Fine Contemporary Craft

Gallery One
December 6 – February 1

This biennial national exhibition is a celebration of the spirit of tradition and innovation found throughout contemporary craft in the United States. Juried by Mia Hall, Executive Director of Penland School of Craft.

Coulter Fussell + Antonia Perez
Heirloom

Gallery Two
November 1 – December 28

Alabama-based quilter, Coulter Fussell and New York-based mixed media artist, Antonia Perez explore the notion of the heirloom through textile based techniques. Fussell applies a modernist aesthetic to traditional Southern quilting and dying techniques. Perez,  crochets monumental scale objects out of plastic bags. Both artists push the boundary of tradition and innovation to redefine what an heirloom can be.

Jasmine Best, Laura Little, Aaron McIntosh + Renzo Ortega
Dirty South

Gallery One
October 4 – November 30

This group exhibition explores aspects of Southern identity and experience that exist in the shadow of the stereotypical “South.” Using various lenses to explore Southern identity including, Queer culture, mestizaje, kitsch, and blackness, these artists present a rich and messy look at contemporary Southern life.

Andrew Kozlowski
Dark Days

Gallery Two
September 6 – October 26

Andrew Kozlowski’s large scale installation of brightly-colored printed objects points to the material culture in which we live. The exhibition will close with a papermaking workshop.

Nicole Simpkins, Summer Artist in Residence
Giving What Takes

Gallery One
August 2 – September 28

The 2019 Summer Artist-in-Residence, Nicole Simpkins, used her month-long residency to create imagery of invasive plant species found in North Carolina as a visual metaphor of the gentrification that is choking out existing communities around us. Simpkins used drawing and printmaking techniques to create a site specific, interactive environment.

Lien Truong
The Sky is Not Sacred

Gallery One
April 19 – June 22

Through painting, video, and sound, Lien Truong explores ideas of perception as they relate to landscape and war.

Michela Maretllo
Consequential Stranger

Gallery Two
April 12 – June 1, 2019

Michela Martello’s illustrative works are humanistic, accessible, and consistently characterized by her use of symbolism. A perpetually curious and interdisciplinary artist, she brings together the traditional and contemporary influences of a variety of techniques, media, themes, and cultures to create art that crosses cultural boundaries and merges varying visual languages.

Mariam Stephan
In the arches, we cave

Gallery One
February 15 – April 6, 2019

Mariam Stephan’s painted worlds explore uncertainty and hardship. Her work explores a space of physical and psychological upheaval related to her multi-cultural identity.

National Print Invitational
Curated by Bill Fick + Judy Jones

Gallery Two
February 1 – April 6, 2019

Printmaking remains one of the most relevant visual art forms practiced today. This exhibition celebrates the astonishing technical breadth of the field, its deep history, perpetual innovation,  and unique ability to communicate prescient social and political ideas. Complimentary programming will add additional layers of interest and engagement for visitors.

Dane Winkler
Brain Janitor

Gallery One
December 7, 2018 – February 2, 2019

The sculptures in Brain Janitor illicit humor, disgust, attraction, confusion, wonder and loss. Artist Dane Winkler creates an emotional experience for the viewer through the manipulation of familiar objects.

Blaise Tobia
Material Matters

Gallery Two
November 30, 2018 – January 26, 2019

Tobia uses digital photographic techniques to create a variety of artistic works. These may be paired images or assembled multi-image pieces. He distorts his subjects through saturated color and monumental scale, prompting the viewer to question the banal materials of daily life.

Artspace Collectors Gala
Live Auction

Gallery One
November 2 – 17

The Artspace Gala is an evening of fine art, food and fun to benefit Artspace and the Triangle arts community! Guests are invited to bid on artwork in the Live and Silent Auctions while enjoying elegant small plates and cocktails.

Artspace Collectors Gala
Silent Auction

Gallery Two
November 2 – 17

The Artspace Gala is an evening of fine art, food and fun to benefit Artspace and the Triangle arts community! Guests are invited to bid on artwork in the Live and Silent Auctions while enjoying elegant small plates and cocktails.

