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Elsa Hoffman

Below is “Ocean Panel (12/7/23-8/17/24 Marshallberg, NC)” in a really terrible photo which I took at Queen Street Magic Boat (where it was part of Death Planted a Garden). It is part of an ongoing project where Elsa bolts sheets of new steel onto a seawall at the North Carolina coast. The panels are submerged then revealed by tidal waters; the water, salt and air transforms the industrial surface; the metal becomes a clock, a landscape and map or graph of time passing in all its beauty and inevitable decay. According to their statement for the show catalog l, Elsa sees their role in this project as a curator or choreographer; setting a stage and parameters to capture the visual translation of a period of time; this project is a practice in embracing precious moments and also ritualistically letting them go.

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Frank Faulkner

Saw below recently at the Ackland Museum- like the piece I noted from Jack, it is included in Arranged: Recent Acquisitions of Modern and Contemporary Paintings. Frank is known principally as a pattern painter employing low relief in his works. Influenced by his Hudson River Valley surroundings, he was also an accomplished drawer of landscapes and subjects from nature. He proceeded gallery owner, Lee Hansley, as a curator at SECCA.

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Artist Ummah

like Hiba and Hanane is included in Contemporary Muslim At of North Carolina. Pictured below is “The Invitation” (2023). With over 750 in person and online participants from the Triangle Muslim community, Ummah’s first community interactive art project asked for participants to make the intention to be “Invited” to perform the Holy pilgrimages, Hajj and Umrah. This traveling canvas visited several mosques and Muslim spaces, where participants inserted pins around the Ka’bah which represented themselves and their loved ones. While pinning their dot, they did Du’a for Allah to call them on this spiritually intense and challenging journey, the goal of which is cleansing of the heart and purification of the soul. The end result was a canvas symbolic of a community’s collective anticipation, yearning, and hope to be Invited.
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Hanane Jamili

is a native of Raleigh, NC, is a painter and instructor with a distinctive style that blends abstract art with Arabic calligraphy, and- like Hiba– is one of the creatives included in Contemporary Muslim Art of North Carolina.

About the piece below Hanane says “this painting captures the unwavering resistance of the beautiful people of Palestine. Their courage inspires the ordinary person to overcome hardships through ‘tawakul’ which is the God consciousness, and trust in God’s plan.”

Through her work, Hanane has raised over $15,000 to various charities and local organizations. Her complete collections can be found at artsybyhanane.com.

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Hiba Chohan

is currently in Contemporary Muslim Art of North Carolina at VAE (which all Triangle locals should see if you haven’t). About her work, Hiba says “I stitch as an expressive art form so much of my embroidery is inspired by my identity, my faith, and my beliefs. Many of my pieces are centered around incorporating various traditional stitching techniques into contemporary designs. This piece, which I’ve titled ‘peace in all things big and small’, is the word ‘salaam’ (meaning ‘peace’) represented in Kufic style Arabic calligraphy and cross-stitched in a repetitive pattern in various sizes to illustrate a prayer for peace in all things, both big and small.”

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Cameron Johnson

like Lisa is in the faculty show at Meredith. In his statement he addresses the idea of sacrifice and the internal challenges of selflessness. “The juxtaposition between our internal emotions and external action is conveyed through the use of contrasting colors and textures. The areas that lack definition or detail, depict uncertainty and apprehension. The use of abstraction allows the focus to be placed on the interaction between elements, instead of what they represent.”

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Jon Rollins

Jon’s studio is filled with scrap materials from years of artmaking: sketches, notes, tape, table coverings, and unfinished works. They are artifacts of phases both inside and outside of the studio, containing the questions, mistakes, and discoveries of their time. The process is a reevaluation of each scrap, its origin, and the search for a resolution: when a torn drawing or an old piece of tape just fits.”

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