In addition to featuring work by local and regional artists as part of our programming in 2010, we are pleased to announce upcoming exhibitions by artists from across the nation including William Carroll, Peter Drake, Jim Gallucci, and Sharon Louden among others. Additionally, these internationally recognized artists will lead a series of public workshops and give presentations at the Center.

William Carroll is a New York based artist, gallery director, curator and educator. His drawings and paintings based on long urban hikes have been exhibited widely at prominent galleries and institutions including Dia Art Foundation, The Brooklyn Museum, Charles Cowles Gallery, the Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery. He has also been a visiting artist and lecturer at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, F.I.T., Pratt, and Parsons, where he taught the postgraduate course Theory, Practice, and Career and also curated their MFA Thesis Show at The Kitchen. http://www.elizabethharrisgallery.com/carroll.html

Peter Drake’s use of strange compositions, startling juxtapositions, and manipulated scale in his drawings, paintings, and macro photography create dream-like, almost haunting images. His work has been collected by The Whitney Museum, The Phoenix Museum of Art, The museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., The Achenbach Collection and the L.A. Country Museum amongst others. He has been published widely and is the recipient of numerous residencies, grants, and awards, including the year-long Artist in Residence program Kunst Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, Germany, a 2006 fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Drake lives and works in New York. www.peterdrakestudio.com

Jim Gallucci is a sculptor who lives and works in Greensboro, North Carolina, and has had numerous exhibitions, private and corporate commissions, and public art commissions across the country including Veteran’s Memorial Archways in Rockville, MD, Gate of Opportunity for the South Trust Bank building in Jacksonville, FL, Whisper Gates outside of a children’s interactive global awareness museum in Raleigh, NC, and Play Ball, the baseball gates for UNC-Greensboro. Gallucci’s public sculptures often interact with the audience in a way that both invites and challenges the viewer. For example, his famous Benches embellish this conventional object with lyrical forms that dare the viewer to play with a utilitarian structure. Two Benches will be transported to the 5.4.7. Arts Center and featured as part of his exhibition. www.jimgalluccisculptor.com

Sharon Louden’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. One can find her work in permanent collections such as in the Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition of sculpture, paintings and animation at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL, which travelled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a solo exhibition of animations at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, PA. In addition, her animation, The Bridge, was on view as an outdoor facade projection at the Johnson Museum of Art this past year. Louden lives and works in New York. www.sharonlouden.com