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RIVER DOCS is an exhibit that will document the Catawba River through photographs and a multi-media installation that integrates sound and touch with photography.
RIVER DOCS will feature the artists Byron Baldwin, Raymond Grubb, Nancy Pierce, Marek Ranis, Mike Wirth and YOU! We need your pictures and stories of the River.
To purchase the River Docs catalogue, please call The Light Factory at 704-333-9755.
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Combining his own quirky photographs of shopping cart sightings with an elaborate classification system, artist Julian Montague takes a fascinating look at the stray shopping cart epidemic. Click here to see Julian’s website and the complete classification system.
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Artifacts of Remembrance features Robert Hirsch’s installation World in a Jar: War & Trauma. The collection is comprised of 850 black and white photographs, each made from historical images that have been recast to expose a litany of horrors from wars and traumas of the past 3 centuries. For more information about Robert Hirsch’s work, please visit: www.lightresearch.net
Tea Jobon witnessed the great earthquake in Kobe, Japan. His digital prints focus on the physical details of the wreckage, bringing to light the unconceivable magnitude of the event. Jobon’s aesthetic fascination with texture and arrangement transform the grotesque evidence of mortality and wreckage into an enlightened state of objectivity and beauty.
Daniel Kariko’s Confluence, a video and sound installation, examines the coastal erosion of Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Kariko examines man’s adversarial relationship with nature and how humans sabotage our own natural defenses. For more information on Daniel’s work, please visit: For more information
Libby Nevinger, a longtime resident of New Orleans captures the social vernacular landscape in the neighborhoods of New Orleans during the longwinded aftermath of the hurricane. Her panoramic photographs capture the quiet drama of private and public spaces frozen in a state of rubble with no improvement.
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Chris Sullivan’s multimedia installation Not All Po-Boy Created Equal: Catastrophe Basketballs, Sandwiches & Underperforming Billboard Dreams from New Orleans examines icons of New Orleans within the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sullivan’s installation creates a challenging mosaic of a city mid-reconstruction. For more information about Chris’s work, To read the blog
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The Light Factory exhibits a new art exchange project centered around Hurricane Katrina recovery entitled Message in a Bottle: Reconstructing Lives.The student work is a reaction piece to the exhibition "Artifacts of Remembrance" which uses photography in combination with jars. Charlotte student participants have been chosen for Message in a Bottle: Reconstructing Lives, and include filmmaking students at Providence High School and photography students from Harding and Myers Park High Schools. The New Orleans students chosen for the project include art students at Warren Easton, photography and film students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and art students at Benjamin Franklin Charter School.
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Digital artist and photo educator Jacquelyn Leebrick presents a series
of metaphorical autobiographies evolved from her interest in the process
of memory and reflection. The collages and object scans frequently reference
her family history while triggering collective memory, blurring the lines
and distinction between fact and fiction. Through electronic manipulation
, she is able to rearrange content to reflect emotional reactions to events
remembered, the power of memory to transform, and the ability of the constructed
image to transform memory.
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2007 Members Pin-Up Show
Friday, May 4-Sunday, July 13th
Knight Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th from 6 to 9pm
Bring in your print of any size in square dimensions (OPTIONAL) or mixed
media confined to square dimensions and be included in the 2007 Members
Show. You must be a member to participate. So wait are you waiting for?
Start printing your squares; 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, etc. , submit your work and
come on downtown for the best party of the year.
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for submission guidelines and entry form
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An exhibition of student work created by English as Second Language students at East Mecklenburg High School, Waddell High School, Myers Park High School, North Mecklenburg High School and South Mecklenburg High School. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the lives of 75 youth who recently immigrated to Charlotte and the U.S. The work is a culmination of many months work and is a collaboration between The Light Factory and the ESL departments at these Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The project is funded by a grant from Arts Teach, a partnership of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools and the Arts and Science Council, Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation, United Way and the North Carolina Arts Council.
