I spent yesterday at a studio space near Elon University, NC with my new friend, Ahmed Fadaam, a sculptor who now works as a journalist for the New York Times. He’s a visiting scholar at UNC Chapel Hill. The art school where he taught in Baghdad, Iraq was burned down after the war broke out.
Ahmed [...]
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“Night Lotus”, an intimately scaled, meditative, black steatite stone carving by Dale L. McEntire, invites us to ponder its flowing curves among angles; its rough, organic, earthiness against silky-smooth, refined surfaces; and lightening strikes of blinding white on midnight black.
Dale McEntire, Sculptor of “Night Lotus” says, “The sculpture ”Night Lotus “ is inspired by the [...]
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Charlie Brouwer, sculptor of “And then one day …it happened” said “Recently most of my outdoor sculptures have been human figures. The ideas for them come from my personal experiences. Occasionally I experience, or think something that seems to resonate with meaning going beyond my personal life and I turn it into a sculpture. I [...]
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Mike Roig and fellow sculptor, Wayne Vaughn wheel the $5,000 prize-winning entry of the 2008 Cary Visual Art Sculpture Show, “Air Guitar” into place on what looks like a medieval castle-wall-ramming contraption. The sculpture dangles from a hook on back while a bar in front holds counterweight.
Mike resides with his wife, author and [...]
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ECU professor, Hanna Jubran, kept me and many of the people around him laughing as he installed his work in the CVA sculpture show .
He helped other sculptors install their work as well. Some of the artists in this exhibit had been students of his.
From the looks of it he was well on his way [...]
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I laughed with one of the other volunteers at a reception for this very Sculpture Show that the pay is terrible but the benefits are incredible for us volunteers with Cary Visual Art.
The day I took this picture I was in heaven watching and photographing as each sculptor brought his work in. The day [...]
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