This Month’s First Friday - August 3rd 07

A BIG First Friday tonight for sure.  New Raleigh is proud to invite you to check out our new First Friday Map, a work in progress that is currently in alpha testing. Let us know how we can improve it. The map should help you figure out what you are doing tonight.  Below are the many shows that we will be trying to go to.  Hope to see you out, and if you have any tips drop them our way. 

People I think I know - Pat Fitzgerald

NC State University College of Design’s Art+Design Professor, Patrick FitzGerald, will be featured in a public exhibition at Rebus Works from August 3 through September 29. Wild multimedia illustrations with an avant garde flare- come see what Pat has been working on all summer in Prague. 

Opening reception:
First Friday, August 3, 6pm - 10pm

Summer Artist-in-Residence - Ann Marie Kennedy

Kennedy began her Artspace residency with the creation of a large-scale drawing. She views drawing as a way to explore ideas for her installations, as well as a direct form of image making and expression. The large-scale drawing executed in chalk on tar paper occupies nearly fifty feet, wrapping two walls of the gallery. In the past Kennedy has used an iconic house structure (basic gable front house) in her work. Using native and early American buildings as a point of departure, Kennedy explores the origins of that simple house structure, as well as investigates variations in forms of house styles. The end result is an inventory referencing various forms of shelters – and a glimpse into how different structures influenced others and evolved over time.

In addition to drawings on tar paper, Kennedy also created a house structure within the exhibition space. For Kennedy, temporal installations are the ideal format to explore ideas about memory, transience, and loss. The use of the house structure in Kennedy’s work may represent shelter and safety, but more importantly the structures often point to the memories held within the walls. The spaces themselves reveal a narrative of their own, from the history of buildings to more personal narratives created by the inhabitants. In this way, the structures become more like “homes.”

New Works by Don Crow - Design Box

Don Crow is currently a design teacher at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Trained as an oil painter in the 1970s, and influenced by the movements within abstraction from expressionism to minimalism, Crow has exhibited regionally for 30 years.  The pieces in this exhibition come from a new body of work, which continues his interest in the distinctions between art and design, in the languages of presentation and display, and in the viewer’s participatory act of (re)creating emotion and meaning.

Various Artists at FM Sounds

Tonight is Joe Williford of Complex Photography showing photos with Design by Mad Conscious and music by DJ Tommy L.

Morning Times Gallery: Emily Huffman is the artist, she is an abstract painter and a member of Bonded Llama.  (http://www.bondedllama.com)

Visual Art Exchange: (in City Market behind Greenshield’s) Tracy Spencer and other Artists

Artspace - Emily Cashhas

The Riviera - Andy Heymann’s new large paintings are on display

Seaboard Winery: Lee Wells (Bonded Llama artist) has new paintings on display.

After Parties

DJ Mooney and DJ Merlin turning tables at Mosquito

Tony’s Wine Bar in City Market for an artSPARK party- 9pm to 11pm.  Mingle, find out more about artSPARK, and SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES for ImageSlam!!