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 of Upon a Wand
Friday, April 11, 2025
6 to 9 p.m.
Free
UPON A WAND is an exhibition of a playful new body of work by local artist Skully Gustafson. Each painting starts simply with a desire to paint, to hold a feeling still. Through obsessive layering and bold color, her paintings create realities by playing with abstracted human and animal figures, loosely recognizable spaces, and emotional mayhem. Decisions are made based loosely on color, synchronicity, and instinct. It’s her favorite game to play. The spontaneity of a chance gesture becomes a reflection of a greater existence – non-rational, ever changing, and elusive. While leaning toward delight and pleasure, the work provokes a complex sense of humor that encompasses both universal suffering and joy. Suddenly something reveals itself, then it hides, falls into the background, disappears entirely. The titles of the works give us clues. What do you see in the figures’ eyes? The paintings don’t want to be understood, but they are trying to tell us something. What do the colors do to us? The creatures, who are they? And where do they come from, and why are they here? They came upon a wand, an old and ancient wand…
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