Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/02/2026
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Art in Bloom Gallery at Mayfaire Town Center
Categories
Art by Catharine Carter
Join us in the gallery on Sunday, August 2nd, 2-5pm for our Artist Reception featuring the fantastic photographs and plaster paintings of Catharine Carter & James P. Garrett! Enjoy special refreshments, meet our artists, and enjoy live music by jazz guitarist Roger Davis! This exhibit will be featured alongside a new selection of featured works by our 30+ Gallery Artists.
From July 31 – September 13, we’ll have the pleasure of introducing you to the landscapes of Guest Artists Catharine Carter & James P. Garrett! Growing up with fairy tales, fables and myths read by her performer father, Chapel Hill photographer Catharine Carter uses digital darkroom tools to develop dreamlike photomontage images. By overlaying her monotone images of places and models with textures or colors, Catharine imagines fantasy narratives within shadowy, inscrutable worlds. It was the discovery of Venetian plaster in the mid-eighties that inspired Atlanta-based painter James P. Garrett to explore painting as a medium for art. Moving from faux and decorative painting to the historical techniques of Venetian plaster, James layers tints of marble and lime, polishing his painting to a silky feel to create effects only his plaster can achieve. Moving between representational and abstract, Catharine and James’ natural and undefinable influences can be discovered through the variety of approaches they take to the artforms they have committed themselves to.