Up & Coming Weekly

Gallery ONE13 Show- cases Young Talent On view at Gallery ONE13 is a very exciting contemporary showcase of up and coming young Fayetteville artists. The exhibition entitled INDIE VISUAL is presented by S.T.U.N. art, which stands for Social Therapy UNnoticed or nuts spelled backwards. The exhibition was conceptualized and curated by FSU alumni and college friends Angela Williams and Shantel Scott. These two enterprising young artists said that they longed for more diversity in the downtown Fayetteville art scene. So, they partnered together under the title of S.T.U.N. art, to create a recurring event where modern artists could come together and exhibit their work and network with other artists. They found a comfortable venue in the Fayetteville Art Guild Gallery ONE13 to unveil their concept. The exhibition, which will run from March 26 through April 17th, opened as a March fourth Friday event and featured musician Mitra Maraj. Angela and Shantel were very pleased with the response from artists and the support from the community. They both felt that the event achieved well above their goals for creating an eccentric styled postmodern gallery event that people could relate with. A crowd of about one hundred and fifty individuals attend- ed the energy charged opening reception for the twenty-five featured artists. Presented in this exhibition of forty-four works are mixtures of ar- tistic mediums. The curators selected painting, photography, graphics, sculpture and mixed media art works to create a well rounded statement of modern creativity. Exhibiting artists are Sonny Baltin, Stephanie Burns, Carmen Camancho, Gail Ferguson, Gina Furches, Liz Gruesome, Trish Harris, Noreda Hess, Mark Holland, Justin Jenkins, Kristi Howard Jones, Rick Kenner, Eleya Komerovskaia, Bonnie Long, Jorge Morales, Katherine Ortiz, Lovell Pulley, Michael Romagano, Stacey Robinson, Chenille Shelton, Shantel Scott, Amanda Stephens, Jovian Turnbull, John Whitemore, and Angela Williams. If yIf your business could help you should be our business could help yo should be marketing with us.. marketing with us For Sales & Marketing Call 484-6200 51% of our Readers plan to buy car accessories this year. 18 UCW APRIL 7-13, 2010 51% of our Readers plan to buy car accessories this y ar WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM For Sales & Marketing Call 484-6200 Some of the enjoyable moments for me, and there were many, included the photos of Bonny Long which are dedicated to capturing moments in na- ture as they appear, and not changed in any way. Her “Flower in Ice” has the look of a spider caught beautifully in a winter ice storm. Kristi Howard Jones’s boxes of old flotsam, as she calls the items, remind me of the assem- blages of artist Betye Saar, filled with symbolic objects that represent images of life, memories and heritage. The graphite drawings provided by Justin Jenkins, Jovian Turnbull and Stacey Robinson wonderful representations of that medium. Jenkins’ draw- ings are intense mental spaces and places wading into the depths of surreal- ism, and Turnbull gives you a flat out good drawing of a classroom environ- ment with an artist model. Stacey Robinson also provides two drawings with a sequential art feel to them that prove he is also a talent with great potential. There are two intriguing photographic images by Carmen Camacho that at first look seem very playful until you take a closer look. Her images ques- tion the “Rites of Passage” women undergo in our society and seem to say why or what that is all about. Gina Furches’s “Honorable Warrior” is steeped in ancient archeological history and speaks to Native American and Mexican cultural references. There are many others, but I only have a limited amount of space to discuss this exciting body of work. S.T.U.N. art hopes to continue providing a venue for modern artists in the community. Please join them on Friday, April 9th from 7 to 9 p.m. for an Artist Social to meet the artists in the exhibition and talk with them about their work and ideas about making art. A closing reception will be held on Friday, April 16th from 6 to 9 p.m. The community is invited to all of their events. The Fayetteville Art Guild is a member of the Visual Arts Alliance. A collaboration of arts pre- senting organizations and institutions dedicated to building a vibrant and enduring visual arts commu- nity. The Guild promotes the visual arts through its exhibitions and programs. You can reach the Guild at Gallery ONE13 by calling 910-223-2787. The Gallery is open on Friday and Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. th s car, this cari

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