Ron Ward’s Dream Remembered
Jump off First Friday one night early with paintings, photographs, and an “exclusive opening-night multiple screen megamix juxtaposition of Yuxtapongo video and music.” Lincoln Hancock and Neill Prewitt of Yuxtapongo have also installed displays in the second floor cases. The main gallery will feature photographs by Ron Ward and paintings by Melissa Katherine as part of Tranlucence.
Translucence presents work that transforms light and figures into movement, color, and texture. From Ron Ward’s unaltered photographs of light to Melissa Katherine’s paintings of veiled figures, both bodies of artwork strive to capture a moment. Mr. Ward is motivated by the quest to visually recreate something that is dreamed. The products of this query are film-captured photographs of light, manipulated and blended by the artist. Ms. Katherine recreates, in paint, a memory, either using the “intensity” of a recalled gesture or the “subtlety of a whispered secret.” The resulting exhibition is rich in color, and ripe with both abstractions (Mr.Ward) and moments of clarity (Ms. Katherine).
The opening is tonight, August 6th, from 5 to 7 pm, otherwise the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. except on holidays. Miriam Preston Block Art Gallery is located on the first and second floors of the Upchurch Government Complex and is managed by the City of Raleigh Arts Commission
For more information, contact the Arts Commission office at 996-3610 or email Sarah Blackmon, gallery coordinator, at sarah.blackmon@ci.raleigh.nc.us.
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