ARTIST

MARTHA CLIPPINGER

Martha Clippinger creates colorful, geometric abstractions across a range of media, from painted wood constructions, to ceramic reliefs, to textile works made in collaboration with weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico.

ARTIST

BEN ALPER

Alper is a photographic artist working on long term documentary projects in North Carolina and beyond.

artist

Renzo Ortega

Renzo Ortega is an artist based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work embodies a range of styles and influences, from patterns design, gestural expressionism, to figuration and abstraction.

book

SAVED: OBJECTS OF THE DEAD

Saved: Objects of the Dead is a photographic and poetic exploration of the human experience of life, death, and memory. The book features over forty color photographs by NC-based artist Jody Servon paired with prose poems by CA-based poet Lorene Delany-Ullman.

project

Love Over Rules

What does it mean to let love break the rules we have in our lives? That is the question built into Artsuite’s inaugural project, LOVERULES — a new large-scale installation in Raleigh’s warehouse district created by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas.

ARTIST

WILLIAM PAUL THOMAS

Thomas' portrait series, which gets its name from a medical term used to describe blueness of the skin caused by insufficiently oxygenated blood, began with a painting of the artist’s young nephew, Michael. Thomas painted half of Michael's face blue as a way of emphasizing his brown skin, to make his complexion part of the content and the conversation. The artist says that the underlying, more universal idea behind the half-blue portraits is the fact that we are all dealing with some kind of conflict, trauma or adversity that the people we engage with day-to-day might not know anything about.