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Eleven paintings and a giant vagina: Robin Walker at the Carrack

Chris Vitiello — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:24:00 -0500

“Decorative” is a bit of a dirty word in the art world. It’s why we say “interior decorators” instead of something like “décor artists.” In galleries and museums, the word “ornamental” is preferred, describing artwork that incorporates motifs from traditional crafts, fashion or architecture into a larger statement or meaning.…

Interaction without ego: sarah goetz's Just Between Us opens at Durham's Carrack Gallery

Chris Vitiello — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:48:00 -0400

The circle and the square. This phrase recalls Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man notebook drawing, in which he exemplifies the proportional relationship that the Roman architect Vitruvius asserted as optimally connecting man to the structures around him.…

[Updated] Durham City Council greenlights public art program

Chris Vitiello — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:36:00 -0500

UPDATED: 10:48pm Monday, Nov. 21.
DURHAM—The Bull City is finally taking the public art plunge.

The Durham City Council passed a resolution Monday night to devote up to one percent of the proposed General Capital Improvement Project (CIP) annual budget to the installation of public art at CIP sites and other locations around the city, including a priority area downtown and along "gateways" to the city.…

Notes on Durham Third Friday, Part 2: Image and idiosyncrasy

Chris Vitiello — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:46:14 -0400

Although summer doesn’t end until the fall equinox in late September, August’s Third Friday in Durham uses the public impatience with the season as a springboard into fall. Tom Elrod already described some of the bounty of visual arts in an earlier post, but that was only the half of it.…

Discussing SPILL with artist Sarah Spencer White

Rebekah L. Cowell — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:41:49 -0500

SPILL

Installation by Sarah Spencer White

Golden Belt Arts, Building 3, ROOM 100

Through Feb. 14

It took sculptor and ceramics artist Sarah Spencer White 18 months to hand-craft more than 100 individual pieces of earthenware for an exhibit at the Golden Belt gallery in downtown Durham.

White's new installation, SPILL, references past and present handcrafted forms, and explores the shift between industrial and handmade, symbolic of the former Golden Belt's recent past as a functioning factory.…

Dormant Raleigh warehouse breathes again in Made in USA show

David Fellerath — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:39 -0400

Indy contributor Rebekah L. Cowell visited the Made in the USA exhibit in Raleigh prior to its official opening. She sends us this report.

Empty warehouses haunt the landscapes of many North Carolina cities.…

Happy First Friday: Made in USA opens tonight in Raleigh

David Fellerath — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:39:45 -0400

Here are some photos of the Made in USA exhibit, opening in Raleigh's warehouse district. It's one of the highlights of the First Friday tour, and it's happening at 320 S. Harrington St.

We'll have a longer look from Rebekah Cowell soon, but here are a couple of photos taken by Carter Hubbard, co-curator of the exhibit.…