Equilibrium
January 31, 2025 - April 5, 2025
Join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 31, 2025, from 5-7 PM!
Equilibrium, defined as the state of balance between opposing forces, is captured in the works of these three artists. Kathleen Thum's work aims to both honor the power that coal has contributed to creating our modern world and acknowledge the environmental cost we must bear. April Flanders’ work explores the uninhibited exchange of plant and animal organisms across natural boundaries. Tina Alberni's work represents the impact of human behavior on the environment, endangered species, and the climate crisis.
Featuring the work of:
April Flanders
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www.aprilflanders.com
April Flanders is a studio artist living and making in the mountains of Western North Carolina. A keen naturalist, her work has been featured in solo and group shows at museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including the Atlantic Gallery, in New York, the Global Print International, in Douro, Portugal, and the Anna Leonowens Gallery, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work addresses the problem of invasive plants and animals on a global scale using a variety of media including printmaking, painting, drawing, and installation.
Kathleen Thum
@kathleenthum
www.kathleenthum.com
The drawings in this exhibition revolve around the subject of coal. In the drawings, specimens of coal are simplified into abstract silhouetted shapes to capture the materiality of the coal and the darkness of coal’s impact on our environment and land. These drawings are exhibited as a group and have a collective impact through the quantity and the density of the black charcoal. The black, sooty quality of artist charcoal is used to capture the physical and corporeal characteristics of the sedimentary rock. Overall, through the artwork, I aim to honor the power that fossils fuels have contributed to creating our modern world and equally convey the dark side of the environmental cost we must bear. It is my belief that art has the ability to problem solve, re-frame and reflect on the current climate crisis, in order to inspire change in the present and future.
Tina Alberni
@tinas_art_beat
www.colordesignstudio.com
My work is fueled by an intense urgency rooted in anthropocentrism. I strive to shed light on contemporary events and the fragile existence of life profoundly impacted by global forces. Rather than simply reproducing visual reality, my creative process involves delving into interpretation and guided by automatism.
My paintings serve as a conduit for harsh truths, yet through the use of symbolism and vibrant, playful hues, they evoke a sense of hope and even joy. Blending graphic and expressive styles, my art invites viewers into a dialogue, fostering an ebb and flow of emotions and even called to make change.
The clusters of meticulously organized symbols intersect cultures, objects, and events and represent a quest for balance. It is a symbolic journey or a form of universal prayer to distill the complexities of our world into a hopeful narrative that celebrates harmony and connection.
Thank you to Hilliard Family Foundation for sponsoring this exhibition.
The Galleries open one hour before all Davis Theatre performances.
About The Galleries
The Cabarrus Arts Council curates four gallery exhibitions on the first floor of the 1876 historic Cabarrus courthouse each year. The Galleries display works by regional and national artists working in a variety of media.
