Portraits
The Arts Council of Wilson Welcomes
Photographer Jerome De Perlinghi
January 16 - February 20, 2012
Opening reception: Monday, January 16, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Thursday, January 19, 6:30 p.m.
Join the Arts Council of Wilson as we welcome one of Wilson’s newest citizens, Jerome De Perlinghi, and celebrate his photography artistry with the exhibit Portraits. This stunning exhibit opens January 16 and will be on display through February 18 in the Wilson Arts Center’'s Annie D. Boykin gallery. The majority of Jerome's extensive portfolio has been photographed in the United States for European as well as American newspapers and magazines. His work has been published in Liberation, Lemonde, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also published two books, including one about Shanghai.
A native of Brussels, Belgium, Jerome's love of photography began when his father, a movie maker, gave him a camera at the age of fifteen. With a darkroom located in their home, Jerome was able to easily print his own photographs and hone his skills. Upon his graduation from a Belgium trade school, he worked for the Film Museum and then for the French newspaper Liberation. Stateside, Jerome resided in Chicago for eleven years, but he and his wife, Rosa, now proudly call Wilson their home after the completion of an extensive renovation of a historic downtown property. In fact, you may have encountered Jerome around town, where he has been photographing and collecting portraits of Wilsonians for a book he hopes to publish about the area and its citizens.
The Arts Council exhibit will feature part of the photographs from his acclaimed Portraits collection. His subjects include artists, conductors, bluesmen, movie stars and writers. This fascinating show will open with a reception on Monday, January 16 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. The following Thursday, January 19, Jerome will participate in an Artist Talks event in the Boykin Gallery at 6:30pm that is open to the public. Please join us and learn Jerome’s secrets for photographing such vivid and captivating images.
Attention to Detail
Anne Hill and Roger Parramore
March 1 through April 7
This exhibit features the intricate drawings of Anne Hill and the delicate glass works of Roger Parramore. Both of their techniques require great precision and attention to detail. This exhibit will open with a reception on March 1, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at The Boykin Gallery and remain through April 7.
Anne Frances Hill was an artist living in North Carolina who developed a style that is peculiar to her - cross hatched pen and ink drawings that were then stitched ("tucked") and designed for viewing from 180 degrees. Her drawings were done with nib pens dipped into ink, then drawn one mark at a time. The paper was then folded and sewn in a simple technique called a tuck, and when pressed out, caused a three- dimensional effect. Two or her drawings are in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
In the words of Roger Parramore, "My love affair with the romance of Italian glass is evident throughout my work." Light, fine, and fragile, it tends to focus on the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the material. Fellow glass artist Robert Mickelsen writes: "Parramore is extremely adept at forming relatively large blown forms, and has sometimes been called the ‘human lathe'. The bodies of some of his vessels are formed of clear borosilicate glass with color being reserved for ornamentation, stems, and handles. The Clarity emphasized the sense of fragility, while the form leads to a feeling of strength. Roger’s vessels are precise and impossibly thin. The perfect shapes of his paper-walled goblet bowls and bottles are a testimony to his extremely high skill level. His highly developed technical skills and uncompromising design aesthetics place Parramore squarely among the very best lamp workers in the world today."
