, Collage, Graphite, Inks, Pastel Crayons, Charcoal, and Graphite Powder are materials I enjoy playing with. Hand printed and stained rice papers become part of the layering.
Through the beauty of art and the complexity of life, my current works explore the strength, courage, joy, dignity, challenge, love, trauma, humor, and compassion that we all share. The stories can connect us in ways we never expected and ways we come to feel as part of ourselves. The viewer brings their own experience to the work as we do in life when we meet each other. As the tale unfolds these images show the ordinary with all its beauty, uniqueness, complexity, magic, and mystery that we all hold within.
July 13 – December 8, 2023
Cato III, 8120 Grier Road, Charlotte, NC 28215
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Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
HARPER AND LEVINE CAMPUSES
The Works of Sudie Rakusin
Layers and Lines
“Being an animal activist and feminist, my artwork flows from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. Through my artwork I create a world as I would like it to be, where harmony exists between animal and human, and where nature thrives. My work includes pen and ink drawings, papier-mâché sculptures, abstracts in cold wax and oil, and 3-dimensional oil on canvas paintings featuring women and animals. “Art is where I go for refuge, replenishing, and how I pay homage to what sustains me.
“This body of work is cold wax and oil on wood panels. The properties of cold wax fascinate me and keep me curious; how the underlying layers inform and alter the layers applied over them, how incising and scraping and glazing make more changes. I know I am wielding the palette knife and mixing the colors, but what happens on the panel is beyond my control. I’m learning how to be fine with the state of ‘not knowing’.” ~ Sudie Rakusin
Through December 8, 2023
Harper IV, 315 W. Hebron Street, Charlotte, NC
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Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
HARRIS CAMPUS
The Works of Shane Fero
50-year Retrospective
Shane Fero was born in Chicago, IL in 1953 and has been a flameworker for 50 years and maintains a studio next to Penland School in North Carolina. He participates in international symposia and conferences by lecturing and demonstrating. Fero is also an educator and has taught at institutions such as Penland School, Urban Glass, the Pratt Fine Arts Center, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, the University of Michigan, Eugene Glass School, Espace Verre, Montreal, Quebec, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pilchuck Glass School, Bild-Werk, Frauenau, Germany, the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, UK, Scuola Bubacco, Murano, Italy, Chameleon Studio, Tasmania, Taiwan, China, Australia, Turkey and in Seto, Osaka, and the Niijima Glass Art Center in Japan.
Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
HARRIS CAMPUS
Lynn Newman
Simple Gifts
Lynn Newman moved to North Carolina in March 2020, after retiring from a career as an art teacher and program coordinator in Wyoming. Secluded in his new home during the onset of the pandemic, he sought comfort in his painting, focusing on florals and landscapes. He started working on a series of paintings based on the parks and scenes he and his wife enjoyed during their daily walks in their new surroundings. Painting helped him feel grounded and provided a sense of hope. “In this time of uncertainty – emotionally, politically, and physically – it’s my hope that others might interpret their own sense of solace and hope for the future with gifts as simple and as powerful as the flowers and landscapes we discover in our own backyards” ~ Lynn Newman
Through December 8, 2023
Harris II, 3210 Harris Campus Drive, Charlotte, NC
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LEVINE CAMPUS
The Works of Sudie Rakusin
Layers and Lines
“Being an animal activist and feminist, my artwork flows from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. Through my artwork I create a world as I would like it to be, where harmony exists between animal and human, and where nature thrives. My work includes pen and ink drawings, papier-mâché sculptures, abstracts in cold wax and oil, and 3-dimensional oil on canvas paintings featuring women and animals. “Art is where I go for refuge, replenishing, and how I pay homage to what sustains me.
“This body of work is cold wax and oil on wood panels. The properties of cold wax fascinate me and keep me curious; how the underlying layers inform and alter the layers applied over them, how incising and scraping and glazing make more changes. I know I am wielding the palette knife and mixing the colors, but what happens on the panel is beyond my control. I’m learning how to be fine with the state of ‘not knowing’.” ~ Sudie Rakusin
Through December 8, 2023
Levine II, 2800 Campus Ridge Road, Matthews, NC
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Dove Gallery
Works in Stained Glass
Michael Ziegler
Central Piedmont instructor Michael Ziegler, imparts the craft of stained glass and the stories they contain. Masterfully arranged by Ziegler, each individual piece of glass comes together as a whole to impart a story. This new exhibition by Ziegler showcases the fullness of stained glass in a gallery setting and will consist of several stained glass windows, lamps, glass boxes and other stained glass works. Ziegler’s artist lecture will highlight the complexity of stained glass making and the narratives encased within.
The creative process of assembling stained glass works of art is where the story begins. Ziegler takes us on a journey of selecting glass and colors for each piece. Following this initial first step, each piece of glass undergoes a significant amount of cutting and grinding as Ziegler shapes each individual glass piece to fit perfectly into a pattern. He then wraps each piece in a copper foil and solders all the individual pieces together into one unit. This insightful exhibition will introduce students to another form of art and encourage their own creative process.
Whether the story is through the process or the intentional story-telling of the maker, Michael Ziegler brings Central Piedmont a stunning display of colors, form, composition and narrative.
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Exhibition Dates: September 5 – October 19, 2023
ARTIST LECTURES
September 14 at 12:30 in the Parr Center, Ground Level, Parr Center Theater
Address: 1201 Elizabeth Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28204
October 19 at 12:30 in the Parr Center, Ground Level, Parr Center Theater
Address: 1201 Elizabeth Avenue, Charlotte, NC 28204
A brief meet and greet will follow in the Dove Gallery immediately after both artist lectures. Light refreshments provided.
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Ross Gallery
Humanity Through Environments
Tuan Mai and Ingrid Swanson
Recent graduates of the Associate in Visual Arts program, Tuan Mai and Ingrid Swanson, bring us an energetic and colorful exhibition, ‘Humanity Through Environments.’ The exhibition focuses on our environments as human being as in what ways we relate and conform (or not) to those environments.
“Every story has a setting. We as humans are creatures whose memories and experiences are so often compelled by our surroundings. The question this body of work asks is, “What are we if not part of something greater?” – Ingrid Swanson
No one stands unaffected by the external forces at work in our lives. To detach yourself from your environment is to lose your humanity. Your environment is your perspective: from seeing life as it is to seeing cities bathed in color. Whether examining a story up close or seeing the bigger context, this series of oil, acrylic, watercolor, and ceramics tells of the interactions between people and spaces. Each facet of the face, each loose or contained brush mark, each detail informs the viewer of the subject’s story.
Ingrid Swanson is a Latina artist, whose keen interest in the innermost parts of people’s hearts has led her to pursue fine art. Though it may be through oil, acrylic, watercolor, or clay- bold marks and color are signature in Swanson’s work.
Raised in Vietnam, Mai came to the United State in 2017 to look for a new chapter in his art career. Mai’s paintings are a series of art that try to capture the daily activities of communities. With different mediums such as oil paints, acrylic paints, ink, watercolor, Mai creates story-telling works of art.
Exhibition Dates: August 14 – October 5, 2023
Opening Reception September 6, 5-7 p.m.
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
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Overcash Gallery
The Thin Red Line : In Cemento Veritas
Mario Loprete
Italian artist, Mario Loprete brings to us a fresh look at the archaic artistic culture of Italy with hip hop vibe. Created during the lockdowns of 2020, Loprete the idea of street art and street performers, or lack thereof during the lockdowns, inspired him. Reversing the concept of bringing art to the streets, Loprete brings street to art.
Ancient Romans famously built and sculpted out of concrete. Using his own clothing as inspiration, Loprete created concrete sculptures formed out of shirts, hats, shoes and more. Using masks as a support medium, Loprete incorporates hip hop dance and graffiti into his exhibition, mixing both traditional and contemporary styles as his muse.
Exhibition Dates: August 14 – October 5, 2023
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
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Ross and Overcash Galleries
Juror Linda Luise Brown
Exhibition Dates: April 3 – July 27
Awards Ceremony: April 18, 4 pm in Tate Hall, Reception to follow in the Ross and Overcash Galleries from 5- 7pm
Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show, recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Students who have works featured in the show receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award; Foundation Purchase Award; first, second, and third place awards; along with a variety of others. Each year, select student artwork is chosen for this celebratory exhibition to showcase our Visual Arts students’ work completed in their studio classes.
The juror for this year’s Student Show is Linda Luise Brown. Linda Luise Brown holds a Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Oklahoma. Her professional, artistic experience includes multiple residencies, including two residencies at the Art Studio Ginestrelle in Perugia, Italy as well as the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC. Brown’s work resides in collections across the United States and internationally as part of corporate and private collections. As an instructor, Brown taught studio classes, critical theory and art history at multiple institutions including (but not limited to); Winthrop, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, The Mint Museum and Central Piedmont Community College. As a practicing artist Brown paints primarily in the style of abstract expressionism, providing a unique view into form, color and playfulness in art. Her extensive experience as an instructor, writer and practicing artist provides Brown with a proficient understanding of artistic practice and composition.
WHEN: April 3 – July 27, Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE: Central Piedmont Central Campus, Overcash Center, Ross and Overcash Art Galleries, 1206 Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte, NC 28204
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Pauline Dove Art Gallery
Gaston County Museum
Through an Artist’s Eyes
June 5 – July 23
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 11 2 -4 pm
Curated by Alicyn Wiedrich, Gaston County Museum Curator
: Central Piedmont’s Pauline Dove Gallery presents “Through an Artist’s Eyes,” a collaborative exhibition with the Gaston County Museum of Art and History, featuring the artwork of Gaston County public school students.
“Through an Artist’s Eyes” showcases artwork concentrations spanning multiple disciplines including drawing, painting, photography and 3D sculptures. Every year, Gaston County art teachers select artwork, created by their students, and submit the work to an annual student show hosted at the Gaston County Museum. The winning works of art become part of the museum’s annual art exhibition featuring elementary through high school students. This year, the Museum partnered with the Central Piedmont Art Galleries to display part of this exhibition on Central Campus, in the Pauline Dove Art Gallery.
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Bill and Patty Gorelick Galleries
CATO CAMPUS
Sam Spees
Calmly Flaunting
(PHOTO BY RACHEL PRESSLEY)
Perfect: (adj) having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.
Absolute. (v) make (something) completely free from faults or defects, or as close to such a condition as possible.
Samuel Spees’ pursuit of perfection is the foundation of his inspiration as an artist and why he is drawn to glass as a process. “Each of us renders the world through a distinctive lens. This observation is biased in many ways, pertaining to memories and experiences, in addition to our own emotional construct. This body of work is evidence of how I decipher the beautifully perfect world around me. It is shaped with pieces of glass, both found and purposely made, that have been previously pulled, pinched, and cut. When melted together, they seamlessly flow throughout the body, creating a colorful vignette of time and memory. These landscapes of pigment yield a much deeper understanding of my perception, helping to explore distortion in pattern, together with my emotional connection to color in our natural world.” ~ Samuel Spees
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Bennett Waters Fine Art
Red Lights (Always Catch Me) 24 x 36
“I began painting after retiring from a long advertising career. I wanted to create something I could touch and hold, not just ideas. I paint primarily in oil and have spent nearly 20 years exploring how colors and shapes can become my new words.
“My subjects and series of artwork are varied but bend primarily toward two far flung viewpoints: capturing urban streetscapes and capturing the aerial perspectives of the earth. I choose subjects that can let me explore deep saturated color, the rhythms of shapes and movement, and the lines that connect them. Perspective is important to me in my compositions, as indicated in the subjects I choose and the way I paint them.” ~ Bennett Waters
Through June 16, 2023
Cato III, 8120 Grier Road, Charlotte, NC 28215
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CENTRAL CAMPUS
Stacy Crabill
Things That Fall in Your Path
“Sweets, text, and vintage photos of interesting people are all things that intrigue me. The colors and shapes of candy, as well as its packaging, has such power over our senses. I am constantly exploring the sources of our desire for sugar, delving into the concurrent roles played by clever marketing and our body’s physical response. The thoughtful utilization of text also plays a role in my work. Whether it is a list of ingredients or witty words, the use of words and letters is an ever-present means of communication. Most recently I have incorporated interesting vintage images of figures. Photos from the past evoke a sense of questioning about the lives and personalities of those who came before us. My work strives to combine all of these seemingly unrelated elements to create a world in which their relationships become connected in a new and somewhat believable space.” ~ Stacy Crabill
Through June 16, 2023
North Classroom Building, 1320 Sam Ryburn Walk, Charlotte, NC
HARPER CAMPUS
The Ceramic Art of Joseph Sand
Joseph Sand (b. 1982, Austin, MN) trained as a sculptor at the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.F.A. in 2006. During his undergraduate courses, he studied for one year in Italy, followed by another year in England after receiving a very competitive, college-wide scholarship. While in England, he worked alongside many prolific potters, including Svend Bayer and Clive Bowen, which heavily influenced his direction as an artist, taking up functional pottery as a means of personal expression. He completed a three and one-half year apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt in December of 2009 and now resides in Randleman, North Carolina. His work combines the styles of traditional, Southern alkaline glaze ware and East Asian design, among others. Using two wood-fired kilns, both salt and ash glazed wares are produced, ranging in size from very large sculptural vases to planters and a variety of beautiful, functional tableware. In 2015, Joseph expanded his creative range to include large, hand-built sculptural ceramics.
