Last month (June 6), Endless Grind and FM Goods of Raleigh had a collaborative show and benefit called “Drawing Blanks.” A bunch of blank skateboard decks were painted by local artists, and then they were all silent auctioned on the First Friday in June. The auction benefitted The Disabled American Veterans of NC.
The show was [...]

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The Skeptic, Shaun Richards (sold)

Milkmaid, Shaun Richards (contact Designbox for purchase info)
Designbox is privileged to host Shaun Richards’ latest show called Click Clique, which the News and Observer named as one of this week’s Art Picks. “Click Clique is a new series of paintings and constructions that examine social dynamics, and nostalgic constructs, along [...]

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North Carolina, and the whole Southeast, is full of folk art and outsider art. One of the joys of living here is discovering these unique, talented and prolific artists. I’ll be checking out some of them at Fearrington Village (just south of Chapel Hill, NC on Hwy 15-501) this weekend. This year’s line-up includes Danny [...]

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I occationally wish that I were in places that I’m not… and today I wish I were in LA to experience some of the WOMEN in the CITY public art exhibition. Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman have joined to present installations all over LA that will be displayed on video screens, [...]

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Peter Callesen probably keeps Band-Aid in biz with all the paper cuts he ’s got to have creating his masterpieces. Born in 1967 in Denmark, he has been on the art scene in his country and around the world since about 1997. His artistic themes are very fantasy-vs-reality or success-vs-failure, all with the realization that [...]

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