Walking Through Light

Opening Reception: Friday, June 6 from 5 – 7 pm

Curator and Artist Talk: Thursday, June 5 from 10 – 11 am

Featuring the work of: Karina Hean and Michael F. O’Neill

Karina HeanApril Flanders
karinahean.com

Karina Nöel Hean lives in the Galisteo Basin between Cerrillos and Galisteo, NM on the San Marcos arroyo, where the high desert light, skies, and land provide daily inspiration.  By contrast, Hean was born and raised in Mayo, MD along the Rhode River on the Chesapeake Bay’s western shore. Her artwork is grounded in drawing and amalgamates responses to landscape, which aim to transmit the power and impact of place.  A significant inspiration in Hean’s work is found in watching storms and cloud structures.  The drawings are a way to viscerally connect with the untouchable sky structures she daily observes, the immeasurable and compelling southwest architecture of canyons and rock, or the dramatic cliff edges of various seasides. 

Michael F. O’Neill
@mfophoto

Michael O’Neill is a full-time instructor of Art History and Studio Art at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has an MFA in photography from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and a BA in Psychology from Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC. He previously taught photography and visual literacy at Queens University in Charlotte where he designed the new darkrooms at the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement; he has over 15 years of experience teaching art and photography.  O’Neill is a board member of the OBRA Collective; he has exhibited his artwork across the country and has work in the permanent collections at the Betchler Museum of Modern Art, the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Queens University in Charlotte. His photographs have been published in the Pinhole Journal, Len’s Journal, and the Poetics of Light by Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer. 

 Thank you to Hilliard Family Foundation for sponsoring this exhibition.

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.