It isn’t often that Raleigh gets internationally acclaimed painters that are still producing work to exhibit downtown. Tonight ArtSpace hosts Herb Jackson, Raleigh’s own native son, now the director of Art at Davidson College in a massive retrospective that was shown this fall in Charlotte. Veronica’s Veils is a massive 20 odd year series in which the abstract painter explores the depths of his own mind.
Jason Whitman presents Art Monsters at Morning Times, a show featuring Jason’s plaster monster forms altered by a slew of local and regional artists. Jason says, “The main idea is to see how may ideas can be generated from one form, in this case, a very basic monster. Whenever I put together collaborative shows, I’m trying to remind people of their creative abilities or let others realize they have it inside them.”
Momentum, by Matt McConnell of McConnell Studios, will be on exhibition at Design Box. McConnell says this assemblage “studies motion, force, and time. I have integrated geometric arrays and transformations into forms that reflect elements in nature and the systems that impact those elements, using materials including steel, glass, acrylic, ice, and light.”
NYC artist Becca Albee presents Beauty Tips at Lump.
Spectrumed at Flanders Art Gallery in Seaboard will feature works by Torkwase Dyson, André Leon Gray, Morolake Odeleye, and Fahamu Pecou. Each artist has addressed the theme of “social influences on and against today’s global political climate.”
Jonathon Kimbrell pays homage to classic comic books with Come Super Tuesday at Flanders 311. Marvel and DC superheroes are pitted against one another in Kimbrell’s take on the political process.
Rebus Works will have music by Danny Vaughn of Noncannon to accompany the Abie Harris exhibit, Structure + Color. Matt Sesow, Gabriel Shaffer, and Nick Spohrer will have new works on paper displayed as well.
The Fishmarket will host its annual Art + Design senior show. Generally, this is one of the better shows of the semester as it displays the culmination of these students time at the NCSU College of Design.
Nathaniel Hester will display his “veritable zoo of abstract silkscreen animal portraits” in Animal Farm at Adam Cave Fine Art.
Visual Art Exchange presents Scope: The North Carolina Landscape, juried by the Director of the Fayetteville Museum of Art, Tom Grubb. VAE also will unveil its Exchange Bin Project, in which students from Raleigh’s Mary Phillips High School and Longview High and Middle School collaborated with Raleigh artist Andre Leon Gray and VAE staff to paint murals on trash bins in City Market.
Additionally, VAE has sponsored a showing of Jedidiah Gant’s Formotion Films beginning at 7pm at The Edge Office, located at 400 Glenwood. The screening is dubbed Lather, Rinse, Repeat and aims to expose the layers of America’s over indulgent culture through previously used materials. Here is a sneak peek of Lather, Rinse, Repeat :
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