Thanks to all of you who joined us for the opening reception of BURST: Andi Steele and Anyone’s Ghost: Kyle Worthy

Both exhibitions are on view in Ross through August 7. We hope to see you!

Images of the completed site specific installation BURST, designed by Andi Steele and installed in conjunction with CPCC Galleries.

On view in Ross I through August 7.

Andi Steele arrived Monday morning (5/12) to begin installing her site specific installation, BURST. She arrived with orange painted planks cut to 13′ tall and fitted with a line of fish-eye hooks. It took all of Monday to install these planks vertically throughout the gallery, with one long horizontal piece above the large window wall. The artist navigated unwelcome “surprises” like boarded up windows patches of brick behind the sheetwall, adapting her design so that it still achieved her goal.

CPCC Gallery Facilitator Heather Felts helped lead an installation team that included our workstudy Kelly Rambo, student volunteers, and Arts Programming Coordinator Alice Jenkins.The team worked all day to string red and yellow monofilament wire through fishhooks on alternate sides of the gallery to create a specific environment.

Join us for an opening reception for BURST: Andi Steele and Anyone’s Ghost: Kyle Worthy. Learn more about each exhibition in our Current Exhibitions section.

Ross Gallery, 5-7 pm

Take a look at the review section of this month’s Sculpture Magazine to see work by Andi Steele. The Magazine reviewed her recent installation, Emanate, on view in the Brossman Gallery at York College of Pennsylvania.

Her solo exhibition, Burst, will be on view in Ross Gallery I starting Wednesday, May 14. Join us for a reception May 14 from 5-7 pm.

Andi Steele – Ross Gallery I

Andi Steele, an associate professor of sculpture at UNC Wilmington, creates site-specific installations involving brightly colored monofilament wire that she strings across spaces. She designed her piece “Burst” around the front window of Ross Gallery I, an area usually used to frame and showcase art hanging in the gallery. When visitors look through the window, they will see little: a few lines and a little color. The whole of the work cannot be experienced without going into, and interacting with, the altered space. Steele encourages guests to walk in, look up, sit down, move through, look around and find their place.

Kyle Worthy – Ross Gallery II

While Steele abstracts physical space, Kyle Worthy abstracts memories tied to place in his photographs. In “Anyone’s Ghost,” Worthy presents a series of landscape photographs that are both highly specific and nonspecific at the same time. Blurred images taken from a variety of locations are manipulated, toyed with and blended. He then infuses them with anonymity so they become relevant to all viewers, sparking remnants of our own distant memories tied to place.

Opening Reception May 14, 5-7 pm in Ross Gallery

Thanks to everyone who came to the student show reception last Thursday night. It was quite a party, with more than 250 attendees! The celebration was proof of both the number of successful students in the CPCC program and how many people support them.

A special thanks to Richard Zollinger, Vice President for Learning and Workforce Development, for handing out awards, as well as Cato Campus Dean, Janet Malkemes, and Levine Campus Dean, Edith McElroy, for announcing awards on behalf of their respective campuses.

A list of awards is below, followed by a few images of the reception and Award Ceremony. Congratulations to the many talented Visual Arts students here at CPCC!

2014 Annual Juried Student Show Awards

First Place
Monty Montague, Carnal Cosmos, $300

Second Place
Chris Sirico, Self Portrait, $200

Third Place
Hnin Nie, The Nest, $100

Arzberger Purchase Award
Matthew Brien, Surface Tension
Heather Geiser, The Multitasker
Caroline Kerrigan, Blue Mother
Denetra Rodriguez, Just Beyond My Site

John White Photo Award
Lauren Isaacs, Float, $250

Presidential Purchase Award
Suzanne Mellichamp, Magnolia

Student Life Purchase Award
Jeremy Boseman, Golden Cup 7
Catalina Duarte, Tribute to Margaret 2 & 3
Anthony Whidbee, Landscape

Cato Campus Purchase Award
Anderson Carman, Salsa
Eva Rizzardi, Black Capped Chickadee
Phillip Thomas, Light No. 1
Kathleen Tomlinson, Copper and Garlic

Student Success Purchase Award
Eric Wagner, The Bridge
Fred Vohwinkel, Cut Star Bowl

Levine Campus Purchase Award
Chase Currie, Untitled 3
Karen V. Jones, Autumn Glory

Central Campus Purchase Awards
Hnin Nie, The Nest, Fantasy, and Distant
Rebecca Buchanan, Fire Pit Mornings and Kat and Cow Skull
Carol Connaughton, In the Flow
Catalina Duarte, Untitled
Haris Vahabovic, Seated Figure Study
Maritza Brunetto, Vase With Flowers
David Clark, Shino Jar and White Lidded Jar
Lauren Isaacs, Float, Only Time, and Silver Mark
Cambey Gallagher, Summer Hike

Nutcracker Awards
First Place, for Gamer Nutcracker: Camilla Middleton and Latoy R. Burch
Second Place, for Camo Nutracker: Trevor Metz and Husnia Ayar

Pearson Publishing Textbook Cover Award, Decided collectively by CPCC Art Appreciation Teachers, to be published on the cover of the Art Appreciation textbook.
Nick DeMarsico, Abstract, $250

Click through the gallery below to see images of work on view in the 2014 Student Show in Ross Gallery.

When photographer Chris Record was taking these pictures, he captured a view of a visit by CPCC President Dr. Tony Zeiss and his Executive Assistant, Susan Oleson-Briggs. You may also spot painting instructor Carolyn Jacobs, who taught many of the talent students whose work was accepted in the show.

Please join us for an opening reception and awards ceremony on April 10 from 5-7 p.m.

We are very excited to announce the Annual Juried Student Show is now open in Ross Gallery! This year’s show includes 76 works of art by 50 CPCC Students created over the past year, with media ranging from paintings to ceramics to metal sculpture and more.

All submitted work is available for viewing through an online gallery under the tab “2014 Student Show” in the above menu. There you will have access to:

Three-dimensional Art

Two-Dimensional Art

Photography

Join us for an opening reception and Awards Ceremony during Sensoria on Thursday, April 10 from 5-7 p.m.