2nd Friday Art Walk Preview
Exhibits in Galleries around Town
The 2nd Friday Art Walk in Carrboro and Chapel Hill is this Friday, March 13. Many participating galleries host free public receptions with snacks and opportunities to meet the artists between 6pm and 9pm. The Carrborean free monthly print edition devotes its center pages, called Gallery Place, to the monthly shows in Carrboro. Here are those previews for March with most text and images provided by the galleries.
The ArtsCenter, 400 Robeson Street
Spring Thing! A group show guest curated by Amanda Barr of MY ROOM gallery. This superstar group of contemporary artists comes together to celebrate the coming of Spring.
One-of-a-kind art prints on consignment from Ron Liberti.
Mae Sharpless - Station 313: Come out of your world and on to Station 313. Meet the aliens and see beyond your perspective into the unhuman. This interactive black light show is fun for the whole family.
This N That Gift Gallery, 118 East Main Street
“My paintings focus on my love for color, texture and “brushwork” as seen in my colorful paintings of whimsical animals and reflective figures. I enjoy creating work with both passion and feeling!”--Cindy Lucas
The Beehive Salon, 102 East Weaver Street
“My paintings explore the intersection of intuition and structure through layered abstraction, vibrant color, and symbolic form. I use recurring motifs—topographic forms, organic shapes, and geometric patterns—to evoke transformation and emotional resonance. Astronauts appear as metaphors for exploration and isolation, drifting through dreamlike environments that blur the line between the familiar and the unknown.”--John Harrison
Peel Gallery, 708 West Rosemary Street
When stillness becomes you, features new works by North Carolina based artist Reneesha McCoy. McCoy describes the exhibition, “When stillness becomes you represents the moment or moments you sit still and soak in everything around you and open yourself to the possibility to bend reality.”
Muse Gallery, 201 East Main Street
Echoes of the Garden | Interpretations in Paint, Photography, and Illustration
Spring Florals
“I believe the works in this show express three expressions of love for flowers. We each employ our own visual interpretations of how they influence our art. Our work echoes each other in subject matter but finds each of us with our own unique way of seeing.” –Lila Bacon
Dahlia, A Study in Becoming
This series explores the Dahlia as both a flower and a form. Drawn to its layered geometry and luminous presence, Delia photographed the Dahlia repeatedly, allowing each bloom to reveal itself in a different way. She explores petal, pattern, light, and symmetry, transforming the familiar into something more abstract and contemplative.
Beloved Flora & Fauna
Joanna presents digitally hand-drawn illustration-based works inspired by the plants, animals, and seasonal rhythms of North Carolina. Rooted in her illustration collection and hand-drawn pattern designs translated onto silk scarves, the work bridges wild landscapes and cultivated gardens across our state.
Frank Gallery, 370 East Main Street
Highlighting the work of member artists Luna Lee Ray and Gordon Jameson, and guest artist Ronan Peterson.
"This body of work is inspired by my longstanding love of water in all of its forms: rain, ocean, river, mist. The play of light through moisture in the air and the smell of the ground when dampened. Water is Life."--Luna Lee Ray
"My work is informed by divergent sources, from the cult Imagery of the Virgin Mary to Native American pictographs, thousands of years old, to current events and early Renaissance art, among others. Through these sources, I engage the paintings in a conversation that is intuitive, cathartic, and serendipitous."--Gordon Jameson
Drakeford Library Complex, 203 South Greensboro Street
“Lil Washington Does Good by Me.” Derrick Beasley is a multidisciplinary artist based in Durham, North Carolina. In a time where it is easy to succumb to grief over the degradation of our environment, Derrick uses grief as a pathway to eco possibilities and speculates on a brighter future. Derrick’s work envisions near future worlds where people and specifically Black folks are in reciprocal relationship with the non-human world.
