Chapel Hill Exhibitions

October 6 – November 24, 2024
Horace Williams House

Solo Exhibition: Gadisse LEe

Gadisse Lee is a 25-year-old fine art photographer based in North Carolina. She was born and raised in Ethiopia for seven years before coming to the United States. Lee received her BFA in 2022 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has had numerous group exhibitions throughout North Carolina including the For Freedoms Project – Lawn Signs, and has had her work published in Stubborn Magazine, The Danger Issue.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My self-portraits capture the essence of my life's journey, drawing inspiration from my childhood and experiences of loss and displacement. Shot outdoors, they embrace the softness of natural light and ground me.

An important element of my self-portraiture is color. I approach color with intentionality, using it not only to enhance the visual appeal of my images but also to convey meaning and emotion. I am drawn to colors that evoke feelings of nostalgia, comfort, tranquility, or melancholy. In each photograph, I carefully consider the interplay of colors, seeking to create harmonious compositions that captivate the eye and engage the imagination. Color serves as a powerful tool for storytelling, allowing me to communicate complex ideas and emotions with clarity and depth.

This is an ongoing project which reflects my evolution and serves as a creative outlet for processing life's moments, both good and bad. As I continue to journey through the ebbs and flows of life, each new experience becomes an inspiration for my artistic expression, shaping and molding my self-portraits into a living, breathing narrative of growth and self-awareness. In this way, my art becomes not only a reflection of who I am, but a roadmap of where I've been and where I'm destined to go.

October 11, 2024
Time TBA
Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill

AIR LOOM: Click! Exhibition Closing Event

AIR LOOM celebrates 15 years of the Cassilhaus Artist-in-Residence program and features the work of 53 of the 61 artists that have been through our program. The curators have focused on work that was produced during the artists’ time at Cassilhaus or later work inspired by their time here. The opening of the exhibition will coincide with a four day celebration where 30 of the artists will come together to meet one another (or re-meet from the 5th and 10th anniversary) and share their common experience here. A wide range of media will be showcased including photography, painting, works on paper, video, poetry, dance, sculpture, book arts, choreography, music, animation, collage, drawing, writing, film, and textile arts.

October 11, 2024
Northside District, sponsored by PEEL

Opening reception: carousel slideshoW

Peel Gallery’s Carousel Slideshow is a curated exhibition of carnival photography. The reception features a slideshow screening of the works accompanied by live electronic music with framed works hung throughout the gallery. Works will range from traditional and digital to alternative and mixed media methods of photography to be displayed for the duration of October. The event and exhibition is part of the 2024 Click! Photo Festival 

Friday, October 11, 2024
Exhibit Oct 1-31
Artists Reception Oct 11 6-8pm

Creative Summer: Photographs by Barbara Tyroler

Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.

Artist Statement

As a fine art portrait artist and educator who utilizes pools and water for her backdrops, she is specifically interested in community outreach. The photographic series of portraiture created in pools and lakes throughout the east coast, explores how and why we immerse our bodies in water. The work is collaboratively produced with family and friends, students and colleagues, business clients, and strangers, to record gesture and the human figure, light, pattern, and reflective design. Beneath the surface are the intimate stories she encounters.

A huge thanks to UBS Financial Group Services!

October 19, 2024
Frank Gallery, Carrboro

frank in Focus: inspired by the Lens

Meet the artists for the 2024 edition of Frank in Focus: Ashlie Johnson Coggins, Peter Filene, Dan Gotlieb, Barbara Tyroler

Ashlie Johnson Coggins is an artist, who enjoys thinking and learning about human centered design, storytelling, environmentalism, art, culture, and the ways people create identity and connection in the digital world. 

Peter Filene taught U.S. history at the University of North Carolina. Nows lives and teaches at Carol Woods Retirement Community, volunteering for Meals on Wheels, member of FRANK Gallery and recently published two books.

Dan Gotlieb’s photo-generated work that investigates the subjective boundaries between environmental disruptions and human dislocation. “Having spent forty years creating cultural spaces and environments for art in the public realm, I now focus my creative life on personal perspectives that convey a subjective, often “blurry” aesthetic to depict nature and the human condition void of edges or boundaries. Visual ambiguity and mystery are core to my picture-making, as are a deep interest in physical and environmental sciences, and material process of picture making.”

Barbara Tyroler has a lifelong love of creating portraiture for constructing memories, rendering the figure as art abstraction within the landscape. Her current work addresses the concept of home, serving local organizations that serve the elderly, children, and families.