Lydia McCarthy
Food of the Gods

Gallery One
September 2 – October 27

The American psychonaut, Terence McKenna, claimed in his seminal text Food of the Gods that ‘Eleusis was a cult of plant-induced group psychedelic ecstasy.’ The veiled, highly secretive Elefsinian Mysteries have been the subject of much speculation, with psychedelic enthusiasts theorizing that the coveted brew, kykeon, was chemically related to LSD or magic mushrooms. During a month-long residency in Athens, Greece, Lydia McCarthy made a series of psychedelic portrait, still life and landscape photographs inspired by the Mysteries. Installed at Artspace, wallpaper, photographs and lamps become an ultimate homage to Persephone–queen of death, the underworld and the shadow realm.

Jennifer Davis
Strange New World

Gallery Two
September 2 – October 27

Welcome to the strange new world of artist, Jennifer Davis. Each of the forty paintings displayed functions as a portal into the imagination of the artist. The bright palette, limited scale, and clean graphic style of Davis’ images, work to create a sense of cohesion and order within the bizarre and varied subjects she creates.

Dana Lynn Harper | Summer Artist in Residence
Cosmic Glimmer

Gallery One
Residency: July 1 – 31 | Exhibition: August 3 – 25

Through her large scale-installation, artist Dana Lynn Harper offers a respite from the difficulties of day-to-day life. Using metallic Mylar pom-poms en mass, she creates a glittering serpentine escape that transforms the gallery into an other worldly space. 

FRESH

Gallery One
May 18 – June 29

FRESH is an exhibition of new works by NC artists. The show demystifies the process of making an exhibition and provides NC artists with an opportunity to show their work.

Trish Brownlee, Alicia Dietz + Folleh Tamba
Art of War

Gallery One
March 16 – May 12

Art of War explores the nuanced and complex realities of contemporary military life through video, photography and sculpture.

Sherrill Roland
artfor(us)

Gallery Two
April 20 – May 12

In collaboration with the Black on Black Project, Artspace presents new work by Sherrill Roland. Best known for his Jumpsuit Project, in which Roland enters museum and gallery spaces in his former prison jumpsuit, this work represents a departure into object-based art making. Roland collages and paints issues of Art Forum magazine that he collected while in prison, exposing the disparities in the fine art world and the American prison system.

Tyler Starr
Redress Papers

Gallery Two
March 2 – April 14

Tyler Starr creates mixed media works on paper to visualize unresolved issues of civil rights. The works are based on extensive investigation of primary documents relating to unsolved Civil Rights era murders. 

Triangle Book Arts Group
Re(f)use

Gallery One
January 26 – March 3

For Re(f)use, Triangle Book Arts members created work using primarily recycled or repurposed materials. This ‘upcycling’ of both content and form challenges the idea of the traditional book form and encourages the audience to ask  ‘What object, once repurposed, might have a new story to tell?’

Ambiorix Santos
Waves of Circles

Gallery Two
February 2 – 24

Combining his professional training as a painter with his interest in found materials, Dominican artist, Ambiorix Santos explores the beauty contained within the refuse of our culture. This series of work integrates lights to create an element of wonder and transformation for visitors to the gallery.

Character Space

Gallery Two
December 1, 2017 – January 27, 2018

This exhibition provides viewers with a contemplative experience through the exploration of visual spaces created by text in the work of artists Scott Hazard and Stephanie Strange.  Both artists create moments of meditation in their work through the use of repetition, negative space and undulating forms. 

Fine Contemporary Craft

Gallery One
December 1, 2017 – January 13, 2018

Showcasing the latest in contemporary craft. Exhibition and awards juried by Roger Manley, Director of the Gregg Museum of Art + Design. 

Collectors Gala
Silent Auction

Gallery One
November 3 – 18, 2017

Silent auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members and community artists. 

Collectors Gala
Live Auction

Gallery Two
November 3 – 18, 2017

Live auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members and community artists. 

Leigh Suggs + Garry Noland
Hyperactive

Gallery One
September 1 – October 27, 2017

Saturated color palettes and tedious techniques impart an intense optic energy to the work of artists Leigh Suggs and Garry Noland. Combining found materials such as cardboard, bubble wrap and tape, LA and Kansas City-based artist, Noland enlivens the detritus of daily life. Richmond-based artist, Suggs transforms large sheets of paper into pulsating visual worlds through intricate designs that are cut and woven into the surface.