Through June 16, 2023
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In Plain Sight
Joseph Kameen
Exhibition Dates: March 13 – May 11
Memory often replays itself in our minds as snapshots. Sometimes memories occur in our dreams with exaggerated colors and shadows. Perhaps a seemingly benign object with no apparent meaning stands out in a dream or waking memory, imbuing itself with a subjective meaning, unique to each viewer.
Joseph Kameen’s body of work explores a moment in time, either right before or immediately after an event happens. The ordinary becomes the extraordinary as each painting suggests a specific reflection, thought or memory. Simple moments such as squeezing a lemon, pushing a stalled car, or looking into one room while standing in another all impart relatable moments and affect each one individually.
“In my paintings, I am interested in the ways that routine events play a role in my self-awareness and identity. Memories of benign objects, actions, and spaces—devoid of meaning on their own—can become entangled with the larger concerns that dominated my thoughts at that time. In my work, I depict everyday moments seen through this lens; dramatized and amplified as I project my internal experiences onto my surroundings.” – Joseph Kameen
Ross and Overcash Art Galleries
A group show featuring artists, Blanca La Cortiglia, Natacha Sochat, Irlanda Ruiz, Keudis Sanchez and Byron Tenesaca
Exhibition Dates: January 9 – March 2
Artist Lecture: February 22, 3:30 in Tate Hall
‘Weaving’ artfully brings together a group of five talented artists with Latinx and Indigenous roots. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, each artist takes their cue from the time-honored tradition of weaving, to create artwork addressing each artist’s powerful cultural heritage. “The collective work is an expression to honor our ancestors and the rich history of weaving both in the actual technique that creates wearable fabrics or functional baskets, which have provided essential survival to many cultures, but also the intangible metaphors in its use as a word.” The conversations created through the artwork endeavor to open a positive space for cross-cultural sharing and revere an ancient practice responsible for artistic expression, feeding families and empowering communities.
Blanca La Cortiglia’s Basket of White Roses represents her family name White Rose (Blanca Rosa) passed down from generation to generation. The White Rose weaves into her life and continues to serve as a sacred family tradition. Keudis Sanchez seeks to promote the importance and profound influence of notable women in his life. Sanchez’s portraits come alive through augmented reality where viewers can hear the voices of the subjects as they tell a story about who they are. Byron Tenesaca pays tribute to four generations of his family through a collection of baskets. Writer, Irlanda Ruiz, combines each artists’ collective interpretation of weaving into words. Natacha Sochat uses the art of crocheting, painting, and printmaking to further bring each artist together.
As a group, they believe that this exhibition will bring awareness to the art form of weaving and how it influenced their heritage and culture. The exhibition welcomes viewers to use technology, understanding, and curiosity while exploring five different perspectives.
This project was made possible in part by the support of the Diamante Arts & Cultural Center’s year-long fellowship program DALI.
Graphic by Alexandra Mbiya
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Dove Gallery
Tom Delaney
Exhibition Dates: January 9 – March 2
Artist Lecture: January 31, 1pm in the Parr Center Theater
Inspired by the threatened and disappearing environment of the coastal dune lakes in the Florida Panhandle, Tom Delaney brings us a multi-media exhibition referencing the flora and fauna of the area. Through the artistic approach of photography, painting and sculpture, Delaney brings awareness to an environment under serious ecological threat. This area of the coastal dunes is one where freshwater and saltwater environments exist, in some cases, only yards apart, occasionally mixing together. As a result, several unique species evolved in this area and exist in a state of fragility.
‘In Situ In Flux’ is about balance; the balance between preservation and progress, educating the public about these areas and restricting the flow of the human element. Natural environmental changes also play a role and add additional contrasts and pressures to this small area of coastal dunes. In spite of these challenges, Delaney explores a diverse array of subjects originating from this unique ecosystem. Each piece in the show addresses the dynamic range of contrasts in the area with varying artistic approaches: photography, collage, watercolor sculpture and works on canvas and panel.
As a recipient of the J.R. Williams Grant, Delaney focuses his work on the flora and fauna of the coastal dunes of the Florida Panhandle, a project that lends itself well to Delaney’s lifelong fascination with nature.
Fall Semester 2022
Dove Gallery
Resilience: The Heart of Ukraine
Стiйкiсть
Серце України
Michael Andrews
Exhibition Dates: October 31 – December 16
Artist Lecture: November 8 at 1 p.m.
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Parr Center Theater
1201 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Meet and Greet to follow in the Dove Gallery immediately after the lecture.
“Resilience: The Heart of Ukraine,” is scheduled to be on exhibition in Central Piedmont’s Dove Gallery, located on the college’s Central Campus, beginning Oct. 31. The exhibit features the work of photographer Michael Andrews. As a volunteer with United States Peace Corps, Andrews worked as a photo journalist in Ukraine. His photographs document a culture under threat of obliteration due to war, poverty and social and political domination by foreign powers.
The photographs are the result of Andrews’ work with the Baba Yelka Cultural Expedition in Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. The founders of this organization seek to document the unique cultural markers of this region including; culinary traditions of the grandmothers, textiles, music, song and dance.
Throughout the exhibit, “Resilience” offers a glimpse into village life in the Kirovoghad Oblast of Ukraine, before Russia’s invasion, and focuses on the lives of Ukrainian women as they actively seek to preserve their culture and traditions. Andrews’ photographs document the culture of the Ukrainian people in music, dance, food, language, and art. “Resilience” seeks to show the viewer how the women featured in the photographs use their personal agency to preserve their way of life, emerging as the catalysts for the preservation of historical memory and cultural traditions.
With a strong focus on women, “Resilience” illustrates how a country and culture survives insurmountable odds. The focus on Ukraine emphasizes the urgency and value of unrelenting traditions and cultural and societal values. This story of “Resilience” exemplifies how women, specifically the babusyas (grandmothers), empower themselves and their families, through sustained cultural traditions that preserve their Ukrainian heritage and identity. “Resilience: The Heart of Ukraine” celebrates cultural traditions through the medium of photography.
Ross Gallery
Signal
by Lee Malerich
Exhibition Dates: October 24 – December 8
Artist Lecture November 16 at 1 p.m.
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 2nd Floor, Tate Hall
1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Meet and Greet to follow in the Ross Gallery immediately after the lecture.
As an artist and art teacher, Malerich’s goal is to foster an environment where the art maker and the viewer can think outside of the box. Using reclaimed objects such as bookcases, instruments, and discarded furniture, Malerich finds numerous methods and compositions in each of her sculptures.
Viewers will be treated to a variety of pieces, including “Telegraph Hill,” comprised of assemblage art inspired by personal experience. Malerich’s intuitive approach to art making can be seen throughout the exhibit as she wipes away the time-honed tradition of searching for a formal compositional elements, requiring the viewer to deeply consider the work in front of them. What is it made of? How is it put together? What is the possible significance of the materials and three-dimensional composition?
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Overcash Gallery
Kappy McCleneghan
Exhibition Dates: October 24 – December 8
Reception: October 27 at 5 p.m.
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“Kappy McCleneghan had an interest in art at a young age, drawing and painting some of her lifelong subjects (horses and dogs). After graduating from West Charlotte Kappy attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studied painting and print making. After earning both her Bachelor of Fine Art and her Master of Fine Art, Kappy returned to Charlotte to pursue a life of teaching and making art. In the convening years, Kappy taught at the area colleges, including Queens University, Pfeiffer, and Central Piedmont Community College.
Kappy loved her golden retrievers which became her primary subject matter for many years. An emerging artist grant in the early nineties allowed her to expand how she explored color and depth with the dog series before moving into working with the human figure for many years. Her last series of work was print based and explored ideas of home and family. The only thing that was more important to her than her family, friends, and dogs were her students. Many an hour would go into lecture preparation so she could do the best possible job conveying the ideas and issues to her students. Known for being demanding, but fair, she was a beloved instructor.
All proceeds from this show will go to the Kappy McCleneghan Art Scholarship fund to help the next generation make their way into the art field.” ~ Keith Bryant
All sales from this show will go to the Kappy McCleneghan Art Scholarship fund to help the next generation
Dove Gallery
Collective Agency
Exhibition Dates: September 12 – October 27
by Kristy Hughes and Alexandra Giannell
Virtual Artist Lecture October 4 at 1 p.m.
The Central Piedmont Dove Gallery is pleased to present “Collective Agency,” an exhibition by artists Kristy Hughes and Alexandra Giannell that explores the concept of phenomenology, a truly immersive experience into the body, mind, and self. The work of art features abstract shapes and forms that allow the viewer to curate their own personalized experience via the artwork. Artists Hughes and Giannell combine artistic geniuses to utilize both large-scale 2D drawings, as well as 3D sculptures.
The differing use of medium between Hughes and Giannell highlights the phenomenological goal intertwining the two artists and their works in complementary ways. Giannell’s drawings mean to invoke a sense of both bodily presence and absence, hinting at the notion of infinity and life beyond the present moment. In contrast, Hughes’ 3D sculptures empower the self with color and form to interpret their own meaning of the artwork. The minimalist designs on Hughes’ sculptures easily draw the eye in and around the sculpture, further allowing for the 360-degree viewing.
Hughes and Giannell consider collective, imagined futures through works that investigate the bodily presence and the empowered voice. Giannell’s immersive drawings and paintings utilize the index of the body, interrogating the institutionalized systems by which they are contained, referencing the historical and the immediate. In contrast, Hughes’ sculptures embody the freed voice, boldly celebrating agency and empowerment, representing an optimistic present and imagined future. “Collective Agency” is an invitation to imagine inclusive spaces where all voices and bodies are valued and not suppressed. Environmental, architectural, and societal constrictions can prevent community-building and connection.
Overcash Gallery
Embracing Imperfections
Christine Hager-Braun
Exhibition Dates: August 15 – October 6
Artist Lecture September 14 at 12pm (In person and live streamed)
North Classroom Auditorium 1123
1320 Sam Ryburn Walk, Charlotte, NC 28204
Reception to follow immediately after the lecture in the Overcash Gallery
“Embracing Imperfection,” an exhibition by Christine Hager-Braun, seeks to obliterate the stigma long associated with mental health. Hager-Braun’s work reflects her own struggle with depression. The colors and composition in her work, while abstract, foster an emotional connection revolving around personal growth, resilience, and acceptance.
Originally from Germany, Hager-Braun gained an interest in quilting after her move to the United States, learning, as she says, to paint with needle and thread. As a fiber artist, Hager Braun creates colorful, quilted compositions in order to express emotions without the use of words. This approach parallels to the indescribable feelings and emotions surrounding mental health.
The topic of mental health is especially relevant for students as they struggle with daily life, peer pressure and balancing an often demanding class schedule with their personal lives. “Every new art quilt I create is influenced by my belief in the power of a positive mindset. Each piece reflects a triumph over our trials, a reminder of our daily successes, and the promise to ourselves that we will never give up,” says Hager-Braun. Through the medium of fiber artworks and sharing her own story, Hager-Braun hopes to inspire others to, “persevere, heal and thrive.”
Ross Gallery
Reclaimed Memories
by Eva Crawford
Exhibition Dates: August 15 – October 6
Artist Lecture September 29 at 1 p.m.
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 2nd Floor, Tate Hall
1206 Elizabeth Ave, Charlotte, NC 28204
Meet and greet to follow in the Ross Gallery immediately after the lecture.
A stray photograph in a thrift store or flea market depicts an unknown person from the past. Their dress, their hair, and the discoloration of the photograph indicates details about that person. Questions such as, “Who were they?,” and “What is their story?,” come to mind the longer we take in the image. While for many of us it may be easy to set the photograph down and continue on with our own lives, artist Eva Crawford reclaims these images from the 1940s and 1950s, giving them new life by recreating them as life-size drawings.
Following the passing of her father in January of 2021, Crawford sought to create a body of work focused on the preservation of memory. Crawford reclaims lost memories through the use of portraiture, transforming antique film photographs into large-scale drawings and paintings that invite the viewer to create their own stories and memories about the individuals in the artwork.
