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First Friday Opening: November 6, 6-9pm

eNTER aCTION, a curated exhibition, will display innovative new media work. Artists will transform the gallery at Visual Art Exchange, as well as a raw space in City Market, into a showcase of sonic, light, video, sculpture, kinetic, conceptual, and digital imaging media.

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sponsored by Terpsikhore Records, Flying Tiger Sound, and 88.1 WKNC.

Featured Artists:

• Michael Fels
• Sally Van Gorder
• Ronald Lambert
• Dana Raymond
• William Booth Taylor

Join us for 2 informal panel discussions about the exhibit! To learn more or to register to attend the panel discussions, please contact Rachel at rachel@visualartexchange.org or 919.828.7834, ext. 4.

Artist Talk: November 12, 7-9pm
Michael Fels, Dana Raymond & William Booth Taylor discuss their work in eNTER aCTION.

Art + Technology Talk: November 19, 7-9pm
Professionals discuss the connections between art and technology in their work. Panelists include Christian Karkow of Clearscapes, David Spalinski of Epic Games and others.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Michael Fels

Michael Fels is a printmaker, painter, and installation artist. His work is focused on the precarious balance of physical space and the rawness of materials and their interplay. In other words, material syntax-the juxtaposition of varying materials-an investigation about how physical space defines the art within it and how art influences its domain.

He actively exhibits his art work, including recent shows at Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Hodson Gallery, Frederick, MD, Trinity Gallery, Chicago, IL, Mount St. Marys University, New Arts Center, Lehigh Valley PA, MWAA Gallery, New York City, NY, Corban Estates Art Centre, Waitakere City, New Zealand. Snowhite Gallery, Waganui, New Zealand, The Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, New Zealand.

In the classroom, Fels imparts knowledge by practicing the Socratic method of learning. This free exchange of ideas creates a vital and interactive learning environment that is constantly undergoing change and evolving in a way that supports risk and deeper immersion into art making. At Elon since 2002, Fels teaches 2 and 3D design, Painting, Drawing, Professional Practices, Senior Seminar, and a Winter term Sculpture course. He also teaches in the General Studies Program, and has taught a Fine Arts course in Italy in the International Studies Program.

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Sally Van Gorder

Sally Van Gorder is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, photography, sound, installation, and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Duke University Museum of Art, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and screened in film festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, 1 Reel and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. She has received numerous awards, honors, and grants, and her work has been reviewed in the New Art Examiner and Art Papers.

She has worked in the Television Broadcasting Industry for over 10 years as a motion graphic designer and as a producer for clients such as Cartoon Network, GlaxoSmithKline, Hanes, IBM, Children’s Television Workshop, CNN and The Body Shop. Van Gorder recently returned to the US from four years in Doha, Qatar where she was Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts - Qatar.

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Ronald Lambert

Working mainly in video and sculpture, Ron Lambert investigates the intersection between psychology and the environment. He received his MFA from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, and Alfred University where he received an excellence in teaching award in 2008. Ron is currently an assistant professor at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, Tennessee. Ron's work has been published in Shaping Space, Third Edition, and Color, Third Edition, both by Paul Zelanski as well as the show catalogue People Doing Strange Things With Electricity. Ron has shown at the Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Georgia, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Lexington Art League, the Soil Collective in Seattle, and several university galleries around the country. Ron's work has won awards at Artworks Gallery in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri. His work is in the Joseph Vascovitz collection, and in the collection of the Tacoma Art Museum. He is currently represented by Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, WA.

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Dana Raymond

William Booth Taylor

Will Taylor earned a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY. His drawings and films are included in the Drawing Center's Viewing Program (NYC), Artists Space's digital slide registry (NYC), and Pierogi 2000's Video File (Brooklyn, NY). His collaborative works with Brooklyn artists Jack Warren and Caleb Scott have been included in a variety of exhibitions, including the Trisha Brown Dance Company Benefit at Pace Wildenstein (NYC). With the support of the Combustive Motor Corporation (Brooklyn, NY), Mr. Taylor founded the "Charred and Lacquered" film series in 2001. This series later evolved into the "Charred and Lacquered Revival" which exists today as a multidisciplinary art collective interested in promoting innovative and challenging works of art through the adaptive reuse of alternative spaces and interdisciplinary collaborations. "Revival" projects have included "Deconcealed" (a collaborative installation in a former textile mill in Mebane, NC), "Elysiana" (a collaborative film created in part for the nationally known 48-Hour Film Project), and "Caravan" (a collaborative film and projection piece shot throughout Raleigh, NC, Richmond, VA, Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, and Brooklyn, NY).

Mr. Taylor's paintings and drawings have been the subject of public symposia for such critics and curators as Donald Kuspit, Dan Cameron (New Museum of Contemporary Art), Laura Hoptman (Museum of Modern Art), Eugenie Tsai (Whitney Museum of American Art), and Dominic Molon (Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). In addition, Mr. Taylor has paneled discussions for the Cultural Studies Association, the College Art Association, and the American Society of Media Photographers.

In 2008, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts selected Mr. Taylor and Julian Semilian (UNCSA School of Filmmaking faculty) to participate in a collaborative initiative entitled "BREATHE - The Creative Challenge Project". For this project, Taylor and Semilian traveled to London and Prague to engage in a dialogue with three of the most influential stop motion animators/filmmakers of our time, Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay (Stephen and Timothy Quay).

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