Friday March 2nd, 2012
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A collaboration of two Wake County teachers/artist Tarrah Huff and Shawnda Rossi exhibit painting in acrylic and oils throughout March at Local Color Gallery. Cost: N/A
Venue Details »Exhibition Dates: March 2-March 3
Irregardless Cafe, Raleigh's authentic Cafe featuring live music every night of the week. March First Friday: Blue T Jazz ensemble featuring Fred & David Westbrook on Keyboard and Guitar with vocals. Paintings of Raleigh native Kyle Highsmith on the walls of the Cafe in pernament exhibition.
www.irregardless.com. Cost: Complementary Jazz Music while dining
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Art students at Apex High School are using their creativity to literally think “inside the box” to create an art installation for the PODS Art on the Inside project. Sponsored by PODS Moving & Storage of Greater Raleigh (PODS) and supported by Visual Art Exchange (VAE), the PODS Art on the Inside project challenges students to build an art installation inside a PODS storage container to be exhibited at the VAE as part of downtown Raleigh’s First Friday events on Friday, March 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. How It Works Apex High School received a PODS container delivered to campus one month prior to its PODS Art on the Inside First Friday exhibition date. During that month, the art students transformed the interior of the PODS container to create a unique art installation showcasing their artistic abilities and demonstrating the techniques they studied throughout the school year. Upon completion of the container art installation, the PODS container will be exhibited immediately outside the VAE for all to see. Complete PODS Art on the Inside Exhibition Schedule: - First Friday, March 2 from 6 to 9 p.m.; Apex High School students in Art IV and Sculpture & Ceramics II led by Visual Art Instructor Leatha Koefler - First Friday, April 6 from 6 to 9 p.m.; Garner Magnet High School students in International Baccalaureate Arts & Sculpture, Ceramics II and Art Club led by Instructors Ben Olin and Sam Kim - First Friday, May 4 from 6 to 9 p.m.; Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School students in Sculpture I and II, Independent Study and the National Art Honor Society led by Visual Art Instructor Jodi Aker - First Friday, June 1 from 6 to 9 p.m.; Sanderson High School students in Sculpture & Ceramics II and III, Visual Art IV, Visual Art IV Honors and AP Independent Study led by Visual Art Instructor Jeannette Stevenson Cost: Free
Venue Details »In "The Floral Reimagined", renowned Southern landscape painter Joseph Cave turns his full attention to floral still-lives and interiors. This exhibit of twelve new oils on canvas opens with two evenings of receptions on Thursday March 1st and First Friday, March 2nd, both from 6-9 pm.
Despite how the word "still-life" sounds, there is nothing still about Joseph Cave's paintings. The artist starts with the simplest of ideas, placing a bouquet of flowers in a jar or vase, and painting what he sees. But in each work we see amazing flights of fancy as patterns of tablecloths and shadows on the wall all compete with the flowers themselves for the viewer's attention. This controlled chaos moves the viewer's eye around the canvas of which there is not one square inch lacking in visual interest. Gone is the traditional subject and background we are used to. The resulting paintings seem more alive than the flowers that they depict.
Joseph Cave has been painting professionally for almost fifty years. Born in Columbia, SC, the artist attended the University of Georgia followed by the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. Following his MFA he spent years in Northern California, as well as Europe, returning to the South in the late 80's. Joseph settled in Durham and now resides in the mountains near Asheville. His paintings can be found in many public and private collections including SAS, Duke Medical Center, and the North Carolina Museum of Art.
"The Floral Reimagined" will be on exhibit through April 14th at Adam Cave Fine Art. Cost: free
Venue Details »Exhibition Dates: January 21-March 3
(Visual Art/ Art Installation)
Location: Artspace, Gallery 1
Jarod Charzewski’s site-specific installations examine landscapes and people, man-made structures among nature, and the sometimes static, often fluid designs that rise from dual environments. What Land Will Take is constructed from several tons of borrowed garments (from local thrift stores) and reflects nature’s response to man and mankind’s impact on the land. The artist views his installations as a lens through which to see our world.
Charzewski grew up in the inner city of Winnipeg where the attitudes and esthetics of an urban setting took hold. He also spent time on a family farm in rural Manitoba. This combination of surroundings is where he gained appreciation for natural and manufactured landscapes. He fuels his art with visuals of seasons; Prairie landscapes and recreates aesthetics that investigate mankind’s evolving influence. Artistically he uses these sensations to release ethereality in site-specific experiences. Cost: free
