January 22, 2021
UNC Asheville’s juried international exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with special events on January 22 featuring Juror, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. The exhibition features 120 works of contemporary drawing selected from among 1,925 submissions by 566 artists in 11 nations.
Sunstrum will provide an opening lecture about her drawing practice from 6-7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22 in a Zoom Webinar. The work of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (b. Mochudi, Botswana; lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa and Ontario, Canada) is grounded in drawing, but also encompasses installation, animation, and performance. Her practice is often rooted in autobiography, addressing the development of transnational identities, human connections, and cross-border rituals. She received a B.A. with highest honors in International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998 and an M.F.A. from the Mt. Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007. Key exhibitions and performances include Tiwani Contemporary, London (2016), Cinematek (the Brussels Art Film Festival) at the 2016 Art Brussels, the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) Johannesburg (2015), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg (2015), Michaelis Gallery at the University of Cape Town (2015), the Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa (2013), the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC, USA (2013), FRAC Pays de Loire, France (2013), the 2012 Havana Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Artists (MoCADA), New York (2011), the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA and the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston.
Additional programming includes a unique collaboration with Suggested Donation Podcast who will debut a special drawing edition with guest artist, Peter VanDyck. Additional Zoom studio visits associated with the exhibition will be forthcoming and announced on our website. Please join us for these events, all are free and open to the public.
For more information, email exhibit Director, Tamie Beldue, UNC Asheville Professor and Department Chair, at tbeldue@unca.edu.
Exhibiting Artists:
anderson, kim
anderson, cody
arnold, amy
arsenault, todd
barfield, parker
barlow, richard
barnes, andrea
beck, martin
bellan-gillen, patricia
bello, katrina
benzamin-miki, michele
berg, wesley
bradbury, steven
brief, martin
burnham, amanda
carpenter, philip
chahbazian, arminee
cherry, heather
clark, caitlyn
climes, mary
crook, jacob
custer o'roark, valentina
de luca, michael
dietz, billy
di lizio, janelle
dixon, erin
driscoll, rosalyn
dyrhaug, kurtespeseth, scott
farish, kiki
fremaux-valdez, ghislaine & lando
fridman, marina
fuqua, kariann
gardner, stephen
giannell, alexandra
glance, cyrus
gondek, jessica
guldbeck, mille
hammonds, hollis
harper, sharon
harrell, rebecca rothfus
harris, marshall
hershey, nona
hess, jean
hessel, tom
hildebrandt, megan
hogden, heidi
holzinger, kenzie
hong, ming ying
hosford, mark
howard, jesse
hughes, steven
hughes, sara lee
ingold, aneka
ivanhoe, nancy
janowich, ronjohnson, melanie
kaderka, molly
karpman, deborah
katzman, mindi
kautz, rebecca
kaye, anna
kent, jenifer
knight, jaime
kolomyski, rob
koromilas, kirsten
lafferty, bryce
leedy, sherry
linowitz, june
ludescher, sandi
lyszkowska, katarzyna
manchon, haley
marks, pamela
marks, mike
mastriani, andrew
mayo, emily
mc carffrey, michael
mehlman, barbara
mishol, stephen
mitchel, josh
moore, kathy a.
murphy-robinson, annie
penington, eric
peteva, elenaporterfield, mary
praybe, edmond
printz, jennifer
ranieri, juan
ranshohoff, paul
roi, robin
rospert, jennifer
schissel, amy
shadwell, shelby
sikorska, elzbieta
simmons, randy
smith, zoe patricia
snodgrass, astri
tapley, sheldon
tomlinson, emily
trunzo, linda
valenti, alice
valentine, clark
venti, arthur
wilensky, mark
wilkenson, derek
windley, kate
wolfson smith, rachel
wong, holly
word, a.b.
yates, anna
youngmann, simeon
zielinski, angie
