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121 Hanes Art Center Alex Da Corte explores the nuances of contemporary life in his videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, which are often united together in richly-hued, dreamlike environments. With a keen attention to color and form, Da Corte draws from a wide range of sources, including popular and consumer culture, art history, and modern... Read More →
Reception and gallery talk: November 8, 5:30-7:30 pm Stephen L. Hayes, Jr. makes art—woodcuts, sculptures, installations small and large—from found materials that draw on social and economic themes ingrained in the history of America and African-Americans. His approach is simple: “If I can’t find it, I’ll make it. If I can’t make it, I’ll find... Read More →
121 Hanes Art Center Samuel Fosso will also be speaking at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham as part of the Click! Photography Festival. You can find more information about that event at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/click-photography-festival-presents-a-conversation-with-samuel-fosso-tickets-360510716257 Working between photography, self-portraiture, and performance, the work of Franco-Cameroonian photographer Samuel Fosso occupies a central position in the international contemporary art... Read More →
121 Hanes Art Center Ezra Wube (b., Ethiopia) is a mixed media artist who lives and works in New York. His work references the notion of past and present, the constant changing of place, and the dialogical tensions between "here" and "there". His exhibitions include the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil; The 2nd edition... Read More →
121 Hanes Art Center This lecture is co-sponsored by the Ackland Art Museum in connection with their current exhibition Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, on view through September 4, 2022. From the Ackland exhibition website: “Shipwreck stories have long held broad fascination for many of us – artists included. “Alexis Rockman (American, born 1962) created this dramatic... Read More →
Opening and Gallery Talk: August 30, 5:30-6:30 pm Refreshments will be provided. Masks are recommended. Artist Statement: My current body of work aims to capture the movement, flow, light, and materiality of our ever shifting environment. These works are produced by printing on translucent silk that is then stretched over painted frames to create delicate... Read More →
Gallery Talk: January 25, 6-7 pm, Zoom Registration Link (available until the start of the event): https://go.unc.edu/orimo Gallery Hours: 9-5 M-F “Slippage” (or the points of disjunctions): interrupted continuity of land and time; the fragility of connection; mistakes and failures. In whatever form "slippage" takes--physical, political, or cultural--we become sensors and experience the slippage as... Read More →
Virtual Opening/Gallery Talk: November 9, 6-7 pm Registration at our website (available until the start of the event): https://go.unc.edu/greymatter Gallery Hours: Per our semester Covid policies, the exhibition can be viewed through the gallery’s glass front wall, 9-5 M-F Author Maxwell Neely-Cohen on Betsy Kenyon: "The hardest thing one can do on a flat surface... Read More →
Reception: May 17, 5-7 pm Why do we have so many inequalities in America. Who or what is responsible? How can we fix them? There may be no clear solutions, but there can be progress. Action is necessary to invoke change. As an interdisciplinary artist, much of my work is guerrilla or public intervention. I... Read More →
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