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UPFRONT GALLERY & LOBBY
Lauren Van Hemert, Skinny "B" Lauren Van Hemert For her new exhibition, Out of the Box, Lauren Van Hemert created wearable pieces of art using unconventional materials and techniqes. Her goal was to bring the jewelry out of the jewelry box and onto the wall as an intregal part of a three-dimensional artistic composition so that it could be enjoyed when it is not being worn. Van Hemert has always been inspired by the everyday items often taken for granted such as postage stamps, labels, photographs, posters, and advertisements. This exhibtion takes her interest in ephemera to a new level by incorporating assemblage, collage, image transer techniques, and found objects to create mixed media panels in which an element of the panel can be removed and worn. Van Hemert attended Indiana University in Bloomington where she studied to be a journalist. After moving to Raleigh with her family seven years ago, she started experimenting with image transfer techniques, polymer clay, and Precious Metal Clay. She is a 2005, 2006, and 2007 Niche Award Finalist and was awarded Second Place in Jewelry as one of the Best Artist and Artisans of North Carolina (Kennedy Promotions). Van Hemert received Second Place in Mixed Media t the Coconut Grove Art Festival, Coconut Grove, FL, this past February and has been included in exhibtions at teh North Carolina Craft Gallery, Artspace, Piedmont Craftsmen, and the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville. She exhibits locally and nationally and has been featured in Ornament, Southern Living, American Style, and Our State magazines and on Home and Garden Television. LOBBY
Casey Porn, Dexter Von Cuddlesworth Casey Porn Casey Porn was awarded Artspace's Regional Emerging Artist-in-Residency for January-July 2008. Porn paints bold graphic images, often of humanized animals. Using black and white line work, she illuminates her subjects against brightly painted backgrounds. During her residency she experimented with a variety of materials and introduced metallic spray paint into her compositions. Her close of residency exhibition, Drawing Conclusions, features animal portraiture set against baroque and art nouveau-inspired wallpaper backgrounds. Before beginning each painting Porn spends a great deal of time sketching ideas in pencil and ink. This exhibition will be an opportunity to see several of these preliminary drawings as well, in various stages of completion, along with the accompanying paintings. Casey Porn graduated from North Carolina State University College of Design with a degree in Art and Design. She lives and works in Raleigh, NC, with three small dogs that somehow find their way into most of her paintings.
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