Celia Johnson + Donald Martiny
Juxtaposition

Gallery Two
September 1 – October 27, 2017

Husband and wife artists, Celia Johnson and Donald Martiny presented visually distinct bodies of work that push the limits of their painting mediums. Working with encaustic on panel, Johnson creates seamless color forms whose flat sheen gives little clue to her technical process. Martiny’s monumental brushstroke paintings are created through an innovative process which transforms acrylic paint into sculptural forms. Both artists posses a keen eye for color and a love of paint.

David Politzer, Summer Artist in Residence
Harry Fenn is in the Bathroom Again

Gallery One
July 3 – August 26, 2017

During his month-long residency, David Politzer transformed the space with painted walls, a giant mustache, photo set-ups, and natural elements such as tree branches. He explored the question “Can an artist truly capture the awe and wonder of a place of great beauty?” as he visited the sites his great-great-grandfather Harry Fenn had explored and etched.

Artspace Artists in Residence
30th Anniversary Residency Retrospective

Gallery One
May 19 – June 24, 2017

This invitational exhibition was a celebration of the artists who have been involved in Artspace’s residency programs over the last two decades. These artists, both local and national represent the spirit of innovation through creativity that has come to define our residency programs.

Artspace Artist Members
30th Anniversary Artist Retrospective Juried Exhibition

Gallery Two
April 21 – June 3, 2017

This juried exhibition featured artwork by current and former Artspace artist members and was juried by Annah Lee, Director of Artistic Programs and Lia Newman, the Director and Curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson.

Lauren Kalman
But if the Crime is Beautiful…

Gallery One
March 25 – May 13, 2017

Through the use of iconic mid-century furniture, gilded embellishments, and surreal nude imagery, Kalman challenged the misogynist vision of women in art and presented a defiant body of work that was at once beautiful and grotesque.

Jessica Dupuis, Karen Hillier & Sarah Malakoff
Holding On

Gallery Two
March 3 – April 15, 2017

Through photography, embroidery and ceramics, the artists of Holding On explored the ways that personal objects function as portraits, family histories and memorials.

Gail Biederman, Chad Erpelding & Travis Head
Location Known

Gallery One
February 3 – March 18, 2017

In Location Known, Biederman, Erpelding, and Head explored the ideas of globalization, popular culture and identity through the process of mapping in their sculpture, drawing and mixed media works.

Greg McLemore & Barbara Campbell Thomas
About Place

Gallery Two
January 20 – February 25, 2017

About Place featured work by painters Greg McLemore and Barbara Campbell Thomas.  Both artists are interested in capturing the essence of place through paint and explored this theme with their work in this exhibition.

Charles Williams

Lost + Found

Gallery One
December 2 , 2016- January 21, 2017

After a near-death experience in the water, artist, Charles Williams became fascinated with the emotional and physical power of the natural world. Through large-scale paintings of the ocean, self portraits, and video work, Williams explored in this exhibition the fear and awe he experienced as a child being swept up in an ocean current, and the freedom he has earned in overcoming that fear.

Angela Eastman & Sonja Hinrichsen

Traces

Gallery Two
December 2 , 2016- January 14, 2017

Throughout history, human interactions with the natural environment are too often defined by destruction and displacement. Angela Eastman and Sonja Hinrichsen explored in Traces the more nuanced ways that landscape is capable of being both transformed and transformative.

Collectors Gala

Live Auction

Gallery One
November 4 – 19, 2016

We kicked off our 30th Anniversary Celebration at the Collectors Gala with an art-filled evening celebrating Artspace and the Triangle Arts Community. Proceeds from the Collectors Gala benefited the Artspace Inspiration Fund, providing our community with opportunities to experience the creative process and engage with artists. 

Collectors Gala

Silent Auction

Gallery Two
November 4 – 19, 2016

We kicked off our 30th Anniversary Celebration at the Collectors Gala with an art-filled evening celebrating Artspace and the Triangle Arts Community. Proceeds from the Collectors Gala benefited the Artspace Inspiration Fund, providing our community with opportunities to experience the creative process and engage with artists. 