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Esteeming
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Esteeming the Pearls is an exhibition that examines time, loss and adoration
in relation to the sacred and unbreakable attachments of family, tribe
and religion. The continuum of loss inside the lineage of the family and
inside the society of a country in constant revolution remains an inescapable
predicament. Artists Luis Gonzalez Palma and Linda Foard Roberts have
gathered pearls along this continuum, bringing the cherished icons and
family into the light.
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Generation TBA Photographers Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor are husband and wife. With distinctly different approaches, each looks at American society through the lens of their children and family. Alex Harris' "Game Boy" series raises questions about technology and contemporary youth. Margaret Sartor explores the emotional and geographic world of her extended family in her series, "Close to Home."
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Intrinsic Artifice: A Tale of Two Abstractions
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Intrinsic Artifice juxtaposes two different forms of abstraction (a genre
that speaks in terms of form, texture and composition.) Artists include
David Maisel and Susan Brenner whose post-modern work reflects a conceptual
concern with reality, and Carl Chiarenza and Stan Brakhage whose work
departs from traditional representation. Work includes Maisel’s
aerial footage of contaminated water sites, Brenner’s digital abstractions
that reference the body, Brakhage ’s hand-painted short films and
Chairenza’s modernist black-and-white constructions.
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Mexico
Between Life and Death:
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Harvey Stein, an accomplished street photographer is well known for capturing the essenceof humanity by constantly walking among the people of NY, Italy, and most recently Mexico. Books by Harvey Stein include: Coney Island, Twins, and Artists Observed. The Light Factory is proud to have his most recent black and white prints from his many travels to Mexico.
As Stein so eloquently describes his work, “Mexico is where the real merges with the imaginary, the living with the dead and the half remembered with the once sensed. The images show fragments of what Mexico is, a country of incredible contrasts and contradictions. Mexico is about piercing light and deep darkness, of massive tradition and creeping progress, of hot stillness and quick explosiveness, of great religious belief but with corruption as a way of life. It’s a land of vibrant life and dancing skeletons, a country next to ours but so far away, a country with more than 50% of its population under 20 years old but where the elderly are revered.”
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An exhibition designed to reveal the idea of self. As Freud first defined ," the existence of (Id) relates to the part of the self that exists to contain the primitive mind directed at basic needs, functions and pleasure". Today (ID) also takes on the meaning of identification, or (i.d.) an abbreviation used to explain the measurement of an inner diameter. The Light Factory has curated an exhibition of photographic self portraiture, “Id”. In all works of the exhibition, the photographer is also the model. The exhibition includes the gelatin silver works of Arno Minkkinen, Judy Dater, Bill Thomas, and Robert Mapplethorpe, the digital works of Nate Larson, the photographic capture of Dieter Appelt’s sculptural performances, video performance of Constance Thalken and the hand sewn photographs of Pinky Bass with an accompanying live performance.
For many, photographs exist as records and evidence of what is happening outside the mind. What happens when the medium becomes subverted; instead of bringing in exterior events the camera is turned inward to the self. The photographic medium is being used not just to capture ones' physicality, but to capture the personal tableau of a state of mind. Self portrait “works” in photography often encompass some aspect of performance in front of the camera. This type of performance marks a symbolic event and is usually devoid of an audience until final viewing in the form of an exhibited “performative” or “constructed” image.
The artists in this exhibit demonstrate a range of thought and emotion. Nudity is a popular vehicle as it represents the idea that all experiences affect both mind and body. Appelt, Minkkinen, and Dater all use themselves as models in the natural landscape demonstrating a vibrant strength while consecutively showing themselves as vulnerable to natural forces. Three stark but obscure images of the late Robert Mapplethorpe function as reminders to the fleeting moment of life, with a potent admonition of our physical shell. Pinky Bass turns the body inside out with the frankness of aging, the beauty of acceptance, and the power to adorn the experience of loss and continuance. Bill Thomas depicts himself as a socialized clothed figure wanting to escape the madness of life’s entanglements by staging his own humorous and metaphorical suicides. Constance Thalken uses a similar domestic absurdity with a light hearted twist as she repeats a naked cartwheel on video in an old garage. Nate Larson uses the repetitive image of himself in mental juxtaposition with objects and text depicting his obsessive/creative thought patterns. Accompanying these photographic artists are the silent films of Maya Derren, which exist as a self portrait in 16mm on continuous loop throughout the duration of the exhibit.
