Artwork on the wall by Ippis Halme

Up through the end of October, drawings in permanent marker & colored pencil by Ippis Halme.

Ippis Halme is an artist based in Chapel Hill, mother of The Concern founder, Orvokki. Ippis is from Helsinki, Finland, went to art school at Middlezex Polytechnic in London in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s. She studied ceramics in college but since then has mostly worked in drawing. She has shown previously at Myymälä2 in Helsinki, Gallery Ocho in Santa Barbara, CA, Auto. store in NYC, Lump in Raleigh, NC, My Room at Attic 506 and DeBerry Gallery at NC Botanical Gardens in Chapel HIll.

Drawings by Olivia Gone and Skully Gustafson up at The Concern/ Attic 506

Starting June 9, 2022, The Concern’s walls at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill will have some recent drawings by Olivia Gone and Skully Gustafson. Pieces are for sale. Olivia and Skully are both artists and the managers of Slug Space, the baby gallery at Attic 506. They are also together in the band, Wetness. Drawings will be up through the end of August.

The Concern reading library for 181 exhibit at Locust Projects

181, artist collective (Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes) has an exhibit at Locust Projects in Miami, FL called THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION). The Concern Newsstand has been invited to curate a reading library display in conjunction with the exhibition. It can be viewed there from February 19- April 9, 2022.

The collective’s exhibition will activate a series of circumstantial compositions considering time-based obstruction, including: the ancient Mud Lake Canal, Reserve-Capacity wave maneuvers, attempts to spot the endangered snail kite, shadow-telling trails from Mabel Cody, and other anomalous successions.

As a collective the 181 is interested in composing situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. Artists, a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a former linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice they view with distress.

As far as they can tell, the 181 has been working together since 2007 when they found themselves gathered by the Pacific Ocean with a glim glam golden Q, roughly 10 yards of transparent lavender vinyl, and a broken hold on the sea’s reflection. 

Larissa Lynn Wood drawings at Attic 506

Opening Friday, February 11, 6-9pm at The Concern’s Attic 506 location: Larissa Lynn Wood’s original drawings from the children’s book ‘There’s Wondrous Fungus Among Us’. The book is written, drawn, designed & self-published by Wood. Larissa Lynn Wood is an artist and teacher in science & art, based in Chapel Hill, originally from Asheville.

Maciek Kryzsztoforski photographs on display at Attic 506

New photo work by Maciek Kryzsztoforski up in the hallway and in The Concern at Attic 506 from November 12 through the end of December. Maciek was born in Poland and raised in Chapel Hill. His work on view are documents of findings along solo hikes near the Haw River. The film photo prints are for sale.

Mixed Media drawings by Skully Gustafson, on view at Attic 506

Debuting this second Friday of March (March 12 6-9pm) at our space at Attic 506 : Two mixed media works by artist Skully Gustafson ‘Ride on Butterfly’ and ‘Connectors’ which both appear in The Concern magazine issue 3, out now. These works will be up through the end of April.

Skully is currently based in Chapel Hill.

“My current work is centered on paintings that mix figuration and abstraction as a way to represent identity and the fluctuation of the self. I juxtapose images, symbols, and figures to show the way individuals are influenced, fortified, or defined by meanings outside themselves. The identities in the work shift from ideas of public presentation and private constructions, the way an individual is many different and overlapping people and performs, distorts, and shifts between personas.” - Skully Gustafson