Fayetteville Underground will unveil 4 exciting new shows in August
- Ongoing: until Tuesday, August 31, 2010
- Wednesday: 12:00pm
- Thursday: 12:00pm
- Friday: 12:00pm
- Saturday: 10:00am
- Where: Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
This August, Fayetteville Underground will unveil 4 exciting new shows from local, national and international artists. Christian Demare, a photographer from Paris, France will hang his dark, lush and mysterious photographs in the Hive Gallery. The Revolver will be home to FU's first gallery exchange! Work from the Seattle, WA art collective Shift will be shown in a show entitled "Continental Shift". In the E Street Gallery, Pottery Artist Karan Freeman will show her functional vessels in a show called "Let's Eat." In the Vault Gallery, Fayetteville Underground artist Gregory Moore will show new additions to his "Reclaimed Surfaces" paintings on found objects. Gregory Moore is a contributor to New American Paintings issue 88, a national publication in bookstores through the month of August.
Hive Gallery
Christian Demare
Ghosts in the Landscape #2
Christian Demare is a photographer living and working in Paris, France. His exhibition, Ghosts in the Landscape #2 will be featured in the Hive Gallery at the Fayetteville Underground during the month of August. After exploring drawing, painting and engraving, it is photography that Christian has turned to in recent years. Exhibitions and publications punctuate this prolific artist's life entirely devoted to his work, research and experimentation. Recently his work entered a period of greater visibility, with exhibitions at the French Institute in Thessaloniki, Greece as part of the 2010 Photo-Biennale, and at Les Insolites, in Tangiers, Morocco. Artist Megan Chapman, always inspired and impressed by Christian's dark, lush and mysterious photographic worlds asked the artist if he would consider having an exhibition at the Fayetteville Underground, she was thrilled when he agreed.
About his work, Christian Demare writes, "Stopping for a moment, seeing, trying to take the time to look at things humbly; between contemplation and meditation. Trying to offer a view of the immensity of things, approaching the others, touching the palpitations of life. Offering people a view, expanding their perspective, feeling and touching reality with the fingertips.This reality that contains all the tragic and the magic. All the light and the incredible hope.The torn hearts and the dazzling nature.The deadly boredom and the absolute love...My art is figurative even if sometimes the subject disappears; my art is narrative even if the stories are fragmentary.The images are nothing other than furtive traces and testimonies; a few clues left here and there…"
Revolver Gallery
Shift Gallery, Seattle WA
Continental Shift
Shift, a collaborative artists’ studio/gallery in the Pioneer Square district of Seattle Washington will feature 9 of it’s member artists’ in this exhibition titled Continental Shift.
Shift was established as an artist-run space, with the primary goal of supporting Northwest area artists, working in a variety of media, whom are dedicated to creating challenging and innovative work. Shift is committed to celebrating art of diverse media and rigorous content.
Exhibiting artists include Sharon Birzer, Yun Hong Chang, Mary Coss, Ellen Hochberg, Jo Moniz, Bailey Russell, June Sekiguchi, Paula Stokes and Rickie Wolfe. Studio artists Leilani Law (Fayetteville Underground) and June Sekiguchi (Shift Collaborative Studio) co-facilitated this member exhibition exchange. Fayetteville Underground member artists will be featured in October at Shift Collaborative Studio in Seattle.
E. Street Gallery
Karan Freeman
Let's Eat
As an independent potter working out of my home in Fayetteville, I think most about the functionality of my pieces. I prefer to work with white stoneware, midfire, that lends itself to long lasting, durable pieces.
I have been actively involved in clay work since the 1970s, originally hand building and then throwing on the wheel. I’ve attended workshops and other collaborative events with other artists to learn new techniques and develop my own style.
For me touchability and texture is a huge part of clay appreciation both in the crafting and the finished product. It is impossible for me to simply look at a finished clay object, it must be explored. There is a need to check out the surface, lift the piece to see it from another angle, look inside or see if the weight matches the visual perception.
The enduring quality of clay objects also appeals to me. When someone tells me they have a 5 or 10 year old bowl or mug, they still love it and use it regularly; it reinforces my sense of purpose and satisfaction. Working with clay reminds me of my connection to the earth; how the earth provides everything we need to produce food and to form the vessels to contain the food.
Vault Gallery
Gregory Moore
Reclaimed Surfaces
Gregory Moore's paintings are about searching through discarded rubble and finding beautiful things. He find pieces of rusted, dented metal debris and paints on them in a way that doesn’t obscure the original texture and color of the object. He seeks out objects that are notable for their their interesting stains, rust and damage and he lets those characteristics guide the painting.
"The subject matter I choose is largely informed by the pieces of debris I start with. Often I evoke or re-imagine the scene where decaying trash might be found (a field of red clover, a cluster of thistles). When I first began painting on metal, I was drawn to weeds and wildflowers. Now I find my self more open to letting the metal guide me," Moore says, "My recent works include birds, insects, cats and fish."
Moore hopes to take forgotten, decaying objects usually thought of as trash, and use them to make intriguing and soulful works of art that people would want to bring into their homes, offices or gardens. Gregory Moore is a contributor to New American Paintings issue 88, a national publication in bookstores through the month of August.
Fayetteville Underground
One East Center Street B-200
East side of the Fayetteville Square.
Fayetteville, AR
Gallery Hours W-F 12-7pm
Saturday 10-5
4 galleries / Artist Studios
www.fayettevilleunderground.com
This event was posted Aug. 4, 2010 and last updated Aug. 4, 2010