These many different paths of self exploration, daring investment, and
vulnerability are represented with an aesthetic intensity not seen in
everyday life. A commonality among these self portrait artists would be
a sincerity of investment with their themes,
often at the expense of their own physical and emotional comfort. As the
personal becomes the universal, viewers are immediately forced to address
their own comfort level with their body, their psyche, nature, society,
and mortality.
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THE LIGHT FACTORY'S ANNUAL MEMBERS' EXHIBITJuly 7 , 2006-August 3, 2006Knight Gallery Opening Reception: July 7th; 6-9pm |
Members Show Entry Form (pdf)
Please join us to celebrate the work of Light Factory members in a vibrant
intersection of emerging artists with well renowned artists and a mixture
of live music.
Although we have grown tremendously as an organization, we remain in
touch with our southeastern roots and community. This community has always
been rich in photographers, filmmakers, and artists of all disciplines.
Our local treasures are many as are the region’s budding artists;
this is what makes our Members’ Show such an eclectic and wonderful
event. Open to all mediums of new works, our members exhibition also includes
those members from other parts of the nation.
Our guest judge, Mary Edith Alexander, curator from the Bank of America
Collection will choose 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, along with honorable mentions.
Historically this exhibit is not juried and remains interdisciplinary,
presenting an opportunity for all members to exhibit. The member’s
show is a truly egalitarian event, and a rarity in the art world.
2006 Winners
1st Place: Lee Stewart
2nd Place: Byron Baldwin
3rd Place: Tom Duncan
Honorable Mention: Diane Davis and Mike Wirth
"Kids Corner' Honorable Mention: Laurel Celeste Collins
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IAN VAN COLLERJune 2, 2006-August 10, 2006Middleton McMillan Gallery Opening Reception: July 7th; 6-9pm |
These photo sculptural works mix the historical process of ambrotype with
ash, mud, and found objects of the South African landscape and people.
Combining a reference to the traditional ambrotype frame and the motif
of the African Luksa boards, these objects hold images of a transitioning
relationship between white and black South Africans and the epic, mystical,
and historically laden landscape of Africa.
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Photography & the Artist Book:A Survey of Approaches from the U.S. and Abroad May 5th – July 6, 2006 |
Memoirs of a Single Mother
by Cordelia Williams
Knight Gallery
Opening Reception: May 5th; 6-9pm
Tetenbaum is currently head of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, one of the few places in the US where you can get a BFA in Book Arts. She has taught workshops and classes around the globe, including as a Fulbright Scholar teacher in the Czech Republic. The Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon is now exhibiting a 25 year retrospective of her work. Tetenbaum’s work exists in collections around the world and her curated exhibits have continually included internationally known book artists. She has curated the exhibit at TLF to show the range of technical and conceptual uses of photography in the contemporary artist book. An "artist book" can be defined as a book (or book-like object) which is conceived of by an artist as a work of art, and is experienced as static or time-based sequence in the hands of the reader. The book is a natural medium for the photographer who often has developed a suite of photographs or an "essay" out of a particular photo session, and wishes to show this in such a setting. A further desire to include text points the photographed towards the book form as an obvious space in which to organize thetwo. But unless the photographer has the fortune to earn the attention of an established publisher, there have been few perfect means for selfpublication. The 40 + artist books in this exhibit are organized to illuminate the conceptual approaches to artist books which employ the photograph: the photo essay, photo illustration, collage, abstraction, documentation, and others.
