First Friday Opening of "Shape Shifting" and "Ex Residence"

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• Friday, Mar 4, 2022  6pm - 10pm

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Join us for March First Friday at Artspace

Craft Activity: Blooming Flower // 6-8pm in the Education Room

Build your own blooming flower out of tissue paper in celebration of Art in Bloom at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

Gallery 1: Zipporah C. Thompson // Shape Shifting Through April 14

Approaching craft traditions with an improvisational, imaginative wild and speculative futuristic approach, the work explores the body, otherness, and identity via hybrid landscapes. Composite landscapes combine highly tactile disparate materials such as wild woven textiles, fired clay, felted wool, paper pulp, handspun cord, plastic, and foraged objects. Tension and force unite discordant ephemera into handwoven cloth representing intimate processes of metamorphosis.

Zipporah Camille Thompson (she, her, hers) is a ceramist, weaver, sculptor, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia-land of the Muskogee. A native Carolinian, Thompson explores alchemical transformations through clay + textiles, examining marginalized bodies and eliciting social change through her work. Sculpted shapeshifters and hybrid landscapes investigate otherness.

Gallery 2: Carson Whitmore // Ex Residence Through April 24

“As for many others throughout the pandemic, my relationship with my home has encompassed a significant part of my life. I’ve become intimately acquainted with the unique character of the old farmhouse where I reside—the patchwork of upkeep, the strange and unchanged decisions of past residents, and the mutable boundaries between the inside and outside world.

I am interested in the folk etymology that conceives of the threshold as a literal place, an area just outside the home where material was processed (‘holding the threshings’).

My current body of work emerges from this conceptual space, with quilting as an entry point. I construct pieces from found domestic objects and use the ‘threshings’ from one exploration as the foundation for another. I see these quilted pieces as inhabiting the border between sculpture and painting.

Ex Residence are works ‘out of’ my home, which has doubled as my studio this past year. These pieces are material offerings of a time and place where I am both artist and resident.”

Carson Whitmore is a mixed-media artist in Durham, NC. Her work as a farmer, carpenter, and general odd-job-doer informs her creative practice. Carson was a 2020 Emerging Artist in Residence at Artspace. Her work has been shown at the Durham Art Guild Gallery at Golden Belt and Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University. Since 2018, Carson has regularly transformed her home and garden into an exhibition and performance space.

In the Building //

Corridors: Gab Corter (Studio 108), Jennifer Clifton, Tonya Thornton