January Exhibition

The January show at ARC Gallery features the work of Granite Amit, Christopher Fraser and Nicole McCormick Santiago.

Exhibition Dates

January 9, 2013 through February 2, 2013
Opening Reception
January 12, 2013
4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Special Event - Friday Evening Reception and Memorial for Darius McGraw
January 25, 2013
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
ARC Gallery will now be open for a special evening reception each month in conjunction with the opening of Firecat Projects' Featured Exhibitions. This month's special reception is held in honor of Darius McGraw, a participant in the "Recurrent Dream" project supported by the ARC Educational Foundation.  The evening will include a Hip Hop performance by youth from Darius' community and a reflection from Camille Odeh.

The Artists

 Granite  Amit

"Hereticha Be’eynecha"
 

"Hereticha Be’eynecha" is an audio video installation by artist Granite Amit.  Using large-scale prints on translucent surfaces, Amit processes texts and ancient melodies from the Hebrew Bible. She focuses on a textual junction within the narrative.  The installation hopes to challenge inner Gestalts and emotional filters that distort realities to fix and to fit to a larger collective narrative.

Granite Amit is an ARC Member artist.  See more of her work on her website at http://www.granitamit.com/

Nicole McCormick Santiago

Nicole McCormick Santiago - Paintings and Drawings
 

Susan in Crib, Oil on Prepared Paper, 16 ¾ x 14 ¾, 2012
Nicole McCormick Santiago strives to create visual narratives that seem to stretch out beyond the moment shown, creating a kind of “thick time.” Her work often portrays residues of the past and suggestions of the future swirling around the present moment. Santiago also undoubtedly attempts to communicate insight into the social roles and relationships of her painted figures. To accomplish this, she uses the scattered signs of daily existence to communicate the accidental yet honest visual storylines that provide indirect insight into the cadence of a daily life.

See more of Nicole McCormick Santiago's work on her website at
http://www.nicolemccormicksantiago.com/

Christopher Fraser

'Trust the Photograph'
 
             
Dusko Oil on canvas, 50 x 50, 2010                                                   
Christopher Fraser has titled his present series of paintings‘Trust the Photograph.’ "Photographs may capture a true moment in time, or may be synthesized," Fraser writes.  "As you stand in front of a photograph you may ask yourself: ‘do I trust it,  is it real? Or you may ask yourself: ‘is it telling the whole story, the whole truth?' For an artist, it may mean ‘trust in the photograph unquestionably’ through the process of painting."

See more of this series and more of Christopher Fraser's work on his website at https://sites.google.com/site/chrisfrasertshirt/