Cordelia Williams has always been an artist who brings a sense of magical
realism to her visual art. When she experiences reality other things enter
the room and consequently onto her photographs. She starts with a photographic
capture printed in black and white, and then embellishes reality with
hand coloring techniques of a natural trained painter. A beautiful child
becomes a mermaid through her hand coloring and a teenage boy is suddenly
seen with angsty lines of color and energy patterns through his hair.
Surrounding the book is an exhibit of large scale reproductions of the
hand colored photographs in the book along with other artist books and
self portrait works by Williams. Collectively, the early self portraits,
excerpts from Camilla the Fairy Cat, Mermaid Book, and Memoirs of a Single
Mother depict 35 years of William’s life acting as a retrospective
of her ability to
bring authenticity to life through her own inventive imagination a photographer,
book artist, and mother.
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MY FAMILY, OUR STORIES by ESL Students of TLF |
The Light Factory created My Family, Our Stories to serve English as a Second Language (ESL) students in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System. This project helps prepare youth for participation in a global community through teaching basic photography skills while improving communication and literacy skills. My Family, Our Stories contributes to the artistic and intellectual growth of ESL students and gives the Charlotte community a photographic glimpse into their lives.
My Family, Our Stories 2005 - 2006 is collaboration between The Light Factory and the ESL departments at Carmel Middle School , East Mecklenburg High School and Waddell High School. The project is funded by a grant from Arts Teach, a partnership of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, the Arts and Science Council and the NC Arts Council.
Countries of origin include: Mexico, Jordan, South Korea, Somalia, Nicaragua and Russia.
March
24 ,2006– Knight Gallery Opening
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Across the Threshold of India is the result of Martha Strawn’s 20 year visual ecology project. The exhibition includes photography and live threshold painting, an ancient Indian tradition in which women create rice flour designs on the ground outside the doors of homes. Strawn has created a testament to the richness and fullness of the threshold practice, its place in the history of Hindu culture, and the strength of the feminine presence within this cultural heritage. |
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INTERSTITAL SPACESby Prince ThomasMarch 24 , 2006-April 27, 2006 Middleton-McMillian Gallery |
Prince Thomas, an artist who is simultaneously East Indian and American, reflects his cultural negotiations through the digital photographic medium. Interstitial Spaces focuses on the divisive places in popular culture and his own constructed identity. By using his own image in comparison to others, Thomas' work leads to investigations of multiculturalism, race, and privilege.
Exploring the movement from racial segregation to integration, “Fabricated Harmony” features American artist Pat Ward Williams and South African artist Sue Williamson. The solo works by both artists touch on society’s inability to embrace unity, equality, and change. The centerpiece of the exhibit, “Comfort Zones”, is a new work commissioned by The Light Factory in which Williams and Williamson collaborate to examine ideals of integration in the United States and South Africa through video and installation.
The use of art as a mechanism for repair is the premise that lies behind the entire “Fabricating Harmony” exhibit and our adjoining exhibit in the Middleton McMillan.
Additional Programming with "Fabricated Harmony"exhibit:
Freedom Box
Student Outreach Program between students in South Africa and Charlotte, NC
Middleton- McMillan GalleryThe Freedom Box exhibit is the result of our international outreach exchange program, a project designed as a response course to Pat Ward William’s box sculpture entitled “32 Hours in a Box …and Still Counting”. The box is a symbolic representation of a slave who mailed himself to freedom in the late 1800’s. Students from area high schools; Olympic, Myers Park and Northwest School of the Arts will join students from several high schools in South Africa in the creation of the “Freedom Box” response exhibit.
Nov. 11, 2005 – Jan. 2 - 2006
Laughing Earth
by Meredith HebdenMiddleton McMillan Gallery
Become fascinated as the inner workings of floral forms take on architectural
perspective in Meredith Hebden’s color macro photographic images.Illustrating a delicate strength and complexity, the viewer becomes the beneficiary of these riots of color and texture. Hebden precisely captures this exquisite beauty that transfixes our souls yet exists solely as a precision instrument to pass on genetic instruction.