“Reclaimed Memories” also includes an interactive station with antique photographs. This station encourages gallery visitors to create their own memories, stories, and artwork about the people in the photographs. The stories will be collected and displayed as part of the exhibition.
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Spring Semester 2022
“A Collection of Works by Pauline Dove”
In Memory of Selma
Exhibition Dates March 28 – September 8
Central Piedmont Community College’s new Pauline Dove Art Gallery, located inside the college’s new Parr Center, will display a new exhibition virtually by its namesake – Pauline Dove – that will include an eclectic array of artwork featuring energetic swirling colors and highly creative compositions. The selection of works will present the full spectrum of Dove’s skills, ranging from painting, silver point, prints, ceramics, and books. Dove’s new exhibition honors her late sister, Selma, and celebrates life, love, sisterhood, and the joys of making art.
As a former chair of the Visual Arts Program and studio art instructor at Central Piedmont, Dove’s career at the college spanned three decades. During her tenure she taught a variety of visual arts classes. As a result, her legacy thrives in the college’s halls to this day. After her retirement from the College in 2001, Dove worked as a freelance artist, while also participating in Continuing Education courses in visual arts at Central Piedmont.
Dove’s multi-medium approach to art making includes both 2D and 3D objects, as well as handcrafted books. As an artist she has traveled worldwide, exhibiting her artwork extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Dove’s work is widely collected and exists in special collections nationally and internationally including a US Embassy in Morocco as well as the US Consulate in Madrid. Central Piedmont Community College is honored to welcome Pauline Dove as a beloved returning artist and Central Piedmont legacy to inaugurate the new Pauline Dove Art Gallery.
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Ross and Overcash Art Galleries
2022 Annual Juried Student Art Show
Exhibition Dates April 4 – July 29
Click this link to view our Awards Video with comments from the Juror
: Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show, recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Students with works featured in the show are eligible to receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award, Foundation Purchase Award, John White Photography Award, Kappy McCleneghen Drawing Award, as well as first, second and third place awards. Each year, the ‘Student Art Show’ showcases select student artwork in this celebratory exhibition, held during the college’s Sensoria festival.
The juror for this year’s Student Show is distinguished artist and professor, Andrew Leventis. In addition to his own art practice as a painter, Leventis serves as a painting instructor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Leventis holds a BFA in Painting from the American Academy of Arts in Chicago as well as an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London. His passion for community engagement, art and art education exemplifies in his work with students.
Overcash Gallery
A Fall From Grace
Zaire McPhearson
Exhibition Dates January 11 – March 10, 2022
Artist Lecture February 23 at 3 p.m. (Virtual and In Person)
Central Campus, North Classroom Building, Auditorium 1123
1320 Sam Ryburn Walk, Charlotte, NC 28204
Opening Reception February 23 at 5 p.m.
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1st floor, Overcash Gallery
North Carolina artist Zaire McPhearson brings “A Fall From Grace,’” to Central Piedmont Community College’s Overcash Art Gallery, located on the college’s Central Campus. The exhibition tells the story of a charismatic movement known as the “Prayer Band,” through the voices of the African American women who experienced it firsthand. This movement evolved from a traditional Christian-based organization, The First Church of God in Christ.
McPhearson’s exhibition gives a voice to the women silenced by mental, physical, and emotional abuse and tells of their long recovery back to their faith. McPhearson, who has a personal relationship with these incredible women, expertly portrays their complex stories through her photography, painting, sculptures, and stained glass works.
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Ross Gallery
Floating Blue
Thomas Pickarski
Exhibition Dates January 11 – March 10
Virtual Artist Lecture February 2, 2 p.m.
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Pickarski waited till late in August before making his journey through the arctic ice to better capture the quality of soft light that occurs in the last hours of twilight, known as The Blue Hour. In The Blue Hour, he is able to photograph deep shades of blue that portray the ethereal beauty of icebergs. Students and visitors to the gallery can experience the splendor of these natural sculptures through Pickarski’s expert photography.Multi-media visual and performance artist Thomas Pickarski will bring his exhibition to the Central Piedmont Community College Overcash Art Gallery, located on the college’s Central Campus, to take visitors on his journey through the fragile arctic landscape with a series of photographs depicting the eternal beauty of icebergs. Intrigued by the happenstance of abstracted forms in nature, Thomas Pickarski found himself drawn to the sculptural magnificence of icebergs and the otherworldliness of the landscape in which they exist.
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Al Torres
Exhibition Dates
October 18 – December 9
Artist Lecture November 3, 2 p.m. in
Central Campus, North Classroom, Audiotrium 1123
Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1st flr, Ross Gallery
Opening Reception, November 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Ross Gallery
Central Piedmont Community College Art Instructor Al Torres brings “Metamorphosis II,” an exhibition of multi-view paintings that go beyond the physical presence of a person or object. He aims to capture the “truth” of the subject and impart a sense of wonder to the viewer.
Al Torres paints directly onto aluminum surfaces at 45 degrees. The intent is for the spectator to approach the work from the left side, where he or she sees the first image. As they walk toward the center, they encounter a combination of the left and right views. These multiple views help the spectator transition through the story of the overall painting. Finally, once the viewer reaches the right side, the second image manifests as they fully experience a fourth dimension – time. In this type of painting, either side of the image possesses opposite meanings, but their juxtaposition connects them in a harmonious manner.
Students and visitors to this exhibit will experience a single moment or walk through “a dialogue in time.” “Metamorphosis II” provides an opportunity for both education and art appreciation that will leave the viewer transformed and awe-inspired by the stories told. In Torres’ work, the revealed is hidden, and the hidden is revealed.
Ross Gallery
(G)LI(T)CHEN
Paul Farmer
Exhibition Dates
August 16 – October 7
Artist Lecture September 16, at 4 p.m., Central Campus, Overcash Center, 2nd flr, Tate Hall
Opening Reception September 16, 6-8 p.m., Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1st floor, Ross Gallery
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Overcash Gallery
Once and Again: Alterations
Susan Lenz
Exhibition Dates
August 16 – October 7
Artist Lecture: September 21, 1-2 p.m., Central Campus, Overcash Center, 2nd flr, Tate Hall
Opening Reception: September 21, 4-6 p.m., Central Campus, Overcash Center, 1st flr, Overcash Art Gallery
Objects that once were forgotten find revitalization again in a new exhibition from Susan Lenz titled, “Once and Again: Alterations.” In this exhibit, Lenz takes advantage of the concept that art is primarily about memory. Lenz demonstrates this by “using a familiar object in new and unexpected ways to voice a social concern and suggest new uses for old things,” says Lenz.
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Ross Gallery
Alvaro Torres
Exhibition Dates
October 18 – December 9
Artist Lecture TBD
Opening Reception TBD
Summer Semester
The Art Galleries at Central Piedmont Community College are proud to bring to you a unique exhibition of 3D works of art titled, “From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show.” This is a collection of works not seen by the public eye for years.
The Art Galleries boasts a diverse selection of ceramic artworks in need of a new home. Many of these pieces on exhibition were removed from the college’s old library prior to its demolition on Central Campus. No longer will these ceramics stay in boxes collecting dust in storage. Instead they will soon be unboxed for the viewing pleasure of all our gallery visitors during this special exhibition.
“From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show” is no ordinary art exhibition. It comes with a special twist that The Central Piedmont Art Galleries hopes everyone will find enticing. The goal is to find a new home for each ceramic in the show in a Central Piedmont staff member’s office, rather than return the piece to storage Central Piedmont staff will be invited to “adopt” one of the ceramics for their current office area throughout the exhibition. Since the college already owns all of the ceramics in the show there is no paperwork or payment required for the ceramics, making the adoption process undeniably smooth.
Central Piedmont’s permanent art collection contains more than700 unique works of art with the vast majority created by the college’s visual arts students. Pieces in the collection range from the college’s infancy in the 1960s, to the present day. The ceramics in “From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show” represent a small portion of the collection.
SPRING SEMESTER
Novant Health Student Show
On display now through September 3
Novant SouthPark Family Physicians
6324 Fairview Rd #201, Charlotte, NC 28210
The Novant Health SouthPark Family Practice is the site of a vibrant exhibition of 130 works of art by students from UNC Charlotte and Central Piedmont Community College. The works, a wide range of painting, photography, sculpture, illustration and more, will be on display in the lobby and throughout the first through fourth floors of the medical facility until September 3. Under the guidance of UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Painting Andrew Leventis and Central Piedmont Art Gallery Coordinator Amelia Zytka, the students took the lead in curating and installing the work.
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Overcash Gallery
“My mother took the Ming rose out of the cradle…”
Alice Ballard
Exhibition Dates
March 29 – May 27
Opening Reception TBD
Artist Lecture
August 14th at 11am via Facebook Live
Ballard’s new exhibition merges the past with the present while looking toward the future as she combines new and old works into a unique gallery show. “My Mother Took the Ming Rose out of the Cradle” is a poetic line of words deeply connected to Ballard. The ming rose, in Ballard’s life, is a common thread representing some of her darkest and most joyful moments. The ceramic works of art Ballard crafts echo the natural world around her in their organic shapes and natural pigments.
Ballard understands the pain of deep personal loss, as well as the journey one must take to find healing. Through her artwork, she found restoration and formed meaningful connections with other people. While creating art and teaching others to craft their own works, Ballard’s passion for her work spills out into earthen forms of leaves, tulips, onions and many more shapes encompassing a variety of plant life. As she judiciously responds to the materials present, Ballard uses her artist’s intuition to craft each piece of art. She allows the clay forms to guide her as she works and reworks the clay. “Art making,” Ballard says, “is always a learning experience.”
“My Mother Took the Ming Rose out of the Cradle,” will include work consisting of ceramic ming roses, tree totems, charcoal drawings and a variety of earthenware pieces. Ballard also is this year’s Central Piedmont Sensoria artist and will give a live virtual artist lecture during the week of the Sensoria festival. In addition to her own solo exhibition, Ballard will also serve as this year’s juror for the “2021 Annual Juried Student Art Show” at Central Piedmont.
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Ross Gallery
Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show, recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Students who have works featured in the show receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award; Foundation Purchase Award; first, second and third place awards; along with a variety of others. Each year, select student artwork is showcased in this celebratory exhibition, held during the college’s Sensoria festival.
The juror for this year’s Student Show is Sensoria artist Alice Ballard, a South-Carolina-based clay artist whose work is deeply inspired by the natural world around her. With an extensive background in art and religious studies, her art evokes a sense of meditative calm and appreciation for natural forms and colors.
Exhibition Dates
March 29 – August 5
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Central Piedmont Staff Art Show
Merancas Campus
Exhibition Dates
February 8 – May 21
Central Piedmont Community College is proud to announce the first inaugural Staff Art Show hosted by Merancas Campus. We are a college of creativity and submissions to this show are open to all members of staff in every department. We are looking forward to displaying your work on campus! Please refer to the google link for important dates and deadlines and to access the submission form.
Summer Semester
The Art Galleries at Central Piedmont Community College are proud to bring to you a unique exhibition of 3D works of art titled, “From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show.” This is a collection of works not seen by the public eye for years.
The Art Galleries boasts a diverse selection of ceramic artworks in need of a new home. Many of these pieces on exhibition were removed from the college’s old library prior to its demolition on Central Campus. No longer will these ceramics stay in boxes collecting dust in storage. Instead they will soon be unboxed for the viewing pleasure of all our gallery visitors during this special exhibition.
“From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show” is no ordinary art exhibition. It comes with a special twist that The Central Piedmont Art Galleries hopes everyone will find enticing. The goal is to find a new home for each ceramic in the show in a Central Piedmont staff member’s office, rather than return the piece to storage Central Piedmont staff will be invited to “adopt” one of the ceramics for their current office area throughout the exhibition. Since the college already owns all of the ceramics in the show there is no paperwork or payment required for the ceramics, making the adoption process undeniably smooth.
Central Piedmont’s permanent art collection contains more than700 unique works of art with the vast majority created by the college’s visual arts students. Pieces in the collection range from the college’s infancy in the 1960s, to the present day. The ceramics in “From the Vault! Adopt a Ceramic Show” represent a small portion of the collection.
Overcash Gallery
“My mother took the Ming rose out of the cradle…”
Alice Ballard
Exhibition Dates
March 29 – May 27
Opening Reception TBD
Artist Lecture
August 14th at 11am via Facebook Live
Ballard’s new exhibition merges the past with the present while looking toward the future as she combines new and old works into a unique gallery show. “My Mother Took the Ming Rose out of the Cradle” is a poetic line of words deeply connected to Ballard. The ming rose, in Ballard’s life, is a common thread representing some of her darkest and most joyful moments. The ceramic works of art Ballard crafts echo the natural world around her in their organic shapes and natural pigments.
