Call for Member Artists
Call for Member Artists
Welcome Spring with this exhibit featuring member artists Bill McAllister and Peter Filene, and guest artists Tim Walter, Ivana Milojevic Beck, and Julio de Alberdi. Join us at the gallery for the opening reception on April 8.
Member artist and incredibly accomplished photographer, Bill McAllister will be featuring his wonderful photography—”Whether the photograph is a created imagination, portrait or figure study; the permission and participation of those people photographed hopefully allows for an image that celebrates them.” Also stating; “Process is often integral. Whether using the ultra large format 20×24 inch Polaroid, homemade, infrared modified, or underwater cameras, each affect the path of image creation. Most force me to work with in a slower, more deliberate manner, helping to see past the readily apparent.”
Constantly adding to his repertoire of accomplishments, Peter is a member artist of FRANK and highly creative photographer who is always re-inventing his medium. The body of work Peter will be exhibiting in this show will be his photocollages. Peter’s collages are dynamic, painterly, and abstract, and a really beautiful way of melding his different types of photography into a creative representation.
Featured artist and member of FRANK, Peter Filene talks about his latest artwork in the gallery, photocollages. Drawing from a desire to delve into a new creative form, Peter literally rips apart his own double-exposure photographs to create something new and exciting during this featured exhibit.
FRANK is showing selections from Tim Walter’s series Portraits [Trauma]. These images give visual expression to internal emotions of the subjects’ experience of trauma in their lives, emotions such as fear, anger, resignation, and sometimes resolve and love. The large-scale photos straddle art and documentary. To create the pictures, he works with the subjects over four to eight hours, encouraging them to enter a state of flow so that imagery emerges at times from the unconscious. Tim is also an arts entrepreneur and advocate; he founded and runs The Fruit, a multi-dimensional art and performance venue in downtown Durham.
The tension between Ivana’s Serbian and American identities is at the center of her struggle to mold a present existence into a future resolution between two disparate worlds, she says. “My focus is on generation of women in my family, my grandmother, my mother, my daughter and me. I work to portray the resilience, flexibility, and adaptability that has been passed down the line. I imagine female form, strong and balanced, resting as the foundational material for generations to come. I find parallels between structural, foundational home building and women’s physical and mental power as mother, wife, and daughter. Materials that I continue to use – brick, wax and mortar – remind me that what is strong and durable can also be vulnerable and ephemeral.”
Showcasing for the first time at FRANK, Julio was born in London, raised in Spain, and now currently living in Pittsboro. “While growing up in Spain and England, Julio worked for and assisted his father Joxe Alberdi, making large sculpture commissions for city centers, banks and private collections.” Julio’s sculptures are made up of wood, soap stone and mixed media and we are thrilled to showcase his work in this exhibit.
Franklin Street Arts Collective (DBA) FRANK Gallery is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization, promoting the arts since 2010
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Monday – Closed
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