The inaugural exhibition of the John Cram Partner Gallery at the Center for Craft, Making Meaning, brings together fourteen UNC Asheville alumni whose work shifts perceptions of material, method and meaning, creating new vocabularies in clay, digital media, photography, printmaking, assemblage and textiles. Through interdisciplinary practice, rooted in their experiences within a liberal arts model, these artists present expanded possibilities for innovation.
Carley Brandau employs textiles to immerse us in swaths of language; Bobby Emrick’s renderings transport us to views of the world beneath our feet; George Etheredge’s photojournalism carries us into the lives of others; Leslie Frempong embraces absence in her digital photographs; Sally Garner weaves VHS tape, enveloping us in a new textile landscape;
D. Forest Gamble characterizes sound through 3D animation; Lillian Bayley Hoover’s paintings preserve spaces for a better future; Chas Llewellyn marries our “junk” with emerging technologies, inviting us to play; Tatiana Potts builds upon the architectural past and future through printmaking and folded paper reliefs; Hunter Stamps confronts us with perceptions of our bodies through the visceral manipulation of clay; Jason Watson's paintings, cut-outs and found objects present fragmented narratives, making new meaning from old archetypes; Clay and digital manipulation meet to build Kevin Watson’s carnal world; Matt West melds the organic and mechanical in hydroponic, living works of art.
Making Meaning looks towards the spaces where these artworks collide and converge, where the viewer is called to change their own perspective and embrace new material languages that create meaning and imagine futures.
Cover image: Land of the ___., 2018, Carley Brandau. Image courtesy of Jim Prinz.
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