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Exhibition Details
- When: February 3 - April 28, 2024
- Location: Pullen Arts Center, 105 Pullen Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607
- Parking: Visitors must have a parking permit between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Check in at Pullen Arts Center’s front desk for a license plate-based parking permit. View our parking map
- Cost: Free and open to public
- Hours:
- Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.
- Friday, Closed
- Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- To purchase artwork, contact Pullen Arts Center for details.
Artist Reception
Join us at Pullen Arts Center on Saturday, April 27, 2:30-4:30 p.m. for a closing reception. Add this event to your calendar
Artwork by Adriana Ameigh
Artwork by Freddie Bell
Artwork by Larry Adonis Brown
Artwork by Chris Facey
Artwork by Linette Knight
Artwork by Eric McRay
About the Artists
Adriana Ameigh
Adriana Ameigh is a Puerto Rican abstract painter, sculptor, and muralist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She creates dynamic artwork that balances movement, tactile textures, and uplifting colors. Her work invites the viewer to take a closer look to discover the optimistic stories embedded within.
With a multicultural background and a fascination for Caribbean and Southeast flora and fauna (above and beneath the water’s surface), her work incorporates textures and shapes that evoke feelings of joy, playfulness, and tranquility.
Adriana’s artistic practice includes abstract paintings, large scale commissions, porcelain and stoneware sculptures, site-specific art installations, and murals for corporate and public spaces.
In addition to creating art, she aims to inspire and empower other creatives by sharing her art and business knowledge through in person workshops, community projects, mentoring sessions, YouTube episodes, and the Level Up Artists podcast and community that she co-founded.
Adriana Ameigh's Website | Adriana Ameigh's Instagram
Freddie Bell
Freddie is living in Hillsborough, NC and works out of his studio in the Eno Arts Mill. Their passion for creating has followed them to California and back and across careers in the arts and social work. Freddie finds inspiration in community and how we understand ourselves. Freddie received his BA in Art at Warren Wilson College in 2012. They have participated in group shows in Los Angeles and throughout North Carolina. Freddie was a 2022 Regional Emerging Artist Resident at Artspace in Raleigh, NC. Freddie is a 2023 recipient of the Snapdragon Fund Project Grant. As a queer and transgender artist, gender and identity are inherently an influence behind all of Freddie’s work. Freddie loves using color, shape, and varied repetition to reflect on lived experience and is currently exploring the relationship of grief and the body.
Freddie Bell's Website | Freddie Bell's Instagram
Larry Adonis Brown
Larry Adonis Brown was born in Newbern, NC, raised in urban New York City currently residing in Raleigh, NC. With drawing talent at a young age, he became motivated to pursue art because of the interest and influence of his grade school Art teacher. In his early twenties he was introduced to a profit for his raw talents engaging on-lookers while drawing still portraits in Central Park. In 2007 Brown discovered his love for sculpting with interest in the Afrocentric Prospective. He studied sculpture under the instruction of Alfredo Cardenas and Ingo at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey. His work has been exhibited at Astah's Fine Art Gallery and beyond.
Larry Adonis Brown's Facebook | Larry Adonis Brown's Instagram
Chris Facey
Hailing from Brooklyn and currently residing in Raleigh, NC, photographer Chris Facey captures impactful moments that shape our world. Inspired by Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith, Chris's artistic style focuses on the African-American community, bringing sensitivity to his work that addresses racial injustices and stereotypes. A self-taught artist with a BFA from The School of Visual Arts and a background as a US Army veteran, Chris challenges stereotypes through projects like "The Dad Duty Project," spotlighting the role of fathers, and "Even In Death,"preserving an African American cemetery's history. His work, featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and The New York Times, has also graced galleries like The Golden Belt Gallery and The Bronx River Art Center. Through storytelling, Chris drives visual activism, utilizing photography for social change, engaging emotions, and sparking crucial dialogues.
Linette Knight
Through the exploration of crochet, fiber and mixed media North Carolina artist Linette Knight journeys through the many chapters of her creatively rich and colorfully diverse roots to create a narrative that celebrates the head wrap or crown, as she was taught by her grandmother. A narrative that explores the history behind a practice that women in her family have passed down for generations. As Linette explores the connections between her love for wrapping her hair. She finds that the different styles and techniques she's been using for so long actually have stories from across the African Diaspora. Celebrating the Gele (Yaruba), the Doek (South Africa), the Dhuku (Ghana), and the Akwa-Isi (Nigeria). As Linette learns about herself through her ancestors, her work to teach and build young women through the wellness of crochet is reinforced. Creating character building skills that create strength through confidence and healing trauma.
Linette Knight's Website | Linette Knight's Instagram
Eric McRay
Eric McRay received a BFA degree at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where he earned a four-year scholarship for his artistic talent. A native of Washington, DC, McRay moved to North Carolina and has been exhibiting since 1987. In November 1998, he was juried into Raleigh’s prestigious Artspace. 2020, McRay became a founding member of C- MAC: City Market Artist Collective.
McRay’s artistic career has been featured on TV and radio programs and in numerous newspapers, magazines, and websites. The Raleigh News & Observer named him one of the “Artists to Watch”. Numerous times, he has been listed among the “Best Local Artist” and “Favorite Local Artist”. McRay has received feature articles in Fortune Small Business, Art Business News, Our State Magazine, and Southern Living Magazine.
Some of his collectors include the SAS Institute, American Tobacco Campus, North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Health Raleigh Hospital, NC State University, UNC–Chapel Hill, and Western Wake Hospital, as well as many private collectors locally, nationally and internationally. Also, McRay was privileged to participate in the Art in Embassies Program, which displayed his works at the US Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.