Ballard understands the pain of deep personal loss, as well as the journey one must take to find healing. Through her artwork, she found restoration and formed meaningful connections with other people. While creating art and teaching others to craft their own works, Ballard’s passion for her work spills out into earthen forms of leaves, tulips, onions and many more shapes encompassing a variety of plant life. As she judiciously responds to the materials present, Ballard uses her artist’s intuition to craft each piece of art. She allows the clay forms to guide her as she works and reworks the clay. “Art making,” Ballard says, “is always a learning experience.”
“My Mother Took the Ming Rose out of the Cradle,” will include work consisting of ceramic ming roses, tree totems, charcoal drawings and a variety of earthenware pieces. Ballard also is this year’s Central Piedmont Sensoria artist and will give a live virtual artist lecture during the week of the Sensoria festival. In addition to her own solo exhibition, Ballard will also serve as this year’s juror for the “2021 Annual Juried Student Art Show” at Central Piedmont.
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Ross Gallery
Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show, recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Students who have works featured in the show receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award; Foundation Purchase Award; first, second and third place awards; along with a variety of others. Each year, select student artwork is showcased in this celebratory exhibition, held during the college’s Sensoria festival.
The juror for this year’s Student Show is Sensoria artist Alice Ballard, a South-Carolina-based clay artist whose work is deeply inspired by the natural world around her. With an extensive background in art and religious studies, her art evokes a sense of meditative calm and appreciation for natural forms and colors.
Exhibition Dates
March 29 – August 5
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Central Piedmont Staff Art Show
Merancas Campus
Exhibition Dates
February 8 – May 21
Central Piedmont Community College is proud to announce the first inaugural Staff Art Show hosted by Merancas Campus. We are a college of creativity and submissions to this show are open to all members of staff in every department. We are looking forward to displaying your work on campus! Please refer to the google link for important dates and deadlines and to access the submission form.
Ross Art Gallery
Into Memory
Monique Luck
Exhibition Dates
January 11 – March 11, 2021
Artist Lecture
February 10 at 1 p.m.
Mixed media artist, Monique Luck artfully arranges collage pieces in a desired way all the while contemplating how simple it would be if we could rearrange the pieces of life in a similar fashion. Her muse is the human figure in mixed media. Monique’s work evokes an emotive response speaking to personal loss. While misfortune may be unavoidable it remains a common thread uniting us all. We live through a time of fear and uncertainty threatening to tear us apart, but by coming together we, like Monique’s artwork, form a cohesive and harmonious picture.
Monique’s goal is to foster a sense of unity capable of transcending cultural differences and social divides. Part of her exhibition will feature an interactive wall. Using magnetic paint and handmade paper, gallery visitors and students will be able to write a memory or thought on the piece of paper and adhere it to the wall. By the end of the exhibit this will become a collage of memories from all of us at CP.
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Overcash Gallery
Still Life
René Gaete
Exhibition Dates
January 11 – March 18
Artist Lecture March 11 at 4 p.m.
Overcash Gallery
Image by Crista Cammaroto
Reconvene
Keith Bryant
Exhibition Dates
October 12 – December 10, 2020
Artist Talk
Tuesday, October 22 11am (Facebook Live)
Charlotte Observer Article about Keith
Click here to watch Keith’s Virtual Exhibition
Click here to watch Keith Bryant’s Artist Talk in the Overcash Gallery
https://www.facebook.com/cpccarts
Sculptural artist Keith Bryant creates three-dimensional sculptural designs with a story to tell. “Reconvene,” an exhibition that cannot be contained within the confines of the Overcash Gallery, spills out into the foyer and outdoors on to Central Campus, delighting students and vistors alike. Bryant uses a diverse assortment of materials to craft his work including wood, ceramics and metal. Abstract in design, but geometrically grounded, Bryant’s sculptures share the odyssey of life’s numerous twists and turns, leading us on an extraordinary journey of adventure and hope. The graceful lines of the artwork and Bryant’s attention to detail produce a celebration of composition, form and color all working together in unison. A belief that art is an expression of emotion that cannot express itself in words draws the viewer into the experience, craving more of what “Reconvene” has to offer. This fall show will not disappoint. Keith Bryant is an art instructor at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches ceramics, sculpture and 3D design. As a resident of Charlotte for the past 30 years, Bryant boasts a vast ring of experience in the Charlotte art scene that expands to the state and across the country.
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Ross Art Gallery
Love & Gravity
Linda Luise Brown
Exhibition Dates
October 12 – December 10, 2020
Artist Talk
October 27 time 11am (Facebook Live)
Love & Gravity, Virtual Exhibition by Linda Luise Brown
Click here to watch Linda’s Artist Talk in the Ross Gallery
https://www.facebook.com/cpccarts
The Ross Gallery is proud to present ”Love & Gravity” from Oct. 12 – Dec. 10, on Central Piedmont’s Central Campus. This exhibition features the colorful and elegant paintings of Charlotte artist Linda Luise Brown. Brown is a well-known and accomplished artist represented by The Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art in Charlotte, N.C. Drawing inspirartion from abstract expressionism and abstract expressionist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, Brown prompts us to look at color and form while analyzing the impact it has on the soul. The abstract colors and forms of her work invite us to embark on a journey of self discovery and imagination.“Love & Gravity” is a must-see exhibition for this fall season. During a time of uncertainty in the world around us, Brown invites us to escape from the confusion and step into another dimension. One which can be an interpretation of our own creativity.
Overcash Gallery
Faculty Art Show
“The Faculty Art Show” incorporates artwork from multiple disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography and ceramics. While the college’s art instructors excel at helping students succeed in their budding art careers, many of them are accomplished artists as well.
This exhibition not only gives Central Piedmont’s Overcash Art Gallery an opportunity to display faculty work, but also affords students the chance to see their instructors’ artwork in a gallery setting. This show is a must-see for anyone on campus and provides an enjoyable diversion. Central Piedmont’s Overcash Art Gallery is enthusiastic about the opportunity to kick start the college’s fall semester with this exciting, new exhibition.
Exhibition Dates
August 10 – October 2
Each year, Central Piedmont Community College’s Visual Arts Department hosts the Annual Juried Student Art Show recognizing student works in ceramics, 2D and 3D design, drawing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Students who have works featured in the show receive a variety of awards, ranging from the Presidential Purchase Award; Foundation Purchase Award; first, second, and third place awards; along with a variety of others. Each year, select student artwork is showcased in this celebratory exhibition, held during the college’s Sensoria festival.
Christopher Thomas, director of foundations, professor of art in printmaking and drawing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, will jury in this year’s selection of artwork that represents our visual arts students and arts department.
Alice Ballard
Exhibition Dates: March 23 – July 16, 2020
Alice Ballard is a ceramic artist whose work is deeply connected to nature. Working with clay, Ballard takes her inspiration from close observation and communion with the natural world around her. Pressing the clay into molds, Ballard creates organic shapes in hopes of transcending the divide between art and the outside world. With a great concern for the environment and conservation, Ballard hopes that, through her art, others will be inspired to forge their own connection with nature.
“Harmony With an Edge” will include work consisting of tree totems, wall hanging pods, and a variety of white earthenware pieces. Ballard’s solo exhibition will be represented during this year’s Sensoria Festival in Overcash Center’s latest gallery addition, Overcash Gallery. Ballard will be hosting two free workshops during Sensoria including an artist lecture and opening reception.
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Triptych (Desk Drawer) by Allison TierneyI Am My Things and My Things Are Me
Artist Allison Tierney
Exhibition Dates: January 13 – March 12, 2020
Artist Lecture
Wednesday, February 5, 3:30 p.m. – Tate Hall
Opening Reception
Wednesday, February 5, 5:00 p.m. – Ross Gallery
“My work relies heavily on painting and a decorative aesthetic to discover personal identity, comment on consumerism, and investigate the divide between craft and art.
I utilize interpretations of the home and interior design approaches as a means to explore identity. I’m interested in people’s relationships to the objects they put on display and how a sense of self is curated and refined through both the things we keep and those we let go of. As someone who finds comfort in my possessions I value the variety that mass-production affords me while at the same time feel great conflict in my role in consumer culture and its effect on the environment.
Repurposing is a consistent thread found throughout my work. It allows me a way to sort through the guilt I feel when an object is to be thrown away, whether by being rendered obsolete or simply being unwanted. I feel sympathy for these objects and a responsibility to be conscious about their disposal regardless of whether or not they were originally mine. The making of these pieces offer objects a second chance and a sense of being while acknowledging the contradictory role I play as a consumer and a maker. Through their creation, I enact control over common household objects and force them to transform and meld into colorful, encouraging, and optimistic works of art.
My work is an act of rebellion, albeit a personal one, to our mass-produced world. It’s a way to value the value-less.” – Allison Tierney
Biography:
Allison Tierney (b. 1987, Charleston SC) is a visual artist living and
working in Chapel Hill, NC. She received her BFA from Winthrop University and
her MFA from UNC Chapel Hill where she won the Top Prize for Outstanding
MFA Work. She is one of six founding members of Subverbal Art Collective and
has exhibited work throughout the southeast. Her work can be viewed as two
distinct but closely related bodies. One body relying heavily on painting and the
history of abstraction to respond to found objects while the other employs the
techniques of various crafts as a means to discover personal identity, to
comment on consumerism, and to investigate the divide between craft and art.
Structure and Void
Artist Lecture
Thursday, January 30, 3:30 p.m. – Tate Hall
Opening Reception
Thursday, January 30, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. – Overcash Gallery
“Structure and Void” is an investigation into surface, structure, and systematized randomness. The work re-presents patterns from nature in organic forms and fluid surfaces. Those forms are deconstructed into cellular elements, and reconstructed in a variety of materials using generative software and digital fabrication techniques.” – Richard Elaver
“Writing code to grow objects.
My work is inspired by forms in nature and developed through digital fabrication. It brings together my past professional experiences in jewelry-making and product-design, combining elements of handcraft, design, and architecture to create sculptural forms. Those forms are sometimes purely aesthetic, sometimes wearable, and sometimes functional.
The Wripple series, in particular, is an investigation into surface and structure, randomness supported by logic. The outward surface ripples like water, composed of a collection of unique shapes that resemble tissue cells, all supported by analytical armatures made from straight lines and acute angles. The materials and construction suggest architectural models, just as the cellular pattern and wavy surface hint at the natural world. It is really the pairing of those two worlds that keeps things interesting, vascilating between rational and irrational.
Similarly, the vase series, ‘Dissolving Tiffany’, is also a mixing of two worlds: one historical and handmade, the other contemporary and digitally assisted. Beginning with the forms of handmade historical Tiffany vases, those forms are deconstructed into cellular patterns using generative software. The final objects are created with a combination of handcraft and digital fabrication techniques. The exterior form adheres to history, supported by a random angular composition of hollow cells.” – Richard Elaver
Biography:
Richard Elaver is a designer and metalsmith working in the overlapping spheres
of art, design, and technology. In his work, Elaver integrates the tools of
industrial design with the craft of metalsmithing. He develops computer
simulations of biological phenomena, and uses them to create design objects.
Elaver received his Bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin at
Madison, and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2006, he
completed a Fulbright Fellowship in the Netherlands where he worked with
Droog Design. Following several years of professional experience both as a
jeweler and industrial designer, he is now an Assistant Professor of Industrial
Design at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Ross Gallery
Photo Credit: Chris Henderson, Portrait of Melissa Alexander
Blur: A Community Portrait Project
Artist Melissa Alexander
Guest Curator Jonell Logan
Artist Lecture with Melissa Alexander
Thursday, October 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Bryant Hall,
1st floor Sloan Morgan, Central Campus
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 24 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ross Gallery
Moments from our lives pass in a blur and tend to be forgotten. We are constantly moving, talking, watching, sending, and working – so much so that losing sight of ourselves is a shared reality. What happens, however when we slow down? When we sit? When those moments are stilled and remembered in a photograph?
Atlanta-based photographer Melissa Alexander uses her camera to create a space of respite and self-rediscovery. Join her at Central Piedmont Community College’s Ross Art Gallery on August 26th and 27th from 3:00 -7:00 p.m. for Blur: a special community portrait project that reclaims not only our time, but ourselves. Participate in a fun and affirming photo session where your self will be uncovered, your bravery rewarded, and your vulnerability empowered.
