Recent Press & News March 2020
Front Burner:
Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting
North Carolina Museum of Art
Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting :
Panel Discussion
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020 | 7:00 PM
EAST BUILDING, SECU AUDITORIUM
McColl Center for Art + Innovation Residency
photo credit: Lorraine Turi
I have only been at the McColl Center Residency for about one week thus far, and am already having such a wonderful experience. I will be in residence here through August 13, and an am looking forward to all the upcoming opportunities to interact with others in my studio. Come see me on any of the following dates!
Open House
Welcoming party for McColl Center’s summer artists-in-residence and the summer exhibition’s opening reception
Thursday June 6 @ 6-9 pm
Open Studio Saturday
All artists will be present and working in their studios for visits from the public
Saturday July 13 @ 12-4 pm
Closing Reception
Thursday August 8 @ 6-0 pm
The McColl Center for Art + Innovation is located @
721 N Tryon St
Charlotte NC 28202
Open Hours:
Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday + Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
or by appointment
Lydia Dona, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Carmen Neely at Elga Wimmer PCC, NY
Elga Wimmer PCC is pleased to announce the exhibition PAIN(T)HREE which features recent works
on canvas, tile and paper by artists Lydia Dona, Lynne Golob Gelfman and Carmen Neely
PAIN(T)HREE
Lydia Dona
Lynne Golob Gelfman
Carmen Neely
January 17 – March 10, 2019
Opening Reception : January 24, 6-8 pm
526 West 26 Street, New York, NY 10001, Suite 310
PAIN(T)HREE
Lydia Dona
Lynne Golob Gelfman
Carmen Neely
January 17 – March 10, 2019
Opening Reception : January 24, 6-8 pm
526 West 26 Street, New York, NY 10001, Suite 310
it makes it more so if you say so
“For what you collect is always yourself” – Jean Baudrillard
Jane Lombard Gallery is pleased to present It makes it more so if you say so, Carmen Neely’s first solo show in New York. The exhibition will feature a series of recent paintings, drawings, and mixed media sculpture that continue Neely’s exploration of gesture as object.
Neely’s work—a combination of painting and found objects—is imbued with deep intention and awareness of her identity as a young black woman making art in the twenty-first century. “The mark”, revered and mythologized as the purest form of artistic intention in the art historical canon, becomes an act of subtle subversion in Neely’s paintings. Her own sexuality and female body appropriate the traditionally masculine gesture, and turns painting into an act of femininity. With each brushstroke, she pushes back against the status quo, inserting herself into a larger dialogue about signification in contemporary abstract painting.
In an effort to retain memories, events, conversations and people, Neely hoards objects as souvenirs. Paintings and drawings serve as means of ‘visual paraphrasing’, where a personal language of gestures and symbols embodies a distinct previous experience. These narratives undergo material translations – a painterly stroke becomes a three-dimensional clay form, then a flattened photographic image or laser-cut plexiglass shape – evolving the gesture into a tangible object to be collected.
Expo Chicago
Carmen Neely, Weapon of Choice, 2016
acrylic on canvas
Booth 725
Chicago | Navy Pier
Featuring:
Squeak Carnwath
Shezad Dawood
Sarah Dwyer
Carmen Neely
Michael Rakowitz
Through social media I discovered Ei Jane - a dope artist, sound creator, image maker, and human. She has shared publicly this ALIVE photo background and encouraged other black women to use it and post our presence online. This is such a beautiful, simple but powerful, and accessible reminder that We are still here. I am still here.
I've been so grateful over the past several months for the virtual community of support and love and encouragement that arose through social media in response to all of the publicized violence and aggression towards others who share my complexion. I'm not stretching the truth by any means when I say that there were days when the words and images others posted gave me strength to get out of bed and be hopeful. There are numerous people out there I follow that don't even know me, have never met me, or interacted with me at all, yet they have touched my life just by sharing words of encouragement at moments when encouragement was needed on a mass scale. For any other brown girls or boys out there who feel isolated in a rural community, or silenced in an academic institution, or undervalued in your position, or misunderstood by your peers, let's support each other in this virtual world. Reach out, search for reflections of yourself online if you can't find them in your immediate physical world. Share each others' words. Make yourself visible. Appreciate others who do the same. It can matter.
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