November 11 th, 2005-January 5th, 2006
Mark Klett
"Third View"Knight Gallery
The American West has experienced dynamic change since the late nineteenth century when it was photographed for the first
time by photographers such as William Henry Jackson, T,H, O’Sullivan, and Wm. Bell. These photographs were made for the four major
geological and geographical surveys of the 1860’s and 70’s headed by Powell,Hayden, Wheeler, and King. The images were precedent setting
and have become benchmarks for monitoring landscape change as well as examining the ways land and culture have been represented.The Rephotographic Survey Project (RSP) revisited and rephotographed these nineteenth-century photographs during the late 70’s.
The Third View project again repeats the first two images in a pair, creating a third series. Third View is concerned with physical changes
to the land, but also with changes in cultural perception. Human interventions, personal histories linked to historic sites, and the
examination of western icons created by photos are central to the project goals. The project also addresses the nature of photographic surveys and the documents they create.
September 9-October 30th, 2005
Keith Carter
"A Certain Alchemy"
Middleton-McMillan GalleryWednesday, October 26, 2005
6PM
A conversation with Keith Carter
Tickets on sale October 1st-$10
Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948,he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange-Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1997 Keith Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national network television show, CBS Sunday Morning. In 1998, he received Lamar University's highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. Eight monographs of his black and white photographs have been published: From Uncertain To Blue, 1988; The Blue Man, 1990; Mojo, 1992; Heaven of Animals, 1995; and Bones, 1996. A mid-career survey, Keith Carter Photographs - Twenty Five Years was published in 1997; Holding Venus and his eighth book, Ezekiel's Horse, were published in 2000. Called "a poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter's haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America. They are included in numerous permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the George Eastman House; the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University.
August 19-October 13, 2005
Sights of War
Artists: Bill Viola, Dave Brodeur, Joyce Dallal and Marek Ranis
VII Photographers: Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey, John Stanmeyer and Antonin KratchovilKnight Gallery
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 9th, 6-9pmSights of War: a collection of perspectives, is an exhibit designed to offer viewers several vantage points with which to see global conflict. These perspective points range from the view of a fighter pilot from above, the view of people in the midst of rubble on the ground, the view from inside the home during wartime, a critical view of arms usage, and the view of the voyeur(s). By examining these vantage points our predominantly American audience can take a deeper examination of their own true position in regards to war.
Additional Programming for Sights of War Exhibit:
Wednesday, August 17, at 7pm
Artist Lecture with Joyce Dallal
Middleton- McMillan Gallery-Spirit Square
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC/ FREE OF CHARGEPhotographer and media installation artist, Joyce Dallal is best known for her
artistic and cultural viewpoint as an Iraqi-American Jew. Dallal will be sharing her work
and the work of other Middle Eastern artists and their unique perspectives of war. Her photo
based installations, public art, books, and prints and have been exhibited around
the world. The Light Factory is honored to bring two of her installations to our
Sights of War exhibit; “Family Album” depicting her response to the First Gulf War
and “Media Tornado”, a new installation designed to portray the inability
to comprehend media coverage of war both in Iraq and the US.
Friday, August 26, at 7pm
”War Photographer”- Film by Christopher FreiMiddleton- McMillan Gallery-Spirit Square
$7 at doorJames Nachtwey has been a successful working war photograher for the past twenty years. In War Photographer, director Christian Frei followed him for two years into the wars in Indonesia, Kosovo and Palestine. Special video micro-cameras were attached to Nachtwey's photo-camera allowing the most intimate insight into the work of a concerned photojournalist. A thoughtful, rather shy person, many think of him as the bravest and best war photographer ever. CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour and other friends and colleagues talk about his photos, his relationship to his work, and the impact it has on his personal life.