Freecell: Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, Tak Cheung, Sam McBride, Gia Wolff

Light & Air

Gallery One
September 24 – October 29, 2016

Artists Lauren Crahan, John Hartmann, Tak Cheung, Sam McBride and Gia Wolff of Brooklyn-Based Freecell Architecture created a site-specific architectural installation. These artists are known for their ability to shift our understanding of physical space and to encourage a more open and imaginative understanding of the world around us.  

Titus Brooks Heagins
Rorschach

Gallery Two
September 2 – October 29, 2016 

This exhibition showcased Heagins’ body of work Rorschach in which the artist takes stripped down portraits of people in his own community as a means of transforming cultural norms of beauty.

Andrew Hladky, Summer Artist in Residence
Its Some Kynd of Thing It Aint Us But Yet Its In Us

Gallery One
June 29 – September 10, 2016
During his month-long residency, Andrew Hladky created a series of paintings in his distinctive additive style, fusing everyday household objects, such as toothpicks and cocktail sticks, with thick layers of oil paint to create intricate, undulating surfaces that push the boundaries of painting and sculpture. 

Lincoln Hancock
Flag

FLIGHT at 17 E Martin St, Raleigh
July 1 – September 10, 2016
FLAG was a site-specific, interactive installation designed to invite a participatory response to the state’s politics.

FRESH
New Works By North Carolina Artists

Gallery One
May 19 – June 25, 2016
Fresh was an open call exhibition that set out to demystify the process for the public about what goes into the making of an exhibition. 

FRESH
New Works By North Carolina Artists

Gallery Two
May 19 – 28, 2016
Fresh was an open call exhibition that set out to demystify the process for the public about what goes into the making of an exhibition. 

Carolyn Janssen & Jillian Mayer
Strangers in Paradise

Gallery One
March 26 – May 7, 2016
Strangers in Paradise featured a combination of video and installation pieces that tackled questions of identity, place, and what authenticity means in an increasingly digitized world. 

Artspace Teaching Artist
Showcase

Gallery Two
April 1 – May 7, 2016
Presenting the work of the Summer Arts Program instructors, the Artspace Teaching Artist Showcase displayed the varied talent that comes together to make Artspace’s programming possible. 

Robert Otto Epstein, Margi Weir & David Curcio
Americana: Textile History as Muse

Gallery Two
February 5 – March 26, 2016
This group exhibition featured work that challenged the connection between artist and product and preconceived notions about gender roles in art. 

American Tapestry Alliance
Small Tapestry International

Gallery One
January 23 – March 5, 2016
An exhibition featuring the work of tapestry artists from around the world with works not exceeding 12″ in any direction. 

Rachel Campbell, Judith Condon, and Jane Paradise
Carpe Diem

Gallery Two
December 4, 2015 – January 23, 2016
Carpe Diem presented the work of three artists, each working in three different mediums, who express the many feelings associated with growing old. 

Michelle Podgorski & Leah Smith
Forest For The Trees

Gallery One
December 4, 2015 – January 9, 2016
Smith and Podgorski’s installation of sculptural and watercolor works, respectively, highlights the sometimes strained relationship between humans and nature. 

Collectors Gala
Silent Auction

Gallery One
November 6 – 21, 2015
Silent auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members. 

Collectors Gala
Live Auction

Gallery Two
November 6 – 21, 2015
Live auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members. 

MaryKate Maher + Laura Moriarty
Geometric Geologic

Gallery One
September 19 – October 31, 2015
Geometric Geologic exhibited the mixed media sculptural works of MaryKate Maher + Laura Moriarty. 

Expanding the Constellation
Elsewhere at Artspace

Gallery Two
September 4 – October 24, 2015
Expanding the Constellation presented seven artists who had completed residencies through Elsewhere Museum’s Southern Constellations project. 

Amy Marie Masters
The Gatlinburg Special

Gallery One
June 29 – September 5, 2015
During her month-long residency, Amy Marie Masters created a life-size, fiber putt-putt course based on her experiences in Gatlinburg, TN. 