Photographs completed during these portrait sessions will be exhibited at the Ross Art Gallery, October 16 – December 12, 2019
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Overcash Gallery
Curated Holiday Art Market 2019
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Ross and Overcash Galleries
Shift
Featuring artists Reuben Bloom, Amanda Foshag and Heather Lewis
August 12 – October 3, 2019
Opening Reception
Thursday, August 29th 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Reuben Bloom
Amanda Foshag
Heather Lewis
“Shift” explores the idea of assigning value to the invaluable. Unifying found, recycled, and uncommon objects, Bloom, Foshag, and Lewis use these materials to create their art. All three artists work in various types of media, constructing their creations out of chaos. Each one strives to find beauty in the dramatic shifts of life through deconstruction, rebirth, and growth.
Artist Lectures
Reuben Bloom: Date: Thursday, September 19, at 12:30 p.m. in Tate Hall
Heather Lewis: Date: Thursday, September 26 at 10 a.m. in Tate Hall
Amanda Foshag: Date: Monday, September 30, at 3:00 p.m. in Tate Hall
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ROSS GALLERY
The Invisible Landscape by Orr Ambrose
June 10 – August 1, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 13, 2019 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Ross Gallery, 1st floor, Overcash Center, Central Campus
Artist Lecture: June 17, 10:00 a.m. Tate Hall
“The Invisible Landscape — So much of the universe is invisible to us, either because it is too small to see, too far away to see, or outside of our limited visual color spectrum. With this exhibit, I explore how these invisible spaces might appear and attempt to give substance and form to worlds unseen.” — Orr Ambrose
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OVERCASH GALLERY
Our Stories:
A retrospective of Central Piedmont student success stories and the evolution of our Central Piedmont Logo.
June 10 – August 1, 2019
Overcash Gallery, 1st floor, Overcash Center, Central Campus
Since 1963, Central Piedmont has been an innovative national leader among two-year institutions. College alumni include a Pulitzer Prize winner, a Metropolitan Opera star, an Olympic gold medalist, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, a television actress and a pro football player. Countless others – chefs, healthcare providers, technicians, real estate brokers, paralegals, firefighters, teachers, law enforcement officers, trades people, engineers, artists and others who serve our community – share Central Piedmont’s proud tradition.
On display, visitors will have the opportunity to see how our logo has changed over the years and learn about the stories of our students over nearly a 60 year time span. This exhibition is dedicated to the past, present, and future students of Central Piedmont – where possibility powers everything!
Thank you to the following Central Piedmont Community College departments for supporting the vision of this project:
Central Piedmont Visual Arts and Galleries
Central Piedmont Library & Archives
College Marketing and Public Relations
Central Piedmont Digital Media Services
Central Piedmont Student Life
2019 Annual Juried Student Art Show
On view March 27 – June 3, 2019
Awards Ceremony: April 11th 5:30 p.m. in Tate Hall, 2nd floor Overcash Building
Reception: April 11th 7:00 p.m. in Overcash Lobby
Central Piedmont’s Visual Art Department presents the 2019 Annual Juried Student Art Show representing artwork in all medias including painting, drawing, photography, screen printing, ceramics, sculpture, 2-D and 3-D designs. Come check out the amazing artwork and student artists who have been inspired by the creativity learned from their Visual Arts Instructors in their arts classes here at CP!
2019 Annual Juried Student Art Show Awards – announced Thursday, April 11!
First Place
Jesse Watts “Iguana”
Second Place
Marguerite Lamorey “Found Flag”
Third Place
Rosseline Ortiz “After a Long Day”
Presidential Purchase Award
Marguerite Lamorey “Found Flag”
Foundation Purchase Award
Vanessa Vaughn “Contoured Landscape”
Central Campus Purchase Awards
Arzberger Purchase Award
Anne Henderson “Smoke of a Distant Fire”
Cecelia McRae “A Mother’s Happy Child”
Shail Shah “Reflected City”
John White Photo Award
Robert von Hedrich “Charlotte Pride Festival 2018”
Kappy McClenahan Drawing Award
Brandyn Thomas “Landscape”
Emily Lu “Twin Shrimp Plushies”
League of Innovation
Kathleen Tomlinson “Tea Leaf Ladle”
Olivia Scarborough “Mushroom Temple”
Calvin Dix “Transitions”
Ju-Ian Shen “I am Happy”
Christopher Nichol “Self Portrait”
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January – May 2019
Artist Lecture: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:30 p.m. in Tate Hall, Central Campus
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11, 2019 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Overcash Lobby, Central Campus
Andrea Vail will be the featured visual artist for Sensoria 2019!
Throughout Spring 2019, Vail will facilitate Bridging, a multi-campus, collaborative, and large-scale fabric project culminating in its installation in the Overcash Lobby for Sensoria. Bridging will be a tangible representation of CPCC’s diverse community: coming from unique experiences, converging at Central Piedmont Community College, then venturing onward. Rooted in the intercultural and generational traditions of patterned textiles, this work, embellished with palm-sized tassels and printed with student-sourced imagery, is both inclusive of individual identities and realized as one unified fabric.
Upcoming Workshops!
Tuesday, February 5, 1 – 3 p.m. – Harris Campus, Building I, Student Life
Tuesday, February 12, 1 – 3 p.m. – Cato Campus, Cato III, Student Life
Wednesday, February 13, 12 – 1:15 p.m. – Central Campus, Health Careers Belk Building Room 1116
Thursday, February 14, 11 – 1 p.m. – Merancas Campus, Criminal Justice Building, Hallway I by Criminal Justice Court Room
Wednesday, Febuary 20, 12 – 2 p.m. – Levine Campus, Levine Building II, LV 1414
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Art Around Campuses
Painterly Moments Not Forgotten
by Nancy Nieves
January 7 – May 10, 2019
Artist Lecture: April 16th at 12:30 p.m. in Criminal Justice Room 131
Belk Center for Justice Building, Merancas Campus,
11930 Verhoeff Dr, Huntersville, NC 28078
Nancy Nieves is an abstract landscape painter inspired by nature. Nieves’ installation on Merancas campus celebrates a collection of her favorite works. Her compositions are bold and energetic with blended colors becoming atmospheric, creating movement and depth. Nature is pure and raw; it lives and overcomes us with love and harmony. It welcomes us with open branches and accepts us with its precious truth. Nieves’ wants her viewers to mentally interact with my paintings, escaping their world into mine, even if it’s just for a moment in time.
When Worlds Collide: The Interaction of Art and Chemistry
A collection of works from Nancy O. Albert, Meg Green Malvasi, and Leigh B. Williams
On view January 10 – March 14, 2019
At first glance, it may seem that the relationship of chemistry to art could not be further apart. But in art, chemistry is desired, even necessary, for creation and expression. While not all chemists are artists, it can be said that all artists are chemists in their pursuit through experimentation and study of various materials—whether paint, photographic film, metal, glass, or clay.
Three artists—photographers Nancy O. Albert and Meg Greene Malvasi, and painter Leigh B. Williams—employing different approaches, address the idea of chemistry and art.
Each artist explores the idea of chemistry as both a literal and symbolic process in her body of work. Nancy O. Albert’s digital photographic images focus on the interaction of nature’s processes with urban and industrial structures. Meg Greene Malvasi submerges Polaroid images into tubs of water and other chemicals, to create corroded-like images rearranging color, light, and shapes. Leigh B. Williams’ works draw on the interaction of alcohol inks and acrylics with a variety of substrates. Active experimentation, resulting reactions, and creative controls all contribute to each artist’s process.
Personal chemistry too, plays a role. Working with each other, the artists combine their own energies and vision to the idea of chemistry and art. The end result is a collection of work showcasing how chemical compositions, creative processes, and the interactions of people come together to create art.
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FREE Workshops offered during this exhibition
Photography in the Urban Landscape
Instructor: Nancy O. Albert
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Time: 3:00 p.m. – 5:35 p.m.
Maximum number of Students: 10
Location: James Spence Digital Photography Lab – AU Building, Central Campus
Materials provided by students: No DSLR’s needed. iPhones or Smartphones are fine.
Description: A visit to Ross Gallery, Nancy will explain the group exhibition “When Worlds Collide” and discuss her work and process. Nancy will then guide the group around a nearby area, preferably something gritty and industrial. The group would take photographs in our urban landscape for one hour, then head back to the classroom to critique and discuss their work. Nancy will encourage the group to look at what is around them and concentrate on detail and composition.
Alcohol Ink Workshop
Instructor: Leigh B. Williams
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Maximum number of Students: 25
Location: Ross Art Gallery, Overcash Building, Central Campus
Materials provided by students: All materials provided by Ross Art Gallery
Description: Artist, Leigh B. Williams, will conduct a two-hour workshop introducing students to the exciting properties of the fairly new medium of Alcohol Ink. Leigh will provide a short introduction on the distinctive qualities of Alcohol Ink and reinforce the elements and principles of design, focusing on color properties. She will offer several demonstrations of various techniques used in painting with this vibrant and fluid medium. The students will be able to experiment and find out first-hand what makes Alcohol Inks so unique. They will create their own original works of art on sheets of 5” x 7” Yupo paper.
Space limited so sign up fast! Email Gallery Director, Megan.Lynch@cpcc.edu to save your spot.
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Holiday Art Market
Pease Art Gallery
Airy Knoll Farm Presents
Cross-Pollination
October 22 – December 4, 2018
CPCC’s Pease Auditorium and Gallery will permanently close in January 2019 after more than 50 years of memorable productions, performances, gallery exhibitions and events. Pease, and the aging building that surrounds it (the Hagemeyer Learning Resource Center), will come down and be replaced by a new, state-of-the art library for CPCC’s students. The new Learning Resource Center will also include a replacement of the existing Pease Auditorium and Gallery. Individuals interested in tracking the new building’s progress can visit cpcc.edu/facilitiesservices/hard-hat-updates for construction updates in the new year.
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Ancient Expanse
Allison Luce
On view: August 15 – December 4, 2018
Criminal Justice Building, Merancas Campus
Artist Lecture: September 27th at 11:00 a.m. TS248 Merancas Campus
“Ancient Expanse” is a site-specific installation I started in Denmark in 2009 as a Resident Artist at the International Ceramic Research Center-Guldagergaard. It consists of a series of small ceramic pieces that are a reaction to the natural environment along the southwestern coast of Zealand. I documented the piece by taking pictures of the sculptures along the beach of the town where I was living in the water and other natural areas.
“Ancient Expanse” explores the boundaries between perception, reality, time and space. Photographs of the work document a fleeting moment in time where the natural and the created interact. Over the past five years, I have continued to make more pieces and have accumulated 1,000 ceramic objects. They are installed into large organic patterns in galleries or outdoors, and the original photographs are shown via video or projection. While the piece was inspired by Denmark, the colors and patterns of the individual sculptures reference ocean life as well as textures found in nature.
“Ancient Expanse” is playful and engaging and causes the viewer to stop and think about what they are seeing. There is an element of surprise as people realize that they are not actually looking at real objects, but sculptural forms that reference nature. It blends the natural with an element of discovery that engages the community in a dialogue about perception and reality.
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Ross Art Gallery
MakerSpace
October 15 – October 31, 2018
Calling all CPCC students, come and create some art with our gallery team. The entire Ross Gallery I will be transformed into a creative environment where students can come make art. Artworks will include, painting, photomontage, collage, origami and more.
Are you unsure if you have what it takes to make art? Now is your chance to come find out!! Join us on our exciting interactive experience to test out your creative skills.
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Ross Gallery
Fruiting Bodies
Katie St. Clair
Central Piedmont Community College’s (CPCC) Ross Gallery is excited to bring Artist Katie St. Clair’s exhibition, “Fruiting Bodies” to the college’s Central Campus, Aug. 15 – Oct. 10, 2018.
St. Clair’s latest work not only focuses on the natural decay of life and the beauty found within, but also on the complex processes of physical and spiritual healing through visualization of plants and fungi in the Carolina landscape. Abstraction of these forms allows St. Clair to express the subtle relationships of non-linear ecosystems. While researching, harvesting and consuming wild edibles, St. Clair’s understanding of flavor and the healing potential of her subjects expanded and evolved. St. Clair developed new ways of looking at the natural world, not only for inspiration and form, but also for the pragmatic considerations of pigment, texture and creative constraint. She incorporated new materials into her pieces, including natural dyes collected from the native ecosystems, through botanic, fungal and mineral extractions.
“Fruiting Bodies” will feature a series of melting ice sculptures that are an experimental part of St. Clair’s painting process. These melting sculptures called “spheres” contain pigments, mushrooms and other organic materials foraged by the artist during her hikes through different parts of the North Carolina landscape. The delicately constructed spheres are suspended above canvases and slowly melt over a period of 24 to 48 hours. The ephemerality of this process echoes the cycle of life: birth, growth, death and decay.
St. Clair received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and her Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Art specializing in painting and drawing at Davidson College.
