Spring Thing ! This superstar group of contemporary artists comes together to celebrate the coming of SPRING. OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY MARCH 13TH 6-8 Featuring:
Amanda Barr is an artist and maker based in Chapel Hill and Carolina Beach, NC. Originally from Ashland, OR she graduated from RISD in 1996 with a degree in printmaking. She works with a variety of materials, often bending the line between sculptural and functional forms, using clay, textiles, sound, video and live performance. Amanda also supports the arts in her community by regularly hosting art shows and creative events and is the co-founder of Obracadobra, an artist residency program in Oaxaca, Mexico. http://obracadobra.com/
Erin Morris Erin Morris (b. 1994) is an artist and children’s art educator born in Latrobe, PA and raised predominantly in central North Carolina. She is currently based in Brooklyn NY. Morris received her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2024 and her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2017. Morris has recently exhibited at Moran Moran in a solo show titled “Warmer, Warmer,” Europa, with a solo presentation titled 5-7 Business Days; and at Greene Naftali, in the group exhibition titled On Landscape. https://europa.nyc/artists/erin-morris
Charles Chace is an artist from Massachusetts living in North Carolina who works in the fields of painting, short films, noise music, multi media installations, collage, and manipulatable noise machine. His work deals with improvisation, repetition, iconology, time travel through the fabrication of authenticity, mystery, and omni-color correction. https://www.charleschace.art
Alina Taalman is a filmmaker based in North Carolina working with analog film and digital video. Her
films have screened internationally at festivals including Crossroads, Antimatter, Analogica, Cosmic Rays
and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. ALINA TAALMAN
Jerstin Crosby (He/Him) received an MFA from UNC-Chapel Hill and a BFA from the University of Alabama. His work has been featured in Burnaway, New American Paintings, Art Papers, and Art Forum. He was the recipient of a 2023 Snapdragon Research Grant and was commissioned in 2021 by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance to create a permanent outdoor sculpture in the state capitol. His work has been exhibited at the Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, the International Print Center New York, NYC, Ada Gallery, in Richmond, VA, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, SC, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), in Raleigh, and the Atlanta Contemporary. Crosby is currently in a yearlong artist mentorship program through the NYC Crit Club’s Canopy Program. www.jerstin.com
instagram.com/jerstinc/
Ippis Halme, originally from Helsinki, Finland, attended Hornsey College of Art in London in the early 1970’s with a degree in 3-Dimensional Design in Ceramics. Although she studied ceramics, she now mainly draws with pen, ink and colored pencil, along with crocheting & collage work. For over 45 years she’s lived with her late husband and two daughters in the US, mainly in Chapel Hill. She has shown her work at Myymälä2 Gallery (Helsinki), Auto. Store (NYC), Gallery Ocho (Santa Barbara), Lump Gallery (Raleigh), My Room/ Attic 506 (Chapel Hill), NC Botanical Garden’s De- Berry Gallery (Chapel Hill) and at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
Harrison Haynes. My creative efforts are split between visual art and music.
While my art practice is rooted in painting and studio-based, my involvement with music is defined by years of touring as a drummer in bands. During those stretches of itinerancy I started taking observational photographs to stay connected to art making. The resulting archive of photographs is the source material for collage-based works. I gravitate towards inanimate things rather than people as visual subjects. The cut-out and reassembled objects become the characters in new fabricated and visceral realities that are at once familiar, disorienting, dramatic, and humorous, leaving the viewer to make their own connections and forge their own conclusions. https://www.harrisonhaynes.com/
Jimmy Fountain is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Durham, North Carolina. He holds a BFA from the Museum School in Boston. https://jimmyfountain.org/
Ron Liberti is a North Carolina–based visual artist, screen printer, and musician best known for his bold, collage-driven gig posters that have become iconic in the Triangle’s indie music scene and beyond. A catalogue of his posters live in the Wilson Library at UNC as part of the Folklore School. https://www.ronlibertiart.com/
John Bowman – https://www.instagram.com/jbowmaniv/?hl=en
Orvokki Crosby is Finnish-American, from Chapel Hill, but living in Winston-Salem. She makes art rarely, but when she does, works primarily in mixed media collage & textiles. Orvokki has shown artwork previously in NY, Santa Barbara, Raleigh, Amsterdam and Helsinki. She has artwork published in the book: From Here to There, A Curious Collection from the Handdrawn Map Collection, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.