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rachel campbell @ Craven allen gallery

In Rachel Campbell’s exhibition, “Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant,” on view through August 27th at Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, twenty oil paintings on canvas and wood panel invite viewers into a realm of electric warmth and leisurely delight.  In a summer in which mass shootings, European wars, and judicial attacks on…

How I Got My Logo

How I Got My Logo

I set out early in life to make the world more beautiful with my paintings and drawings.  I was energetic, idealistic and committed.  After grad school in Boston and stints in ateliers in Paris, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, I set up shop on a family farm in rural North Carolina and…

How Art Is Made #1: The Intaglio Etching

How Art Is Made #1: The Intaglio Etching

These days, you hear a lot about “cloning.”  For instance, Dolly, a Finnish Dorset sheep, was born on July 5, 2006 at the Roslin Institute in Scotland via a process known as nuclear transfer whereby a life emerged simply from a somatic cell in a mammary gland.  Humanity has long been fascinated by exact replicas. …