Arts Initiative Exhibits:
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Exhibit Dates: July 1 - August 31, 2011
Just Add Water
Custom Handcrafted Surfboards by Raffaele Paglia, Photographs by Bryan Doane, Paintings by Christina Quinn and Giant Origami Installation by Theo Cokkinos
Opening Reception: Friday, July 8, 2011, 6 - 8 pm
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UNC Student Artery exhibit Taking Shape displayed in old Hungate's space beside Cameron's, near Dillard's.
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 1 - 9 pm, Sunday, 1 - 5 pm. Video installations will be displayed Fridays and Saturdays.
Features work by 18 current and former student artists including site specific installation, sculpture, paintings and drawings. Click here to view Daily Tarheel Article published 7/8/2011.
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Blue Man
by Ruffin Hobbs
Located at the west end of the mall near Dillard's, this mobile is part of University Mall's Permanent Art Collection.
University Mall Corporate Collection
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Woman
by Ruffin Hobbs
University Mall Corporate Collection
Located at the east end of the mall near A Southern Season, this mobile is part of University Mall's Permanent Art Collection.
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Tent Lights at Spice Street
by Thomas Sayre
Thomas Sayre has designed and built public art projects all over the world and has been part of the design team for civic, educational, and museum buildings.
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Sculpture Visions through October 2011
Sculpture Visions is an outdoor art exhibit featuring a variety of styles, themes and media that is organized each year by the Town's Public Arts Office. University Mall is a proud host and sponsor of this exhibit which will be displayed through October 2011.
These sculptures are located at each entrance to University Mall.
Located at the main entrance to the south.
“Conic Section is carved in a beautiful piece of French Vert d’Estours marble that has fine green lines. The ellipse featured in the piece draws the viewer into the stone as the lines converge towards the circular cutout. The work is suspended on a piece of Alberene architectural soapstone from Virginia that has the original quarry marks on the front.” - Susan Moffatt
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Leaning Tower of Education Sean Pace, Asheville, NC
Located at the new NW entrance.
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Trinity Marvin Tadlock, Bristol, VA
Located at the new NE entrance.
“One of the fascinations in working in the sculptural medium is the act of balancing a work –making the visual balance and the physical balance work convincingly together. Kinetic sculpture adds another element to the mix, movement. “Trinity” is a wind-activated, self-righting, pivotal, type kinetic work. It has three, independently operating blades that move on knife-sharp edges in response to the slightest breeze. Seeing each of the blades respond differently to the wind invites the viewer to gaze just a few more moments, maybe attempting to determine some type of programmed order existent in the work –of which, there is none.” - Marvin Tadlock
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"Journey to a Different Landscape", Art by Local Refugee Students from Burma, opens May 13th at Cameron's in University Mall
"Journey to a Different Landscape" features art by local refugee students from Burma. Many of these students have spent much of their lives in refugee camps. Art is a shared language that helps children communicate, build friendship skills, and address issues of acculturation. The images reflect their cultures, landscapes, and symbols of war and peace.
This show is sponsored by the Art Therapy Institute (www.ncati.org). To find out more about this exhibit, click here.
A Photographic Journey as told by teen cancer survivors in Space A1 at University Mall.
Exhibit Dates: May 18 - May 22, 2011
Artists' Reception: Wednesday, May 18th from 6 - 8 pm
Free & open to public
To find out more about this exhibit, click here.
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Photo provided by University Mall, Briana Brough, Photographer. |
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Artist Residency and Exhibit - October 2010 - January 2011
Tireless Couture by Nancy Judd, creator of Recycle Runway
This outfit, created by artist Nancy Judd of Recycle Runway, is made entirely from trash or discards. The green structure garment underneath is created from discarded hotel sheets which have been dyed. The applied rubber pieces are from used inner tubes.
University Mall sponsored a week-long residency for Nancy Judd in October 2010. During her residency, she held workshops to educate students and adults about the importance of recycling for the environment and worked with workshop volunteers to complete this garment. Ms. Judd also acted as the juror for the 2010 Scrapel Hill Competition and Exhibit.
Tireless Couture will remain on display at University Mall through the end of January 2011 and will then be on display at Hartsford Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia through March 2012.
Click here to see where the touring garment, Tireless Couture is now!
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Acrylics & Collage
by Steven Silverleaf
This exhibit was on display through January - April 2011.
Pictured: Xylophone, acrylic & collage on canvas, 40" x 60"
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Sweet Life Illuminated ("Spoondelier") by Carter Hubbard
"In February of 2008, I began collecting the colorful, non-recyclable ( due to the type of plastic used) gelato spoons from Sugarland on East Franklin Street. Over the span of one year, I washed and counted nearly 37,000 pink, yellow, and blue spoons from two collec
tion buckets; one behind the counter and one in the salon area. The Sweet Life spoondelier is made up of over 7,000 spoons. They only came in three colors, pink, blue and yellow, so I put them together to create other color combinations. At a certain time of the day, the bright, natural light from the skylight descends down through the spoons illuminating the chandelier.
The spoon tower utilizes many more of the 37,000 spoons collected and offers a base for educational materials."
--Carter Hubbard
This is People's Choice Award Winner from the 2010 Scrapel Hill Art Contest and will be on display through mid-April 2011.
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New Abstracts by Eduardo Lapetina
May 1 - June 17, 2011
To find out more about Eduardo and his work, click here.
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Scrapel Hill III
Exhibit Dates: April 22 - June 25, 2011
Click here to view the online catalogue including artist statements and
the Juror's Statement by Peter Nisbet, Chief Curator of the Ackland Museum
at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Artist Residency: Muralist and Painter, Emily Weinstein
Durham Tech Community College 50th Anniversary Mural. Emily was granted an artist residency at University Mall so she could create her 60 foot by 10 foot mural for Durham Tech. Residency took place between April - June 2011.
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Through its Arts Initiative Program, University Mall supports artists, financially and otherwise, through visual and performing arts programming. By presenting approximately 100 performances and exhibiting works by over 75 artists each year, University Mall is regionally recognized as an arts destination and venue.
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