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CPCC Art Galleries receives BOB award in Charlotte Magazine!!

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Shaun Cassidy's "The Sound of Everything" at CPCC's Ross Gallery
Installation view of Shaun Cassidy’s “The Sound of Everything” at CPCC’s Ross Gallery, on view now through July 16, 2015.

Charlotte Magazine has announced that CPCC Ross and Pease Art Galleries has received a Best of the Best award as the city’s Best Art Gallery!

The galleries at Central Piedmont Community College have always served students and faculty, providing a space for their work and occasionally bringing in outside talent. But recently, the spaces have evolved. The Ross and Pease are now home to emerging and professional talent, from Shaun Cassidy’s The Sound of Everything (which runs through July 14) to a recent exhibition made entirely of animated GIFs, a medium never before presented in Charlotte galleries.

New Geographic One

"New Geographic One", a pop-up exhibition of animated gifs in Pease Gallery January 14-20, 2015

Currently on display in Ross Gallery is Shaun Cassidy’s The Sound of Everything, on view through July 14. Cassidy was also recognized with a BOB award as Best Artist by Charlotte Magazine.

The Annual Student Exhibition is now on display in Pease Gallery, and has been extended through mid-July.

CPCC Art Galleries remains committed to our mission of inspiring, educating, and engaging students, faculty, and community members through access to exceptional visual art in all media. The Galleries constantly support the teaching mission of the college by serving as a lab for the visual arts curricula and enhancing a variety of other subjects. Additional educational programming celebrates artistic achievement and cross-discipline collaboration.

Look for more exciting events and artist’s lectures in the coming year!

 

The Charlotte Observer on “The Sound of Everything” at CPCC’s Ross Gallery

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“The Sound of Everything,” currently on view at Ross Gallery, 
is featured in an article by The Charlotte Observer’s Barbara Schreiber.

Shaun Cassidy, "The Sound of Everything" Ross Gallery CPCC

Shaun Cassidy, "The Sound of Everything" Ross Gallery CPCC

Ms. Schreiber states: “Cassidy’s vivid, powder-coated steel sculptures succeed because they are primal.”

“The Sound of Everything” was inspired by music, and Schreiber writes,  “Although several vaguely resemble actual instruments, some of the best ones – including ‘Violin,’ ‘Fiddle,’ and ‘Snare’ – are sheer explosions of movement and sound.”

Read the article in the Charlotte Observer

 

Shaun Cassidy’s “The Sound of Everything” opens in Ross Gallery

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New work by sculptor Shaun Cassidy is currently on display in
“Shaun Cassidy: The Sound of Everything”
in Ross Gallery through July 16, 2015.

Shaun Cassidy, "The Sound of Everything, Fiddle" 2015

In this new body of work, Shaun Cassidy has created sculptural equivalents of the emotional and associative resonances of specific musical sounds. Each work, through its form, composition, stance and color, captures specific nonverbal feelings. This exhibition consists of eight steel, powder-coated sculptures ranging in size, shape, and color.

British born artist Shaun Cassidy has been making work in the U.S. since 1991. He studied sculpture in England and Canada. He also worked as a studio assistant for Sir Anthony Caro in London. His work spans a diverse range of materials, processes and ideas. He has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Art in America and the Wall Street Journal.

Shaun has been awarded artist residencies at over ten venues including two at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, an Affiliate Artist residency (2001-2002) and a Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) sponsored artist-in-residence (2006).  He has completed several public art projects throughout the region and is currently working on new public art commissions for the CATS Blue Line Extension McCullough Station and the Arts and Science Council in Charlotte.  Shaun is currently on the National Board of Directors of the McColl Center for Art and Innovation in Charlotte and works as a Professor of Fine Art at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Cassidy’s work is represented in Charlotte by the New Gallery of Modern Art.

Shaun Cassidy covers “Carolina Arts”

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Shaun Cassidy, featured artist in Ross Gallery during Sensoria

Upcoming Sensoria artist, Shaun Cassidy, is featured on the cover of this month’s edition of “Carolina Arts!”  Sensoria is CPCC’s week long celebration of the arts April 10-18, 2015. More info at http://sensoria.cpcc.edu/

“Shaun Cassidy: The Sound of Everything”  opens March 16 and continues through July 14.

“In this new body of work, Cassidy will create sculptural equivalents of the emotional and associative resonances of specific musical sounds. Each work, through its form, composition, stance and color, attempts to capture specific nonverbal feelings. This exhibition will consist of eight steel, powder-coated sculptures ranging in size, shape and color. British born artist Shaun Cassidy has been making work in the US since 1991. He studied sculpture in England and Canada and worked as a studio assistant for Sir Anthony Caro in London. His work spans a diverse range of materials, processes and ideas and has been featured in ‘Sculpture Magazine,’ ‘Art in America’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal.'”  http://www.carolinaarts.com/315/315carolinaarts-pg39.pdf 

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