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Making Meaning: Works from UNC Asheville Alumni
Making Meaning: Works from UNC Asheville Alumni
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Nov 16, 2019
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The inaugural exhibition of the John Cram Partner Gallery at the Center for Craft, Making Meaning, brings together fourteen UNC Asheville alumni whose work shifts perceptions of material, method and meaning, creating new vocabularies in clay, digital media, photography, printmaking, assemblage and textiles. Through interdisciplinary practice, rooted in their experiences within a liberal arts model, these artists present expanded possibilities for innovation.
Carley Brandau employs textiles to immerse us in swaths of language; Bobby Emrick’s renderings transport us to views of the world beneath our feet; George Etheredge’s photojournalism carries us into the lives of others; Leslie Frempong embraces absence in her digital photographs; Sally Garner weaves VHS tape, enveloping us in a new textile landscape;
D. Forest Gamble characterizes sound through 3D animation; Lillian Bayley Hoover’s paintings preserve spaces for a better future; Chas Llewellyn marries our “junk” with emerging technologies, inviting us to play; Tatiana Potts builds upon the architectural past and future through printmaking and folded paper reliefs; Hunter Stamps confronts us with perceptions of our bodies through the visceral manipulation of clay; Jason Watson's paintings, cut-outs and found objects present fragmented narratives, making new meaning from old archetypes; Clay and digital manipulation meet to build Kevin Watson’s carnal world; Matt West melds the organic and mechanical in hydroponic, living works of art.
Making Meaning looks towards the spaces where these artworks collide and converge, where the viewer is called to change their own perspective and embrace new material languages that create meaning and imagine futures.
Cover image: Land of the ___., 2018, Carley Brandau. Image courtesy of Jim Prinz.
Meet the artists
Faye Junaluska
Cherokee, NC
Lucille Lossiah
Ramon Lose
Cullowhee, NC
ᏯᏗ ᎺᏂ Betty Maney
Cherokee, NC
ᏗᎳᏂ Dylan Morgan
Cherokee, NC
ᎺᎵ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ Mary W. Thompson
ᏎᎳᏂ ᏔᎻᏏᏂ Sarah Thompson
Patricia Welch
Meet the artists
CRAFT RESEARCH TALK
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about the artists
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
Photo credit: Jamie Hopper
about the curator
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Curated by CFC Partner Gallery Faculty Advisory Committee, organized by UNC Asheville:
Suzanne Dittenber, Assistant Professor of Art
Lei Han, Professor of New Media
Jackson Martin Associate Professor of Art
Jonathan King Assistant Professor of Music
Dr. Leah Mathews, Professor of Economics
Lise Kloeppel, Associate Professor of Drama
Susan Reiser, Senior Lecturer and Special Assistant to the Provost
Dr. Leisa Rundquist, Professor of Art History and University Curator
Brent Skidmore Associate Professor of Art and Public Arts & Humanities Chair
Aram Han Sifuentes is a recipient of the Center for Craft’s 2022 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship. This substantial mid-career grant is awarded to two artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice.
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