FRESH: An Exhibition of New Work by North Carolina Artists

Gallery One
June 5-26, 2015
FRESH: An Exhibition of New Work by North Carolina Artists exhibited, through a series of openings and events, the latest artwork from artists working in North Carolina, as well as the processes involved in a juried exhibition. 

Karen Bell, Andrea Frank, Robin Germany, Lori Kella, Traer Scott, Millee Tibbs,
Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature

Gallery Two
March 28, 2015 – May 23, 2015
In Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature, each of the artists grapple, through painting, photography, and site-specific installations, with the complexities inherent in human interactions with the natural world.
  

Elisabeth Applbaum, Derek Cote, Gayle Stott Lowry, Jackson Martin
Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature

Gallery One
April 3, 2015 – May 16, 2015
A continuation of the exhibition in Gallery Two, Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature featured artists that grapple, through painting, photography, and site-specific installations, with the complexities inherent in human interactions with the natural world.
  

Marty Baird & Malu Fatorelli
Raleigh/Rio: An Artistic Conversation

Gallery One
January 31, 2015 – March 14, 2015
Raleigh/Rio: An Artistic Conversation showed the collaborative work of Raleigh-based artist Marty Baird and Rio de Janeiro-based artist Malu Fatorelli. The installations addressed the effects time and distance can have on a relationship.
  

Raul Gonzales III
Adventures in Drawing

Gallery Two
February 6, 2015 – March 21, 2015
Adventures in Drawing featured drawings from the graphic novel Lowriders in Space, select works of fine art created since 2011, and a mural Gonzalez painted on the wall connecting Artspace to Raleigh’s historic City Market.  

Threads of War
Guest Curated by Betsy Greer

Gallery Two
December 5, 2014 – January 31, 2015
Threads of war, guest curated by Betsy Greer, author of Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism, featured work created by artists from around the world that communicates the realities of war. 

Fine Contemporary Craft of the Southeast
Juried by Stefanie Gerber Darr

Gallery One
December 5, 2014 – January 17, 2014
A biennial exhibition, Fine Contemporary Craft of the Southeast featured the work of artists and craftspeople originating from the Southeastern US. 

Collectors Gala
Silent Auction

Gallery One
November 1 – 27, 2014
Silent auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members. 

Collectors Gala
Live Auction

Gallery Two
November 1 – 27, 2014
Live auction of artwork donated by Artspace artist members. 

Mark Brown
October Red

Gallery One
September 13 – November 1, 2014
Mark Brown’s reductive paintings “pay attention to the properties of paint, the uncertainty of risk and insistence on the work of the hand.”  

Lea Colie Wight & Laura Heyman
Render

Gallery Two
September 5 – November 1, 2014
Brought together, the artwork of photographer Laura Heyman and painter Lea Colie Wight offers two distinctive, contemporary views on why rendering the human form—particularly the female form—continues to command our attention.  

Leslie Vigeant
Self Digestion

Gallery One
August 1-September 6, 2014
Working with watercolors, Vigeant’s focus lies in creating images that reflect the human ego and figurative energy.  

Artspace Summer Arts Program Classroom

Gallery Two
June 16-August 15, 2014 

Jane Fox Hipple
Hamartia

Gallery One
May 2-June 28, 2014
Hamartia, named for one of her works in progress, pinpoints Hipple’s strategy of, in her words, “describing the vulnerability of lived experience.”  

THE HEALING BLUES project & TEEF
Telling Stories

Gallery Two
June 6, 2014
Artspace teamed with the Open Art Society to host “Telling Stories,” which featured two local art-making initiatives.  

Courtney McCracken & Tracy Spencer-Stonestreet
Redefining Ritual

Gallery Two
April 4-May 31, 2014
Artists Courtney McCracken and Tracy Spencer-Stonestreet ask what it means to both inherit and make traditional expectations of home and femininity your own in the 21^st century, sometimes visualizing as a literal burden or entanglement.

