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Artsplosure Art Car
Designed by Georges Le Chevallier Sponsored by NC Public Power Communities Media Sponsor: La Conexión
From Haiti to Houston, decorating taxicabs, buses and
automobiles has become an art form. Artsplosure has
commissioned artist Georges Le Chevallier to transform a car
into a work of art with an array of visual patterns and styles
ranging from traditional abstract art to Kustom Kulture Pin
Stripping.
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Ancient Tree
Sponsored by Capital Investment Companies Media Sponsor: Raleigh Television Network www.paperhand.org
PaperHand Puppet Intervention’s popular habitat returns
to the park. Join the community of worms, owls, fungi,
squirrels, and ants above ground or tunnel beneath its roots.
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Sandsational
Jill Smith of Florida and Thomas Koet of Holland were the
First Prize Winners of the 2003 North American Sand Sculpting
Championship’s Team Masters Division. They’ve
traveled the world creating exciting sand sculptures – now join
them at Artsplosure for their first Raleigh creation!
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Challenge and checkmate an opponent on a life-size chess set designed by local artist Tuesday Fletcher. Fletcher uses recycled metal machine parts to create unique sculptures, including these giant chess pieces.
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Featured Artist Profile
Georges Le Chevallier
Georges Le Chevallier’s work has been described in one
word: stunning. Prepare to be bombarded with ideas, intense
political and spiritual themes, colors, flags and stripes,
multiple languages, maps, religious icons, details that make up
modern life. Then step back and explore the deeper meaning in
it all.
The artist was born in Paris, France; his mother is Puerto Rican, and his father is French: he grew up in Puerto Rico speaking Spanish and spent summers in France, speaking French. When he was a teenager his family moved to southern California where he finished high school and discovered his passion for art. After high school he went to Spain to study painting at the “Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando” in Madrid. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York. His work has shown in New York, Beverly Hills, California, Budapest, Hungary, and San Juan and can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan. He has an extensive background in public art including installations in Chile, Hungary, New York, Texas, and California. He contributed a “Tattooed Bovine” to Cow Parade projects in New York and Kansas City plus “Livin’ La Vaca Loca” to Houston’s parade. His Red Wolf, “El Lobo Latino,” an entry in the City of Raleigh Arts Commission Red Wolf Ramble, is owned by the Capitol Broadcasting Company. In the year 2000, Le Chevallier and his wife Carrie settled in Raleigh, where he is active in the local art scene. A year later he was awarded an international residency by the Hungarian Multicultural Center to travel to Balatonfured, Hungary, to create his public artwork “Kerdojel.” He was also part of the groundbreaking exhibition “Reactions,” which was exhibited in New York City, and in Pasadena, California, before becoming part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. In 2002, The United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County, and the North Carolina Arts Council sponsored Le Chevallier’s solo painting exhibition at ArtSpace Gallery by awarding him a Regional Artist Project Grant. In 2003, sponsored by the Chilean National Arts Endowment, Le Chevallier traveled to Chile at take part in the III Sculpture Symposium at the Cart Cemetery Sculpture Park. Le Chevallier produced “Carretas,” a site-specific project in the Putaendo valley at the foothills of the Andes Mountains. In 2004 Le Chevallier was invited to participate in the international public art exhibition “Chemin d’Art” in Saint-Flour, France, with his site-specific work “Points D’Interrogation.” |