August 15 – October 10, 2018, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Monday – Thursday)
Artist Lecture: September 12, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Tate Hall
Opening Reception: September 12, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. – Ross Gallery
Sphere installations: August 20, September 12, and October 1 – Ross Gallery
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Pease Gallery
CPCC Galleries present Past & Present group exhibition beginning August 15, 2018
Exhibition is a multimedia exhibition of CPCC Alumni Studio Art students and current Visual Arts Studio faculty members
Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) Galleries is pleased to present a multimedia group exhibition called, “Past & Present” which is part of a celebration to commemorate the many years of the college’s beloved Pease Gallery, located on its Central Campus. “Past & Present” will showcase 12 CPCC Visual Arts Studio faculty members and 14 CPCC Studio Art alumni, many of whom have exhibited their creations for the first time in Pease Gallery. This exhibit will celebrate the decades of creativity developed through CPCC’s Visual Arts programs.
Participants will include:
CPCC Alumni: Rachel Baranowski, Anderson Carman, Douglas B. Davis, Kelsi Elcorabarutia, Kelly Elliot, Sarah Goski, Samantha Maxwell, Don Peeler, Paige Reitterer, KC Roberge, Julie P. Smith, Laura Truman, Sarah B. Wiley and Tashonda Wright
Faculty Members: Danny Croco, Carolyn Jacobs, Ashley Lathe, Nancy Nieves, Isaac Payne, Elizabeth Ross, Paula Smith, James Spence, Jason Stein, Richard Thomas, Alvaro Torres and Jennifer Zito
CPCC’s Pease Auditorium and Gallery will permanently close in January 2019 after more than 50 years of memorable productions, performances, gallery exhibitions and events. Pease, and the aging building that surrounds it (the Hagemeyer Learning Resource Center), will come down and be replaced by a new, state-of-the art library for CPCC’s students. The new Learning Resource Center will also include a replacement of the existing Pease Auditorium and Gallery. Individuals interested in tracking the new building’s progress can visit cpcc.edu/facilitiesservices/hard-hat-updates for construction updates in the new year.
August 15 – October 3, 2018, Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Artist Lecture: September 6, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. in Pease Gallery & September 13, 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. at Levine Campus in LVI 2150
Opening Reception: September 6, 5 – 7 p.m. in Pease Gallery
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2018 Annual Juried Student Art Show
Pease Gallery
On view march 28 – July 18, 2018
Awards Ceremony: April 10 at 5:00 p.m. in Pease Auditorium
Opening Reception 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Pease Gallery
Each year, our Visual Arts Department and Sensoria hosts a Juried Student Art Show that recognizes works in painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, and sculpture. With that comes an array of awards from the Presidential and CPCC Foundation Purchase Awards, to first, second, and third place prizes. The entries are also considered for League of Innovation in the Community College, a national competition. Five Central Piedmont Visual Arts Students will be selected to showcase their artwork in an exhibition with students of community colleges nationwide.
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color + color = space
Felicia van Bork
Ross Gallery
Exhibition Dates: March 21, 2018 – June 27, 2018 Ross Gallery, 1st floor of the Overcash Building
Artist Lecture: April 12, 3:00 p.m. in Tate Hall
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 12, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
CPCC Art Galleries presents color + color = space an exhibit of recent collages and paintings by Felicia van Bork, courtesy of Jerald Melberg Gallery.
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The CPCC Metal Arts Club
Is Honored to Host
An Evening with Charles Lewton-Brain
CPCC Central Campus, Overcash, Tate Hall
April 7 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Charles Lewton-Brain studied and has worked in Europe and North America. He is a master goldsmith, author, artist and he teaches internationally on his research. He invented Fold-Forming, a completely new system of metal working. He is Past- President of The Canadian Craft Federation. Along with Dr. Hanuman Aspler, he co-founded the Ganoksin Project, the world’s largest internet resource for jewelers. In 2012, he won the highest national award for Craft and Visual Arts, the Saidye Bronfman Governor General’s Award. He currently teaches in Jewellery/Metals at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary.
This is a free lecture and some of his work will be on exhibit in Gallery Reception, Overcash Center April 6 & 7 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. & April 8 from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
About Face Charlotte
Scott Gardner and Hannah Blanton of Sozo Gallery
Exhibition Dates: January 11 – March 7, 2018
Artist Lecture: January 23, 3:30 – 4:30PM
Opening Reception: January 23, 5:00 – 7:00PM
Ross Gallery, 1st floor of the Overcash Building
About Face Charlotte is a movement dedicated to the cultivation of kindness, compassion and connection through photography, storytelling and community engagement. By creating campaigns and projects that raise social awareness through art and empathy education, we help people connect to their hearts and provide direct pathways to action. Our vision is to empower people to make a difference in their community.
Matt Horick: revert and continue
Exhibition Dates: January 11 – March 7, 2018
Artist Lecture: February 7, 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Opening Reception: February 7, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Pease Gallery, 1st floor of the Learning Resource Center
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2017 Annual Airy Knoll Farm Show
Pease Gallery
October 24 – December 7, 2017
Mondays – Thursdays 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
1st Floor, LRC/Library CPCC Central Campus
Reception for CPCC Students
Wednesday, November 15, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Opening Reception
Friday, November 17, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Witnessing…
The artist is here to see the amazing gift of our world and more, to bear witness to it, testify with their work, bring amazement to the community. In this show, from the community of Airy Knoll to the larger community of CPCC and Charlotte, these gifted artist bring their vision.
Each summer, instructor Elizabeth Ross takes a group of students to a farm in Middlebrook, VA, to participate in a resident program presented by the Art Department of CPCC. During their week-long stay, students take part in an intensive exploration of the creative process of finding one’s own voice in the visual and verbal arts. The artwork on view is the product of each student’s own reflection on their experience.
2017 CPCC Holiday Art Market
Ross Gallery
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Foozhan Kashkooli: One Thousand Kisses
August 14–October 11, Pease Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 28, 5:30–7:30 PM
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, October 4, 1–2 PM
One Thousand Kisses is a collection of large abstract oil paintings and site-specific installation using recycling materials which highlights concerns around the endemic environmental issues. The visual language changes from one work to the next. Each work is composed of a variety of sculptural relief materials such as: wood, metal, recycling material and other inexpensive items intended for single use. The exhibition is constructed to draw the attention to the complex relationships between aesthetic appreciation of nature and environmental issues.
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Natalie Bork: Ripple
August 14–October 4, Ross Gallery
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, September 20, 5–6 PM, Tate Hall
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 20, 6:30–8:30 PM
Natalie Bork’s hollow, cylindrical forms hover above the ground at various levels. Each form hangs plumb from a steel cable which enables it to oscillate left and right with the slightest breeze, draft or passerby. Viewers can walk in between the suspended cylinders watching as the forms slowly begin to spin. The child within may inspire the viewer to lay down on the ground and look up at the brightly colored bottom facets of each cylinder and relax as he or she watches them spin from the airflow. The cylinders react to the energy we give off when we walk or run, creating a ripple effect.
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2017 Annual Juried Student Show
Pease Gallery, April 3- July 13, 2017
Tuesday, April 4th
Awards Presentation: 5:30- 6:00p.m., Pease Auditorium
Opening Reception: 6:00- 7:30p.m., Pease Gallery
The Annual Juried Student exhibit showcases top talent among our students at CPCC, highlighting the variety and skill in our Visual Arts program. A number of prestigious awards, including Best in Show, Presidential Purchase, and John White Photo Award will be announced at this much beloved ceremony and reception for students, faculty, family, friends, and guests. This year’s honored juror is Kristin Rothrock, Lecturer in Foundations at UNC-Charlotte. Awards Ceremony and Opening Reception are open to the public, and always FREE to attend; light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
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Matt Horick Greenroof Sculpture Presentation
Wednesday, April 5th
5:30- 6:15p.m., LRC Greenroof (Outside, back patio of Library)
Matt Horick, creator of the brand new site-specific sculptures designed for the LRC Greenroof, will explore his process from concept to 3-D rendering, to live scale fabrication. The newest addition to CPCC’s permanent collection, Horick’s sculptures will be unveiled for this first time this evening to lucky attendees of this event. During this collaborative presentation, Lance Ollivierre, CPCC’s Director of Facilities and Operations, will explore the history of the LRC Greenroof, joined by David Valder, CPCC’s new Director of Energy and Sustainability, who will discuss best environmental practices at the college.
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MyLoan Dinh & Lee Baumgarten: We See Heaven Upside Down
Ross Gallery Sensoria Exhibit: March 20 – July 5, 2017
Thursday, April 6th
Artist Lectures with performance by Moving Poets:
6–7:15p.m., Tate Hall
Opening Reception: 7:30– 9:30p.m., Ross Gallery
Paradoxically, to internalize the discovery that another person is a stranger, with their own inner-life and uniquely ”other” perspective, is a rare but real contact with another subjectivity; our differences define both our individualism as well as our inseparable connection. This dichotomy between how we strive to shape our own lives individually towards our own goals and how we interact with strangers in a common space lies at the heart of the human condition, and it becomes particularly pronounced in times of mass migration, when cultures of apparent contrast are forced to interlace with one another.
We See Heaven Upside Down is an evolving dialog responding to the contemporary yet also, in fundamental ways, reoccurring challenges of migration and displacement related to the unique human experience. Based on a concept that began as a collaboration between Artists/Educator MyLoan Dinh & Lee Baumgarten in 2015, it has developed as an international collaboration between creative minds to stimulate conversation and understanding, with the intent to draw a supportive, connecting line between displacement, individuals and their journey. The exhibition strives to spur moments of genuine and raw empathy in our often hectic and confusing times. What we see, depends on where we stand. The project includes perspectives from non-migratory, immigrant and refugee backgrounds and has several objectives:
- Shifting one’s perspective brings us closer towards understanding others with different circumstances and life experiences.
- Breaking down barriers surrounded by fears, misconceptions/stereotypes and prejudices.
- Offering individuals who have experienced the emotional disorientation and trauma of flight to employ their creative abilities and share their individual stories with the community.
The project launched in June of 2016 at the Novilla Center for the Arts in Berlin, Germany, then travelled to the Kunst am SpreeKnie Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany. Migration continues as this multi-dimensional exhibition, site-specific installation, and performance piece will travel to Charlotte, North Carolina to headline Ross Galleries for Sensoria 2017.
Community Partners and support for We See Heaven Upside Down include Moving Poets (Charlotte/ Berlin); German Federal Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women and Youth; the German Federal Program for Democracy Lives; Arts & Sciences Council Regional Artist Project Grant; Jeff Cravotta Photography; the North Carolina Arts Council (NCAC), Blumenthal Emerging Artists Endowment, and Harper Corporation of America.
“We See Heaven Upside Down” Exhibition Contributing Artists:
- Nico Amortegui (Columbia) – visual artist
- Raed Al-Rawi (Iraq) – visual artist/cartoonist/educator
- Hanna Tadrous Girgis- (Egypt) visual artist, collaborative artwork
- Cannupa Hanska Luger (USA) – visual artist
- Susanne Roewer (Germany) – visual artist
- Tina Roozbehi (Iran) – visual artist, collaborative artwork
- Dellair Youssef (Syria) – film maker
- CPCC Sculpture, Advanced Painting, & Art Appreciation Students- Collaborative Installation Project
MyLoan Dinh
”As 4an immigrant and former refugee, I am faced with the challenge of living between cultures. My perception of home, land & country is fragmented and ever changing.
Connection and identity are indispensable themes. Where do we come from? Where are we going, and what do we encounter on the way? Borders are changing and fluid. In transition, do we leave traces of ourselves behind, like ripples where a foot once stepped?“
—MyLoan Dinh
MyLoan Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam. During the war, she and her family fled by sea to refugee camps in Subic Bay and Wake Island in the South China Sea. Later they were brought to Camp Pendleton, California, known as Tent City, one of four large camps for Vietnamese refugees. From there, the family immigrated to Boone, eventually settling in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dinh studied Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and at the School of Arts and Design at Wollongong University New South Wales, Australia. Her creative talents led to designing and creating costumes and sets for professional dance and theatre for over a decade. In 2008, she returned to painting and renewed her focus on visual arts projects. Dinh has exhibited internationally and her work is found in private collections in the United States, Germany, Turkey and Switzerland.
Lee Baumgarten
Lee Baumgarten is a former Associate Professor of the Columbus College of Art & Design who has lived and produced in Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. His paintings, drawings and sculptures are included in corporate and private collections nationwide and in Europe.
In 2013, he was awarded a grant by the National Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation to promote STEAM, a “creativity in public schools” education model, which Charlotte then adopted. Presently, he is an advisor/consultant for academies and magnet schools in the public Charlotte Mecklenburg School System (CMS), promoting creativity and design in K-12 education. In December, 2015 President Obama signed the Bill into law, a STEM2STEAM model for all public education, which will effect over 50 million students nationwide placing greater emphasis on the arts.
