On view: March 16th-24th, 2023Reception: Friday, March 24th, 4-5pm The artist with their painting, Inner-Child Laura Bullock (she/they) is pursuing a BA in Studio Art with a Gender and Sexuality Studies minor at Davidson College, NC. In their large-scale oil paintings, pastel drawings, and prints Bullock depicts personal hardship in a playful tone through interactions between self-portraits, idiosyncratic animals, and lively grounds. They received the Douglas Houchens Studio Art award (2022) and an Abernathy Endowment Grant sponsoring artistic research in Southern California (2022). Artist Statement: In my search for a romantic relationship, I have often encountered poor communicators, non-committal flight risks,...
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Sandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)Maybe Babies, 1983Dye transfer print30 x 37 inGift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995 Taking a first glance at this strange image, the viewer can see a number of blue and purple babies strewn about the image. Not only babies crawling and rolling on the ground, the babies are floating against a dark nighttime backdrop with neon and black ribbon forms protruding from black sand. In the background, the purple frame of house contains a window lit by a warm orange light, as a seemingly unfazed man looks out the window. Sandy Skoglund (b. 1946)...
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Lucas Samaras (Greek, 1936-2024)Hook and Ribbon, 1972Silkscreen in colors on paper32 x 21.5in.Gift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995 Lucas Samaras is a Greek immigrant artist who explored themes of Surrealism and Expressionism. During his time studying at Rutgers University and Columbia University, Samaras dove into his own self-investigation. He created many self portraits using pastels to create different textures, eventually moving into the use of found objects to create abstract self-depictions. Samaras dove into self-investigation while he was in school, and themes of self-discovery and identity have driven his art since then. Entering a Surrealist domain, Samaras plays...
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Yasumasa Morimura, (Japanese, b. 1951)An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Gift 2), 2001Chromogenic Print46.5x37 in.Gift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995 An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo is a series of photographs by the renowned Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. This series of works pay homage to the life and work of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, bringing her to life in iconic self-portraits with an imaginative and thought-provoking twist. In this print, we can see the artist himself dress up as Frida Kahlo. He is standing, looking straight at the audience, and holding hands with a hand behind the...
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Derrick Adams (American, b. 1970)Style Variation 4 (Beard), 2020Screen print, archival inkjet, and acrylic gloss varnish on Somerset museum eag eadiant white paper27 x 20 in.Gallery Purchase Derrick Adams is a multimedia and multi-disciplinary artist working out of Brooklyn, NY. He is known for working in a broad spectrum of mediums such as painting, collage, and sculpture, as well performance, video, and sound installations. Common epithets in his work are geometric characters with swaths of flat color, like in Style Variation 4 (Beard). Themes of Black Americans at leisure and in joyful states are also common, as Adams aims to...
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