RDU Airport, NC – Visitors to Raleigh-Durham International Airport’s Terminal A can experience the latest collaboration between Artspace, a Raleigh-based, non-profit visual arts center, and the airport. The new exhibit features works by four Artspace artists: Mary Cook, mixed-media prints; Ashley Lathe, watercolors and silkscreens; Blair Ligon, digital archival prints and Dianne T. Rodwell, mixed water media on paper. This is the fifth exhibit at RDU produced in collaboration with Artspace. RDU features rotating fine art exhibits in Terminal A to give the public a respite from the fast pace of air travel.
About the Artists
Mary Cook offers a collection of work that features a common thread. She connects the female spirit with the importance of family and place. This series focuses on the nest and its many definitions. Cook believes that this work looks to the future and the hope of putting down roots and beginning a new chapter in her family history, thus the nesting phase.
Ashley Lathe is a working artist who lives in Charlotte, NC . Lathe states that the core of his work is about recognizing and celebrating places and things that are common and easily overlooked. All of his work is meant to be experienced in some way; to make the viewing process as dynamic as the creation. Lathe’s theory is that if we can see the most banal around us as art, then it is always a beautiful world.
Blair Ligon uses computers in an idiosyncratic, personal way to create artwork. This collection of Ligon’s work focuses on noise. Noise from digital images is magnified and manipulated to reveal underlying levels of order. To see more of Ligon’s art, visit www.blairligon.com.
Dianne T. Rodwell’s The Rorschach Series can best be described by a comparison to the psychiatric image of the symmetrical ink blot — the famous Rorschach Inkblot Test. The artwork is more than an inkblot though; it is the layering of innumerable transparent images and references to a horizontal plane. Rodwell believes that the work challenges viewers with their own reactions which include images of animals, demons, and fairies all evoked by the nebulous images. To see a larger collection of Rodwell’s work, visit www.diannerodwell.com.
Exhibit Information
The exhibit will be on view through April 2006 in the connector gallery of Terminal A near the main baggage claim area. For more information, contact Artspace at 821-2787 or e-mail:info@artspacenc.org or go to their Web site www.artspacenc.org. Visitwww.rdu.com/whileatairport/art.htm to learn more about exhibits and permanent art on display at the airport.
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