July 8-August 4, 2005
John Scarlata
"Forms From the Earth"
Middleton-McMillan Gallery
Opening Reception:
Friday, July 8th, 6-9pm
in conjunction with Members Show
John Scarlata will speak about his work
Scarlata's non-silver and gold toned contact prints evoke a sense of awe by presenting nature in it's divine and simple forms.
June 18 - July 24, 2004
Anderson Scott: Trespass
Jeff Murphy
The images are collages created digitally and arranged on canvas using archival pigments. The most recent works are derived from images photographed with a digital camera during visits to Italy and Central America. Each entirely digital image, enhanced by overlapping vibrant colors. embraces the traditional arts through the use of the canvas.
May 8-June 11, 2004
Opening Reception-Friday, May 14, 2004
Robert Sulkin: Constructions
In Sulkin's photographs sparks fly, wheels rotate, metal pieces jut out ready to go into action resulting in records of wacky objects going no where. The "machine" is constructed by the artist in his studio. Its true function is to be photographed.
Alice Sebrell: Hover
"To hover is to float, suspended in and supported by air. This work is about collaborating with the wind to explore concepts of transformation and ambivalence. These photographs and mixed- media sculptures look at the space between earth and sky and the transformative potential of unseen, transitory forces. HOVER is about being and becoming..about time," Sebrell writes.
March
21 - April 24, 2003
The Light Factory 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction Preview
Local, regional, and nationally recognized
artists donate artwork to support Light Factory exhibition and education
programs in this annual fund-raiser.
Thursday, April 24th, 2003
The Light Factory 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction
6:30 - 7 PM Registration & Cocktails
7 - 11 PM 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction
February 7- March 14 2003
Fragmented Images: Michael P. Berman.
What is important to the artist is wandering in the desert, what he brings
back to the gallery is his art- photographs, paintings, detritus –
fragments of an arid landscape. The public is invited to view and interact
with the artist as part of the installation process February 4-7 , 2003.
Members’ Portfolio Gallery: Photographs by Kristina Rogers.
Photomontages construct, deconstruct and, finally, reconstruction
images and meanings.
December 13, 2002 - January 25, 2003
Byron Baldwin: The First 30 Years
Simmons Jones: The New York Years
October 19 - November 30, 2002
Recycled Realities by John Willis.
Still-life images found in bales of paper scraps create commentary on
mass culture and communication.
Members’ Portfolio Gallery: Fast Food Dining Rooms: Photographs
by Ruth Dusseault. Records of utilitarian designs that go unnoticed in
the urban fabric.
Opening Reception: Saturday October 19, 6 – 9 PM; Galley Talk at
7 PM
August 24 - October 12, 2002
Alternative Images: Photographs
by Robert Creamer, Bill Jenkins,
Marie R. Kennedy, and Judith McMillan.
These photographers use the computer and flatbed scanner as alternatives
to more traditional means of image making.
Members’ Portfolio Gallery: The Mobile Studio: Professor Linda
Samuels in collaboration with an experimental graduate seminar at UNCC
take to the road to document American vernacular.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 24, 6 - 9 PM; Gallery Talk at 7 PM
June 22-August 10, 2002
2002 Members Show – DEADLINE
FOR ENTRY, JUNE 1st through 14th–
This yearly celebration of our membership's creativity is non-juried
and open to all media. (Gallery 1 & 2) FOR MORE INFO, click here
Outreach Photography Projects with Charlotte Youth
Annual exhibition of student work (Members Portfolio Gallery)
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 22, 6-9pm.
May 4 - June 15, 2002
the topography of desire: urban
identies / Charlotte / Berlin. A multimedia installation by Jacqueline
Heer. Guest Artist: Christian Rothmann.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 2002 6-9pm
Gallery Talk at 7pm.
