Join us at one of Uptown's newest galleries, The New Gallery of Modern Art on Wednesday, February 29 from 6 to 7:30 PM. Located on The Green, the Gallery welcomes the Contemporaries for an artist talk and reception with artists Patricia Leighton and Del Geist alongside Gallery Director, Irina Toshkova. The gallery will be exhibiting "stone * earth * paper", works by Patricia Leighton and Del Geist, both of whom have been integrating art into the public realm for more than 25 years. Current UNCC Artists-in-Residence at the Center, the artists have also been commissioned by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) to integrate art into the future UNC Charlotte light rail station and campus site.
Free for Contemporaries Members
$8 for Non-Members
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Del Geist uses the natural sciences as a palette, he has developed major site-specific artworks throughout the US and Europe. His environmental artworks elicit unique qualities inherent to a place, fostering a viewer's direct sensory experience. The stone and earthworks, metaphorically, contain the natural history of a region and its geology, capturing the spirit and flavor of an area.
Patricia Leighton has developed her sculptural projects over the years and has won international acclaim for her unique approaches to art. Growing up surrounded by hills and mountains of ever-changing colour, texture and light movement; and having traveled Britain and Europe viewing ancient sacred sites like the Ring of Brogar in the Orkney's or Hagar Qim in Malta, her work evokes an intangible sense of presence, quiet echos of the landscape.