Peel, at 708 W Rosemary Street, Carrboro, North Carolina, is an art gallery, community event space, digital photography lab and retail space promoting contemporary art.
You can find information on Peel’s exhibitions and events on its website and Facebook page.
Opening Reception for Look, It’s All Connected
Friday, August 8, 2025
6 to 9 p.m.
Free
The exhibition will be on display from August 6 to September 7, 2025. The opening reception is part of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro’s 2nd Friday Artwalk. It will be an evening of art, music and refreshments.
Peel Gallery is excited to present new works by Jamie McPhail, a North Carolina-based artist and teacher currently working in encaustic and mixed media. Her artmaking practice starts with beeswax, damar, and resin, combined with pigment and heat. Fusing these materials to a surface with repeated layering gives a foundation to be etched and carved and built up again. A variety of materials are involved and collaged elements are embedded into her work blurring the lines between mediums and expanding on encaustic technique’s rich art history.
She takes this understanding of the medium’s history and evolution and combines it with inspiring aspects of artists’ past to create work that is contemporary and touches on modern connections and viewpoints. From the sweet visions of Marc Chagall, the strong feminine of Georgia O’Keeffe, the color and line of Richard Diebenkorn, the playful observance of Toulouse-Lautrec and the relaxed looseness of Joan Miro, McPhail stands to create intuitively something of her very own.
Allegorical, primitive, personal and political, her work is inspired by the simple lines and forms of the natural world and the nuanced chaos and complexity of the human condition. Drawing on her 40 year career as a bartender, she explores how relationships, connections and environment interplay. Her work documents these connections with a strong emotional thruline using her varied practice as if they are elements of language used to create visual sentences and together a narrative.
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