January 26-March 28, 2002
The Multiplication of Eggs:
Experiments and Contraptions:
An Installation by Nancy Fewkes
Interested in constructing a female
perspective of biology, anatomy, history, and experimental learning, Fewkes
creates richly layered environments of sculptural forms of gold-toned
albumen prints.
Members Portfolio Gallery: An Installation by Ginny Atkins
Atkins small boxes reveal the mysteries of collected lives.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk by both artists 7pm
November 10, 2001-January 17, 2002
Hymnal of Dreams: Photographs
by Elijah Gowin
Gowin presents a set of construction, rituals, and characters based on
history and his personal experiences of the South.
Members Portfolio Gallery: Stephen Petegorsky: Gold Work
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk with Elijah Gowin 7pm
Gallery Talk with Stephen Petegorsky, Friday, Nov. 16th at 7pm
September 8- November 3, 2001
Photographs by Carl Bergman
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Carl Bergman annually travels to New Orleans to document the architectural
details of the city. His richly toned photographs are haunting meditations
of the rich history of this famous city. Carl is a long time member of
The Light Factory.
Members Portfolio Gallery:
Debe Hale Photographs from the Glencoe Mill Projects.
Hale photographs abandoned places, recording the patinas of age and loss
in rich saturated colors.
Opening reception: Saturday, September 8, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk 7pm
July 12-September 1, 2001
Inside/Outside: An Installation by Tuba Ostekin
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This installation by a Turkish artist living in
Texas focuses the viewer to reexamine issues of geographical, cultural,
and emotional displacement.
Members Portfolio Gallery: Light Boxes by Leslie Kniesel
Every Wednesday, artist Leslie Kniesel serves lunch at Café 458 to homeless
men and women. Her light boxes make visible the social and spiritual conditions
of an invisible community.
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 12, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk 7pm.
May 12-June 29, 2001
2001 Members Show
This yearly celebration of our membership's creativity is non-juried
and open to all media. (Gallery 1 & 2)
Outreach Photography Projects with Charlotte Youth
This annual exhibition of student work features selections from the
When I Wake projects. (Members Portfolio Gallery)
Member's Closing Reception: Friday, June 29, 6-9pm.
Gallery Talk with Paul Roth Assistant Curator, Corcoran Gallery of
American Art at 7pm.
February 23 April 8, 2001
Digital Ceramics
This group exhibition of works by national artists,
combining digital photographic media with ceramics, is held in conjunction
with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts national conference
in Charlotte.
(Gallery 1 & 2)
Members Portfolio Gallery:
An Installation by Pinky Bass and Kitty Couch
Opening Reception: Friday, February 23, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk with Pinky Bass & Kitty Couch at 7pm.
Armchair Discussion with artists:
Les Lawrence, Jeanne Otis, and Scott Rench:
Tuesday April 27, 6:30 (co-sponsored with the Tryon Center for the Visual
Arts) Artist's Lecture:
Paul Mason, Thursday March 29, 6:30pm
April 14-May 5, 2001
The Light Factory 19th Annual Benefit
Art Auction Preview Exhibition
Regionally and nationally recognized artists donate artwork to support
Light Factory exhibition and education programs in this annual fundraiser
Catalog. (All galleries)
May 5, 2001 7-11PM
The
Light Factory 19th Annual
Benefit Art Auction
809 West Hill Street
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Long as the Waters Flow:
Native Americans in the South and East
Photographs by Carolyn DeMeritt
who is represented by: Hodges Taylor Gallery
The exhibiting artists represent the active
photographic art scene in Northern Ireland.
Photographs by various artists.
Women
of the Photo League
Featuring the work of Berenice Abbott, Rosalie Gwathmey, Consuelo
Kanaga, Rebecca Lepkoff, Lisette Model, Nancy Newhall, Ruth
Orkin and Erika Stone
O.
Winston Link: Memories and Machines
Images of steam railroads in
North Carolina and Virginia
Spirit Square, Suite 211
345 North College Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
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