"A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression"
Paintings and Sculptures by David Bodhi Boylan
at Wabi Sabi Warehouse
Exhibition dates: December 5th-January 10th
Opening Reception: Friday, December 5th, 7-10pm
Dancing between painting, sculpture and performance art, David Bodhi Boylan 's "A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression" is a multifaceted exhibition coming to IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse.
David Bodhi Boylan's large paintings deal with the depressive nature of growing up in a small town in the United States. He works with images from memory, depicting the landscape of his childhood in upstate New York, as well as from his current small town home of Wilmington, NC. Boylan is also motivated by the second hand domestic goods he encounters through his work with Habitat for Humanity. "A Passive Aggressive Response to Depression" includes sculpture that resembles furniture and household items reconstructed with discarded materials such as garbage bags and photocopies. Unconventional materials and symbolic elements of design contribute to the breaking down of traditional boundaries between art and functional design. These works challenge us to redefine "furniture".
Please join us on Friday, December 5th, from 7-10pm, for a reception with the artist, and also tour the artist's studio, housed in Wabi Sabi Warehouse.
David Bodhi Boylan has been shown artwork in Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Cleveland, OH; and Quebec City, Quebec. He has recently returned from a month long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center. This is his first solo exhibition.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Recycled Regurgitations
at Wabi Sabi Warehouse
An exhibition of art created by John Goras
Exhibition dates:October 3-November 21
Opening reception: Friday, October 3rd, 7-10pm
John Goras is as prolific as Picasso, but with an anti-aesthetic. Beauty is not the measure here, instead its about invention, surprise, shock, and revulsion. Any available surface is up for grabs. From sheet linoleum to vinyl wallpaper samples, from old album covers to discarded packaging, he has decorated each with collage, painting, drawing, and sculptural relief. Goras' creations gather and project images in a language both ephemeral and sentimental. His fascination with thrown away toys, photos, pornography, menus, magazines, and movie posters, provides him with an endless palette of junk he can draw from again and again to synthesize his art. John Goras creates works from the debris of our cast off culture, instead of more traditional and lasting materials such as marble, bronze, or oil on canvas.
Overwhelming and relentless, his outrageous postcards have insulted letter carriers for nearly ten years. Postal workers have gone so far as to put the offending Goras creation in an opaque postal envelope before delivering it to a mailbox. The subject matter is often a revolting yet humorous look past the grave, into the things we are far too squeamish to embrace. He breaks the mirror, steps on the crack, spills the salt, and walks under the ladder, all with the hope of improving his luck. Goras' artwork stands out like bloodstains on a wedding dress. Brightly colored, controversial, and smartly designed, he produces a style that is instantly recognizable and impossible to counterfeit.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Celestial Complex 43
Bob Brown at the Cameron with the Endless Tower of Tires and the Glove Palapa. Photo by Christine Cox.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Art+Words=Collage
A summer camp for 7th and 8th grade girls taught by metalsmith Melisaa Manley. Make different artist books, alter books with paint and collage, and write our own poetry, and basically make cool mixed-media stuff! Wear your art clothes and bring a bag lunch. Afternoon snack provided. Class size is limited to 7 cool artsy girls! July 7-July 11, 9am-4pm, $100
Meissa Manley earned her BA in studio arts with a concentration in painting and printmaking from UNCW. She received her MFA in metal design at East Carolina University and currently teaches metals at Cape Fear Community College. Her work has been published in Making Personal Shrines, Somerset Studio magazine as well as metalsmithing books. She teaches mixed media workshops for adults annually at "Artfest" in Port Townsend, WA. Join Melissa and her daughter Meredith, and let's make stuff with paper, paint and words!
For more information or to register call 910-538-1246
melissa@melissamanleystudios.com
Camp will be held at IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse
19 North 9th Street
one block off Market Street near the Cape Fear Museum.
A summer camp for 7th and 8th grade girls taught by metalsmith Melisaa Manley. Make different artist books, alter books with paint and collage, and write our own poetry, and basically make cool mixed-media stuff! Wear your art clothes and bring a bag lunch. Afternoon snack provided. Class size is limited to 7 cool artsy girls! July 7-July 11, 9am-4pm, $100
Meissa Manley earned her BA in studio arts with a concentration in painting and printmaking from UNCW. She received her MFA in metal design at East Carolina University and currently teaches metals at Cape Fear Community College. Her work has been published in Making Personal Shrines, Somerset Studio magazine as well as metalsmithing books. She teaches mixed media workshops for adults annually at "Artfest" in Port Townsend, WA. Join Melissa and her daughter Meredith, and let's make stuff with paper, paint and words!
For more information or to register call 910-538-1246
melissa@melissamanleystudios.com
Camp will be held at IAC's Wabi Sabi Warehouse
19 North 9th Street
one block off Market Street near the Cape Fear Museum.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
'Mobile | art in motion
Submit work now for this juried exhibition. IAC is looking for sculptures having balanced units suspended in midair with parts moving this way and that. Jurors Sarah Tector, Michael Van Hout, and Susan Kranyik will select the works for this group exhibition at Wabi Sabi Warehouse. Artists may submit 4 images via email to: wabisabiwarehouse@gmail.com. Entry fee of $15 is payable by check or money order payable to: Independent Art Company, 19 North 9th Street, Wilmington, NC 28401.