”My goal is to tell a story of cultural diversity, accenting and highlighting our ‘likenesses’ through communicating that we are all passionate about living a dynamic life full of promise, and sharing community visions of purpose, reason & value.“
—Lee Baumgarten
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Ross Gallery: January 17- February 28, 2017
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 1, 6—8p.m., Ross Gallery
Artist Lectures: Wednesday, February 8, 6-7:30p.m., Tate Hall
A mannequin, a puppet, a porcelain head,
A marble bust, a figurine, a doll…
These false figures are the vessels that contain our many selves, those we own outright, and those we do not always wish to display. They are where we store our fear and longing, our pride, our shame, our tiny truths. They become something beyond a substitute, more like an extension of self, a reflection that both duplicates the familiar and insinuates the foreign.
Artists Stacey Davidson and Jason Watson both use these figurative forms to explore themselves and the social worlds they navigate, along distinct, but sometimes parallel, paths. Davidson’s paintings and drawings begin with keen observation of both live models and the dolls she makes to serve as live models. Her probing of these real and newly imagined bodies is an ongoing investigation of portraiture and what it reveals to both herself and her viewers. With painterly grace, she investigates dolls not to dispel their uncanny nature, but instead to enter into its deep mystery.
Jason Watson also draws from found figures, but along with dolls looks at museum mannequins and portrait busts made from marble, wood, and bronze. He encounters these heads in museums and sketches them onsite, translating hard materials into lyrical drawn line, and adding to the archive of faces he later pieces together in tangled, cryptic compositions. Found objects and fractured text animate these works into something caught between narrative suggestion and the absurdity of dreams.
Both artists make to learn, about both their chosen subjects (the doll, the marble bust, the other…) and themselves (the artist, the maker, the inner psyche…). The hybrid German / English word “Doppelgängers” is a fitting title and introduction to this ongoing creative process, as it alludes to both the physical reality of the portraits before you, and to the ever elusive faces and bodies they depict.
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Stephanie Neely: Secret Garden
Pease Gallery: January 17- March 2, 2017
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, February 15th 10:30am- 11:30am, Pease Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16th 5-7p.m., Pease Gallery
Stephanie Neely’s relationship with art making has long been one of guarded secrecy. Beginning in childhood, drawing and painting became strong creative impulses in her life, though for a long time they remained only as secondary pastimes. Initially pursuing diverse academic and professional routes such as landscape horticulture, law, and religious studies, her interest in painting continued to develop as a latent and ever-growing source of intrigue, eventually culminating in a newly defined connection to the medium of oil pastel.
For the past decade, Neely has concentrated on depicting plant and flower materials in the form of beautifully detailed and enigmatic still life paintings. Her large-scale works take various elements of the natural world as their muses and render them with a deeply-felt sensitivity towards the subject matter at hand. Drawing on skills acquired through her training in landscape horticulture and land surveying, Neely is able to transform her objects with both remarkable exactness and a keen sense of wonder. No longer simply a diversion from other aspects of her life, Neely utilizes her art to reveal the hidden and mysterious nature of her subjects, allowing viewers to take part in that same process of discovery.
Neely’s works are the result of many challenges, frustrations, and, ultimately, the joys of overcoming the temperamental nature of her adopted medium in order to arrive at something truly fulfilling. For her, experimentation, patience, and failure are all integral parts of the creative process. Entirely self-taught, she maintains the same fundamental joy and fascination in painting that motivated her in her early life, always striving for perfection and never short of emotional depth.
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Each summer, instructor Elizabeth Ross takes a group of students to a farm in Middlebrook, VA, to participate in a resident program presented by the Art Department of CPCC. During their week-long stay, students take part in an intensive exploration of the creative process of finding one’s own voice in the visual arts. The artwork on view is the product of each student’s own reflection on their experience.
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SMALL HISTORIES
An exhibition of the works of Marcia Goldenstein and Todd Johnson
Ross Gallery I: October 24–December 5, 2016
Artist Lectures: Thursday, November 3, 12:30–1:45 PM, Ross Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 5:30–7:30 PM
Art history, scale, and craftsmanship are characteristics that unite the work of Marcia Goldenstein and Todd Johnson— Goldenstein’s embroidered portraits of women artists that reference photography and Johnson’s painted miniatures of historical works on commercial paint chips.
In Ladies in Stitches, Goldenstein celebrates women artists in a traditional craft which represents the domestic demands that they had to overcome to achieve their professional accomplishments.
Johnson selects commercial paint chips whose names evoke famous works of art, then faithfully reproduces the work in miniature directly on the chip.
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Friends & Family Market
Ross Gallery II: October 24–December 5, 2016
Holiday Reception: Thursday, October 27, 5–7 PM
Market Hours: Monday–Thursday, 10 AM–2 PM
and Saturday, November 5, 12–6 PM
Join us for our third annual Friends & Family Market fundraiser: Alumni, faculty, and student artists offer work for sale for under $50. Commission from works sold will go towards Gallery educational programming and to support the Visual Arts Club, ClayBodies or the Metal Arts Club. This is a wonderful opportunity to collect affordable art by prominent Charlotte artists or to find that perfect, one-of-a-kind holiday gift!
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Pervasive Pollution
Pease Gallery: September 9–November 3, 2016
Reception: Thursday, September 29, 5:00–7:00 PM
Pervasive Pollution is a collaborative exhibition of the Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Departments at Central Piedmont Community College, North Carolina; Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana; and Winthrop University, South Carolina; focused on the exploration of pollution and contamination on a small, personal scale. Artists from each school interpreted the topic of pollution as it applied directly to their person or personal surroundings with the collaborative goal to cultivate an appreciation for personal intimacy, as well as the personal sphere and how it can be encroached upon.
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Amy Herman: it wasn’t important until it was
Ross Gallery: August 15- October 9, 2016
VIP/ Media Preview: Thursday, Aug 18, 6-7pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 8, 5:30-7:30p.m.
Artist Lecture: Thursday. Sept. 15 2-3:15p.m. (in Ross Gallery)
Amy Herman constructs photographs as a parallel to the construction of her own house. Projections of nostalgic family snapshots are ingrained onto her body and her home’s unfinished walls, representing the faux interaction facilitated by technology and confounding our sense of time: Disparate moments appear, simultaneously and chaotically, in the same frame.
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Cara Truitt: In Flight
Pease Gallery: July 28 – August 31, 2016
Make-up artist Cara Truitt brings her illustrative vision to-light in this inaugural exhibition with photographer Colleen McFiggins, and installation artist Chris Kollman. An invitational to CPCC’s Cosmetology School, the exhibition teaches the importance of collaboration and the possibilities of a career trajectory within creative fields.
In Flight is a metaphoric invocation to rise up to our own authenticity. Women of varied nationalities are transformed into winged creatures, heralding fearlessness, creativity, and free expression before the lens. Using the human face and form as her palette, Truitt seeks to empower each young woman to adopt her own feathered alter-ego, begging the question: Can a temporary transformation inspire strength for lasting change?
Artist Lecture, Tate Hall (2nd Floor, Overcash Building)
Wednesday, August 24
10:30 – 11:15 am
Gallery Reception, Pease Gallery
Wednesday, August 24
5:00 – 7:00 pm
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2016 Student Juried Exhibition
Pease Gallery: April 4 – July 14, 2016
The 2016 Annual Juried Student Show presents the finest CPCC student visual artists and their works in painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, jewelry, and sculpture. A variety of awards are presented, including the Presidential and CPCC Foundation Purchase Awards, in this festive and celebratory event for students, faculty and guests. Our honored juror this year is Dr. Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Curator of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.
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Charles Williams: Continuum I Night
Ross Gallery: March 4 – June 30, 2016
Lost and Found #2, 2014, Oil on canvas, 6’ x 8’
See No Evil, Oil on panel, 12″ x 12″
Continuum: A sequence of events that allows us to move forward on our lives, from fear to freedom.
The story of our keynote Sensoria Visual Artist, Charles Williams, is fraught with challenge, beauty, and triumph— a potent illustration of success and tenacity in the face of life’s myriad challenges. Growing up as a young African American male in rural Georgetown, SC, Charles suffered three near-fatal drowning accidents. These traumatic experiences not only shaped his aquaphobia, but highlighted deeply-felt racial stereotypes throughout his adult life. Rather than shy away from the subject matter which almost killed him, Williams has dedicated his life’s work to tackling the nature of fear itself, breaking down barriers of regionalist racial stereotypes in his wake.
In his solo exhibition, Continuum, Williams will elucidate his personal journey in facing his fear through artistic practice. Ross Galleries will be turned into a dramatic, multi-media experience evincing the ocean at night. Artworks will each have a unique QR code, preloaded with poetic passages from Williams’ sketchbooks. Students and our community guests will be encouraged to write, draw, or paint on the walls of Ross Gallery II, under the vinyl lettered question, “What is your greatest fear?” Thus the Continuum exhibition will be a living, breathing, ever-evolving community piece as we share our deepest fears, connecting at the very nexus of what defines our collaborative humanity. As a greater articulation of the nature of fear itself, Continuum is a metaphor for life’s turbulent challenges, and how to face fear with buoyancy and grace.
Artist Lecture: Thursday, April 14
6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m., Tate Hall (second floor Overcash)
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., Ross Gallery
1206 Elizabeth Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28204
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Miranda Pfeiffer Rock Line is a collection of graphite drawings, textiles and animations that evoke natural forms through excavation and touch. In the modern era, we scroll through images on our news-feeds and snap photos before a moment has passed. Amidst the disparate spray of a technological milieu, Miranda lingers with objects long enough to depict their minutest tendrils, building massive drawings with an everyday mechanical pencil. Through representational drawings and hand drawn animation, a moment of present observation can last eternally, keeping a viewer from assuming prejudice and extending one’s sensory delight.
Artist Lecture: Thursday, January 28
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., Tate Hall (*second floor in Overcash)
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 28
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Ross Gallery
Animation Workshop: Friday, January 29
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Central for Arts Technology (AU 102)
*RSVP Required to cassandra.richardson@cpcc.edu
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Désirée Petty’s previous education in Architecture instilled within her with an attraction to the beauty of both function and sculpture. In her clay practice, Désirée reexamines the line between functional and sculptural artworks. Her aesthetic is propelled forward by exploring new relationships between the two. Marks is inspired by a more personal narrative, exploring the effects experiences have on us as physical and spiritual beings.
Artist Lecture: Wednesday, February 17
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m., Pease Auditorium (*first floor LRC)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 17
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Pease Gallery
1200 Sam Ryburn Walk
Charlotte, NC 28204
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Pease Gallery , Pease Building
Times : Monday – Thursday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Opening Reception : Thursday, November 19, 5 – 7 p.m.
V.I.P. Reception : Friday, November 20, 6 – 9 p.m.
Each summer, instructor Elizabeth Ross takes a group of students to a farm in Middlebrook, Virginia, to participate in a resident program presented by the Visual Arts Department at CPCC. During their week-long-stay, they take part in an intensive exploration of the creative process of finding one’s own voice in the visual arts. The artwork on view is the product of each student’s experience at the farm.
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Ross Gallery II, Overcash Building
Times : Monday – Thursday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Fridays, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Holiday Reception: Thursday, October 29, 5 -7 p.m.
Join us for our second annual Friends & Family Market fundraiser. Alumni exhibiting artists, faculty members, and former and current students will have work for sale for less than $50! The commission from the works sold will go toward Gallery educational programming and to support the student Visual Arts Club. This is a wonderful opportunity to collect affordable art by prominent Charlotte artists or to find that perfect, one-of-a-kind holiday gift.
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October 14 – December 18
Ross Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 14 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Artist Lecture: Thursday, October 15 from 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Barbara Schreiber creates colorful paintings that combine pretty pictures and tough subjects. Her work tells a distinctly American story – one of restlessness, one of real estate, bracketed by the open road and the gated community. In the purest sense, her works are landscapes, filled with deserts, mountains, fields and subdivisions – but at the heart, they are about the collision of the built and natural worlds, about battles in which outcomes are uncertain – with a twist of sardonic wit and humor. Barbara welcomes dialogue from viewers – especially those outside the art world – and if often inspired by their novel or unexpected observations.
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2015 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
August 17 – October 29 in Pease Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 24, 4 – 6:30 pm
A tradition that spans decades, the CPCC Faculty Exhibition celebrates the art and educators whose original and innovative works influence the artists of tomorrow. Contemporary works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography and ceramics will be shown, and represents the fascinating and varied vision of more than 20 instructors at CPCC!
