Saturday was the date of the Boom! Gala and Exhibition at the Mint Museum here in Charlotte. The show is alternately hosted each year by the Charlotte and Raleigh AIGA chapters, and this year accepted over 500 entries from all over the Carolinas. We are proud to announce that Mode had 6 pieces selected of the 96 in the show, and ended up taking home three gold, one silver, one bronze, and one merit award! The calibre of work across all the entries was extremely high, so we are honored to have received these recognitions. More »

Obscured by the Mint Museum’s Warhol exhibit is a showing of a different flavor, grandiose in its own right. The ‘Scene in America: A Contemporary Look at the Black Male Image’ is a collection of work of various artists who focus on concepts of racial identity.

The highlight of the exhibition [to me] is the artist Kehinde Wiley, whose ‘Philip the Fair’ larger than life piece marries the visual rhetoric of European classicism with representations of contemporary urban, black and brown male. It is a hint of ethnographic aesthetic that I too echo in my photographic work.

More on the art of Kehinde Wiley:
http://www.kehindewiley.com

More on the ‘Scene in America’ exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art:
http://www.mintmuseum.org/current-exhibition.html