The First Friday Agenda: April 2010

April, 02, 2010 , by David

In My Dreams André Leon Gray

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Spring is officially here and with it a huge crop of old and new works on exhibition across Raleigh. It’s an East vs West kind of night as we try to make up our minds where to start.

André Leon Gray is showing new works at Flanders. The young artist’s show is entitled “Figment of the Pigment” is work combining collage and sculpture to create totems and mounted friezes that reflect on the artists life and the state of race in our modern culture. The work is powerful and fresh in our local scene. As usual Flanders is a must see this month.

Lee Hansley has hosted a Joe Cox retrospective that closes mid April. Cox was an NCSU College of Design Professor who made the NCSU Library’s Color Wall. The shows proceeds go to benefit the Color Wall restoration.

Down the road, Pause Design hosts its second open house. The studio is made up of three artist/designers and will be showing work that exhibits a high level of craft in many media: “from residential furniture to lighting to sculpture to paintings.” With a talented roster, we are really excited to see what this new studio is producing.

antfarm returns after periodic eras of darkness. The show is an auction to raise money for the studio - to bring much needed updates to the space and support the artists working within it. Read more about the antfarm fundraiser.

Rebus Works hosts three Asheville artists firmly rooted in the low pop style. If Gabriel Schaffer’s mixed media collage above is any indication, the work will fit right in amongst their Raleigh contemporaries. Along with Schaffer, Alli Good and Julie Armbruster complete the set for a very in-the-moment show.

Catch Tim Kiernan’s fabulous Resident Tourist now on display in the window of the Urban Design Center. The video artist has been very productive lately and this piece has gotten rave first impressions. The work will be on display through May 20th.

The Morning Times hosts expressionist Jesse Green. Green is a Raleigh artist and a practicing Architectural Designer. Having studied art first and then a masters in Architecture at NCSU- His large works stray far from architecture though - abandoning iconography to create dynamic layered pieces that are large in format and represent temporal experience.

The Fish Market will host Open.End: Masters in Graphic Design Thesis Show, we couldn’t get any imagery for the show, but have great expectations. Lump has a whole host of typographer’s showing off type based imagery. Team Lump will be showing their latest collaboration at Stitch. Check that piece and many other shows in the full guide.

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