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Road
in Sight: Contemporary Art in North Carolina
April 13–May 15, 2005
Porch and University Galleries
The Center for Documentary Studies (Porch and University Galleries)
will be one of the venues for this exhibition of more than eighty
works by twenty-two North Carolina artists, including two campus
buses transformed into works of art, a graffiti-marked bridge, a
bus stop, and five other destinations.
Opening Wednesday, April 13, at 5 p.m. with a variety of events,
the Art and Art History Department at Duke University presents Road
in Sight: Contemporary Art in North Carolina, an exhibition
of more than eighty works, including three commissioned pieces,
by twenty-two artists. The show—which includes two campus
buses transformed into works of art, a graffiti-encrusted bridge,
a bus stop and five other destinations on campus—will remain
on view through May 15, 2005.
Carl Pope, Artist in Residence, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Photograph by elin o'Hara slavick. From the ongoing
series Workers Dreaming (1999–2004), chromogenic
print.
Opening Events:
• Reception and lecture by curators Lauren Miller and Jessica
West, 5 p.m., Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building, East Campus
(segment of exhibit on view, followed by art-bus transport to two
outdoor sites and Smith Warehouse)
• Poetry performance by DeWayne Barton, 6:45 p.m., “The
Space,” Smith Warehouse, 114 S. Buchanan Boulevard (followed
by art-bus transport to other venues: Center for Documentary Studies,
the Allen Building on West Campus, and the John Hope Franklin Center)
• Closing reception, 8 p.m., John Hope Franklin Center, 2204
Erwin Road
WMD Project (2004) by Mel Chin. Converted mobile home in
process.
The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, digital
media and photography. In addition to the three outdoor sites, Duke
venues include the Center for Documentary Studies, the East Duke
Building, the Allen Building and John Hope Franklin Center. Road
in Sight is the inaugural exhibition for one of the venues,
“The Space,” which is a new 8,000-square-foot raw space
on the second floor of the newly completed Smith Warehouse. The
work of thirteen artists will be exhibited there.
Artists whose work is featured in the exhibition live and work in
North Carolina. They include Connie Bostic, Mel Chin, Lauren Gibbes,
Michael Harris, Juan Logan, Sean Pace, Susan Page, IlaSahai Prouty,
Ron Rozzelle, Elin O’Hara Slavick, David Solow and others.
For more information on individual artists see www.duke.edu/web/art/.
The Center for Documentary Studies will present works by Mel Chin
and elin o’Hara slavick in the Porch and University Galleries.
Gallery hours are Monday – Thursday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.;
Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.;
and Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.
Curators Lauren Miller and Jessica West, both art history majors
at Duke, visited more than sixty artist studios from Cherokee to
Wilmington to find artists for this exhibition.
“We were drawn to works that are unpretentious, critical,
raw and bold,” Miller said. West added, “All of these
artists are engaged with culture at large. They look beyond their
own identities to consider broad social, environmental, and political
issues.”
Penland School resident artist IlaSahai Prouty created ephemeral
glass sculptures within a grove of trees at a bus stop on Campus
Drive at Oregon Street, an installation commissioned for the show.
Raleigh artist Michael Salter covered the graffiti bridge on East
Campus with hundreds of original graphic design posters that examine
contemporary mass advertising psychology. He calls the work, which
was commissioned for the show, iconation (2005).
Durham artist David Solow wrapped two campus buses with images of
Duke’s East and West campus bus stops as his commissioned
contribution to the exhibition. Exhibition visitors may ride the
buses throughout the duration of the show. Two seats on each bus
are dedicated to an audio installation that permits riders on both
buses to engage in conversation with each other through microphones
and speakers. Solow’s work links the various sites of Road
in Sight across Duke’s complex campus system.
A full-color catalog accompanies the exhibition, featuring essays
by curators Miller and West and a foldout map identifying the exhibition
sites on campus. Art and Art History Professor Kristine Stiles,
the curatorial advisor for the exhibition, wrote the catalogue’s
preface.
This project continues the tradition of undergraduate student–curated
exhibitions begun in 1989 in collaboration with the former Duke
University Museum of Art, now the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Professor Stiles was instrumental in the founding of this program.
The Road in Sight project is the senior thesis project
for the curators.
The exhibition is presented by the Department of Art and Art History
with contributions from Nannerl O. Keohane, President Emeritus;
Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University;
Office of the Provost; Bassett Fund; Duke University Union; Duke
Performances; Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; Office of the Vice Provost
for Interdisciplinary Studies; John Hope Franklin Humanities Center;
and Campus Council.
Jorge Milanes Despaigne, Tour Guide, Translator, and Gallery Assistant,
Havana, Cuba. Photograph by elin o'Hara slavick. From the ongoing
series Workers Dreaming (1999–2004), chromogenic
print.
WMD Project (2004) by Mel Chin. Preparatory document showing
aerial view of workshop site.
banner image:
Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces
at CDS. Photograph by Christoper Sims.
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