Artists[
Jason Mitcham
Hopewell Junction, NY
PAINTING
Jason Mitcham is an artist whose practice ranges from drawing, to painting, to stop motion animation. He grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, but ultimately settled in New York City after graduating with an MFA from the University of Florida. He now lives in upstate New York with his...
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David Molesky
Raleigh, NC
PAINTING
David Molesky (b. 1977) is an artist whose oil paintings explore our relationship to the sublime forces of nature. He is interested in the psychology behind the creative process and experiences of awe, as well as the magic of paint—how a goopy amorphous substance can be transformed into illusionistic images...
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Beverly McIver
Chapel Hill, NC
PAINTING
“Artist Beverly McIver paints portraits that distill the emotions of a moment down to their essence. From the bright joy of the first bite of a summer peach to the bitter pain of hyper-visibility, racism and police brutality — she lifts the emotional veils from her subjects and connects...
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Jeff Bell
Wilson, NC
SCULPTURE
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” To that much-quoted Benjamin Franklin aphorism, artist Jeff Bell might add: Yes, but at least you won’t be bored. In his early work as a sculptor, Bell was very much a planner, until he realized all that prep work left...
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Barbara Campbell Thomas
Greensboro, NC
PAINTING
QUILTING
Barbara Campbell Thomas refers to her art studio as a self-generating system, where failed paintings get cut up and pieced into new works. But the North Carolina artist (and associate art professor) also keeps another category of scraps that could be more accurately described as ‘mother-generated’: pieces of fabric...
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Martha Thorn
Raleigh, NC
PAINTING
For abstract artist Martha Thorn, diligence and dedication to her craft are paramount — but excessive planning is something to avoid. She prefers to paint intuitively, focusing on materials and the process of making, allowing meanings and underlying themes to reveal themselves slowly, sometimes after she has finished a piece....
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BA THOMAS
Greenville, NC
PAINTING
BA Thomas creates paintings of interiors that explore the relationship between space, time, and human experience. Working from the notion that the spaces we inhabit inform who we are, she studies how people use and adapt space, and how the interconnected items in a room become characters of sorts. In...
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Brandon Dudley
Kinston, NC
PAINTING
North Carolina native Brandon Dudley comes from a long line of artistic minds. Though he might be the first in his family to work as a full-time artist, his father, grandfather and uncle are all creatives. “My grandfather, who I admire dearly, is the most creative person I know, says...
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Leigh Suggs
Richmond, VA
PAINTING
Here’s what I’m seeing, but tell me how you see it?
It’s the kind of conversation commonly overheard at galleries showing artist Leigh Suggs’ work — intricately crafted cut paper works that often double as optical illusions, 2D art that looks 3D depending on where you’re standing. Though her...
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William Paul Thomas
Durham, NC
PAINTING
Of the hundreds of portraits artist William Paul Thomas has painted, he says the large scale oil painting of his grandmother Carolyn Thomas is probably his favorite, and not just because it was selected by Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry to be featured in its annual Black Creativity exhibition. The affinity...
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Rob Matthews
Nashville, TN
PAINTING
An encounter with one of North Carolina-born artist Rob Matthews’ works can be curiously disorienting. In one way, you’re sure you’ve never seen anything quite like it before. But on the other hand, something about it feels familiar, making you linger a little longer as your brain tries to...
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Sangsun Bae
Kyoto, Japan
PHOTOGRAPHY
PAINTING
SCULPTURE
Among the reasons a person might uproot her life and move to another country — a job, school, love — 'there was a statue that made me cry’ is not high on the list of common explanations. But Korean artist Sangsun Bae does not take lightly such...
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Jack Early
New York, NY | Edenton, NC
PAINTING
MIXED MEDIA
Picture this. You’re a young artist living in New York City in the early 90s. You’ve lived at the Chelsea hotel, worked as an assistant to painter and sculptor Richard Artschwager, and now you’re partnering with another artist to create genre-blending work combining...
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Anthony Goicolea
New York, NY
MIXED MEDIA
PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY
Originally from Marietta, Georgia, multi-disciplinary artist Anthony Goicolea describes his childhood growing up as “a gay Cuban Catholic boy in the South in the 70s” as “uniquely challenging.” As a talented art school grad who moved to New York in the 90s, he challenged himself to...
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Michael Whittle
Hong Kong
PAINTING
MIXED MEDIA
What if the solution to a puzzle you’d been struggling to solve ended up being the METHOD you were using to solve it? Sounds strange, but that’s exactly how English artist and researcher Michael Whittle came up with the idea for his award-winning 2015 PhD thesis, which has since...
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Susan Harbage Page
Durham, NC | Spello, ITALY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PAINTING
A red blanket caked with mud. A child’s shoe, pink and white and filled with sand. These are two of the roughly 1,000 items included in the Anti-Archive of Trauma, part of artist Susan Harbage Page’s 13-year U.S.-Mexico Border Project. These objects tell the stories...
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Shaun Richards
Raleigh, NC
MIXED MEDIA
It’s not terribly uncommon for a one-day home improvement task to expand into a one- or two-week project. But it is rare that such a project would lead to a creative breakthrough that changes the focus of your career. Artist Shaun Richards would know. It was 2006 and he...
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Tim Lytvinenko
Raleigh, NC
PAINTING
MIXED MEDIA
Unlike the kids his age who were afraid of the dark, photographer and printmaker Tim Lytvinenko spent a good chunk of his childhood angling to spend more time in dark rooms. He took his first photography class in third grade and was fascinated by all of it, but found his...
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