Featured artists include Danny Crocco, Paula Smith, Richard Thomas, Eliana Arenas, Ed Burnam, Al Torres, Nelli Levental, Elizabeth Ross, Jenny Zito-Payne, Felicia van Bork, Chris Pittman, Heather Felts, Roceun Kim, Stephen Hayes, Isaac Payne, Chelsea Arthur, Andrea Vail, Nancy Nieves, Carolyn Jacobs, Ashley Knight, James Spence and Justin Liddell.
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Susan Brenner: Natural Histories
August 17 – October 1, 2015
Ross Gallery
Susan Brenner is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Grant, two North Carolina State Arts Council Fellowships, and has been a practicing, professional artist for more than 20 years. Her recent series, Natural Histories, is comprised of biomorphic abstract works on paper that she created by combining digital and hand drawing/ painting techniques. From these she stripped the color, “weathering” them to the point that they were nothing but a complex maze of lines. As Susan states, “I felt as though I was traveling forward in time to a point when, as an archaeologist, I would discover these “skeletal reamains” of my own making. Once I had discovered the remains, I layered and built them up to create new structures to which I added color, thereby “reincarnating” them into new life forms.”
The resulting works can be viewed as conjured maps or recordings of (un) natural processes. Elements are held together precariously, making the images seem like they are in a state of flux. the vertical pieces point to portraiture. The large format horizontal pieces make reference to cinema in their proportions and are intended to suggest the unfolding of activity over time. They picture explosions that seem to be happening in slow motion and are as much, if not more, about creation as they are about destruction.
Susan Brenner’s work has been featured in exhibitions acress the United States such as the Mint Museum, the Columbia museum of Art, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California and is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at UNC Charlotte.
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Shaun Cassidy, “The Sound of Everything” Ross Gallery CPCC
Shaun Cassidy: The Sound of Everything
Ross Gallery : March 16 – July 23
“There is an inherent transferal of the senses when memories are sucked through the lens of time. If pressed, you could verbalize the smell of happiness, the touch of a perfect memory, even the taste of the sea as it meets the shore. Each of our pasts is laden with a synesthesia that defies logic, meaning our senses become conflated and confused, and all blend into various times and places…
It is through this lens that Shaun Cassidy pulled memories to acquire the forms and colors of (his) work. He has translated sounds into their physical counterparts, labeling them with color in an intuitive way. Together they make a collection of jewels, highly prized precious objects whose formation took the decades long compounding and compressing of memories.”
– Grace Cote, from The Sound of Everything, Shaun Cassidy 2015 Exhibition Catalog
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Designers Dan Romanoski and Eric Hurtgen explore the intersection of physical and digital space through the medium of animated GIFs. The inherent abstraction of imaging the physical world is accentuated by the action of the endless loop. Mathematically modeled filters systematically destruct these images frame by frame according to preset functions, only to be reconstructed again in a seemingly eternal configuration.
Eric: http://newgeographic.tumblr.com/post/100516115166
Dan: http://newgeographic.tumblr.com/post/102396223486
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Airy Knoll Farm Show
Pease Gallery
November 12 – January 8, 2014
Each summer, instructor Elizabeth Ross takes a group of students to a farm in Middlebrook, VA to participate in a resident program presented by the Art Department of CPCC. During their week-long stay, they take part in an intensive exploration of the creative process of finding one’s own voice in the visual arts. The artwork on view is the product of each student’s own reflection on their experience.
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The Boxing Gym, de’Angelo Dia and Shaun El C. Leonardo
Ross Gallery
October 20 – December 18, 2014
Through performance, photographs and video, Dia and El C. explore the hype and demise of one boxer, examining the media and public’s contradictory desire to build up our heroes (specifically our colored athletes) only to see them torn down. This boxer, once headed toward glory, is now a man who clearly did not live up to his potential. Photographed in the gym where he once trained, he and his environment are now a mere shell of the macho grandeur, aggression and intensity they once symbolized.
de’Angelo Dia / Shaun El C. Leonardo
Shaun El C. Leonardo MoMA P.S. 1 Studio Visit
“The Boxing Gym Is a Shot to the Gut” Creative Loafing, Oct. 29, 2014.
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Objects in Perspective: Collaboration by Aspen Hochhalter and Natalie Abrams
Pease Gallery
September 15 – November 6, 2014
Aspen Hochhalter, a photographer, and Natalie Abrams, a sculptor, met while in residence together at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, and quickly formed a lasting partnership. They will debut new work in this exhibition: Abrams’ looped and folded latex paint sculptures will sit on pedestals while Hochhalter’s large format (96” x 44”) photographs of the work will line the gallery walls next to original glass plate ambrotypes.
Statement
Press Release
Wet Plate Collodion Prints
Aspen Hochhalter lecture (October 9, 2014)
Natalie Abrams lecture (October 22, 2014)
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Hands Held to Empyrean
Ross Gallery
August 18 – October 9, 2014
Seth Rouser will present a series of original paintings depicting cloudscapes overlaid with gestural marks and emotive color. These paintings are a manifestation of the artist’s thoughts on time, change, and the human experience. Rouser uses his clouds to symbolize and confront existential issues and the significance of being.
DENISOVAN
Pease Gallery
July 14 – September 4, 2014
Pease Gallery will show prints from, Denisovan, an interactive artist’s book by Heather D. Freeman, Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The story is a fictional imagining of a girl who died 40,000 years ago. Bone fragments from a single individual were found in a Siberian cave, and paleogeneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mapped the genome, determining that the fragments belonged to a previously unknown hominid.
The story of human evolution is many things. One part of this story is the nurturing of children by mothers and fathers, generation after generation. We know that the denisovan girl had brown hair and eyes, but we can only speculate on her family structure, and how parent-child relationships may have evolved in the last 40,000 years.
This mobile app is neither a game, nor a book, but resides somewhere between the two and is available on iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.
In addition to these beautiful large prints, smaller (8.5″ x 11″) prints and printed books will be available for purchase ($10-$15). Proceeds benefit the Art Gallery’s student initiatives and programming.
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BURST
Ross Gallery
May 14 – August 7, 2014
Andi Steele is an installation artist working with colored monofilament line. Her installations, which are highly measured and planned, involve stringing the monofilament across her site in order to alter the way visitors interact with the space and with each other. A true hands-on artist, Steele believes that craftsmanship and touching the work are important, taking great care to design and fabricate the pieces, which can involve tying thousands of knots. Because of this unique process, all of her installations are completely one of a kind and specific to their site.
Charlotte Observer review by Barbara Schreiber
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Anyone’s Ghost: Kyle Worthy
Ross Gallery II
May 14 – August 7, 2014
Kyle Worthy is an abstract landscape photographer living and working in Charlotte. The action of taking a photograph is just the beginning of his extensive development process, which involves digitally abstracting the image, printing, and sometimes even treating the surface with encaustic to give it a velvety finish. Worthy’s work deals with themes of memory and time, specifically with how images of our past lose detail and specificity as we age away from them, though they still retain great significance.
Artist Statement and Installation images of ‘Anyone’s Ghost’
Film interview by Jason Fararooei
Past Perfect: Kirsten Tradowsky
Pease Gallery
March 17 – July 3, 2014
San Francisco artist Kirsten Tradowsky takes inspiration from the past, specifically the objects that represent a person’s history and placement in life. For this exhibition, she has painted objects she found in the “for sale” section of Craigslist, capturing the quality of the seller’s photographic presentation in all its awkwardness, overexposure and strange angles. Using loose brushstrokes, she sympathetically renders these unwanted items in both rich and faded hues, delicately revealing the imperfections of time. Her artwork seeks to bring quality and validation to these objects and to painting itself.
Tradowsky received a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has exhibited nationally and has been featured in Wallpaper Magazine, New American Paintings Magazine, and popular art/design blogs Design* Sponge and The Jealous Curator.
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Ross Gallery
March 24 – May 1, 2014
This year’s student show contains 76 individual artworks by 50 CPCC Visual Arts students, created over the past year at CPCC. Works on view represent all media taught at CPCC, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry/metalworking and more. Selections for the 2014 show were made by Seth Rouser.
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Ross Gallery
CPCC Galleries will host a jewelry and metals invitational show titled “Jewelry + Metals of the Carolinas.” This exhibition is an abbreviated survey of what established and emerging artists in the Carolinas are currently producing. Exhibiting artists include Courtney Starrett, Mi-Sook Hur, Eliana Arenas, Claire Avery, Loring Taoka, Caitie Sellers, and Katie Poterala. The work on view will explore metal processes and techniques through examples of body adornment as well as wall sculpture.
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Pease Gallery
Through their individual bodies of work, Pamela Winegard and Betsy Birkner explore cultural limitations imposed on communities and individuals and the behavior that occurs despite these artificial constraints. Pamela Winegard, an encaustic artist and painter, explores architectural facades while Betsy Birkner, a ceramicist, communicates limitations on femininity through glazed corsets embellished with color and adornment.
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Presence: Figurative Sculpture by Janet Lasher
Ross Gallery
November 25 – January 30, 2014
Janet Lasher is a Charlotte, NC artist working in fiber, textile, and handmade paper. The pieces in this exhibition are from her most recent body of work that focuses on idealized concepts of the female. Ross Gallery I will show Conscription, a unique installation that visitors are welcome to interact with by walking through and around it. Ross Gallery II will feature embroidered and felted pieces considering the same themes.
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Seeing… Observations from Nature
Airy Knoll Farm Show 2013
Pease Gallery
November 11 – January 3, 2014
This exhibition contains work by students of the Airy Knoll Farm in Middlesburg, VA, and focuses on capturing the contemplative nature one must embrace as a member of the class. Long time CPCC Instructor Elizabeth Ross encourages her students to open their minds to a more subjective way of seeing and appreciating the world.
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Forged Landscapes: Ahmad Sabha and Sharon Dowell
Ross Gallery
October 3 – November 14, 2013
In this exhibition, the paintings of Sharon Dowell will be shown with the ceramic work of Ahmad Sabha. The industrial, cylindrical ceramics, glazed in appealing colors, sit upon dark gray casted concrete forms and forged steel stands. Dowell’s paintings are a bright, organic, vivid contrast, which, through their visual components of maps, streets, and buildings, provide a wonderful visual echo.
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Zachary Tate Porter
Groundwork: Tracings, Excavations, and Burials
Pease Gallery
September 16 – November 1, 2013
Porter is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. His work draws upon his architectural education, as well as influences from other fields such as archaeology and cartography. Characterized by their use of topographic surveys, textual fragments and found artifacts, Porter’s drawings and models construct complex narratives that connect the viewer to imaginative landscapes. These landscapes, which often serve as sites for sacred events such as excavations, burials and outdoor sermons, confront questions of figure and ground, and ritual and place.
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Janet Williams: A Topography of Touch
Ross Gallery
August 12 – September 26, 2013
The exhibit will feature a collection of ceramic and porcelain works inspired by the concept of identification. Born in the United Kingdom, Williams recently became a citizen of the United States, a process that required the documentation of her physical body through fingerprinting. This experience inspired her to explore the ways people identify themselves from a cultural and geographical standpoint.
As a result, she commonly uses her fingerprint as a starting point; with digital and hands-on techniques, she translates it into a porcelain relief piece, creating topographic and architectural structures. This juxtaposition, using a technological program to digitally map out ways to manipulate an ancient, organic material, led her to a new question of identity: humanity’s place in a technological world.
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2013 FACULTY ART SHOW
Pease Gallery
May 8 – September 6, 2013
The 2013 Faculty Show features work exclusively by CPCC Faculty, including Ashley Knight, Carolyn Jacobs, Isaac Payne, Elizabeth Ross, Chris Pittman, Heather Felts, Jenny Zito-Payne, Byron Baldwin, Rachel Goldstein, Rae LeGrone, Ta’Vondre Quick, Paula Smith, Geoff Blount, Nancy Nieves, Al Torres, and Kappy McCleneghan.
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Amy Bagwell: The Factories Don’t Install Emotion Tapes
Ross Gallery I
April 3 – June 14, 2013
In “The Factories Don’t Install Emotion Tapes”, Amy Bagwell explores the boundaries of poetry by re-envisioning the link between poetry and visual art. With an underlying motivation to make poetry more accessible, each piece is an assemblage of found objects, usually mechanical, whose purpose is to highlight the themes and visual presence of her words.
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KIT KUBE: TURBULENT TRAJECTORIES
Ross Gallery II
April 3 – June 14, 2013
Through his sculpture, Kit Kube explores spheres of movement, visual feedback and interaction with found artifacts, forging symbiotic affinities with elemental forces such as gravity and angular momentum. In “Turbulent Trajectories”, remnants from our mechanistic past are reinvented, incorporating movement, light and shadow. The pieces challenge viewers to reinterpret connections to their surroundings.