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Monday, March 12, 2012

Sitting Down

You ever listen to the Andre 3000 track, "She Lives In My Lap"

"She stays alone, never sheds a single tear
She stays in the coolest moods, clearly woman of the year
She and all her girlfriends, they go out dressed to win
She comes back to the cooler side of town
but she lives in my lap"
-Andre 3000

Thursday, March 8, 2012

White Parts Coloured Red

What does it feel like to be involuntarily frozen with eyes shut and lips pursed? A political discussion should ensue. I am a man. My skin is darker. My hair is coarser. We are human. SHE is human. The tasks of determining the hues, shades, textures, shapes, sizes, and slopes of the parts that make up the whole, have largely been covered for her. What has she done, what will she do, what will she say that will illuminate what lies beyond our expectations? As you know, I have no right to answer for her and have probably stepped out of bounds by asking the question in the first place.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Built Forged Faked

(The text below was copied from the UNC Art Department website)

Allcott Gallery Exhibition: Built Forged Faked

UNC-Chapel Hill First Year MFA Exhibition

January 10 – February 7, 2012
Exhibition reception: Jan. 10, 6-8 pm

Artists are the modern soothsayers and builders who seek insight into a complex society. They are a visual narrative. They are the cultural products they inhabit. They are the culture they critique. They are the culture they create. They are studies of space in-between, the nostalgia of places they have never been and memories of the places they want to go.

In Built Forged Faked the first year MFA students of UNC-Chapel Hill investigate unraveling narratives of identity, race, gender, geography, ritual and constructed spaces. These narratives hang from string to object, object to material, material to surface using seemingly incongruent bits of information, erasing, blurring lines of memory and emotions that cannot be jettisoned but are too cumbersome to carry. Though distinctly different in style and process each artist forges a new narrative dissolving barriers, bringing into dialogue issues of place and belonging.

From January 10th to February 7th the John and June Allcott gallery will be inhabited with string landscapes, shimmering blankets, old barns, altered and investigated bodies, natural environments, haunting lullabies, ghosts of the Great Plains, and not-so-functional objects.

Lauren Salazar transforms a section of the gallery space with her three-dimensional drawings of string. Michael Iauch’s videos explore his relationship with his environment. William Thomas examines a personal relationship with race through painting. Damian Stamer also uses paint to capture sites of rural childhood exploration. Stephen Taylor looks at the human physical and metaphysical relationship to nature through the juxtaposition of geology and transcendental philosophy. Ali Halperin investigates digital dissemination and consumption as it relates to contemporary sociological issues of gender and performance. Nicole Bauguss constructs objects from weathered parts of historical structures to address issues of accessibility and social responsibility in art making. Julia Gootzeit interprets nature, landscape, and human intervention in her two-dimensional work. George Jenne uses video to capture the illicit pleasures of adolescent quests and ruses.

Admission: Free

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm

UNC Art Department: http://art.unc.edu/index.htm

Contact: Hong-An Truong, hatruong@email.unc.edu