21c MUSEUM HOTEL
PORTRAYING POWER AND IDENTITY:
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Pay a visit to the 21c Museum Hotel as it presents Portraying Power and Identity: A Global Perspective, a group exhibition. Featuring forty different artists, the exhibition reflects a cross between contemporary portraiture and depictions of social, cultural, and political power. Including sculpture, painting, photography, works on paper, video, and installation, Portraying Power and Identity illustrates the complexity of human experience from a selection of artists from around the world.
Key features of the exhibition include the works of Nandipha Mntambo, who uses casts of her own body to create the three cowhide torsos that comprise Ode to the Silence, which resemble in form and color the classical Winged Victory of Samothrace (200 – 190 BCE), transforming the noble figure of heroism into a contemporary vision of female strength.
Works by Cuban-American artist Anthony Goicolea are also included. Goicolea is known for his photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptural installations, and films that explore themes surrounding identity, migration, and transition, as well as assimilation and group dynamics. He utilizes the architecture of the human body and constructed landscapes to create worlds predicated on fantasy but based in reality. In 2017, Goicolea was awarded a commission to create a memorial to New York’s LGBTQ community; his transformative, site-specific installation honoring all victims of hate, intolerance, and violence was recently unveiled in Hudson Park. Set to continue through March, this exhibition is free and open to the public. Photos courtesy of 21c Museum Hotels
CRAVEN ALLEN GALLERY
BEVERLY McIVER:
EYES WIDE SHUT
Craven Allen Gallery will be extending its Beverly McIver: Eyes Wide Shut exhibition through February 23. As a winner of the Rome Prize, nationally known painter Beverly McIver left behind her hectic schedule of teaching at Duke University and the full-time caregiving of her family to spend a year painting – a true luxury for the artist.
“Italy – outwardly spectacular,with its mysterious quality oflight – gave me the gift of being able to hear my inner voice loud and clear,” McIver says. Since returning from Rome,McIver has been “fascinated with those who courageously share their authentic selves with the world. I continue to create portraits of white males in blackface, black women in body paint, and men who dress in drag. Iremain intrigued by mask, dress up, and how we as humans choose to define ourselves. I hope these new paintings inspire others who may need permission to be their authentic self.”
It was during her year spent at the American Academy in Rome that McIver was inspired.“I was able to silence all the voices in my head that tell me what to do or what might sell. I allowed my intuition to guide my choices of who and what to paint. In most of the portraits I created, my subject’s eyes are either closed or covered by sunglasses. But Irealized the closed eyes were not a refusalto see, but a turning inward, an experience of centeredness.”Herwork can be seen in numerous museums and collections across the country, alongwith herimpressive agenda of awards, scholarships, educational acquirements, and services.
ARTSOURCE
EMERGING ARTISTS EXHIBITION
Visit ArtSource on March 7 as it opens its doors for an exhibition featuring four emerging artists from the Southeast. ArtSource has proudly sold works from each of these artists to collectors and designers alike. Perfect for spring, each featured artist is tied to similar themes blooming with freshness and joy.
Gina Cochran, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, works in mental health counseling by day and provides inspirations to her art by night. You can depict themes of behaviorresponses and reactions in her paintings. Emily Anne Farrell, of Raleigh, is inspired by shapes, lines, and space. Happiness and tranquility beam from her abstract pieces. Anna Vaughn Kincheloe, also of Raleigh, is a traveler by nature. With an adventurous spirit and themes of energy, color and movement are brought to life in herlandscapes of land and seas. Last but not least, Adele Yonchak, of Charlotte, has a mild spirit, bringing to life scenes of solitude in her acrylic paintings.
Stop in to meet and support these local emerging artists and appreciate their most recent pieces.