Artspace Artists Association
New Works

Gallery One
March 15-April 19, 2014
Juror: Tom Braswell, Interim Gallery Director, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University

Orna Feinstein & Jeanne Heifetz
Trajectories

Gallery Two
February 7-March 29, 2014
Feinstein’s sculptural monotypes are influenced by natural structures and geometry, like those found in tree rings and cells. Jeanne Heifetz’s work is inspired by the natural geometry of soap bubbles and the man-made geometry of cultivated fields. 

Alma Leiva
Celdas

Gallery One
January 25-March 7, 2014
In Celdas, meaning “prisons” in Spanish, Leiva constructed, photographed and captured videos of interior environments that allude to the accumulated, generational fear experienced by residents of Central American countries, including Honduras, due to ongoing drug and gang violence. 

Angela Piehl & Crystal Wagner
Flirting with Abundance

Gallery Two
December 6, 2013-January 25, 2014
Angela Piehl showed her black and white drawings that speak to our contemporary state of admiring luxury, accumulating objects and being alienated from nature. Crystal Wagner built a unique site-specific installation using relief print, screen-print, cut paper, and birthday party tablecloths.  

Mary Ann Anderson, Linda Ruth Dickinson, Susan Martin
East/West

Three Person Biennial Exhibition
Artspace Artists Association
Juried by Jennifer Dasal, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, NCMA
Gallery One
December 6, 2013-January 11, 2014 

Collectors Gala
Silent Auction Artwork

Gallery One
November 15-23, 2013 

Collectors Gala
Live Auction Artwork

Gallery Two
November 1-23, 2013 

Ray Duffey & Becky Joye
Thought Maps & Ladders

Gallery One
September 14-November 9, 2013 

Natalie Abrams, Cynthia Camlin, & Mi-Sook Hur
Dear Nature

Gallery Two
September 6-October 26, 2013 

Maureen Cummins
Summer Artist-in-Residence
Accounts

Gallery One
Residency: July 3 -August 1, 2013
Exhibition: August 2-September 7, 2013

Summer Arts Program
Youth Exhibition

Gallery Two
August 20 – 24, 2013 

Joomi Chung
Surfaces

Gallery One
May 3 – June 29, 2013 

Ira Upin
Strong Man

Gallery Two
April 5 – May 25, 2013 

Artspace Artists Association Annual Juried Exhibition
New Works
Juror: Mary Cook

Gallery One
March 16- April 27, 2013 

Former Regional Emerging Artists-in-Residence
Looking Back III

Gallery Two
February 1 – March 30, 2013 

Margaux Crump
Strange Chemistry 

Gallery One
February 1 – March 9, 2013 

National Juried Biennial Exhibition
Fine Contemporary Craft

Gallery One
December 7, 2012 – January 12, 2013

Chris Watts
New Works

Gallery Two
December 7, 2012 – January 26, 2013

Frank Poor
Traces

Gallery One
October 5 – November 10, 2012

Joelle Dietrick & David H. Wells
Underwater: Interpreting the Foreclosure Crisis

Gallery Two
September 7 – October 27, 2012

Jonathan Brilliant
To Weave. To Stack. To Stain.

Gallery One
July 2 – September 22, 2012

Artspace Summer Arts Program
Youth Exhibition

Gallery Two
August 14 -18, 2012

Stephanie Liner
Momentos of a Doomed Construct

Gallery One
May 4 – June 30, 2012

Chris Hondros
A Retrospective

Gallery Two
April 6 – June 2, 2012

Artspace Artists Association
New Works Exhibition

Juror: David J. Brown

Gallery One
March 10 – April 28, 2012

Amy Gross & Barry Sparkman
Microcosms/Macrocosms

Gallery Two
February 3 – March 31, 2012

Jarod Charzewski
What Land Will Take

Gallery One
January 21 – March 3, 2012

Cynthia Farnell
Presence

Gallery Two
December 2, 2011 – January 28, 2012

Artspace Artists Association Biennial Exhibition
Marked

featuring Kiki Farish, Carolyn Nelson, and Lisa Stroud
Gallery One
November 19, 2011 – January 14, 2012

Lauren Schiller, Jane Terry, & Susan Watson Memory, Myth, & Meaning

Gallery Two
September 17 – October 29, 2011