Randy Shull: Black & White
Tracey Morgan Gallery
August 9 - September 21, 2024
Randy Shull: Black & White is on view at Tracey Morgan Gallery through September 21, 2024.
Shull has the unique ability to evoke both gravity and weightlessness within a single artwork, pouring thick layers of paint around the loose weave of handmade hammocks, a material that he has been incorporating in his work for several years. Hammocks are core to life in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico where Shull has lived part-time for the past 18 years, and where he maintains a studio in the historic center of Mérida. If art and hammocks are the vehicles of dreams, Shull’s work carves a path into the subconscious.
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Tracey Morgan Gallery
22 London Road
Asheville, NC 28803
Shull is featured in HEMPHILL's current exhibition, BELKIN · CALDWELL · SHULL, on view through August 24, 2024.
Belkin • Caldwell • Shull at Hemphill Artworks
By Louis Jacobson for Washington City Paper
August 14, 2024
A three-artist exhibit is an atypical format for Hemphill Artworks, but you can see how it came to be. Textile artists Sophia Belkin and Randy Shull and digital photographer Colby Caldwell share a large format and an appreciation for abstraction. Of the three, Shull’s work is the most different. He creates hammocks like those typical of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where he spends much of the year; he then paints the hammocks and lets them “cure” in the sun...
The last day to see BELKIN · CALDWELL · SHULL at HEMPHILL is Saturday, August 24, 2024. Please stop by the gallery to see the exhibition before it closes.
In the galleries: Dynamic art captures the fractured side of nature
by Mark Jenkins for The Washington Post
August 9, 2024
The three-artist show at Hemphill Artworks features several things associated with the decorative arts: flowers, butterflies and embroidery. Another essential element, however, is decay, which makes “Belkin Caldwell Shull” a bit edgier than its nature motifs might suggest.
Sophia Belkin is a Baltimore artist who prints wetlands-inspired compositions on fabric, outlining certain portions with stitching. A former local resident and a longtime Hemphill artist, North Carolina’s Colby Caldwell makes camera-less woodland photographs directly with a digital scanner. Randy Shull, who divides his time between North Carolina and Mexico, hints at butterflies (“mariposa” in his Spanish-language titles) with sections of partly unraveled hammocks painted in vivid hues.
The last day to see BELKIN · CALDWELL · SHULL at HEMPHILL is Saturday, August 24, 2024. Please stop by the gallery to see the exhibition before it closes.