May 15, 2011 | Art
I’ve got about 16 art works hanging throughout Chapel Hill City Hall during the months of May and June. They include some brand new works and some banners. So if you’re down there paying taxes, or getting some kind of license or having a sit-in to protest combustible landscape restrictions, check it out. Heck, if you’re even in the neighborhood stop by.
Also showing at City Hall right now are photographs by Ron Flory and pottery by Joseph Sand. City Hall is located at 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Here’s a link.
Apr 27, 2011 | Art
These are five 48×66 leaf banners I created for Andrea Assaf, each featuring one of Andrea’s poems. They are for Eleven Reflections on September, a poetry-based, multi-media performance on the Arab American experience. Eleven Reflections is currently running at Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis through May 1. Andrea’s a superb talent and Pangea, run by the wonderful Dipankar Mukherjee and Meena Natarajan, is a great theater. Check ’em out if you’re in the region.
Apr 23, 2011 | Art
One of the banners and some of the canvas artworks.
Crazy busy right now but I can’t not mention my reception at Point of View Gallery on Thursday. Good folks attended. Great acoustic music provided by India Cain and Keith Allen, both accomplished artists in their own right. Had some banners hanging outside as well as one large one indoors. Certainly a great place to hang work. Wish I had more pix. Just have a few and they’re not very representative or flattering. But hey.
Mar 30, 2011 | Art
Some of my art at the furniture mart.
North Carolina has a long history as a furniture-manufacturing center, and High Point, North Carolina, about an hour west of where I’m sitting is called the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Twice a year High Point hosts the High Point International Furniture Market, the largest industry trade show in the world, with as many as 80,000 visitors touring the 10 million square feet of show space.
The next market begins this weekend, and I’ve joined with an entrepreneurial bunch calling itself the Artisans Commerce Initiative. We’re going to have art on display in and around the furniture in one of the massive showrooms that host the event. Seems like a great experiment and I’m both curious and excited. When we were hanging it was an interesting twist to try and figure out what furniture goes best with the art. At any rate, that’s where I’ll be from April 2-7. If you’re in the neighborhood we’ll be at the Showrooms on English, 1690 English Road in High Point.
These pix were taken before the furniture was arranged and the lighting set up, but you get the idea.
Mar 10, 2011 | Art
Maple Blossom
Blossom
Okay, time to cover your eyes. The trees are starting to show off their sex parts. Can’t quite determine what tree that second blossom belongs to. To the naked eye these are like curly dirty brown caterpillars laying all over the ground. But up close? I’m guessing there’s some excited boy trees out there right now. (Click here to see a detail.) If you know what tree that second blossom belongs to, let me know. Inquiring minds are starting to expect me to know what I’m doing.
