Home & Away is an exhibition featuring mixed media works by Jane Cheek and Caitlin Cary. Cheek’s colorful visions exemplify universal themes of what home means. Cary explores memory, comfort and notions of home through her stitched fabric mixed media pieces.
The exhibition will be on view in the ArtsCenter’s Theatre Gallery from October 11th – December 2nd. The opening reception will take place on October 11th from 6-8:30.
Silk and stitch on stiffened canvas // 12″x12″
Jane Cheek
Jane Cheek was born in Winston-Salem, NC and earned a BA in Art Studies from NC State University. She later obtained a K-12 Visual Arts Education certification from East Carolina University. Self taught in installation art, Cheek combines her interest in painting, sculpture, and textiles to create work that is both monumental and delicate.
Cheek’s work includes commissions at the North Carolina Museum of Art, outdoor art installations for Artsplosure and Downtown Raleigh Alliance, and a large-scale, immersive installation for IBMA Live! – an international bluegrass festival in Raleigh, NC. She currently has a solo installation exhibition at Waterworks Visual Arts Center, the contemporary art museum in Salisbury, NC and has upcoming exhibits at Wilson Arts Center (Wilson, NC), The Arts Center (Carborro, NC), and Pullen Arts Center (Raleigh, NC).
Caitlin Cary
Cary is a Raleigh, NC-based textile artist and musician known for her innovative and intricate sewn fabric collages, which she calls Needleprints. Cary crafts each Needleprint exclusively from repurposed fabrics, primarily cast-offs from the upholstery/interior design industry.
Though she has sewn everything from a nearly photorealistic Doc Watson to kaleidoscopically abstract interpretations of a water tower, Cary’s greatest renown lies her endeavors to preserve North Carolina’s history. In praise of her innovative documentarian method, Cary’s work has been featured in Our State magazine, Walter magazine, and The News & Observer. Her work is also widely collected, awarded, and exhibited in galleries, public spaces, and private collections in North Carolina and beyond.
In recent years, Cary has expanded her artistic range, and she’s currently experimenting with more abstract forms and additional mediums, including encaustic wax, imported silks (a gift from the NC State School of Design), paper, film, and more. In 2024, Cary is at work creating a series that depicts libraries made from book binding fabric in response to her rage over book banning and censorship.