Submission deadline: June 16, 2008
Exhibition dates: June 26-August 1, 2008
Selected artists will be notified by June 20.
Submit work now for this juried exhibition. IAC is looking for sculptures having balanced units suspended in midair with parts moving this way and that. Jurors Sarah Tector, Michael Van Hout, and Susan Kranyik will select the works for this group exhibition at Wabi Sabi Warehouse. Artists may submit 4 images via email to: wabisabiwarehouse@gmail.com. Entry fee of $15 is payable by check or money order payable to: Independent Art Company, 19 North 9th Street, Wilmington, NC 28401.
Submission deadline: June 16, 2008
Exhibition dates: June 26-August 1, 2008
Selected artists will be notified by June 20.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Dixon Stetler: Glove Palapa
Hoorah! The Palapa is finished. It took longer that I thought it would, which wasn't really that long anyway. I'm still on the fence about a bench. A little distance will provide clarity on the issue.
Inspired by the thatched roof palapas in Belize, the glove palapa provides shade. Palapas are everywhere down there. They are all the same basic construction, yet each one is a little different. I am a big fan of repetition and variety. As a thatched roof, the gloves maintain part of their original purpose of nurturing and protection against the elements.
Art supplies are everywhere! You don't need a kit from A.C. Moore to create. Canvas and paint cost way too much anyway. Rather than buy more stuff, I like to reuse some of the abundant materials I find in a few select dumpsters, in undisclosed locations. (Too bad it's illegal to find useful things in your neighbors trash!) Gloves are such a personal item, with meaning built right in. We've all had a pair.
We've all experienced the loss of one, or that moment when your finger finally pokes through and the original function of the glove ceases. It takes many to make it work. I have learned a great deal about "People Helping People" from Bob Brown. By giving an ordinary disposable object, this collaborative project becomes accessable to all. People who don't usually make art can participate without intimidation.
The stories told by glove donors were a very important part of the process, where and when and how. Many of the gloves were worn to special events or gifts from a loved one. I have great friends who dodge oncoming traffic to rescue gloves from busy intersections. Hockey gloves used as a dog toy, bee keeping gloves from a film set, and "my daughter's first gardening gloves" all became part of the palapa. Folks visit the palapa and identify their glove. They point and say "Oh! There's mine!" I hope they feel a sense of ownership in the piece. The real heroes of this project are the fine garbage men of Wilmington. They donated hundreds of their worn out gloves to the cause. They are very excited to visit this fruit of their labor, at all places, the Cameron Art Museum.
-posted by Dixon Stetler
Inspired by the thatched roof palapas in Belize, the glove palapa provides shade. Palapas are everywhere down there. They are all the same basic construction, yet each one is a little different. I am a big fan of repetition and variety. As a thatched roof, the gloves maintain part of their original purpose of nurturing and protection against the elements.
Art supplies are everywhere! You don't need a kit from A.C. Moore to create. Canvas and paint cost way too much anyway. Rather than buy more stuff, I like to reuse some of the abundant materials I find in a few select dumpsters, in undisclosed locations. (Too bad it's illegal to find useful things in your neighbors trash!) Gloves are such a personal item, with meaning built right in. We've all had a pair.
We've all experienced the loss of one, or that moment when your finger finally pokes through and the original function of the glove ceases. It takes many to make it work. I have learned a great deal about "People Helping People" from Bob Brown. By giving an ordinary disposable object, this collaborative project becomes accessable to all. People who don't usually make art can participate without intimidation.
The stories told by glove donors were a very important part of the process, where and when and how. Many of the gloves were worn to special events or gifts from a loved one. I have great friends who dodge oncoming traffic to rescue gloves from busy intersections. Hockey gloves used as a dog toy, bee keeping gloves from a film set, and "my daughter's first gardening gloves" all became part of the palapa. Folks visit the palapa and identify their glove. They point and say "Oh! There's mine!" I hope they feel a sense of ownership in the piece. The real heroes of this project are the fine garbage men of Wilmington. They donated hundreds of their worn out gloves to the cause. They are very excited to visit this fruit of their labor, at all places, the Cameron Art Museum.
-posted by Dixon Stetler
Monday, April 28, 2008
Birth Art Opening
You've all been there, in one way or another. A grapefruit being pushed through a lemon-sized opening. Buy have you seen it represented in art? Wabi Sabi Warehouse and Cape Fear Area Doulas invite you to an opening reception for "BIRTH", a juried exhibition honoring the miracle and mystery of birth.
Thursday, May 22, 6-9pm
Wabi Sabi Warehouse, 19 North 9th Street
Created through both male and female perspectives, works on display celebrate mothers, fathers, pregnancy and birth. "Birth" acknowledges the raw, homest and spontaneous, much like birth itself. This art exhibition includes works by local professionals in the birthing community, including: "Placenta Print," a pair of cement "Squattin' Stones" and a bright yellow knit "Lemon Vulva." Also among the 20 selected-artists are sculptor Paul Hill, metalsmith Kee Wilde-Ramsing, painter Abby Perry, photographer Arrow Ross, and filmmaker Bo Webb.
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