Exchange Gallery
Every month VAE highlights the work of four or five exemplary VAE artists in its Exchange Gallery. This highly visible retail space in the front windows of VAE's City Market Gallery is excellent exposure for artists and a favorite shopping spot of patrons. Artists are juried into the space annually. For more information contact Rachel Berry at 919.828.7834 ex 6854, or rberry@visualartexchange.org.
Click here to learn how to apply for your own featured artist exhibition!October 2008 Exchange Gallery Artists:
- Marie Becker-Pos
- Gabriella Corter
- Sandra Cyr
- Rebecca Rousseau
Marie Becker-Pos
Gabriella Corter
My current Koi fish series is inspired by the wood grain designs inherent in the wood panel surfaces. The patterns within the wood grain remind me of motion in water and I place a fish where I feel it is best suited to be swimming. Sometimes the fish swim in circles and other times they are alone just quietly waiting for something to happen. In some cases it seems if you just glanced away for a second a fish might swim right off the panel. This is a calming series meant to inspire a sense of quiet meditation in the viewer just as sitting by a koi pond and staring into the water seems calm one who gazes into its depths.
Sandra Cyr
While studying Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, I realized that the work I created was not reflective of the voice I had. It was flat, and I was usually embarrassed by not only what I created, but how I created. Through the process of coming to terms with the fact that I am not a graphic designer, my life-long love for animals has taken over as the focus of my creativity.
I spend a good deal of time at farms, zoos, and natural history museums, as well as volunteering with local animal charities, in order to gain "fodder" for my work. It was through this process that I "discovered" chickens. I became fascinated with their form and their personalities. Chickens come in a variety of colors and sizes. It was the subtlety of color which drew my focus to them as my primary subject matter.
I love to interact with animals, as well as study how they are built, how they move, how they act and react. I find them both fascinating and funny, and try to express that through my illustrations and paintings.
By playing with photorealistic foregrounds and flat, sometimes cartoon-like, backgrounds, the focus is drawn towards the animal, to its beauty, but also to its personality. I want to show the viewer that animals should not be disregarded as food, or beasts, or vermin. I want the viewer to see these individuals as I do, each just as special as the next.
Rebecca Rousseau
I'm an intentional primitivist. I live on painting that involves the intense use of energy and intuition.
My inspiration flows from experiencing the naive and color-saturated art of Haiti, Mexico and southern California. I've always been drawn to the Latin American palette.
I'm dedicated to the discovery of new painterly techniques. Creating motion with color is my ongoing pursuit.
See previous featured artists:
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007